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May The Invisible Hand Be With You - (Star Wars CK2-Style Quest)

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*rubs chin*

Hmm...

I could've sworn someone posted a theory that the Republic is constructing a copy of the Star Wars Holiday Special to terrorize the galaxy. It seems to have been removed, though... Maybe they were on to something? Suspicious...

Well, no matter. The only remaining copy is currently sealed away in a secret vault under George Lucas's ranch.

There are worse things, but another brave hero has been chosen by Master Lucas to protect the galaxy from them.
 
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Perhaps our biggest threat is the Jedi figuring things out too quickly or Anakin's seduction happening.

We may need to dangle Darth Traya in front of the Jedi to keep them from sparking off Palpatine, arrange things so that a trail can lead the Jedi along until we're ready to kill Palpatine.

This might require Dooku's death, make the Jedi think Dooku was the master etc. Although how we'd keep the war going I don't know.
 
Dr. Snark said:
Palpatine could easily see a car bomb coming and stop it with the Force. Or it would just be shot down.

As for Grievous remember that he was basically operating under Palpatine and probably had intel that let him do that without issue.

It's not going to be that easy.
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If he happened to turn around and see it, considering you can't sense a droid with the Force. And while Grievous was operating under Palpatine, Boba Fett most certainly was not, and he literally flew up to the window, making absolutely no effort to hide himself, in broad daylight, and nothing stopped him.

And who says it has to be an entire air speeder? I was just tossing that out there. It could just as easily be a smaller bomb or missile. A probe droid for instance, or a courier. Even an IG-87 with a jet pack and a bunch of det packs. At the very least it could weaken him before we storm the building or do whatever plan we have to kill him. Remember, for all of Palpatine's power he's arrogant as hell and extremely used to being the one pulling all the strings, and very reliant on the Force. You can't use the Force to detect a droid about to kill you.

And even if we decide to take them on the way you plan for us to take him on, having a bunch of droid snipers and shoved bombers would still be extremely useful during our fight with Palpatine. Maybe even have that air speeder bomb as a last resort to take him out if he kills us all.
 
Bones said:
If he happened to turn around and see it, considering you can't sense a droid with the Force. And while Grievous was operating under Palpatine, Boba Fett most certainly was not, and he literally flew up to the window, making absolutely no effort to hide himself, in broad daylight, and nothing stopped him.

And who says it has to be an entire air speeder? I was just tossing that out there. It could just as easily be a smaller bomb or missile. A probe droid for instance, or a courier. Even an IG-87 with a jet pack and a bunch of det packs. At the very least it could weaken him before we storm the building or do whatever plan we have to kill him. Remember, for all of Palpatine's power he's arrogant as hell and extremely used to being the one pulling all the strings, and very reliant on the Force. You can't use the Force to detect a droid about to kill you.

And even if we decide to take them on the way you plan for us to take him on, having a bunch of droid snipers and shoved bombers would still be extremely useful during our fight with Palpatine. Maybe even have that air speeder bomb as a last resort to take him out if he kills us all.
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Ardion Prosili said:
He's not going to let us try to cheese our way out of a Climatic Final Battle, dudes. GMs love that type of shit.
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I could make up much more coherent counterarguments but basically it all boils down to this. GMs will move Heaven and Earth to get their Climatic Final BattleTM​, and I am no exception.

More realistically, I'm going to say that those things happened for Plot Reasons and you would not have the benefit of those Plot Reasons during the battle.

Edit: Besides, as the post following this one has said, how dull would it be if you could just snipe Palpy and call it a day? This is going to be a big moment, and you all deserve better than that for something like this, both in terms of challenge and payoff.
 
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I´ve just finished reading this and I must say this was a hell of a ride!!!

Well shit got real.

Things to do to upgrade our forces...

We need to get a fuckton of Beskar, Phrik and/or Cortosis and use it for armors

We should contact the Anzati, they are the best assassins in the whole galaxy, and have a very strict policy of never betraying their contractors.

We have to get our hands on some Ysalamiri pets (lizards that nullify the force) and a few Dashade mercs (completely immune to any force powers)

Durge is a fucking jerk and a monster, but if the opportunity arises we should recruit him, it is almost unkillable and a terrific warrior.

Are these actions acceptable @Dr. Snark ?
 
Another thought, we may need to work to hinder the Republic from the sounds of things

Even more, we may in fact want to trigger a three way war as a means of preventing Palpatine from Sithing the galaxy.

The longer the war goes on the more time we have.

Heh, chaos is a ladder...

Depending on positions it might be worthwhile creating trails of 'Sith' activity to distract various parties.
 
I'm not sure we can afford to not take actions that up our martial and/or lore. We need to do personal actions, but we also need to develop enough that between us and Ventress we have a good chance of killing Palpatine.

I'd still prefer siccing Yoda and Windu at him, once his popularity erodes enough, and Padme is well placed enough politically, for his removal to work.


Ideally, we'd follow and use the distraction (and buried presence) to plant enough explosives in that part of the building to blow him up if he did somehow win.

If he survived the explosion, he'd have to be exhausted after fighting two grandmaster Jedi, and whatever technique he used to survive, and then we'd attack him directly, using the SSS as cover for who these "first responders" to the explosion are.
 
Fanhunter696 said:
Durge is a fucking jerk and a monster, but if the opportunity arises we should recruit him, it is almost unkillable and a terrific warrior.

Thoughts?
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Recruiting Durge would be a smart idea since he is one of the few things in the galaxy that could kill Palpatine or at the least slow him down enough that we could kill him easier. But Durge agreeing to work with or for us is unlikely.

And Palpy also knows all seven lightsaber forms so fighting saber to saber is a bad idea. A suicidaly bad idea.
 
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Fanhunter696 said:
Things to do to upgrade our forces...

We need to get a fuckton of Beskar, Phrik and/or Cortosis and use it for armors

We should contact the Anzati, they are the best assassins in the whole galaxy, and have a very strict policy of never betraying their contractors.

We have to get our hands on some Ysalamiri pets (lizards that nullify the force) and a few Dashade mercs (completely immune to any force powers)

Durge is a fucking jerk and a monster, but if the opportunity arises we should recruit him, it is almost unkillable and a terrific warrior.

Are these actions acceptable @Dr. Snark ?
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The mineral research has already been suggested and approved.

Dunno about the Anzati, those guys are hard to track down and they are some creepy mofos who might look at Ciaran as being too tasty to resist...

Ysalamiri are already going to be a thing, and as for the Dashade you'd have to get seriously lucky to even find one of them.

As for Durge, you're kinda sorta tied too deeply to Mandalore and Jango for recruitment to be viable. At this point he's an enemy without much question.

Also in general: I've realized that you all are assuming that Palpatine will be at his office during the operation to kill him.

That's adorable.
 
Ardion Prosili said:
Forever and a day, hon ;o <3 Your torment is my delight :V

But in all seriousness, there are going to be a lot more demands on our time soon. And its highly likely until some time of homeostasis is reached, we might have to put off nice things for needed things for a while.
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I have written many omakes focused on the Blazing Chains. Three are non-canon. One is obviously a joke. One is tied to a larger action of recruiting shapshifters and Jedi. The last is solely dependent on a single action to learn Blazing Chains. If I must write more omakes tied to that third one offering rewards so enticing that we have to take that personal action, then so be it. This is my hill, and I will die on it. So prepare yourself.
 
What I want to do is find out what ways Palpatine would mess with the galaxy if he dies. He has got to have some notes on what would happen. This would make it much easier to prevent possible political fallout. We would just have to do it subtly so he doesn't notice until it is too late.
 
Killing Palpatine won't be enough. As Terry Pratchett once wrote:

Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot one, and there'll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland? In fifty years', thirty years', ten years' time the world will be very nearly back on its old course. History always has a great weight of inertia
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Palpatine is a Sith Lord, but he's only part of the equation. The Galactic Empire didn't rise up overnight (despite what the movies tell us). Palpatine has built a great network of loyal followers, unwitting pawns and a sprawling military-industrial complex, to bring about the goals of an ideology that has found fertile soil in the Clone Wars.

To save the Republic, the Jedi and ourselves we need:
1) a organised and powerful opposition able to seize power in the immediate aftermath.
2) to have neutralised every Palpatine loyalist that could cause trouble.
3) to remove Palpatine's cult of personality (though his rise to power mirrors Hitler, his public persona is more like FDR).
4) to dismantle any plots that could doom the Galaxy if left unattended.
 
Dr. Snark said:
Also in general: I've realized that you all are assuming that Palpatine will be at his office during the operation to kill him.

That's adorable.
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Are you suggesting he's never at his office? Because what we're discussing is us attacking him, not the other way around. Sure he can attack us, or force us to attack him in a certain situation, but that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about us planning to attack him, which means we decide when and where we attack him. And for us to be unable to attack him at his office if we wanted to would imply that he's never at his office. Which is kinda odd.
 
Bones said:
Are you suggesting he's never at his office? Because what we're discussing is us attacking him, not the other way around. Sure he can attack us, or force us to attack him in a certain situation, but that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about us planning to attack him, which means we decide when and where we attack him. And for us to be unable to attack him at his office if we wanted to would imply that he's never at his office. Which is kinda odd.
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You're misreading me. As a reminder what I said was, "You're assuming he'd be at his office during the operation to kill him."
 
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