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Heh, well maybe that means next turn the dice will love us again? Still could have been a lot worse at least everything succeeded.
May The Invisible Hand Be With You - (Star Wars CK2-Style Quest)
- Thread starter Dr. Snark
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DB_Explorer
Purveyor of alternate realities.
- Location
- San Diego, California
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- He/Him
Now I want to do some sort of Omake for this.
Wait, the rolls happened already?
I didn't even know plans were out!
I'm hoping folks are remembering to not just leave it all to Publicola?
I find it amusing that we rolled well below average and yet we still got major crits on 3 actions and minor crits on 3 actions. So 6 crits out of 17 - 33% crit rate.
Behold the power of the omake!
Yeah, I want to see the President of Taris as a recurring character.
He took an election where he had a 1 in 10 chance and won. The guy must be something special.
fasquardon
I didn't even know plans were out!
I'm hoping folks are remembering to not just leave it all to Publicola?
I find it amusing that we rolled well below average and yet we still got major crits on 3 actions and minor crits on 3 actions. So 6 crits out of 17 - 33% crit rate.
Behold the power of the omake!
Yeah, I want to see the President of Taris as a recurring character.
He took an election where he had a 1 in 10 chance and won. The guy must be something special.
fasquardon
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Shatterpoint WOO!
Nope. Again.
Also: Fucking D&D dice up in here.
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
Hopefully training Shatterpoint will give us more rerolls.
DB_Explorer
Purveyor of alternate realities.
- Location
- San Diego, California
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Indeed. Question is HOW to make him act. Is he good, bad? Good intentions but willing to play dirty? Etc.
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
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- Tempe, AZ
There was a huge amount of ballot stuffing.
Ardion Prosili
An (im)Perfect Cell
Maybe he's a very personable guy among the refugees? Like he's that guy who everyone in the refugees looked up to and he leveraged that and us not running or what. idk want results too drunk fuck brady
Cecylene
Eternal Idea Engine
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Pronouns
- He/They
He's a man who likely either willing to fall over himself to ingratiate himself to the most beloved person on Taris who didn't win because she was busy attempting to run a Galactic-level organization or someone who is willing to stand up to Lady Ciaran because he ran a hard slog of a campaign to stand by what he believed in and won.
Honestly, someone who doesn't have any real power to stand up to Ciaran aside from a sense of morality that tells him that he should would be interesting to deal with in at least some way. Someone who refuses to be bought or blackmailed because he was made a refugee and won't let someone who barely live on a planet "rule" it. Someone who we will have to willfully run against next time and figure out whether we'll run a clean campaign against someone who has the benefit of incumbency or crush him with our horrifying skill at realpolitik.
1) Grievous shows Onderon and the CIS what a Demigod of War looks like.
2) Thrawn tricked Durge into a cannon and fired him into a sun.
3) The meeting went okay, as it took time to convince the Anti-Palpatine faction that Ciaran was not the eccentric ditz that she can come off as and Palpatine was more scary than Dooku.
4) Ciaran got a front row seat to what her bullshit power does.
5) We have our third ship builder company.
6) Unofficially we are the Black Sun.
7) Ventress is the ironic saviour of Renegade Clones.
8) We just managed to get the code breaker.
9) Clovis' cover got blown.
10) Ciaran continues to delve into the Force.
11) No super secret ship, but plenty of helpful things.
12) We managed to create a temporary anti-Force virus by accident.
13) HK-47 finds himself in the confusing situation or When is a Droid a Droid?
14) Turns out we're not that great at what our agents do.
15) However, we are better at what we do.
16) PR-1 got his combat upgrades and quite puppy like in thanking Ciaran.
17) Yet another family member.
Yeah, that would be fun.
It would be nice to give Satine a rival/ally as well to help her become a more well-rounded character in the quest. From what I've seen of Clone Wars, Satine is a pretty capable character, and it would be nice to give her opportunities to show her as her own person. (I've been working on an omake with her and Jango and haven't quite got the characters right yet.)
Scene from the Palpatine/Silas final battle:
"I am your grandfather Sheev! Search your feelings! You know it to be true!"
"No! I won't be your Force grandkid! I'm the main villain, not another stat boost!"
fasquardon
- Location
- america
it was always a valid excuse.
he's my grandpa!
ok cool welcome to the family
DB_Explorer
Purveyor of alternate realities.
- Location
- San Diego, California
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- He/Him
I like that.
Though key thing for future use is that he HAD no power. Now he is president of a Ecumenopolis. He shall of gained power though a combination of intelligence and firm morals saying he SHOULD run. He will stay in power for the same reasons. Ciaran won't be able to blackmail him .
Yeah I'm gonna be honest. Considering how much time being responsible for a planet would take up I assumed that failing that roll would win the election.Ciaran actually won the election, but delegated someone else to handle it for her while she plots to take down Sidious.
Ardion Prosili
An (im)Perfect Cell
I doubt we won't have get the ship but as opposed to a crit, it'll probably take some more actions to get it going properly.
Panory
The Omake Dragon
- Location
- New York
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Literally Oki's introduction.
"Well shit, probably. I mean there were some blackouts over the years and you can't exactly DNA test a B'rknaa."
Cecylene
Eternal Idea Engine
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Pronouns
- He/They
Hilariously isolationist and wanting to be left alone or back in the days of the Republic, basically someone who wants business as usual to return to the galaxy because "This war as profited no one and ruins more lives every hour of every day that it continues."
Came to the CNS because their schtick is "Aggressively Uninvolved," and they want it to stay that way. No Jedi-lead Armies, no awful Trade Federations blockading, and no Senate bowing to the whims of a complete Warhawk.
Satine wants a galaxy united by peace and not being lead by the insane Ciaran who is either going to cause the CNS to implode or turn into an Empire.
Whoever is running Taris wants a galaxy where everyone leaves each other alone and not lead by the seedy and questionably moral Ciaran who has more dealings with Hutts and the Trade Federation than anyone lacking moral turpitude would be comfortable with.
Hmm. It would be fun to have a character who saw Ciaran like people saw Vimes in the later Watch books (by Terry Pratchett) - so she scares him (or her) because he sees her as moral, but utterly ruthless. I kinda like the idea of seeing Ciaran from that angle, and like the idea that different people have quite divergent experiences of Ciaran (since she wears so many masks that are each caricatures of some more complex but always hidden core of her character).
It would also be neat to have an isolationist character who was a warm and good person - usually isolationists get painted as the bad guys or at least useful idiots for the bad guys. And also fun to make this isolationist making lots of interventionist choices (like really backing the refugee settlement on Taris, getting involved in helping refugees across the CNS, then getting involved in the whole CNS government) due to the other elements of their moral code (and the character feeling the tension between their different morals).
fasquardon
Panory
The Omake Dragon
- Location
- New York
- Pronouns
- He/Him
The Right Honorable, the Lord Governor of Taris
Vincenzo Wan was a politician to the bone. His parents had been politicians, their parents before them had been politicians, and their parents before them had been moisture farmers, but the family never talked about them. And so when his planet had been ravaged by the war and he had evacuated to the planet of Taris, he took note of the gaping power vacuum in its government and set his sights on it.
The biggest obstacle of course was Lady Ciaran herself. Vincenzo would never go so far as to call her an enemy, both because it was political suicide and he honestly didn't think she was an enemy, but she was undoubtedly his biggest competition for the place of governor. Other politicians hardly even registered to the public at large, and who could blame them? Lady Ciaran was the entire reason Taris was anything more than ruins and legends. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that the woman had saved the lives of the majority of the planet's inhabitants.
Clearly, Vincenzo would have his work cut out for him. Getting a seat on the council was simple given his previous political experience, and he had used his position of power to sneak as much 'voting reform' into laws needed for the survival of Taris. In a rush to get the laws put into effect as soon as possible to deal with the ballooning population, Vincenzo had been able to gerrymander the planet's sectors to high hell and back.
But that wouldn't do much good by itself. Targeted voter suppression, disproportionately weighed votes to less populated sectors, and a stupidly large PR push in those areas followed in quick succession. In regards to his attempts to make himself known to the public, at least in the areas he needed to win, Lady Ciaran's ability to eclipse the actual government played to his favor. He had made no shortage of enemies with his policies, but the common man simply didn't care about that, allowing Vincenzo to build his image from the ground up.
Building himself up was simple enough, but Lady Ciaran was a juggernaut that he had no chance of beating on his own merits. And running attack campaigns had the chance to bring all his hard work crashing down around his ears. So rather than try to tear her down, Vincenzo had built her up, painting her as above ruling Taris. She was such a great humanitarian, and was so busy doing so much good in the rest of the galaxy, making her governor would only harm those elsewhere.
And to everyone's shock, including his own, the strategies, the plots, the political corruption, it all paid off on election day when he emerged victorious by the skin of his teeth. Most polls hadn't even given him the time of day, but with careful planning, anything was possible. Protests had broken out across the planet, somewhat justified seeing as he had technically gotten less than thirty percent of the planet to vote for him. The protests hadn't stopped, but rioting was kept to a minimum following a public address by Lady Ciaran herself accepting the results of the election with the kind of effortless grace she did everything. If she had bothered to campaign whatsoever, Vincenzo had no illusion that he would have won.
Still, won he had. And incumbents tended to have better chances in future elections. All he had to do was not drive the planet into the ground and he could make lightning strike twice next year. He entered his brand new office (just thinking of it as his sent shivers of pleasure down his spine) and approached the desk with a contented sigh.
The chair swiveled around, and he went stiff at the sight of Lady Ciaran herself sitting in it. She stood up and gestured to the chair. "Congratulations Mr. Wan."
"Ah, thank you Lady Ciaran." he said as he walked past, wary of some form of treachery. "What brings you here?"
"I just decided to visit Taris for the inauguration of our first elected governor in millennia." Said Ciaran, still grinning. "It will be quite the historic moment when you become the Right Honorable, the Lord Governor of Taris. I believe that's the full title anyway."
"Why thank you." said Vincenzo, relief flooding through him as he realized that Lady Ciaran didn't appear to hold any sort of grudge. "That's quite-"
"For one year." interrupted Ciaran. She leaned in and continued in a deadpan voice. "With no salary. And you'll have to cover your own expenses." she continued, standing up to casually tick the items off on her fingers. "Which will no doubt be quite considerable considering your new job consists of making hundreds of speeches around the galaxy promoting planet business. I really wouldn't have been able to spare the time and money for all that, so thank you."
Vincenzo gulped as he realized the magnitude of what he had done to himself. "Well what can I say except you're welcome?" he said, feeling anything but. Maybe he'd institute some voting reform as his first order of business to gain some popular support.
"Still, I do envy you for one thing." Said Ciaran wistfully.
"What would that be?" asked a rather terrified Vincenzo.
"You do get this fancy hat. Which just might make it all worthwhile." she said, reaching to grab a rather ornate hat from a rack on the wall and place it on his head.
AN: Other options included us losing to a Lady Ciara that people voted for by accident thinking the ballot said Lady Ciaran and Taris having a carbon copy of the City of London's own ridiculous election system for mayor as a hold-over from when it was in power all that time ago. In the end I settled for Vincenzo Wan, and his own brand of political corruption.
- Location
- Brazil
As someone passably familiar with the setting, can you elaborate?
What super ship?
hmm on the Nat 1:
I wonder what actually almost went so horribly wrong, and how we managed to shift it to a win, given how Cirians re-roll ability works. perhaps a nearly successful assassination attempt on ourselves? Did we get Mauled? it is about time for him to reappear after all, though I don't remember the exact date.
I wonder what actually almost went so horribly wrong, and how we managed to shift it to a win, given how Cirians re-roll ability works. perhaps a nearly successful assassination attempt on ourselves? Did we get Mauled? it is about time for him to reappear after all, though I don't remember the exact date.