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

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Publicola said:
@Dr. Snark, I'm not sure if you saw my question posted shortly before the latest Turn Results.

Specifically, at the very beginning of this quest, we spent our first-ever Learning Actions on equipping our forces with body & helmet cameras. This was supposed to enable more comprehensive after-action reports, and provide a +5 bonus on all Martial actions.​

...And when that failed, we tried again the following turn:

However, when that second roll finally did succeed... that +5 Martial wasn't added to the front page, wasn't applied to our Martial Actions for Turn 3, and wasn't mentioned by anyone in the thread after that point. By all appearances, it looks like people just plain forgot about it.

So... do we get to keep it? :D


Alternately, would you be willing to treat this like you did with the 'training facilities': give us a cheap base upgrade that lets us regain the original bonus, but in a way more suited to the current size & scale of our operations?

Specifically, I'm imagining something like the X-Men's battle room -- holographic tech does exist, and we apparently have recording of pretty much every fight our troops have been involved in over the past fifteen years. We could use the room for dry-fire combat simulations (for training), or more detailed after-action reports (extrapolating from individual body cams to give a complete view of the battlefield), or 3D space-battle simulations to train our navy. Heck, we could even have Thrawn develop some of the scenarios, like Spock designing the Kobayashi Maru in Star Trek.

I imagine we could build the upgrade on Taris, to start making that planet our military center, just as it's already becoming our economic center. Alternately, attach it to our Kalee facility, so the local CNS Academy would get some use out of it.​
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A full-scale holodeck? I like that.
 
Tasoli said:
- A Serious Ciaran is a Scary Sight
- Ciaran becomes a Kaleesh Goddess

I want both.
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one could lead to the other. I can see Ciaran going full dead serious within sight of some kaleesh, and afterward being made a two-faced god, a mercurial and playful creator, and a coldly focused destroyer god. like that one hindu deity who switches between being a loving goddess and a terrifying destroyer. or just a usually mercurial and playful god of death and rage. depending on if they realised she was the same woman who helped them rebuild.
 
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More than 12 hours without a single post -- unacceptable.

In case you were curious, this was what inspired the format for my earlier 'Material Analysis' omake.


@Dr. Snark, I'm not sure you saw my other question earlier:
Publicola said:
Can we rename our new Taris 'salvage teams' to instead be "Undercity Reclamation teams"? Same function, same salvage roll, it's just... the name would fit neatly with my "Briefing the Boss Pt. 2" omake:
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Apropos of nothing, I also found this post while perusing the original thread:
Sinsystems said:
[X] Information Broker
[X] Woman
[X] Miraluka
[X] Ciaran
[X] The Abyss Watchers
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Seriously, this was the post that came up with the name of our main character and her gang organization. For heaven's sake, Teron didn't even intend our main character to be Force sensitive, and @Sinsystems managed to sneak a Miralukan past him. Nice.

But speaking of naming things...
 
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One Big Post About Naming Things​

For the record, it's been nearly 250 pages (since Turn 16 in the last thread) and we still haven't picked a name for our 'Humanitarian Organization' -- yes, it's still listed under that name on the front page. (Good grief...). Let's do this!


Humanitarian Organization (Pick 1):
[] Karada Foundation
[] Silver Cross
[] Rescue Aid Society
[] Levamen Fund
[] Menolong Project
[] Vebastam Society
[] Write-In (suggestions welcome...)

The first option is the most straightforward/least original. We have a medical corporation, we have a humanitarian mission. Just name it a variant of 'Karada' and be done with it.

The second option is to use an English phrase. @TotallyNotEvil had suggested naming it after our silver visor and/or blonde hair (hence 'Silver Cross')

Another option would be to pick a name from another fandom, as we did for Lordran/Kiln. I'm open to suggestions, but hardly feel qualified to give them; this was the only one that came to mind...

The fourth option was to choose an obscure or foreign word that sounds Star Wars-y. I did a bit of brainstorming, and came up with a few:
  • Levamen -- based on Latin word for 'revival' or 'relief'
  • Menolong -- based on Indonesian word for 'help' or 'assist'
  • Vabastam -- based on Estonian word for 'rescue' or 'liberate'
  • Kokan -- based on Japanese word for 'goodwill'... and also the word for 'good PR'
  • Succor -- English word for 'offer assistance in times of hardship'
We'd want to pair each one with an English word (Project, Endowment, Fund, etc.), but we can mix-and-match as needed


In addition, we really ought to get around to naming our 'Security Company' that we founded two turns (six months) ago. It's currently listed on the front page as 'Abyss Security Incorporated', which was a placeholder name that, in retrospect, actually contradicts the story. Remember that we're using that security company to provide anonymous protection to our allies in the Senate. Naming it for the Abyss Watchers would be counter-productive to say the least. So: Round 2!


Security Company (Pick 1):
[] Rainbow Guard
[] Praetorian Security
[] Varangian Project
[] Ochrona Company
[] Aegis Enterprises
[] Write-In (suggestions welcome...)

The first option would be to use an English word or phrase. TotallyNotEvil suggested we borrow the word 'coruscant' and its real-world meaning of 'glittering' or 'sparkling' -- hence 'Rainbow Guard.' On the other hand, given how poorly things worked out for Renly and his flamboyant boy-band, I'm not thrilled by the comparison to ASOIAF...

The second option would be to borrow the name of a real-life bodyguard group. This might include
  • Somatophylakes -- seven Macedonian nobles, serving as bodyguards to Alexander the Great
  • Praetorian Guard -- elite Roman soldiers serving the Roman Republic and later Empire
  • Spatharioi -- late Roman/early Byzantine imperial bodyguards ('spatha-bearers')
  • Varangian Guard -- Scandanavian mercenaries serving as bodyguards in the Byzantine Empire
  • Housecarl/Huskarl -- household troops/bodyguards serving in Scandanavia and in Anglo-Saxon England
  • Condottieri - mercenary company contracted by Italian city-states in medieval/Renaissance Europe
  • Rynda - bodyguards for grand princes and tsars of Russia in 1600's.
  • Coldstream Guards -- regular regiment converted into capitol police/household guard for British Crown
  • Gendarmerie -- paramilitary units responsible for internal security during wartime, originated from French Revolution
  • Pinkerton Agency -- detective agency/security company prominent in late 1800's/early 1900's America
  • Paspampres -- security/secret service unit serving in Republic of Indonesia
The third option would be to pick an obscure or foreign word that sounds vaguely Star Wars-y, such as:

  • Keigo - Japanese word for 'bodyguard'
  • Praesidio - Latin word for 'escort' or 'protection'
  • Koruma - Turkish word for 'guard' or 'protection'
  • Ochrona - Polish/Czech word for 'protection' (also 'Okhrana' - Russian word for 'security')
  • Tutela - Italian word for 'guardianship' or 'tutelage'
  • Vedelem - Hungarian word for 'defense' or 'aegis'
  • Aegis - English word for 'shield', derived from Greek mythology & the shield of Zeus

As before, for both the foreign & historical words, we can mix-and-match the English paired word ('Security', 'Guard', etc.) as needed.

Finally, it's not a priority, but when we found our own 'Grey Order' Force sect, we really should select a good name for that as well.
 
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Should we be separating identities at this point? Ciaran the diplomat and Ciaran the crime lord are way too big on the main stage for us to be using our face and name freely.

I think we should adopt a disguise for all our Abyss Watcher business, especially in the field.

Admittedly this is a perfect excuse to whip out a mask and get our Darth on but even something less classic would be good.

If only so that we're not immediately rumbled if Anakin stumbles over us on a mission.

Edit: Or we should name things, we have way too many things going to not have named them.
 
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[x] Silver Cross

[x] Aegis Enterprises

XenonPrime said:
Should we be separating identities at this point? Ciaran the diplomat and Ciaran the crime lord are way too big on the main stage for us to be using our face and name freely.

I think we should adopt a disguise for all our Abyss Watcher business, especially in the field.

Admittedly this is a perfect excuse to whip out a mask and get our Darth on but even something less classic would be good.

If only so that we're not immediately rumbled if Anakin stumbles over us on a mission.

Edit: Or we should name things, we have way too many things going to not have named them.
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I'd kind of been assuming we'd been doing that for a while now. the abyss watchers are known to be a big criminal organization, so it's common knowledge they are realted to Ciaran we would likely have had reputation issues.
 
[X] Silver Cross
I like this one most.

[X]Aegis Security
Enterprises makes it sound like a business, but it's just a security firm. On the other hand, Aegis is one of my favorite words.

Publicola said:
Finally, it's not a priority, but when we found our own 'Grey Order' Force sect, we really should select a good name for that as well.
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I'll work something into these next three omakes. If anyone has suggestions for the actual name, I'm all ears.
 
[x] Silver Cross
[x] Aegis Security

We see plenty of shinies from Senate security. But I fear Palpatine may be able to gather evidence of our activities there. His position is far too strong for us to give him new ammunition to use against us. At this point, I doubt he'd resort to blackmail, but rather out us. Many of our operations rely on our identities as philantropist enterpreneur and crime lord kept separate, and the latter a secret.
 
Panory said:
I'll work something into these next three omakes.
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:rofl: Because of course you have your next three omakes planned out.
Panory said:
If anyone has suggestions for the actual name, I'm all ears.
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Well, we've been (informally) calling it a 'Gray Order', so perhaps you use a synonym of 'grey' or 'silver'? (Thesaurus.com mentions "argent" and "sterling" as possibilities).

Alternately, since we're offering an alternative to the light-side/dark-side dichotomy, perhaps we could name-drop Blue and Orange morality? Not sure what that'd look like as a name, though.

Another thing to consider is that we will (hopefully) be pulling together a bunch of different Force sects from around the galaxy, cross-training and collaborating and learning from each others' specialties. Thus, we might name the organization with this in mind, such as:
Concert (cf. 'Concert of Europe')
Coalition
Circle
Council
Federation
League (cf. 'Hanseatic League')
Guild
Sodality (religious association focused on a particular task or mission)
Pact
Accords (cf. 'Sokovia Accords')
Protocol
Concordat​

Another option entirely would be to name it based on education: "Academy", "College", or even "Pandidakterion" (one of the earliest universities in the world, founded in 425 AD out of the Byzantine capital). Or we could reserve these names solely for the learning branch of the new organization.


Unrelatedly:
Panory said:
Might a suggest a run-down of Palpatine's assets next? That way we'd know what/who we need to neutralize (Order 66 and Vice Chairman) and what/who is just an unwitting pawn (Tarkin).
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I'm considering it, but the scale of it intimidates me (...yeah, I know how that sounds). I'd basically start with Palpatine's wiki page, then refer to pretty much every other linked page just to pin it down.

And that'd still miss the vast majority of Senators in his pocket, or obscure worlds he visited only once or twice (cf. 'Zigoola', which he apparently used for storing Sith artifacts before claiming the Mount Tantiss fort on Wayland). It's possible, but still -- yikes.
 
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I'm very much not sold on forming an actual "Order" under us. Instead, we're looking for a Collective of Alternative Force Sects. We could contribute the "Darth Traya" perspective, sure, but we're better off coalescing the disparate assets of the galaxy than trying to build something from the ground up.

We want to rival the Jedi. It'll take way too long to get our own Order to that point, especially if the Jedi get first dibs on all the Force Sensitives. Banding together the non-Jedi is easier, faster, and puts us on a better foothold to rival them/lobby for ourselves. Ciaran's a curator, not a Grand Master.
 
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D King Hecht said:
How about something like Cum Omnes (All Seeing).
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I like the meaning, and I'm usually a sucker for Latin, but that sounds a little too vaguely sexual for my liking.
Akasha said:
...Grey Wardens?
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No promises, especially if someone else suggests something better, but consider it considered.
Stealthy said:
the Jedi get first dibs on all the Force Sensitives.
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We could pull a Palpatine and throw money at Cad Bane to get us the holocron that tells the Jedi about Force Sensitive in the galaxy to take that advantage from them.
 
On thing we should probably do is see to snapping up the various jedi who leave the order due to disagreements they have about the Jedi's involvement in the war. Hell at the very least we can deny Dooku the Dark Jedi that end up joining him.
 
[x] Silver Cross
[x] Aegis Security

As for an order name? Nah. I'm not really into forming an order. That's how arrogance and elitism is built and we've seen how that works out from both sides of the Force.
 
Publicola said:
For the record, it's been nearly 250 pages (since Turn 16 in the last thread) and we still haven't picked a name for our 'Humanitarian Organization' -- yes, it's still listed under that name on the front page. (Good grief...). Let's do this!
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I believe Dr. Snark stealth-dropped a name for it when starting the thread.

Threadmark: The Mandalorian Connections - Ciaran 1
Dr. Snark said:
You are Ciaran, head of the Abyss Watchers, owner of the Karada Corporation, head of the Ciaran Foundation, and almost the de facto leader of the Council of Neutral Systems.
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The Ciaran Foundation.

And I think the security company was referred to as "Senator Security Solutions" at some point. Might have just been a descriptor, might've been a name.
 
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