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

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Publicola said:
That means that the Techno Union (including its headquarters on Skako, and a number of its affiliated foundry worlds) might be open to joining the CNS. Dr. Snark, do you want me to post a list of those planets so you can roll for them?
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You got 20-something planets this past turn, including frigging Mon Calamari.

I think we're done with the CNS rolls for this turn.

XenonPrime said:
The thing with Fry is that he's a good guy at heart and looks up to Obi-Wan and Siri Teaching.

The question isn't would he betray Ciaran, it's whether he would betray Obi-Wan.

He knows that at best it would get him killed, but is he brave enough to die for the sake of his friends?
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Mind you, Ciaran's fully planning on bringing in Obi-Wan as an ally for The Conspiracy or whatever we're gonna call it, so that's gonna complicate things juuuust a bit for Taly. Oh, also one of the Republic's most respected admirals and a number of its Senators are a part of it too.

I'm sure he'll be fine.

Probably.

Maybe.
 
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@Dr. Snark, considering Ventress is going to be shooting ahead of Ciaran in Lore, will the option to get general Force training from her show up again at some point?
 
I'm half-tempted to do a Sheev omake just to show how annoyed he is at this latest turn of events.

But I'd wait until after the next turn starts :V
 
To expand on my trading fleet idea: investing in/taking over large amounts of the CNS internal trade will give us even more economic influence, as well as giving us easy ways to smuggle and move troops between world's.
 
Well right now both sullust and kuat show as part of the republic. So they still have some shipyards, not sure where the CIS shipyards are but we might have neutralized some of them into joining the CNS.
 
Void Stalker said:
Well right now both sullust and kuat show as part of the republic.
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Per last turn's map (I'm still working on the latest one), Kuat has offered under-the-table support for us and the CNS, so if it turns to war they won't be throwing in with Palpatine at least. And Sullust has ties to the Commerce Guild, so they're with the Separatists, not the Republic, though we're working on bringing them to the CNS as well.
 
Fondor is the big CIS one- though the average Fondorian is rather unfond of them, so they don't get much out of it.

Though it does occur to me that with us having Duro, Corellia and Alsakan we have basically every big name Republic founding world except for Coruscant. Oof.
 
Dr. Snark said:
You got 20-something planets this past turn, including frigging Mon Calamari.

I think we're done with the CNS rolls for this turn.
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Skywalker_T-65 said:
Though it does occur to me that with us having Duro, Corellia and Alsakan we have basically every big name Republic founding world except for Coruscant. Oof.
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At what point does the Galactic Civil War stall out due to us having simply absorbed most of the combatants?
 
Publicola said:
Per last turn's map (I'm still working on the latest one), Kuat has offered under-the-table support for us and the CNS, so if it turns to war they won't be throwing in with Palpatine at least. And Sullust has ties to the Commerce Guild, so they're with the Separatists, not the Republic, though we're working on bringing them to the CNS as well.
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I've said this before, but for some turns now Palps has been in a position where he HAS to attack the CNS to reclaim his war machine and stop the Republic haemorrhaging worlds. The CIS is in the same place.

@Dr. Snark: Can we have some sort of intrigue option to find out why the CNS hasn't been attacked yet?

fasquardon
 
fasquardon said:
I've said this before, but for some turns now Palps has been in a position where he HAS to attack the CNS to reclaim his war machine and stop the Republic haemorrhaging worlds. The CIS is in the same place.

@Dr. Snark: Can we have some sort of intrigue option to find out why the CNS hasn't been attacked yet?

fasquardon
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I'd like to remind you that the next turn hasn't even started yet.

Void Stalker said:
That has happened on some fronts thanks to the CNS occupying the space between the CIS and the republic
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The Northern Rim most prominently - the war there has basically stopped.

Jack_Trade said:
This brings to mind something I've been pondering for a while now, has anything good come from Coruscant? Cause most people seem to have a dim view on most things related to it.
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I suspect that there are many political jokes along the lines of "It's such a terrible idea that it had to come from Courscant."
 
Dragontrapper said:
At what point does the Galactic Civil War stall out due to us having simply absorbed most of the combatants?
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This is the key to understanding the Clone Wars. It's not really about territory. The Republic has the Clone Army -- personnel supplied by Kamino cloners, equipment supplied by various corps (mainly Rothana Heavy Engineering). The Separatists have their droid army -- 'personnel' mainly supplied by the Trade Federation, equipment supplied by the Techno Union subsidiaries). In neither case is the average citizen of a Republic or Separatist world actively involved in the fighting, except when their planet is under siege or in the middle of a battle.

Palpatine has been toeing a very fine line -- on the one hand, he can't make the war too burdensome or onerous for the average citizen (since as the most visible political leader, he'd catch the flak for failing to preserve the peace and status quo) while at the same time he's trying to ratchet up the tension and sense of danger from the war (by manipulating both sides to fight highly visible battles in carefully chosen sectors and systems). It's the frog in the fire analogy, and he's done a remarkable job with it.

The only problem is, the CNS has revealed the 'man behind the curtain' -- this isn't a war between Core and Rim, it's a war between two governments and their prominent corporations. The more planets, systems, sectors, regions join the CNS, the easier it is to see that the average citizen doesn't want this war and isn't really involved in fighting it. The war becomes an impersonal, far-off thing, which directly counters Palpatine's plans of increasing fear to increasing his executive power.


fasquardon said:
@Dr. Snark: Can we have some sort of intrigue option to find out why the CNS hasn't been attacked yet?
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Yeah, we'll compile action + base write-ins after Dr. Snark posts the Prologue/Anti-Palpatine Report and Rumor Mill. I've been looking over past turns for inspiration -- I don't have many suggestions for actions, though we added quite a few bases (including the Foundry) so there will be plenty of room for write-ins there.
 
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