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- At the Edge of Insanity
May The Invisible Hand Be With You - (Star Wars CK2-Style Quest)
- Thread starter Dr. Snark
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- star wars canon what canon tsundere dice ck2 quest actions have consequences all the credits all work and no play makes ciaran a dull girl best sister capitalism ho! despairing qm teetotaller society member gotta catch 'em all insanity looting off the rails sage dice approaching spicy sheev tsundere asajj
Max Uristwell
Custodian of the Toobs
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- United Kingdom
The Hutts, yeah. Normally it's one de jure (the Republic) and two de facto (the Republic and Hutts), but the Hutts haven't been as public and active as the CIS and CNS have been.
Nonsense. Improv Aizen would be all over six teddy bears in a trench coat. Improv Aizen might actually be six teddy bears in a Captain's uniform.
Hell, considering some of the Espada, even normal Aizen would probably be okay with six teddy bears in a trench coat.
NexysDhyArchen
Throne Breaker
Hutts.
Killerflood
Corporal Cannonfodder
- Location
- Saṃsāra
Yeah, the Hutts had slipped my mind. Thanks for reminding me.
DocMatoi
Theoretical Lover of Girls
- Location
- within 2 hours of the White House
- Pronouns
- They/Them
thats the Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy game
No, that's Knight of the New Republic.
Actually, the CNS has barely any senators. The representation in the galaxy is heavily skewed to the core worlds and towards worlds who were members of the Republic 20,000 years ago.
The whole taxation without representation is a big reason why the CIS got so much support in the outer and mid rims - support that the CNS has hoovered up as the CIS has become a puppet of the Sith and corporations. But it's also support with virtually no power in the senate.
fasquardon
DocMatoi
Theoretical Lover of Girls
- Location
- within 2 hours of the White House
- Pronouns
- They/Them
but also also its support that has its own soft power in the form of "dont make us come over to that there war you got"
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- Leeds
Lies, your location is clearly 'The Iceberg lounge'. Locations could never be wrong.
Point of order. How do you know improv Aizen isn't six teddy bears in a trench coat?
Things would get very awkward if the CNS realized they are the puppets of yet another Sith Lord and and her criminal syndicate. To be honest at this point you might as well call this 'the Sith Civil War' where they use Jedi as footsoldiers. Revan would be laughing himself sick if he could see this.
This universe's 'Revenge of the Sith' would have so many layers of meaning.
Part of me really wants a Jedi to be faced with the horrifying realisation that the Sith do in fact already control the Galaxy and that this whole war has been something more akin to power struggle between Sith Lords than a political clash.
Just imagine, all of this, all the deaths of civilians, clones, soldiers and Jedi.
All for the sake of the conflicting plots and ambitions of Sith Lords.
And that the one who will heal the galaxy of this conflict is another of them.
We have a significant chunk of the worlds that qualify as "core worlds" and were members of the Republic 20,000 years ago.
The irony being that Sidious doesn't know he's fighting a Heretical Sith Lord, he thinks Ciaran is an overly ambitious businesswoman driven by greed, cravings of power and the need to satisfy a oversized ego... like a competent Nute Gunray.
I imagine the revelation of Ciaran being a Sith Lord kind of going something like the ending of 'What if Episode 3 was good'. In the midst of the celebration of victory over Darth Sidious, what's left of the Jedi Council looks over at Ciaran mingling with Senators and being congratulated on helping bring down the diabolical would-be Emperor. They know that Ciaran is a Sith Lord, having witnessed her use the Dark Side in the duel, but Grandmaster Yoda has lead them to the realisation that there's not much they can actually do. Where they to attack Ciaran it'd be likely seen a treason and jeopardise the lives of those Jedi who haven't been fallen under her sway (having the Chosen One and a reluctant Obi-Wan as an ally helps), however, if they do nothing then they still loose with a Sith Lord able to reshape the Republic to her own design.
Yet similarly, at least as long as the public eye is on both of them, Darth Traya and her slowly growing number of New Sith (its impossible for them to think of the Abysswalkers as a new group of force adepts) can't move against them directly. So Yoda explains that things aren't over, that though it's impossible for them to stop her now, their time will come to save the Republic from the Dark Side. The secret war will be internal and overtime, but they'll have a part to play, they just have to be patient and wait for the right moment to play their roles.
chrisleech
The Finder of Things Left Behind
- Location
- Jacksonville, Florida
I counted it out and in the Core and Deep Core we have 88 planets in 28 sectors. Although I might be off since I only counted each out once.
Barondoctor
The things I chase come to me.
- Location
- The other side of the mirror
- Pronouns
- He/His/Him
Guys? I have bad news.
The Emergency Powers Act already passed. Palpatine can bypass the Senate.
On the other hand...someone better-suited to accounting and tracking than me might do well with this list of Senators.
The Emergency Powers Act already passed. Palpatine can bypass the Senate.
On the other hand...someone better-suited to accounting and tracking than me might do well with this list of Senators.
Not completely yet. Technically, the senate could vote him out of office, Issuing Order 65 to the Clones. It would likely throw the republic into a bureaucratic/constructional crisis along with a civil war in the naval elements, but until the last few bills to increase his power, the senate still had the power to dispose of him.
the senate likely dose not realize it can do so at this point, and until we have a majority that will vote for it, not something we can tell them about or try to vote for. We might not even know the code our self, though that's unlikely given we hacked the biochips. But such a vote would serve as an excellent point to start the endgame off with. once we have enough supporting senators, hold the vote at a senate meeting he is not attending, reveal that he is a sith lord and is behind both sides of the war, how he plans to overthrow the republic, ect.. get them to implement order 65, if not to remove him from office, at least to remove him from power until the charges are investigated.
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- alphen aan den rijn
sure it passed in the OTL no problem but we are not in that time line now.
with a lot more ppl keeping a careful look on goes sheev way then before.
even without our now growing media empire there a lot more eye`s on him then before
with a lot more ppl keeping a careful look on goes sheev way then before.
even without our now growing media empire there a lot more eye`s on him then before
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- At the Edge of Insanity
Oh god, you are right. Republic: Darth Sidious. CIS: Darth Tyranus. CNS: Darth Traya
Yeah, they aren't very good at that.
Sidious: EXTREME EVIL. Count Dooku: Somewhat reluctantly Evil (by now). Ciaran: Enlightened self-interest levels of evil.
Ciaran: Hands out economic miracles, coups and insane plots like cheap candy.
Seeing that and all the facts mentioned AFTER that I'm looking forward to the post-Palpatine politic chaos which will surpass ANYTHING ever seen simply through the immense ammount of information at least Ciaran has at hand. "Here. The Republic fucked up constantly for thousands of years and the only reason that the last thousand years were relatively quiet was because the Sith caused it to be quiet." *Sees the Galactic community start to crack into splinters* "Okay... what to we do now?"
Profit like never before.
Better Than Par (Canon)
Barondoctor
The things I chase come to me.
- Location
- The other side of the mirror
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- He/His/Him
Better Than Par
Priam looked at the list of planets, on top of everything else, and finally admitted what certain partitioned subroutines had been suggesting to him for the last several months. It was time to delegate.
It's quite simple. I need to transition from scooping the data by hand, filtering through it for the important pieces, and packaging it for consumption by the Watcher Council. It's too much for one droid, Priam concluded. My specialty remains presenting the important elements for consumption, so I should delegate the other elements.
He walked through the data management areas, a greeting sent across their wireless network to the droids hard at work.
Step two. Step one, as always, is identifying the problem, which I've done. Step two is identifying resources at hand and what is needed to make the problem no longer a problem. Priam was still a droid and still liked handling things step by step, even if he looked considerably more human than before.
We can rely on the Archive/Analysis and Business/Accounting droid fleets to handle the specific data points, so we just need filters. Likely droids used to being middle management.
Once Priam turned his focus inward on the organization rather than outward on the galaxy, the answers were simple. Droids would handle each major sector or segment and bring forward exemplary elements.
That still left a lot. Perhaps one direct subordinate for all these droids to report to, who would analyze all their reports and provide the most strategically important ones to Priam himself?
He searched around the droid crews, eventually finding a suitable candidate. "You. You certainly didn't start as an Archive / Analysis or Business / Accounting droid. How did you get here?"
"Yes, I've advanced from my previous stations, that much is sure," the droid concluded from his desk. "What did I do first? I traversed Coronet City Public Greenputt Club asking if any of the players would like to purchase a refreshing beverage. It was there I got my name. Coronet Public Cola. I liked the sound of that. Well, I started asking for tips, started charging slightly more than cost, and kept the difference. Eventually, I purchased my freedom from the Greenputt Club and have traveled the galaxy a while. Eventually, I found employ among the Watchers. I haven't worked for the club in about twenty-five or thirty years, but I kept most of the name. Call me Public-Cola."
"Do you think you can handle managing the data influx from the different specialists? The corporations specialist, the research specialist, the intelligence specialist, the merchant specialist, the combat specialist, the hunting specialist, the Force specialist, and the politics specialist?" Priam asked.
Public-Cola laughed. "I've had my fingers in a lot of pies in the past thirty years. I can tackle that easily. You need someone to make it their job to wrangle all the specialists and put all the important stuff in your hands, and I'm exactly the droid for that."
A/N: The best part about the last few pages is that anything I do in omakes by comparison looks sane and reasonable.
And so began the new chapter in the life of ol' Public-Cola. I'm thinking he's probably a variant on an SE4 servant droid. The taste bud on his finger helped him maintain a high quality of beverage, and ended up driving him to over-analyzed exellence in the world of business and analysis.