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Princess of Mandalore (Youjo Senki/Star Wars)

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Oh man, Tarkin possibly realizing that you need stick and carrot, not just a bigger stick, could be pretty huge down the line.

Tarkin's 'use bigger stick' doctrine shaped a lot of the Empire, and was the primary cause of the Rebellion after all.
 
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Neruz said:
Oh man, Tarkin possibly realizing that you need stick and carrot, not just a bigger stick, could be pretty huge down the line.

Tarkin's 'use bigger stick' doctrine shaped a lot of the Empire, and was the primary cause of the Rebellion after all.
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I don't think so, personally.
Palpatine wanted a system that only functions on his authority.
So the classical tyranny structure, with the dictator at the top being able to dispense the resources down to the next rung of power.

Since you need to spend that money on the subordinates to keep them loyal, you can't give it out for carrots to the people.
Because then a rival could take your position on the promise that the money you gave away to the people could be spent on the subordinates.

Creating a corrupt empire supporting few military lynchpins that a sith lord can hold with their personal power.
And if he's gone, the subordinates will fight over the corpse of the empire, ripping it all to shreds.
Both in macro scale, if you look at a galaxy map of the empire, as well as the micro scale, with a Stardestroyer captain being able to lay claim to a system, with the space ship and the ground army it contains.

That there's no true loyalty is a feature, not a bug.
If you were in that system and had a bunch of true loyal subordinates, who will never betray you, you can start to invest funds to build up your own power. You peers can't do that, they get replaced if they try by their greedy subordinates.
And that would eventually lead to a rival of the one at the head of the structure.

With that discourse on the empire done, the effects on the clone wars could be much more dramatic.
Because that is at a point where that line of thought can make a difference. Instead of just beating down on the sparatists, alternatives could be found.
Instead of taking a planet by force, offering a free trade agreement, government subventions for going neutral in the conflict and at the same time binding the planet back to the republic.
Which would have a lesser price militarily as well as culturally for the side taking the planet.

But we'll see how it goes.
 
Neruz said:
Oh man, Tarkin possibly realizing that you need stick and carrot, not just a bigger stick, could be pretty huge down the line.

Tarkin's 'use bigger stick' doctrine shaped a lot of the Empire, and was the primary cause of the Rebellion after all.
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It's also very stupid from such a supposedly intelligent man. Guess he didn't study history of which he would have thousands of more examples than us on a single planet only over recorded 6k years.
 
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Tarkin's 'use bigger stick' doctrine shaped a lot of the Empire, and was the primary cause of the Rebellion after all.
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Palpatine wanted a system that only functions on his authority.
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it was the combination of both of them really, Palpatine emboldened the worst aspects of Tarkin's thinking, and Tarkin's propensity for brutality created fear in the galaxy that fed Palpatine's research into the dark side. at least that my take at the moment could change in time.
 
Palpatine is still going to forge an Empire yeah, but if Tarkin thinks that he needs a carrot as well as a really big stick then the Empire that Palpatine forges is going to be less pointlessly oppressive just for the hell of it, if nothing else.

Palpy himself will probably still be pointlessly oppressive just for the hell of it, because he gets off on being horrible, but Palpy can only be in one place at one time.
 
I see Tarkin as someone Palpatin shaped to fit into that exact role.
He's for the big stick approach because of Palpatine and not because of his own circumstances.
Palpatine could shape someone else to take that role, Tarkin was just there at the time and had some convenient foundations.

But he would never allow someone he didn't shape himself, who he carefully isolated and made dependant on him, into a position of power.
 
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I see Tarkin as someone Palpatin shaped to fit into that exact role.
He's for the big stick approach because of Palpatine and not because of his own circumstances.
Palpatine could shape someone else to take that role, Tarkin was just there at the time and had some convenient foundations.

But he would never allow someone he didn't shape himself, who he carefully isolated and made dependant on him, into a position of power.
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Tarkin's history is actually pretty well documented in canon, and he didn't meet Palpatine until well after he had developed his views on the usage of bigger sticks to form an authoritarian, militaristic and humanocentric future for the galaxy in the wake of the corrupt, rotting Republic's inevitable collapse.

So no, Palpy didn't shape Tarkin, he didn't need to shape Tarkin. Tarkin came to Palpy already perfect for the job. I'm sure Palpy did his thing to ensure that Tarkin was loyal and whatnot, but there was very little manipulation required: Tarkin basically already thought that Palpy's Empire idea was a good one and did not need much convincing at all to throw his support in that ring.


Hell; Tarkin came up with the starship designs that would eventually become the iconic Star Destroyer while he was still in school, years before he even travelled to Coruscant for the first time.


Its a big galaxy; not every totalitarian asshole in it is Palpy's fault.
 
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Hell; Tarkin came up with the starship designs that would eventually become the iconic Star Destroyer while he was still in school, years before he even travelled to Coruscant for the first time.
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huh that must be OLD canon, I think even legend they walked away from that, being that dagger-shapped ships became a thing in old republic and some old super dreadnought that existed in the time of republic were reclassified as superstar destroyers since they had the right shapes and then served empire. and as far as I can see the Victory I-class wiki the first in serves star destroyer does not mention Tarkin.
 
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Chapter 28
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    715 FNM (23BBY)
    Month 7


    Gargon, Silver Theater
    White Silver (Tanya Kryze)

    Of all the things I expected to happen when I returned to Gargon, this was not even on the list. I'm not even going to pretend that it is.

    I returned to Gargon for the upcoming meeting with the Gargon clan heads to decide Gargon's future development. The meeting was tomorrow and the clan heads represented the major planetary stakeholders. I, or rather, White Silver needed to be here to represent Mandal Hypernautics in this discussion, which would further the efforts to bring the planet into the Mandalorian sector and support Duchess Satine's rule.

    The trip to Gargon had not been hard to arrange. In fact the hardest bit was finding time to put together a set of armor for Vai and Tabi. Zum seemed to be the busiest Mandalorian armorer at the moment, but he managed to find some time to forge silver armor for Vai and Tabi after I asked him. The fact that I got permission from the Duchess as well bumped my request up the priority queue, as this is an above board operation.

    Officially, I was on a round trip to talk to various planets within the sector to sound out their position regarding the upcoming vote on the Military Creation Act after I was done in Gargon. Once I'm done with the Mandalore sector I would board the Coronet and be on my way to Naboo where I could have a private conversation with their current senator.

    The Mandalorian Senator would be voting against the Military Creation Act and our official position was to reject creating an Army of the Republic. My purpose was simple: travel to Naboo and confirm the New Mandalorian government's planned vote with Senator Amidala.

    Unofficially, the trip advanced several of my side projects; first on my schedule is a visit back to the Mandalorian sector for this meeting with the Lords of Gargon. After that, I needed to make a few more visits to various planets and perform the bare minimum to pay lip service to the official purpose of my trip. I only needed to appear to check on the general opinion of the Mandalorian sector regarding the Military Creation Act, and then affirm the previously made decision with Naboo. Oh and finally publish the second edition of the Silver Codex, no better place to release such a document where multiple independent sources can confirm my presence on Gargon. I hoped the contents of the second edition would help us prepare for the coming conflict, and more importantly, lower the expectations that White Silver would show up and intervene in the future.

    I expected the decision to vote against creating a Republic military to be fairly popular among Mandalorians, though the matter may attract some interest in the future. If there was a Republic military there may have been some interest in doing mercenary work for them. But since we had created the Mandalorian Self-Defense Force, I suspected most Mandalorians would prefer to sign up for that instead.

    Hell, there were a few protests on a few planets when the official declaration of the Self-Defense Force was announced but surprisingly the disturbances seemed to be unrelated to the anti-militarism of the New Mandalorians. I had somewhat assumed that the moment that had gone off that there would have been a lot of anti-military backlash from the New Mandalorians; an event possibly similar to whenever the government of Japan had considered altering Article 9. But then again, there wasn't an official loss of a war from a foreign power to enforce it, as the most recent Clan War was among fellow Mandalorians, with Mandalorian pacifism still being a young philosophy.

    Really, the most significant conflict I had heard about had taken place on planets outside of the Mandalorian sector. But inside the sector, Tabi's homeworld of Harswee had a bit of a small civil war going on from what I heard. Apparently, several clans had worked together to exclude the remaining clans, including Tabi's clan, from the new ranks and commissions of the Harswee SDF. Though, thankfully it sounded like it was being persecuted with weapons set to stun and while both sides hated each other it had not yet escalated beyond a level that would result in Royal Guard intervention. Thus rather than an instinctive reaction of rejecting any form of militarism, it is merely various clans taking advantage of the formation of a defense force for their own benefit. I am sure Aunt Satine has sent teams over to defuse the various riots and put assembling the various SDFs back on track.

    There were also a few smaller incidents like it, but for the most part the planets are still figuring it out to either join the Self-Defense Force or decide not to bother and focus on creating their own military structure independent of Mandalore. But I am focusing on my own problems that I can influence since Aunt Satine is the one with the resources and the manpower to juggle running the sector and funding the SDFs on her own. I can only support her the best I could by making Gargon's integration to the sector go smoothly and provide more resources to Aunt Satine that she could use to improve the sector. Though I'm not really sure how accidentally creating an idol group is a part of that plan.

    Currently, I was sitting in a theater that had apparently been purchased by X4, apparently from the Mandal Hypernautics budget, while I was not paying attention. We were not at an official show either, no, this was a private showing to impress the boss, to demonstrate what they have been training.

    On the stage before me are three girls; one in green, black, and white with blonde hair, another in pink, black, and white with dark brown hair, and the last with a similar shade of pinkish blonde hair to Tabi in silver, black, and white. The trio went all out; performing ancient war songs updated for modern audiences with backup keyboard and guitar and a few other instrumental elements producing the music. The backup singers, pink and green, supplied a rhythmic dance by banging on their armor. They were wearing armor even though they had removed their helmets for the performance and were wearing what could be best described as short but poofy dresses. They still wore mandalorian armor and boots, allowing them to use the metal within each to supply accompaniment noise that almost passed for drums.

    The main singer, the one going all out on the vocals, was wearing a similar costume to them. Her two companion backup singers are skilled and wore full armor, while the main singer appeared to quite enjoy being an idol, if I had to guess. She was showing a lot of cleavage, the two upper plates of her armor appear to have been removed specifically for aesthetic reasons.

    I stared out White Silver's featureless helmet of silver and beskar as it hid my initial shock. Then the emotions slammed home as the shock sublimated straight into pure embarrassment and disbelief as I sat there petrified. The thought occurred to me that this was possibly even worse than Baltan Carid's marriage proposal. As the mortification that yes, this was really happening sets in, I took a deep breath as my rational mind kicked in. Taking strength in my mask, I mute my emotions and acted as if nothing was wrong, the perfect respectful audience. After what I've been through, an idol group isn't going to distract me, just imagine them as another asset in your arsenal.

    How were these specific costumes chosen? I do not know. Who was in charge of decisions on the wardrobe and cosmetics? A question I'd probably have to ask X4 when I got the chance. But either way, they were a mix of Mandalorian and idol culture, a combination which terrified me.

    That being said, their voices were desirable, the music sounded familiar yet also had the added twist of modern electronic instruments; a bit like rock of one form, maybe it was closer to heavy metal. There is a distinct sound to their music that is unique only to Mandalorian; the substitute to drum beats from their Mandalorian armor, beskar armor provided a unique and altogether different characteristic than dedicated drums. In fact, if I had to make a guess I have a feeling that their armor had been modified slightly for each girl. I had accidentally banged my vambraces together once or twice before, I knew what beskar sounded like when it impacted with each other. Each one of the girls banged their beskar garments together at least once and they had all been different tones, so I suspected that they had found someone to modify the armor with other elements for musical variation.

    Which if anything made me specifically kind of proud, in my own documents I had talked about the use of armor as a defensive tool and had gone into how we should be trying to export our culture as something other than a mad crusader trying to take over the world.

    And these girls proved that this was possible, they had turned their armor into musical instruments to accompany their singing. Could it still be used for self-defense? Probably. The most important thing was it showed that our armor could be more than just a weapon.

    I haven't sent it yet, but I think when I got the chance, I was going to send a message to Mandal Hypernautics as Tanya, the Representative of Mandalore and not as White Silver. See if I couldn't get these girls to come to Coruscant, then invite them to do a bit of a show at one of the local theaters. As much as I was embarrassed that an idle idol comment of mine had driven X4 mad with inspiration enough to attempt to create an idol group, there is actual merit in the concept. I also confess to playing a little too much Idolmaster in my first life which I bought in a fit of boredom during my mandatory paid vacation that I have come to enjoy on my breaks. Thus the chance to attempt the business management aspect of that game in the real world is strangely appealing.

    Honestly, after seeing their performance, I had a strong feeling they were going to be quite popular, at least in the Mandalorian sector. It may be necessary to create a subsidiary music company to take advantage of the currently empty niche of Modern Mandalorian Folk songs in mass media. A music company would also be a requirement to compose our own songs as we can' just remix old folk Mandalorian folk songs forever. While this is a surprise to be sure, it is a welcome one as X4 somehow managed to make this work. I am very tempted to leave creating the music company entirely in X4's hands.

    I remembered a few songs in my first life being composed with both traditional instruments used alongside modern instruments that musicians back then couldn't even dream of. While the centerpiece instruments are the drumbeats of the beskar armor, modern synthesizers and electric guitars provide a powerful twist to the traditional folk songs that give the song new depth and energy that can only be provided by amplifiers and electric instruments.

    My thoughts were interrupted as the show came to an end and the girls paused on stage waiting for some sort of reaction. Immediately, I started to slow clap before eventually accelerating to a standing ovation, saying nothing but quite applauding profusely. Vai and the other Royal Guards joined in the applause as well. This seemed to be the right reaction, the girls relaxed into satisfaction, smiling and bowing before stepping off the stage to the left.

    A moment later Bo Katan sat down next to me. She had shown us to the theater, but left prior to the show and hadn't actually had time to see it with us. "So what did you think? I didn't really know what I was doing. Literally these were the first group of people who showed up who actually could sing, so I just sort of took them in."

    I nodded my head silently for a moment, before saying, "I think they did great and we are lucky they decided to join us. This will do wonders for the idea of what a Mandalorian is really like in the broader galactic mindset. A warrior yes, but not an uncultured barbarian."

    She chuckled at that before saying, "I don't know anything about this whole idol business that you've cooked up, but they do a good rendition of Honor-Bound. I don't mind helping them out. From what I've been able to dig up, Miri Chour, the lead singer, heads the clan of four. Her mother died of a disease a few years ago. Miri took in two orphans, Khovi is the energetic one and Shomso is the quiet one. Their family died of the same disease and is taking care of her younger sister as well."

    I nodded my head at that story. Any Propaganda Minister would be salivating at this if they had the chance. A literal orphan taking care of other orphans, transforming into a musical idol and changing the opinion of their culture and people across the Galaxy. It was too perfect, hell if I didn't want to exploit this myself I might actually hire a private investigator to scrutinize their background. Chances are, even if parts of the story were true and other parts were made up, they could be runaways for all I know. However, for now I would leave their history alone. Their 'life story' served my interests and if there was any blowback, I could easily claim that I was simply a dupe for a good sob story while trying to do the right thing.

    An odd thought crossed my mind that could be useful in the future, as I was also a war orphan. There were a lot of us out there, I might be able to use it under the right situation to my advantage. Absent-mindedly, I asked, "What about the fourth sister?"

    Bo nodded her head as she ran her hand through her red hair. "She's a couple years younger than the two girls that were on the stage. Unfortunately, she has a sickly constitution so she can't get up on the stage. But I've been giving them a little bit of a bonus to help take care of her medical bills. It sucks, I've talked to her and she said she's got some sort of lung condition that a bacta bath can treat, but bacta is not exactly cheap on this planet and there's not enough quantity to help."

    I paused for a moment to think, before turning into X4, who had been standing at the end of the row of seats, past Vai. "X4, look into getting cheaper bacta to import to Gargon."

    "Of course, Mistress," he said in affirmative.

    That being handled, I turned to Bo and asked, "How goes the training of the Rangers? I haven't heard much of what's been going on there."

    "It's coming along nicely. It was tough the first few weeks, but now it's moving along fairly nicely. We've set up a couple outposts across the planet, now we basically hunt down any 'real' criminals who break up the peace for the clans that run this city. We also hunt down Nomad criminals too, they are rare but still cause problems.

    We had a situation about a month ago where the Nomad clans had a serial killer or some shit real fucked up stuff was going on. Had to track that bastard across the equatorial deserts and let me tell you that was not fun."

    "I assume it's been handled then."

    "Yep, deader than a doornail. Nothing a couple dozen blaster bolts and several thermal detonators can't solve. Though weird shit was going on when we fought him. A couple of the rangers reported him using abilities that sound a bit like those used by Jedi, so we're not exactly sure what was going on."

    I raised an eyebrow, a Mandalorian nomad using Force abilities? That doesn't sound right. Maybe there was some alternative explanation, I had assumed that you could only really master Force abilities by becoming a member of either the Jedi or their obvious knock offs, the Sith. Either way, both groups would have had to have learned those abilities naturally at some point, so it might be possible that those who have the ability to learn the Force could learn it on their own.

    Shaking my head and dismissing these thoughts, I said, "Well all that matters is it's handled. Anything else I need to know about the clans I'll be meeting with tomorrow? Any words of wisdom?"

    "Unfortunately don't expect much from me. I've been watching what's been going on the past year, and besides agreeing that they're okay with the Rangers and they've good with me. I don't expect or know much about playing with this idol idea. And lastly the clans have basically been fighting with each other about territory."

    "How bad are they fighting over territory?" I asked, trying to get an idea of what I was dealing with.

    "Not particularly great, not particularly bad. There's been a few rough up incidents in the last few weeks. Otherwise it's mostly border disputes, you know, 'you stay on your side of the town, I'll stay on my side of town' kind of deal with minor clans getting kicked out or annihilated by the bigger clans if they don't agree to be vassals or subordinates to the major clans."

    "Not great, but it could be worse. Anything else?"

    "Their government is up and running now. The nomads elected an official leader for all clans, who will represent the clans' interests for the Nomads. The local criminal dynasties are going to do the same tomorrow to select the representative of the city. The plan is to let someone else as a third party mediator type to go between the two sides. The mediator is not decided yet, it depends on who's going tomorrow and how things end up in the meeting."

    I already have a suspicion I knew who they were planning to pick as the mediator.

    Bo continued, interrupting my suspicions. "Beyond that, a representative of Mandalore is coming in the day after."

    "Really?" I said, amused and interested.

    "Yep. Someone coming over to meet with the triumvirate or whatever they are going to call this three man government setup. Exactly how Gargon will be introduced into the legal system of the Mandalorian sector, administration, distribution of public goods, taxes, and all that kind of stuff."

    My mind was already leaping ahead to matters of security and resource distribution, dreading the inevitability of the task. How much resources will probably be needed to set up a Self-Defense Force? The fact that there had been a miniature civil war going on in Harswee, Tabi's homeworld, over the resources being allocated for a Self-Defense Force was enough to give me a bit of a headache at the possibility that a similar scenario could happen here.

    Thankfully, if they went with the triumvirate idea then it would be easy to have a force composed of half of Mandalorians from the city, half Mandalorians from the nomad clans, and call it a day. I would just have to hope that that would work as a short-term solution. In the long term, I would push for something a little less rushed. A more solid chain of command and meritocratic system. It will hopefully get them to stop seeing each other as Nomadic Gargon and City Gargon and instead as just Gargon. Interplanetary rivalries and grudges are not good for the long term security of Gargon.

    "Oh by the way, Jewyl wants to have a meeting with you later today. He said something about the prospect of building something beyond fighters and asked if you have any plans for Hypernautics."

    That raised an eyebrow, as far as I was aware Gargon did not have the ability to build anything but fighters. But I'll listen to whatever he has to say, the conversation would at least give me some hints as to what other things went on in the company when I was not paying attention.

    Nodding my approval, I said "I better get ready to meet with him." As I stood up from my chair. "You've done good work Bo, keep it up and I think Gargon will be gaining influence in the Mandalorian sector."

    Leaving, she chucked at that remark, "That'll be the day," as she turned to leave.

    We probably could have said more to each other, but having to pretend to be the White Silver meant I couldn't exactly say goodbye to Auntie Bo, so this would have to do for now.





    Gargon, Mandal Hypernautics HQ
    White Silver (Tanya Kryze)

    I looked at the designs again and confusion before letting out a breath, "This is a capital ship."

    Jewyl Toza was sitting across from me, and let out a sigh of his own, before answering "Yes, I found it in Gerr's archives."

    Frowning in confusion, I said "Why does he have a capital ship in his archives? Gargon's shipyards don't even have the capacity to lay down capital ships let alone something this big."

    "I'll be honest with you, I have a feeling that Gerr planned to invade Kalevala at some point so they could convert their orbital ring into a capital ship-class shipyard. Better to have the plans ready so that they can start producing capital sized ships immediately."

    Annoyed, I looked down at the Keldabe Battleship as it was called. "When was the last time a capital ship was even made in the Mandalorian sector?"

    "Thousands of years ago." the CEO said, with a shrug. "Yes, I know that it's more than a little bit odd that we even have a design like this. You are not going to like the explanation."

    I took a seat in the chair across from him and said "Go on, I'd rather know why we have this design rather than not."

    Toza pulled out something and slid it across the table towards me. I reached over to pick up the pad, opening it I saw another capital ship. A triangle design of sorts, though bigger than the one I had already seen. The previous design I examined was more boxy and not as triangular, but I saw some of the same design elements. The shared elements seem to carry over importance on having an all-around ability to act both as a battleship and a light carrier, as well as a similar configuration for the bridge. The bridge looked too similar, in fact it looked almost exactly the same. "Kuat Drive Yards?" Looking up, I asked the question that I feared the answer of most. "Gerr stole designs from Kuat Drive Yards and got their latest design for a capital ship, didn't he?"

    "I can't exactly confirm with Kuat about the design's authenticity, for obvious reasons. But as far as I can tell, yes, that is exactly what Gerr did. The madman had this plan for a new warship that he was planning to have built, once he had control of the sector. A capital ship like this that probably would have been capable of whatever Gerr came up with."

    "Well I'll give him this, he was going to avoid the Kuat copyrights if he had outright made this monstrosity." I said looking at the easily recognizable Star Destroyer design that reminds me a lot of the old Mandalorian warship from the Mandalorian wars. "I should end this particular topic here. We couldn't make something like this even if we wanted to."

    A strange look crossed Toza's face, "Here's the interesting thing though. We kind of do have the capability to make one of these one. We would need to contract Kalevala Spaceworks to build it, but we could fund its construction if we are given the go ahead from Mandalore."

    I tilted my helmet and looked at him in interest, waiting to hear how we were supposedly able to create a monstrosity like this Keldabe Battleship.

    "To be clear, I understand where you're coming from. We should not be building a capital ship, nevermind a battleship. It would go against the Ruusan Reformation and draw the interest of the Republic. The presence of a new and mysteriously advanced warship would all of a sudden upset the political balance. It could become a pretext for war, with accusations of us aiding the Separatists. That conflict is something I don't think we want to be involved in, at least I don't.

    However this basic design could easily be stripped down of its bigger guns and converted into a bulk freighter. As you've no doubt seen the CIS got away with something similar with their Lucrehulks and they had even larger guns on theirs merchant vessels. Wouldn't be that hard to call it a ship meant for trade, removing most of the internal hulls and armor for more cargo space."

    I nodded as I listened to his explanation. Toza wasn't wrong, and it is a known fact that the bigger a craft is for transport capacity the more economical it was; the square-cube law held here as well. It's why so many cargo ships had just been going bigger and bigger on Earth before I died, and the same process had started in my second life as well.

    I thought all this and only said, "That's a lot of internal space that could be created."

    "Enough so that you could possibly even add squadrons of fighters as well. Fighters are not as restricted under the Ruusan Reformation, that's why the Trade Federation has hundreds of fighters in droid configurations aboard their ships."

    I'm starting to see what he was suggesting here and I liked and disliked it at the same time. Officially the Ruusan Reformation prohibited battleships, carriers; and transport vessels had much lighter restrictions. Building a carrier that could spend most of its life as a cargo ship and then be converted for carrier operations was not illegal; it actually went well with my initial draft of the Silver Codex not focusing on the military needs but being prepared to fight when necessary.

    "So what I'm getting is, you want to take this Keldabe Battleship and have some designers create a cargo ship that could easily be reconfigured to a carrier version in an emergency?"

    "Yes, I'm not sure if it's a good one but if you don't mind I would like to give it a shot. We're probably not able to build it ourselves but you know if we offer it to the government of Mandalore, maybe they'd be interested."

    I nodded, I of course had no idea if Satine would even be interested in this idea, but it was worth a shot and a carrier force was something that could be very useful if the war ever spilled out into our sector.

    "Rename the Keldabe class to the current capital city, Sundari, and even with that we don't have the best chance of pulling this off. We need to make it as apparent as possible that this is meant to be a trade ship first and a combat vessel only in emergencies. Vorpa'ya have just declared themselves independent and are willing to sell their food at more competitive prices than Concord Dawn. Having access to our own bulk freighter would help streamline the transport and reduce the need for multiple trips by medium freighters. That's our best chance of getting Mandalore to agree to allow the creation of a ship this large. In the event the Separatists invade, we can convert it to a carrier in Gargon." I said with surety and he seemed to smile at that.

    "Will do boss. One other thing." he pulled out another datapad and slid it across the desk to me. Picking it up I saw something marked as the 'Crusader-class'. A quick skim of the schematics made apparent right away what I was looking at. "An anti-fighter corvette meant for clearing the skies, something you could use to defend the already possible swarm of fighters."

    Nodding my head as I looked at this I asked, "This is an interesting design that could work as an anti-fighter escort vessel for the Sundari that's for sure."

    Toza nodded before saying, "Three are already under construction here and it is projected to be completed in 4-5 months. Since it is the size of a blockade runner, our docks are large enough for it. Gerr was working on them as a way to keep the Royal Guards Fang Fighters from trying to bomb his army. I think you can see the usefulness of this if, say, the Trade Federation attempts to invade and unleashes their squadrons of droid fighters."

    I knew that and said, "I'll offer this to the Duchess's government as well. I don't know if she'll give her approval but even if she doesn't, see if you can get any other planets in the sector interested in this design. Having ships like this around could be useful in the future."

    Leaning back in my chair I said, "Anything else you want to show me? Perhaps some sort of cruiser or destroyer to fill in the midship role that is left by having a heavy ship like this and a light ship like that?"

    He stopped for a moment before reaching into his bag and said, "Well, since you asked. Gerr was very prepared from the records I've been going through."

    "You're kidding, Gerr has a design for a ship like that? I was only joking."

    "Not exactly but it does fulfill a similar role." He said before handing it over as I reached for it. I pulled up the pad and looked at it and was somewhat stumped for a moment.

    It was a dungeon ship, the Kiltirin class. While it is the same size as the Crusader, the ancient designs seem to be modified for the modern era. It looks like it had a little bit larger amount of armor than necessary but the speed was about right to keep up with the Crusader and the Keldabe class.

    Part of me wondered why he would go for that ship in particular, but a quick skim of the schematic shows them to be equipped with several Turbolasers which would complement the Crusader's lack of anti-ship weaponry. It would work well as a slightly more armored vessel equipped with Turbo-lasers, allowing it to punch well above its weight, take hits like a champ due to its thick armor, and cover the Crusader's lack of anti-capital ship weapons. Mandalorian dungeon ships had been mainly used to transfer Jedi prisoners and other similarly dangerous things in the ancient days. However, Mandalmotors still produced some of them today, for cargo hauling since it was an old and reliable design. I had done a little bit of research on those historical periods and knew that most fleets of that era used a ship called a Dreadnought class. They were vaguely based on the Mandalorian dungeon ship, though not as square.

    Oddly enough, about 40 years ago they're apparently had been an attempt to make a dreadnought fleet that had gone wrong resulting in the Katana Lost Fleet. That had been a rather humorous find considering my background, even if the loss of the fleet was a colossal waste of resources that caused the Judicial Force to be what it is today. As far as I could tell though, Katana, being a recognizable Japanese word, was just a random coincidence of words. Shogun is a random coincidence of a word too. I wondered if I'd come across a samurai as a similar "random coincidence" though I really hope not.

    Shaking my head I let out a sigh before saying, "Same plan as with the other class design then. Retool them into passenger liners but have an easy conversion into a defensive ship system. Maybe give modular interiors so that it can swap out their interiors to accommodate cargo as well as exterior cargo attachments for bulk cargo transportation, passengers, or generators for the turbo lasers. We should differentiate the Crusader and the Kiltirin from each other to prevent them from competing with each other, as well as renaming both of them to have a more peaceful name."

    We're not going to have the ability to build a massive fleet but we can build a bunch of cargo carriers that could be converted into something that can punch back would be very useful in the event the Mandalore Sector is invaded. Now that I think about it, we have a large freighter, a medium freighter, and a passenger liner. The only vessel type that Hypernautics doesn't have a product for, in the civilian transport market, is a light freighter for smugglers and couriers. Maybe we could develop our own light freighter that can be converted to a combat craft to fill that niche. I remember a similar story from my first life in the American AC-130, a transport aircraft that is stuffed with the biggest weapons that the US could fit in it and turned into a ground-attack aircraft with a howitzer, gatling cannons, and auto cannons.

    "By the way, how's the R&D section doing? I remember skimming about the Keldabe and the Crusader the last time I was here. Are they busy with another project?"

    Toza sent a report on the R&D section's activity to my datapad before speaking, "After stating your intention to redesign the Canderous into several different vehicles, the R&D division have divided themselves into teams named after animals to do just that. They are divided into the Infantry Transport team that named their vehicle the Fanned Rawl, the Light Tank team that named themselves the Mythosaur, and the Rocket Artillery team who named themselves the Shriek-Hawks. So far all three projects are still in the design phase."

    "Put those projects on hold. Redesigning the Crusader and Kiltirin so that we can start selling them is more important right now while we are still at peace. They can continue development of the vehicles afterwards. Send what they have right now and I'll add my thoughts on them when I have the time."

    Toza nodded before saying, "I see, will that be all?"

    "Actually, since we have a bulk freighter in the Sundari, a medium freighter in the Crusader, and a multi-purpose vessel in the Kiltirin, why don't we have a light freighter option as well? Since we already have a superiority fighter in the Fang Fighters, have a team design a light freighter that can be converted into a ground attack craft. We can't compete with the Separatists in quantity on the ground thus our only option is to use multipliers like this. A ship the size of a light freighter with a large central cargo bay can bring fairly powerful weapons with it, mass drivers, rotary blaster cannons, and more. One or two of these would be able to wreak havoc on the Droid Army from above and take out key targets like tanks and artillery. When it's protected by shields and other defensive countermeasures as well as our own fighters, it can continue to rain fire down for a long time. The large cargo bay would also benefit logistics as they can carry our potential vehicles inside of them."

    I waited until Toza finishes typing his reasoning on his datapad before saying, "Understood, Miss Silver. Do you require an office for the duration of your stay?" Which was kind of a good question.

    Cracking my neck I got up and said, "I don't think I'll spend all day in here. I think I'll go explore Gargon for a bit to see about buying some land or something." My plans involve creating a casino resort here after all so having some land for myself that I could be built on would probably be a good idea. Though I would need to delegate this job to someone else due to how busy my schedule is with the Mandalorian Representative coming in tomorrow. Hmm, Vai had not caused any trouble last year. I would pick her up before I step out, have her take part in this and drop some of the work on her. X4 should be able to steer her in the right direction at the very least and keep things afloat.

    Nodding my head I said, "It was great to talk with you, Toza but I must be going." as I walk towards the door.

    "Take care, ma'am." he said somewhat confused but happy to have his seat by the sound of it.




    Gargon, Mandal Hypernautics HQ
    Grel of Clan Tutt

    Last year was rather interesting. First we had the failed attempt by Mandal Hypernautics to take over the planet. The new leader taking control of the company and showing herself to be more than apt to make our businesses more legitimate in the sector.

    At this moment, I was looking around the room at four other members of the Council that would now run the city of Gargon.

    There was a course myself, Clan Tutt primarily dealt in casinos in the northern side of the city. The Kroggooss Clan, who dealt with casinos in the south side of the city. Last but not least, Clan Hoss, who kept crime in the outer districts of the city to a minimum.

    These were the expected crime families, the three with the highest interest in turning this planet legitimate. There were of course others, and those that had not been brought under heel in the last year were no longer amongst our ranks as high ranking clans. Kagg and I had seen to that, muscling out all the lesser clans through the use of bounty hunters and mercenaries, something this planet was rife with after Gerr's takeover. Independent criminals not part of our clans that could not be driven offworld were destroyed.

    I once had a favored bounty hunter team for that job, she was rather good at taking them down before they retired. Monsters who did not deserve to live, criminals had nicknamed her the Cape due to her rather flamboyant use of one to hide her weapon till she got close enough. But contracts dried up and she needed money to keep her three sisters fed, so she moved on and went straight. She now worked for Mandal Hypernautics as their spokesperson of all things.

    But that was a story for another time. The Crime Clans as we have been called over the years would be brought into compliance with this new order that was put in place so we could do legitimate business. If they didn't come into compliance they needed to be removed and most often they would flee to Hutt Space where they would take up business amongst the slugs working for them in various ways. That could be a problem in the future but with new security forces in the works as well as being part of the Mandalore Sector, in reality we should be safe from the slugs pulling some ancient contract out of their ass to try and come to the planet.

    Besides us three, there was the elected Nomad leader of the Morson clan who is serving as their official vote on the Council. While he didn't have much leverage when it came to the Triumvirate matters since he is only one vote out of three. When it comes to the Council vote he held only one vote out of five that could easily be outvoted by the others. At least if not for the last member, the wild card, White Silver.

    She was sitting at the other end of the table and she even offered one Hypernautic's offices for our meeting today, until we have our own Council building built. It's actually fairly well decorated, most likely once belonging to Gerr by the looks of it. Wood from Jakelia and other fine minerals here and there such as fire gems and sapphires from Draboon and Hrthging as well as a good view of the city also.

    All four of us members of the Gargon community had taken our helmets off but White Silver still had hers on and was obviously using a voice changer. Why does she do that? There were plenty of theories ranging from a member of one of the religious cults on Concordia, to her being a legendary criminal in disguise. The last theory is only possible if White Silver hailed from Gargon herself, but she lacked the common mannerisms present on those native to Gargon so I doubted it.

    Personally, I thought I had it figured out. She isn't from Gargon, so that only leaves a government or the ultra-wealthy backing her, given her fancy kit and shiny allies. In Mandalore, the capitalists are the government. So White Silver has some planet or other behind her. Probably she really was from Concordia. It smelled like a double bluff and the only faction who would do it is probably Pre's. I highly doubt the New Mandos were behind it since they aren't likely to lift a finger even if they have a blaster pointed at their heads, honestly.

    In the grand scheme of things White Silver's origins didn't matter, she didn't seem to want to rock the boat as well as being interested in keeping the peace and making money. White Silver is just another capitalist watchdog who just wanted to make everyone more profitable, which is great since we don't have to bother ourselves. Profit was something everyone in the room could get behind. Both her own grift on the side with that annoying droid and her transparent vices had done much to improve her trust among important groups on Gargon.

    Of course, there was the problem of what would actually be more profitable. Considering the coming conflict that was so apparent that the first thing Hoss did as soon as they sat down, was bring attention to that. "So how will this coming war between the Separatists and the Republic affect us? Anyone got any ideas? Cuz as far as I'm aware the whole plan to get ourselves a legitimate business kind of depended on the rich and famous passing between the Corporate sector and the Core."

    But Morson shrugged before saying as he scratched the back of his neck, lightly moving his darker hair, "I think it would put things on hold at the very least. A war is not good for civilian business. And with how close we are to the main route that armies will be going up and down for however long this conflict goes, I have a feeling you guys won't be able to go totally legitimate."

    "Great, so we just muscled out a bunch of clans in the hopes of wealth and now all we've done is create a situation that will most likely lead to those clans gathering Hutt support to come attack us down the line."

    "I highly doubt that." the Silver Mandalorian said at the head of the table. "It will most likely take years for any of those clans to get enough reputation with the Hutts to even attempt something like that. And though the civilian opportunities of the idea are closed to us, the military opportunities are still quite open."

    "Oh? And how are we going to get in on these military opportunities then, Miss Faceless?" Hoss said, sounding very dismissive of Silver. Which is understandable since he spent a lot of his assets repairing his territory that got damaged during the Gerr Rebellion. He needs the income to keep his territory afloat and his men paid or else it'll dissolve and get absorbed by the other clans.

    The girl merely leaned back and said, "Come now, it should be fairly obvious. The Mandalore sector will most likely take a neutral stance to whatever happens due to the New Mandalorian pacifist ideology but no doubt individual Mandalorians. Either private citizens or bounty hunters will see a chance to try and get a little bit of wealth off the fighting between the Republic and Separatists. Most likely there will be no organized efforts and we'll see various people offering their services acting as bounty hunters more than anything. However there are paths to create mercenary companies or private military contractors here on Gargon."

    "Oh great, we're going to try raising mercenaries again, that went so well for us last year." Hoss said, I can see where he's coming from, as giving a faction a large military force can tip the balance of power too much into that faction's favor that they can just strong arm the rest into submitting.

    Though for White Silver part she seemed unconcerned and reiterated what she said, "I did not say Mandal Hypernautics will be raising these companies, I said Gargon will. Once we set up this triumvirate, we will have the ability to create mercenary companies here on this planet using similar tactics as the Sun Guard. Companies of troops that are rented out to whoever is willing to pay for them and we just advertise their services in the sector.. This should prevent one faction from having the numbers to take over the entire unit and plot a coup on Gargon again."

    "An interesting idea." I said from where I was sitting. "But doesn't that kind of step on the Bounty Hunter guild's niche?"

    Silver shook her head quickly saying, "The Bounty Hunter's guild likes to pretend they control all mercenaries, but the fact of the matter is the mercenaries they hand out are bounty hunters. We're talking about mercenary companies which would fall out of their control as it is a group of individuals working together to defend themselves. Instead of individuals, we can lend out entire squads that have already been trained to work as a team or in a combined arms unit with various members having different specializations depending on our client's needs.

    Though I will say we should be careful of the Bounty Hunter guild, from what I understand they are a little bit jealous of anyone even lightly muscling on their territory. But if the Sun Guard can get away with being a mercenary company for the last twelve hundred years, I think at this point we can get away with it, for how many years this current conflict will go on."

    "I thought you were against war." Hoss said, now he's just being an asshole.

    "I am, but I don't want to see our people rushing off to join a war without a proper conversation from their families at the minimum. A mercenary company to deal with this situation will at least maintain a way for those families to get money if their loved ones are foolish enough to die in this conflict."

    "That sounded a bit like a guild, but maybe just attempting to avoid the terminology of guild would keep the bounty hunters away." Kagg voiced his concerns.

    Before I could ask anything else, Silver continued, "There will be other opportunities to make money in this war without getting involved in the conflict itself. As you've already noted we will be right along the lane to where most of those armies will probably pass through. No doubt whatever forces created for this war will need places of rest and pleasure. A soldier's life is not exactly an easy one and they're likely to take whatever respite they can get. We can prepare special zones of the city to specifically cater to and accommodate soldiers from both factions, one for the Republic and one for the Separatists. We maintain these areas as far away from each other as possible, use a handful of special forces to maintain an invisible curtain, and we could gain wealth from gambling, drinking, eating, and other pleasurable associations quite easily."

    'A bit risky but it shouldn't escalate to an invasion if both sides found out that we cater to both sides since we would be part of the Mandalore sector and they would do their best to stay neutral.' I thought to myself but Silver wasn't done and seemed to be on a roll at this point.

    "This wealth can be invested in the creation of amenities for civilian use after the war is over. There will always be some trade between either the Outer Rim to the Republic or the Republic to the Other Rim and there will be a need for a stop off point between the Corporate sector and the Core. All this conflict has done is merely postpone our initial plans. Now we have this unexpected opportunity to make a little wealth to build up towards our initial plan to turn Gargon into a resort world. It'll take some extra time, but it is not impossible."

    Hoss finally seemed placated and Kagg seemed more than happy with the ideas being presented. Morson is the next one to bring a concern of his.

    "That's good for the city clans but what about us mountain folk? We're not exactly going to be making a lot of money off your urban degeneracy, so this would do us no good."

    Silver nodded before saying, "It would initially not do you any good, yes. Soldiers will not be very interested in the majestic terrain of this world. Maybe a few will be interested in some sort of cultural exchange. They are going into war and we are renowned warriors, some will comprehend the implications of our legacy and that will result in some of them wanting to learn something about Mandalore and its people, which you can use to make some money. However I think what will be the real money maker for you is taking over security for the spice mines.

    War is going to be hard in this area and they're going to need medical supplies. If we create a medical grade spice refinery on Gargon for our spice, well, I'm sure you can see why there would be lots of orders for that material."

    "Hmm," I said. "hiring our own enforcers for spice mine protection duty has always been a bit of an issue. Many of them were addicts, I have been forced to turn a blind eye to it a few times. But Nomad are infamous for their lack of interest with spice. At the very least it would cut down on the internal corruption and loss from addicts getting their fix." I admitted.

    Morson shook his head before saying, "I don't like it, no way it's sufficient to keep us financially stable." I was pretty sure he was lying, it was definitely enough employment for several clans. He continued, "We'll do it, but I think we would need something more substantial than that."

    Nodding her head Silver continued, "Mandal Logistics is going to be opening an office on this planet next month. They'll need security details for protecting their supply ships in and out of the Mandalore sector, especially now given the coming conflict. I'll ensure the Nomads of Gargon get first priority for open positions. I'm sure some Nomads would do well as security or even as support services aboard the ships. I'm sure some would even find the trip enjoyable. Between the guaranteed spice security contracts and the favorable Mandal Logistics employment contracts I hope you'll consider my plan."

    Morson nodded before asking, "Why do I get the feeling that you have a little bit of a hand in Mandal Logistics? Not sure how else you could show favorites and I ain't never heard anything about them opening an office here." My thoughts followed a similar track, this Mandal Logistics was clearly her puppet.

    Silver chuckled, letting go of her game right then and there, "Perhaps. What matters is that it's for the benefit of all Mandalorians."

    So they didn't just own a ship building corporation. How many different corporations and businesses did White Silver have her hands on? I'll have to keep an eye on her.

    Morson said, "It sounds like we've got ourselves a plan. Everyone willing to shake on it to make this thing official?"

    I nodded with the various leaders of the clans, and we all shook hands with Silver asking as we all re-took our seats. "I've heard that there's a Representative from Mandalore coming tomorrow. How are we dealing with this?"

    I spoke up saying, "As you already heard we've elected a triumvirate with you, myself, and Morson, will meet with this Mandalorian representative and see if we can't negotiate our way into the Mandalorian sector proper. Once that's accomplished, we can move on to more legitimate businesses. Just have to avoid pissing off the central government. Do you think we should be worried about mercenaries being on the Duchess's shit list of things we should not be doing?"

    Silver shook her head simply saying, "I don't think so. The Duchess seems to have taken some interest in the Silver Codex. I've made it clear that if a mercenary conducts itself with honor as the True Mandalorians have proposed outside the sector they should be fine." I grew distracted for a moment, parsing the boldly understated audacity of bragging privately to us about influencing sectoral government policy so easily. "Generally giving the Mandalorian people a bad name outside our sector that we would need to take note of them." I could almost understand that from context, as I caught back up to the conversation.

    "Makes sense. You bring us bad press, we go down on you. You bring us good press, we will ignore you. That's not a bad arrangement and I think we can live with that." Kagg commented.

    "I hope we all can. I do wonder who they'll be sending for this meeting. I've heard that they have some people who have a real hate for anything that even smacks of militarism and well we're all wearing armor." Silver said.

    I chuckled at that instead, "Well only one of us manages to look good in armor." Flattery always worked, even when you know it was flattery, "I can put together a video showing off our better side, we're hardy people living in an unsafe neighborhood of the Galaxy. That should be enough to keep this representative happy."

    "Good, good. I expect this to go smoothly." Silver said with the hint of a smile in her voice. I shivered.




    Gargon, Gargon City
    Korkie Kryze

    I'll give Gargon some credit, there aren't any mosquitoes here and for that I thanked the stars. For the last 4 months I had been on Breshig coordinating the efforts to salvage the vulnerable, but still functional ruins from beneath the waterways of the planet. The planned terraforming was going to finish the process that decay had set in motion and destroy these sites in their entirety, so we recovered everything we could and salvaged the rest.

    We cleared everything out, even the interior walls and plumbing which we sold to a local foundry to be melted down. It didn't take long to find out that the outer walls are beskar too and no one wanted to leave the beskar there to waste. Even after 3 months of work, Aunt Satine lending the Royal armorers, and judicious use of explosives and beskar tools to help dismantle the beskar walls, we were only halfway done with salvaging the beskar walls of the museum. The amount of beskar recovered in the 1st month alone is enough to pay for the expedition a couple of times over.

    It was not easy either, occasionally fighting off giant lizards had been a stressful experience to say the least. The attacks became so fierce at one point I'd nearly asked for a set of armor. Luckily, the hardsuit I had already equipped had turned out to be sufficient enough protection so long as I didn't get my head in their jaws, sparing me the shame.

    Even though it had been a hell of a time, I admit we'd come up with some pretty worthwhile items and finds, making it well worth the trouble. Zoll managed to get access into the vault, retrieving information we struggled to get access to in the first month and Soniee helped download all the data once we got access. From it we have been able to find out quite a lot of interesting things.

    The most interesting discoveries surfaced from analyzing certain specialty designs and also from some of the receipts on the various equipment. Receipts on items such as engines and the quantities that had to be imported from Corellia. The most surprising discovery was that the Ancient Mandalorians imported their engines from another sector, rather than building them locally. The receipts showed they had bought the engines wholesale from Corellia, then had them shipped to Mandalore to be installed in their warships. Only much later, would similar engines be constructed in Mandalore.

    In the archives we found designs of fighters and warships dating back to the crusades. Concerningly, though, the record of shipyards were lost. And I do not mean destroyed when I say lost. The locations of the shipyards themselves were a mystery. Several shipyards were on Breshig's surface, containing ships partially completed and under construction when it had been flooded. The floods and destruction of the orbital elevators obscured the shipyard sites' locations on the planet. So, the shipyards weren't destroyed so much as buried; buried under centuries, mud, and water which had led to an interesting debate about what should be done with any ships that might be discovered, especially if any might be functional.

    Most of the ships couldn't have survived. Starships aren't commonly designed for submergence in water, but some of the ships' manifests indicated they were made from beskar. If the construction had been sufficiently advanced, that meant those ships were probably still sealed and intact. Their internal systems were probably rusted to dust by now, but they would still be there, if only it wasn't impossible to recover them.

    I, for one, was not a fan of the idea of hidden warships buried under the mud. However, the ships were so ancient that it did raise the possibility of converting them into historical museums. There was no way a ship that had served in the Mandalorian Navy 4,000 years ago would still be any good in this modern era, so creating museums out of them seemed the only option other than scrapping them. If they were so damaged that they could not be raised, well, there were a lot of beskar on those ships that could help the economy a bit.

    Ultimately, the fate of those ships is not my responsibility. That responsibility would fall to the Royal Archives, they would be tasked with finding a solution. The shipyards themselves don't really have anything worth the effort to salvage that could have survived centuries underwater. So a cursory excavation to find any bits of beskar before they get started on recovering the vessels. And that is just some of the small problems that had been dumped on my lap.

    When I helped open that vault, I admit when I first started examining their contents it felt like I opened a box full of Mandalore's evils. There were documents and reports of assembly yards hidden in various places throughout the Mandalorian sector. Not military production facilities, those are on Breshig, but peacetime overfill shipyards that have been constructed by Cheravh in order to fill other planets orders for ships. And for them to have something to fall back on if the planet ever came under siege. There were only a few of these facilities, but more than I would have expected. One of them was even located just outside the Mandalore system, but kept deep and secret. It seems that the only people who had known that they existed outside the Museum of Naval Design were the leaders in charge of the government of Cheravh and when Breshig had been flooded the leaders hadn't made it off the planet.

    Factor in that the fact that the first place that went offline once war broke out were those secret factories, as those populations were sent to the combat first. These facilities had basically been lost after the few Mandalorians that probably knew about their existence had died with the fall of the planet. There had been instances throughout the last 700 years where a small fleet had been created out of one of these facilities. Soniee had pointed out an instance where several ships had just seemed to come into existence during Deathwatch's assault during the Mandalorian Civil War. So it was very likely that these facilities had obviously fallen into the hands of local radical groups or the planets had decided to just simply keep the existence of these facilities secret for themselves, due to the New Mandalorians' rise and our anti-military stands.

    This data would be sent to Aunt Satine to deal with officially. We couldn't exactly do anything about the fact that several planets probably have secret shipyards. Maybe, in the spirit of getting ourselves a naval Self-Defense Force to take care of the sector, could they be united with some of the other ship building companies in the sector? At the very least if they were on record and being used for civilian production it would look a lot better than having these secret shipyards that could easily be used to create a secret fleet by any of these other planets. Heck there have been rumors that perhaps the Mandalorian Patrol had some sort of secret shipyard for years because their ships weren't getting maintained at any of the bigger shipyards for some of their old Mandalorian Cruisers from thousands of years ago.

    That isn't really something I need to think about right now. I've done my job, I've helped inform the decision makers of what we found and now it's up to those in charge to figure out what to do. I was on my way back to Mandalore when I got a call from Aunt Satine to take a bit of a detour.

    The government of Gargon had officially announced that they want to officially become part of the Mandalorian sector proper. Most likely in order to gain access to the protection provided by the Self-Defense Force as well as access to trade with other planets in the Mandalore sector, according to the Guard Captain Rau. Since I was already in the area I had been assigned the opportunity to welcome them in and get them to sign the flimsi-work that would officially allow them to join the sector as well as tell them how much taxes they would be obligated to paying to have access to the whole Self-Defense Force as well as other trades and subsidies.

    There are probably better politicians that could do this job but this was theoretically a simple mission and this would help me get a better understanding of how to do diplomatic missions, if I ever needed to do it again. And it wasn't like I'd be alone, the Royal Guard Captain and his guards are coming along. As well as my group of friends, though they were mostly just going to be hanging out in the hotel we had rented.

    Me, I would be going up to Mandal Hypernautics to talk to the leadership of this planet. I am a bit concerned as to the reason why we are having the meeting there, but since I knew that Gerr is safely in prison, it couldn't be an attempt to take me hostage or anything like that. If it was, then the Royal Guards would be sufficient to counter any threats of that nature.

    Then again, I could see why they had chosen that facility. The tower of Mandal Hypernautics was near the center of the city which has the best view and the cleanest streets, the area could almost pass for somewhere on Mandalore. Almost, if you look too far down the street you'd see signs for various casinos and other activities that were not something you'd see in Mandalore for sure.

    Well that was not my concern either, as I exited the hovertaxi and walked across the street with my guards. All I could wonder is what kind of leadership could make up the government of this planet. After all that I had seen and heard, this place wasn't exactly stable at the best of times. But then again maybe they were hoping that being part of the New Mandalorian government in some way would stabilize the planet, it isn't an impossible thing.

    No, I didn't grow concerned as we came up to the gates of Mandal Hypernautics and I saw the security around it. I had seen lots of Mandalorians in various shades of armor walk in the streets since coming here but many of them wore white stripes on their armor or silver markings and those few that had white handkerchiefs tied around their arm kind of made me realize that there might be something up.

    I listened in as Guard Captain Rau had a few words with the people at the gates before they nodded and let us through. Nothing too major was learned other than that this particular group is called the Gargon Rangers. Other than that, I learned nothing of major importance.

    Whatever questions I did have were interrupted as I heard someone say, "Well, well look who's finally gotten off Mandalore. Nice to see ya again, kid."

    Confused, I turned to the familiar voice seeing a Mandalorian female in a black bodysuit with gray and crimson plates, with some yellow markings. Tilting my head I realized who I was looking at and said in a perplexed tone, "Aunt Bo? What are you doing here?"

    She laughed as she pulled off her helmet revealing her face confirming who she was before saying, "I work here kid. Got myself a neat little desk job. Training up the Rangers so that they can actually help maintain law and order on this planet."

    "Really? I didn't know you knew how to maintain law and order." I said in a deadpan tone.

    Bo chuckled at that before saying, "No I don't, but for what I understand all I need to do is train them to follow the laws that were passed by whatever government they finally decide to make and have them able to fight anyone who decides to be a bit of a problem. Like that last guy who tried to take over."

    "Ah, so they have exchanged one dictator of a corporation for a collaboration effort then." The Royal Guard Captain said with an amused tone as he heard that.

    Bo turned and said "I recognize that voice. How're you doing Cresthead? I haven't seen you since you have carted Gerr off to one of your prisons. How's that bastard doing by the way?" With the helmet covering Captain Rau's face you can't see his expression but it looked like he is already used to the nickname.

    "Locked up in the deepest dungeons on Mandalore where the sun doesn't shine and the key's been thrown away. At least I hope it's been. I heard there might be some sort of trial in the next year or so to determine the exact extent of his crimes. But for now he's just being put out of sight and out of mind in a place that no one can break them free of. There's been some concern about his mercenaries attempting to break him out."

    "Nah, the majority of them aren't interested, especially when we pay them now but it's not impossible. There was a couple assassination attempts after we cleared out his influence, but it's nothing we couldn't handle. But I doubt they'll be able to break him out without significant resources and outside help. I think you'll handle the situation just fine."

    I finally managed to find the words to cut in,"Wait, both of you were involved in the False Silver Incident? I know you were involved Captain, but how come I didn't hear anything about this Aunt Bo?"

    She shrugged before saying, "Wasn't really important, besides it's a small time job. I'm going to be off my contract in 3 months and I'll be doing something else. Unless something major happens between then and now that keeps me needing to work here."

    I let out a sigh before saying, "Okay so you work here and you're in charge of the, I'm guessing, law enforcement training. Who exactly is in the government? Most I've heard is that they are elected officials but no one's exactly said who these officials are."

    She motioned us to follow her before saying, "Well one representative is elected from the Nomad clans, one representative elected from the City Clans, and a tiebreaker who represents Mandal Hypernautics. As for who those three are, I'm sure they'll introduce themselves to you when you meet them, they're just people who work here. You just have to handle the flimsi-work, they'll sign it, and then you can be back on your way to Mandalore and do whatever it is New Mandalorians like you do."

    I caught a tone change when she said New Mandalorian but I shrugged it off. I knew Aunt Bo didn't particularly like the New Mandalorians so this isn't that big of a surprise. Shaking my head I simply said, "Yeah, we better get on with this and get up the tower elevator."

    Bo nodded before saying, "Have fun with the meeting. Oh and make sure to ask about tickets to the concert tonight. I'm sure the CEO will gladly give some tickets to you and your friends here." she said "You can bring the other Crestheads too if you want."

    "Concert?" I said, confused.

    Bo has a moment of realization before saying, "Ah right, you weren't here when that was announced so you don't know. Silver is going to create some sort of cultural renaissance thing and is supporting cultural works to help out with that. Be sure to check it out, I'm sure you'll enjoy it."

    Nodding my head I noted that I might ask to take a look to see what this cultural thing they were talking about could be interesting at the very least. After Aunt Bo left, I made my way over to the elevator and took it to the floor I was told to go to by the Ranger who was sitting inside there.

    I was only in the elevator for a few moments but it was enough to get myself prepared for whatever I was going to see, or at least I thought so. But as the door opened I realized I was really unprepared even at my best guess. Standing in the room were three individuals. The first is an older man, wearing Mandalorian armor that while it is polished to a shine, looked a little bit small on him due to his weight and had various furs around joints of his armor that looked rather expensive. He has dark hair and is pale but otherwise rather normal looking. The second individual, another male, looked to be in his mid-40s. His armor was not as well put together with noticeable dents and scrapes to indicate battle damage that spoke of recent use unlike with the first but it also looks like it has a flight suit underneath the armor that was designed to deal with the cold of the planet. Perhaps a necessity for a nomad, I figured, though it was hard to be sure.

    The third individual was the one that put me a little bit off my step as it was White Silver herself. This was totally the White Silver sitting across from me. Her armor was the same style as the last time she appeared on the holos. She now has a silver sword at her side, the plates on her legs looked a little bit more refined as if they'd been enlarged for more defensive defense and her flight suit which had been rather regular gray and the footage I'd seen had been replaced by something that was a bit more skin tight.

    It reminded me a bit of the hard suits that Soniee and the other girls at the Royal Academy wore for training. Which if that was what that was, that would mean that there was another layer of armor underneath her actual armor instead of just cloth protection of her skin. On one hand, it says that she is a bit worried about being shot even being this high in the tower. On the other hand, I had to wonder if there was something else going on or if she just wore her armor all the time.

    I will admit as she stood up and gave a bit of a bow with the other two standing up to wave me over. The tightness of the uniform she was wearing made her eye-catching in a way that was somewhat distracting. Hopefully it was not the second but I could not throw out the idea that White Silver was trying to get into power legitimately by, well, the old-fashioned way of marrying the prince of the current ruling house. It would technically get you in the legitimate way and yeah I wasn't a fan of that even if I was a bit of fan of this hard suit she's wearing.

    Coughing and getting myself centered I moved into the room and nodded to the two gentlemen before saying, "Good afternoon sirs and madam. My name is Korkie Kryze and I'm here on behalf of the New Mandalorian Government to deliver the flimsi-work for starting the process of bringing Gargon into the Mandalore sector together for greater defense."

    "Good, we're going to need it soon." The Nomad looking one said before continuing, "Mlyr Morson of the Morson clan. Glad to have you New Mandalorians finally taking the idea of mutual defense seriously, not just 'Oh we have the Mandalorian Guard and the Judicials, they'll handle everything'."

    The other Mandalorian chuckled before saying, "Grel Tutt, of Clan Tutt. We both know the Judicial Force in every sector hasn't handled things in years. The Republic's version of it is corrupt as all hell and that corruption seeps through even into the Sector's version, if you ask me. I've heard from several smuggler friends that if you pay enough money, the Guard will look the other way every time."

    "What?" I said, probably sounded more shocked than I was but I had never heard of any corruption like what they were saying.

    Silver at the end of the table simply said, "Don't worry the young Korkie with thoughts of possible corruption, Mr Tutt. He's doing the best he can in the position he has." Confirming she was still using that infamous voice changer that had been caught during her last performances. The voice changer altered her voice to be fairly deep yet still sound notably female.

    "Well, if they've got information about corruption in the Guard, we should actually know about this." I offered, pointing out the simple fact that we needed to know about corruption in the Guard for obvious reasons.

    White Silver simply shrugged before saying, "Of course, but they didn't say they knew anything, they just heard rumors. If you're worried about it, simply tell your Prime Minister. I'm sure he has some sort of Internal Investigation Department that'll look into any reports of corruption. If they find any real corruption, they'll deal with it."

    I nodded in acknowledgment as that is at least a reasonable point of view. Before taking a seat at the table, "Well as I was saying, I'm Korkie Kryze of clan Kryze and I'm here to offer you this." I placed the flimsi-work down before continuing, "It's a very limited document for now but I'm sure we will figure out the official acknowledgment of Gargon joining the sector in time. This will dictate several important conditions for Gargon to follow such as the amount of taxes to send to Mandalore, open up trade lanes between the rest of the sector, and you and put down a potential need for the Self-Defense Force as well as how much money we would be willing to pay into the creation of such a unit for Gargon."

    Tutt, the mob aligned Mando reached over and picked up the flimsi-work and quickly started going through it while the nomad aligned mando simply nodded and said, "That doesn't sound so bad, what kind of taxes are we talking here though? We can't pay much at the moment cause we're still recovering from some bad times if you ask me.

    I shrug before saying, "I think the initial tax number is 3%, the number will be renegotiated at a later date once it's better understood what all the problems on the planet and things that it can be supplied can do. I'm just the middle man on this but I'm sure there's a whole room of economists back on Mandalore who will figure all that out."

    The Nomad leader nodded before saying, "Fair enough, so long as the final tax amount isn't too outrageous I have no problem signing this. How's it looking for you Tutt?" he said looking at the Mafia Mando.

    Blake looked up before saying, "It's pretty terrible but in order to get a legitimate business going you need to take a little bit of a hit. And yes, he said it's like 3-3.25% I think but either way I'm sure it'll be manipulated as the years go on and probably never go down."

    Silver at the end of the table scoffed before saying, "Give it time. Gargon has the potential to be one of the jewels of the Mandalore sector. If a jewel is not respected for what it is then a jewel will be lost. I'm sure a reasonable tax will be levied at some point and this is not unreasonable at the moment. Though I'm sure I'll have wonderful conversations with these economists when they finally come over to Gargon to take a look at what this place could actually be."

    "I'm just the middleman in this." I simply said, feeling a bit of my depth as they bickered in front of me about the tax obligation as well as what should be taxed and what shouldn't that had been proposed. But I let out a chuckle at the thought that hit my head before saying, "A big fan of economic theory aren't you? White Silver."

    "Well of course, as the saying goes, 'Money is the lifeblood of the galaxy'. Without a strong economy this sector cannot repair itself from the years of war it has gone through. To not be a fan would be a fool."

    I chuckled at that before saying, "Probably why my sister's a bit of a fan of you."

    "Really? Well she's got a good head on her shoulders then. I have been hearing some good things about what she's been doing for the sector. It would make some sense if she was a fan of my work." Even with the voice changer, you can still hear the wry mirth in her tone.

    "Yeah," I said leaning back in the chair while keeping an eye on this White Silver trying to understand what her goals are in this whole thing. It was not exactly my priority but since I was here I might as well learn as much as possible. "What's this I heard about you trying to create some sort of cultural renaissance?"

    Silver sounded amused at hearing that before saying, "One way to make sure that Gargon's economy is working is to become a cultural icon that people are interested in to attract customers. What better way to do that than through showing our non-warrior ways that are just as important to us as our warrior ways. Would you be interested in seeing some of what I've been working on?"

    "Might as well while I'm here." I said, "My friends and I wouldn't mind seeing whatever this thing is."

    "Excellent," she pressed a button on the table that was in front of her and said, "Viper, see if you can get a few tickets for tonight's concert for the Prince of Mandalore and his friends. I'm sure they will enjoy tonight's performance."

    "Will do Ma'am." A female voice said before the line shut off.

    I was about to ask another question when the nomad leader spoke up once he had skimmed through the flimsi-work and gave it to White Silver to read, "So what's the Duchess's opinion on the upcoming war?"

    That stopped me in my tracks and I said, "War? What war?"

    "Some Prince of Mandalore." came the amused chuckle from the mafia aligned Mandalorian.

    But the nomad shrugged before saying, "Cut him some slack, he's just a kid. He's probably enrolled in an academy in Mandalore right? He's probably too busy studying to pay attention to galactic events. Have you heard about the whole flare up between the Separatists and the Republic?"

    I nodded and said, "I think I've heard a couple things about it but I haven't really given it much thought. How did you know I was enrolled in an academy?"

    "Yeah, he's out of his depth." the mafia Mandalorian said.

    The nomad shook his head before saying, "Alright, I'll answer your second question first since it's the simpler of the two. I was looking for ways to keep my daughter busy and away from here so she doesn't go bounty hunting for the fun of it and maybe have her make a name for herself without getting her killed. The Royal Academy is an option but I doubt I could afford it without selling my armor and Nomad's aren't exactly known for their book smarts so I looked elsewhere but the information is still there.

    Now for your first question, you'll need a quick history lesson so that you understand what's going on. We're right next to the Hydian Way, planets near the Core are part of the Republic, planets at the end of the Hydian Way are forming a Separatist Union that wants to be separated from the Republic. If you know your history you know what happened when Mandalore tried to create its own Republic out here in the Outer Rim."

    I nodded at that, after all that was the reason the New Mandalorians existed. "The Republic will go to war and crush it." I said matter of factly.

    "Exactly and we are right in between where their armies are going to be going by. So I was just wondering if the Duchess has any official plans for if one of the two forces decided to invade the Mandalore sector."

    I shook my head before saying, "I'm unaware of this. I've actually just got back from a mission in Breshig. I would guess the plan is to keep enforcing the Self-Defense Force so we have something to defend ourselves with if something like that would ever happen. I'm not actually privy to what the Duchess plans are but I think the Self Defense Force would play a major part in it."

    The nomad shrugged before saying, "Not a bad plan yet it's not a great plan either. But it's a plan nonetheless, let's talk about something else then. As I've said before, I have a daughter and I don't want her in the line of fire as it were, on Gargon for the next few years. Do you think you could help me get her to Mandalore proper? It should be much more secure than Gargon in the coming conflict."

    "I think I can do that. In fact, my sister, Tanya, has complained about needing several more Vais, uh, that's her handmaiden's name; anyway, my sister could definitely use another handmaiden or two. I could ask her to take your daughter on. Tanya's currently on Coruscant and the Republic Capital is probably going to be the safest planet in the entire galaxy."

    "Hmm," the Nomad said in thought before continuing, "That's an intriguing alternative, but I can't make that decision for her. I'll leave it to her to decide if she wants to go be a handmaiden for your sister. But getting her off Gargon before war breaks out would put me at ease. Thank you, Korkie Kryze."

    "You're welcome." I said, smiling sincerely. My eyes caught onto White Silver and I noted that she had been moving rather stiffly for the last few moments, distracted and deep in thought.

    I briefly wondered why that was. Was White Silver... surprised? There was a possibility that Silver had planned to offer some way out for the Nomad's daughter, which would have put that clan firmly under her control. Had I accidentally stepped on one of the White Silver's operations to gain firmer control of the sector? Maybe, if it did, it sounded good to me. I didn't trust White Silver, even if I wasn't a Pacifist, White Silver was clearly too powerful and there were too many unknowns about her. I needed to do what I could to help my fellow Mandalorians and similarly frustrate White Silver's other plots in the sector.

    My thoughts were interrupted as a female Mandalorian stepped into the room wearing armor nearly identical to White Silver's. In her hand was a folder of some kind and White Silver nodded to her. The new arrival quickly walked past the mafia leader and handed me the folder, "Here you go Mr. Kryze." The unknown female said, in a tone identical to the one that White Silver is using. I merely raised an eyebrow and gave the identical voice changer device a questioning look.

    Accepting the folder in silence I opened it up and quickly identified that these are tickets for some sort of showing, held tonight. As I looked up I did my best not to watch the second Mandalorian's hips sway as she left the room in her rather tight hard suit.

    Part of me wanted to ask if they were twins, but the similar heights and builds were more likely a product of coincidence than the possibility of cloning. Still another part of me figured that with all their identifying markers hidden under the suit and armor I really couldn't be sure of anything. White Silver was rather infamous for protecting their identity. Perhaps the flamboyant display from the two was a deliberate distraction? Coughing, I simply said, "Thank you for the generous gift, Miss Silver, I will be sure to enjoy this show."

    "Oh you will. I've seen their performance and they are fairly competent." White Silver said before she continued, "Anyways we'll get this flimsi-work signed tomorrow so you can be back on your way. Enjoy your time on Gargon, young Prince of Mandalore. But do not enjoy it too much, there's areas of the city that are still somewhat Hutti-fied. So stay with your Royal Guards and they'll keep you safe."

    "Thanks for the recommendation." I said, wondering what exactly Hutti-fied meant but I could take a guess from context. For now though, I would let the Royal Guards deal with any issues of that sort. I got up from my chair and said, "Thank you for your time, Ms. Silver, Mr. Tutt, and Mr. Morson. I'll see you tomorrow."

    "Hope you do. Thanks again for the offer for my girl. I know she's got more bravery than sense, she would probably go running off to be a bounty hunter if I didn't find her a safe way to excel. "

    Okay, I may have slightly misunderstood why he wanted me to get her off the planet, he was concerned for his daughter's safety and protecting her the only way he knew how. So I simply nodded and said, "I'll see about arranging transport of your daughter to Mandalore when I get confirmation, Mr Morson. The very least, if there is a conflict I understand wanting to get your child out of the way of it." I'll probably have to file the paperwork for a passport and Visa for her tomorrow but it shouldn't be a problem. Once the farewells were finished, I headed back for the elevator.

    Once the door closed, I let out a deep breath, relieved at the conclusion of that intense performance. Guard Captain Rau patted me on the shoulder and said "Good job there kid. A little over your head but you did alright for your first diplomatic meeting."

    "Thank you, Captain Rau." I said, happy to have him here. After all, if they had tried to take me hostage to try and get something out of Mandalore right there I probably wouldn't have been able to lift a finger in protest. The only thing that probably kept that from happening was the Captain of the Royal Guard right next to me the entire time.

    That being said, I do wonder what White Silver's goal was. Had she been trying to really tempt me or was that just foolish thoughts brought on by a tight hard suit and teenage hormones? Either way I'd probably be staying far away from her in the future as far as I possibly could.



    Naboo, Private Lake
    Tanya Kryze

    "Well, I have to admit this place is quite lovely." I said, almost downplaying my actual opinions. The fact of the matter was Naboo was the first entirely green planet I think I'd ever stepped on in this life. Mandalore is a desert, Kalevala is a desert, Ordo is a desert, Gargon is mountainous with some bit of green vistas which I'll admit is a step in the right direction, and Coruscant is a cityscape across the entire planet. Frankly I'm surprised I can even see the color green with the lack of green I'd seen in this life, other than my dress.

    "See, I told you'd enjoy it." Padme said as she sat next to me as we looked out across the lake in front of us. It was the start of the new year which meant time to start dealing with the politics of the Galactic Republic AKA mustering our allies for the upcoming political drama of the year. Obviously the Senator of Naboo was trying to ingratiate herself to Mandalore as we have some similar opinions on the matters of war.

    And her way to ingratiate Mandalore was to invite me to Naboo for a picnic, I guess, and a swim. I was currently wearing a swimsuit I picked up that was not as revealing as the one Vai got for me some time ago. It is still a two piece but in green though with a bit of extra fabric that made it look as some would say 'cute'. In front of me is a beautiful blue lake that is unnaturally blue, blue. It is surrounded with green grass and trees that look like some infomercial take on reality.

    Vai and Tabi were already enjoying the water, along with the other Royal Guard pretending to enjoy their time I think. Mok was currently operating a grill we found when we arrived and was cooking up some local fare, though I noted he had several containers of hetikleyc, a Mandalorian spice that reminded me greatly of wasabi. Skota is the acting lifeguard as she sits atop a perch while Ordac and Ordo are standing guard nearby with the majority of the security being taken care of by Naboo's royal guards.

    Either way, here I was on a completely green and blue planet at the side of a lake enjoying the Sun after spending a good 20 minutes swimming next to Padme and she most likely was preparing to discuss the inevitable question, it's only a matter of time. My question of course would be, what would be our stance on the Military Creation Act which was already slowly making its way through the Senate slowly, probably for the best in my opinion.

    I would imagine her goal was simple, get our support for trying to counter the MCA. My goal is a little bit more complex as I had no problem with preventing the military of the Republic. If I could prevent the military from forming, it was very likely we would not have a war for the next couple of years and we could instead worry about building up our Self Defense Forces.

    But I could extend that thought to building up Self-Defense Forces in other regions as well. Mandalore had more than enough skilled armorers to produce equipment for Naboo and plenty of skilled trainers if they needed anyone to refresh them in military ways. Well I doubted that, I've seen their local Defense Forces when I arrived and besides not having much in the way of armor, they looked well trained. Keyword being 'looked' which puts up a good show that's for sure.

    My thoughts were interrupted as Vai in her swimsuit jumped into the water and Padme took that moment to ask the initial question.

    "So the Military Creation Act has a date set for voting in about 4 months. The Republic will decide if they will have a military or not. I don't like talking about political matters when we should be relaxing but I have to ask. What's Mandalore's stance on the Military Creation Act?"

    Smiling, I said "Duchess Satine's stance favors no military for the Republic. It took her a long enough time to approve of a military force for Mandalore even in the sense of a Self-Defense Force that is barred from leaving the sector. The idea of approving a military force above us is not on her plate when she doesn't want someone to start a war."

    Padme let out a sigh and said, "That's good, I've been trying to gather as many people together as possible to try and prevent this Act from being passed but there seems to be a large consistency of people who are in favor of it."

    I nodded and said, "It is to be expected, the idea that there will be another political entity in the Galaxy that might have the ability to challenge the Republic will make anyone a little bit afraid as they don't know what's going to happen. And when you're afraid you tend to go for something familiar. A military has protected the Old Republic for thousands of years and it was only given up because it looked like they were now the Masters of the Galaxy. If the Republic is no longer the masters of the Galaxy they will request an army to re-cement their position at the top of the galaxy."

    Padme sighs and says, "I know that. It feels like ever since Naboo was invaded all those years ago, what I thought the Republic was and what it is now just didn't appear to be the same."

    "Most likely because they never were." I simply said before continuing, "The Republic has had a thousand years to groom its image to be the best hope for a democracy in the galaxy. But the fact of the matter is as you've seen, it is a terrible system that has been created. I mean they give corporations a vote in the Senate. Corporations are not going to have the best interests in mind for the public, only what's best for making profits for their owners. That's what corporations are built for, to ask more than that is ridiculous. And I'm sure that even before they got those seats in the Senate they were buying Senators left and right with bribes and favors."

    The Senator from Naboo nodded her head before saying, "Maybe you're right but I still have hope that the Republic will right itself in time."

    "It might be able to." I said, "Although I'll believe that when the Mandalore Diaspora gets a senator. After all, the whole premise that the corporations use to get their senator seat was based on a constituency outside of a sector and no one's more outside of the sector than Mandalorians."

    Padme laughed and then noticed I wasn't, and said, "Wait you're serious?"

    "Of course I'm serious, Mandalorians have served as the villians for the Republic for a good 4,000 years. Our past efforts to help the Old Republic a thousand years ago seem to have been brushed under the rug. It would seem to me that they are not enforcing their own rules on constituencies because they have a bias against Mandalore. A bias that is rather irrational, against an ancient Mandalore that no longer exists. If Mandalore was ever granted this secondary senator, that would show me that the Republican system could be saved. But at the moment the evidence points towards favoritism towards factions that the Republic prefers. And playing favorites in governments often does not go well in the long term."

    "Hmm, I've never thought of the Republic's opinion on that matter before and it's a good point." She said, looking at the lake in deep thought.

    I internally smiled, I think I've just planted the seeds that would lead Mandalore to getting a second senator. Abuse of the system was terrible, but if everyone could abuse it at least then it had some fairness. Getting Mandalore a second Senator is the easy bid. Actually there's a possibility of getting a third, but it was more of a stretch. A third Senator seat would require Mandalorian corporations to organize into a mega-corporation on the scale of the Trade Federation and that was unlikely to happen. Though, I'll keep an eye on that particular possibility as well.

    "That being said," I said, "perhaps we'll see the coming conflict will either be resolved peacefully or start a war. Whatever happens things will not be the same after it's over. But just on the off chance that things go absolutely wrong, do you think perhaps your Self-Defense Force, what are they called again?"

    "Royal Naboo Security Forces." she said, sounding confused at where I was going.

    "Yes the Royal Security Force, that's the one. Don't you think they'd be interested in acquiring Mandalorian grade armor for the defense of this Naboo?"

    She shook her head instead, "I don't think we require that."

    "Are you sure? Naboo may end up on the front lines. Who knows what's possible, given your past with the Trade Federation? Having something for your guards that could save their lives is always useful in my opinion."

    That seemed to do the trick, as it usually did. Proposing armor as a weapon of war never worked with pacifists but proposing it as 'Well if something were to happen, don't you want something to protect your people?'

    Padme slowly nodded her head before answering. "Maybe, I'm not really familiar with what their official thoughts on the matter are, but I could have Captain Typho contact you. Isn't the Mandalorian style of armor rather expensive since every single piece has to be custom made by an armorer?"

    I nodded as I said, "Mandalorian armor is indeed artisanal, yes, but we've made improvements to streamline our processes so we can reduce the costs of our exports. The armorers have a collective operation which jointly fulfills work to produce armor for large contracts. If there's a huge contract, the armorers will probably be able to produce enough armor for whatever amount a planet needs."

    Padme nodded her head before saying, "Interesting, well I'll see if the Royal Guards are interested in new armor, if it will put your mind at ease." She laid back and said, "But let's not talk anymore about politics or the coming war. Let's just enjoy the peace of today for a bit, okay?"

    "That's perfectly fine with me." I said laying back enjoying the sun in the clean air of this world.





    Writers note for Spaces Battles, Sufficient Velocity and Questionable Questing. 09/08/22

    And there we have another chapter boys and girls, a tale of Tanya getting her new home ready for economic booms and war. As well as more info on her idol operations. We also got a viewpoint on how some others see her, as well as some politics between Mandalore and Naboo.

    Let me know what you all think

    Also this chapter was too damn long it broke google docs. So I'm going to try to scale back chapters to around 10,000 words in the future.

    By the way, I recently found out someone on fanfiction shouted me out. Don't think I won't return the favor!     The Saga of Tanya the Firebender by Shaggy Rower. I have not read it myself, I write too much (crying) but my editors have the time and recommended it so it's on my own to read list but who knows when I'll get to it.



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    I like to this the Beskad, the FractalSponge Mandalorian Starfighter, could be the New Mandalorian SDF Starfighter in the future as it has a nice clean streamlined design and its weaponry is perfectly minimal with room for improvements during wartime. I can imagine a flight of four of them being assigned/docked to the Coronet to serve as its escorts and for ceremonial purposes, especially if they are stylized to matched the Sundari Royal Gaurd.
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    • The Silver Codex Volume II


    Yes, this is the real White Silver, you can tell because I'm not going to come out of hiding to hunt myself down. Though I would ask that, if you are reading this, to keep in mind that there are fakes in existence and to use your brain to determine if this is real for yourself, to not just 'go with the flow' as it were like those who thought the last volume was real.

    It's been a year since I've made my appearance in public, no doubt you have many questions. I will attempt to answer those questions , but first I have to write about what is going on in the galaxy. For Mandalore can only prosper if we have a realistic idea of what's going on outside our sector and what that will mean for the Mandalorian way of life.

    War is coming, it could be next year, could be the year after, it could be tomorrow. I don't know when this war will spring upon the Galaxy exactly, but it is coming. Those in the Outer Rim have had it with those in the Core, and even though we're in the Outer Rim on many maps, we are right in the middle of two warring factions. And I think we all know what happens when you stand in the middle of a bar fight..

    I have no doubt that our rightful leader, the Duchess, will attempt to enforce our neutrality in the coming conflict. This is the right choice. War is going to be terrible for the Galaxy. We've already had enough wars recently. We need to rebuild, and this is a great opportunity for us to flourish, but we'll get to that in a moment.

    While we are trying to rebuild there are factions that will try and draw us into the war. The Republic will most likely want to be able to use the Mandalore Sector as a staging area to push into the Outer Rim. This is not in our interest as the Other Rim separatists will consider us as enemy combatants. If that happens we shall be forced to fight a war that few of us can claim any interest in. We cannot let the Republic position soldiers or war materials in the Mandalorian sector. The Separatists are most likely to start funding groups to cause chaos within our own sector, perhaps they've already done so with the likes of Gerr. To either overthrow the Duchess or to cause enough conflict that the Republic is brought in, making our sector a war zone either way.

    Neither situation is good for Mandalore, thus neither situation must come to pass. We must resist all attempts to draw us into the war and perhaps even resist violently against both sides should we be forced to do so. The Duchess has already allowed for the creation of a Self-Defence Force on Mandalore, there are already dozens of similar organisations across all of the Mandalorian planets from the Journeyman Protectors of Concord Dawn to the Rangers of Gargon.

    These organisations need to unite and standardise their operations so they can work with each other. In case one of the factions invades our systems trying and attempting to draw us into the war. We together face a time of crisis, one that we must turn away from for the good of our people.

    The Mandalorian patrol is important to this, not only will we have unknown possibilities of invaders from the Republic or the Outer Rim, there is no doubt in my mind that criminal and private organisations will take advantage of the coming crisis. Dishonourable outlaws who will attempt to take the opportunity of the Republic being busy with war to set up stock on any planet they see as easy taking. This is why we should vote for our leaders to fund the Mandalorian patrol more than ever. We need to maintain sector security, but in order to do that we need to have a fleet capable of dealing with situations as fast as possible.

    We must demonstrate to the galaxy that we shall not be easy pickings. That we will live in peace if approached in peace but will resist and bite with an unmatched ferocity when threatened.





    A Refutation of Gerr.


    I won't bother spending my time going through every single insipid word of the False Silver's inane ramblings. I would rather focus my efforts on discussing the core of his ideology, the public private partnership.

    A core principle of the Silver Codex is the separation of powers. Indeed the powers that the Mand'alor has are specific and not all encompassing, the reasoning for this is twofold. Firstly, it is impractical for the Mand'alor to exercise control over every aspect of Mandalorian society, it is ineffective, unnecessary and shall only lead to a weaker Mandalore. The second reason is moral, the Mand'alor should not have the right to control every aspect of the Mandalorian life, no one should.

    There is but one person who knows what is best for you, and that person is you. Any authority given away to private or public institutions, or cultural ones like clan heads, should be carefully considered to ensure that you are not being abused or needlessly restricted. The Mandalorian people do not need to be coddled or ordered about like droids.

    The incestuious joining of the Public and Private leads to inefficiency and monopoly on both parts. The Private organisations will be propped up by the Government beyond all reason and laws that push out other private entities will arise.

    In this section I will speak about Gerr's mistaken beliefs on how an economy should run, though I shall also take a shot at Tor Vizsla. I know it seems improper to attack the dead, but it seems that someone is still producing and updating a variant of his manifesto, the Death Watch Manifesto, and distributing it across the sector. Specifically his perfect society, his belief that warriors should rule and extort artisans, manufacturers and labourers as if they were vassals and servants.

    This mindset is rife with problems as its abuse as such could easily create a caste system. A situation where a person has no control over what role they shall play in our society and shall have it dictated to them by consequence of birth. Something that has been on its downward trend ever since Mandalore the Ultimate. The best warrior might be born of a craftsman and a painter while the greatest artist might be the product of warriors.

    A perfect society isn't inevitable, what we would get are caste systems and people restricted from becoming proper Mandalorians in one way or another. If you take those of us who do not go on the field of battle and turn them into nothing but slaves to continue production for that battle you have already enslaved every Mandalorian and our society will crumble.

    Taking away the ability of a person to choose, if they were to, become a warrior or if they would remain a lowly labourer as this document would put it, takes away a Mandalorian's economic freedom. And without economic freedom, we would not see people like Mandalore the Binder, or Mandalore the Hammerborn come to the positions they obtained.

    Binder would have remained a rug maker and Hammerborn would have remained a labourer in the perfect society that Tor Vizsla wanted, and yet this document that I have gained access to uses their names as if they're examples to be followed. Of course that's in the recruitment section isn't it. If that doesn't show you that someone's been prettying up their manifesto for consumer consumption nothing else will.




    General Principles of War


    I must first stress this truth again. War is a force that consumes lives and resources and I do not condone imperious conquest or bloody crusade. Nevertheless, if we are to live in peace we must remain masters of war. We shall carry our armour and our weapons proudly so that hostile powers know to speak with us softly and with respect.

    The Codex aims to supply principles, not rules, and by training, develop the habit of applying these principles logically, correctly, and rapidly to each situation that may arise. Conflict is natural and war is undesirable, thus we must seek to compete with the wider galaxy and bring an end to wars in a rapid and decisive manner to the best of our ability.

    War is more of an art than a science. Yet there have indeed been innumerable great minds put to the laborious task of understanding and conducting war in its most effective form possible. Yet war itself remains distinct, we shall never know what kinds of war awaits us and if the wisdom of the past might apply neatly to it.

    But there are aspects of war that we might know mastery of. Elements of conflict that once carefully controlled will lead us to victory.

    The fundamental principles of war shall inform all other principles. With these principles understood a commander can then expand from that into a more focused set of principles that are suited to the conflict the commander finds themselves contending with. To simplify, the most important fundamental principles of conducting a war are thus:

    • Aim: A single, unambiguous aim is the keystone of successful military operations. Selection and maintenance of the aim is regarded as the master principle of war.
    • Logistics: Discover how we may gain a preponderance of forces and material advantages at a decisive point.
    • Morale: To calculate morale factors. Morale is a positive state of mind derived from inspired political and military leadership, a shared sense of purpose and values, well-being, perceptions of worth and group cohesion.
    • Coordination: Make the best use of the means at our disposal. This shall involve the judicious exploitation of manpower, materiel, and time in relation to the achievement of objectives while also understanding the requirement to change readily to meet new circumstances, this comprises agility, responsiveness, resilience, acuity and adaptability.
    • Reality: To never lack objectivity and clarity. The requirement to know the capabilities of your own force and the forces of your enemy, to never allow yourself to embrace a fantasy or accept within yourself something that is not true. This principle also calls for the absolute requirement for intelligence gathering and reconnaissance to reinforce reasonable assumptions of the greater battlespace.
    • Initiative: Utilising surprise, decisiveness, and aggressiveness to continuously strive to achieve and retain the initiative. To attack or threaten to attack any and all enemy forces we have the capacity to in order to paralyse the enemies operational capacity. To continually maintain pressure on all aspects of the enemy forces that are within our capacity to strike with highly mobile forces that can effectively withdraw from hard targets that would be too costly to continue to pressure, while pressing forward against soft targets that offer tactical or strategic advantage. When striking, if you find Beskar, turn away, if you find flesh, press on.





    General Principles of Defence


    Defence is the principle that is most vital to the continuation of any civilisation and is the most important aspect of any armed force. Indeed the preservation of our armed forces and our people is far more vital than the destruction of enemy forces in any situation. There are of course times when the destruction of the enemy forces is the most viable means to defend our own, though that is the exception and not the rule.

    The purpose of war is not to die honourably for our cause, it is to make the other side die for theirs.

    The first principle of defence is Cover. This is the use of the environment to obscure our own forces so that enemy attacks are rendered ineffective. Since we are always open to attack, even when we ourselves are attacking, we must at every instant be on the defensive.and should therefore, place our forces under cover as much as possible.

    The second principle of defence is Armour. This is the use of manufactured or engineered defences for our armed forces or civilian populations. As vital as the armour of our people is to a single Mandalorian, such armour also serves as protection for our forces in general and thus we can extrapolate the use of similar defensive equipment for our people as a whole. The establishment and maintenance of city or planetary shields, fortifications, earthworks, orbital defence installations, armies and navies should be considered the beskar'gam of the Mandalorian people.

    The third principle of defence is Obfuscation. This is the effort to confound enemy intelligence or reconnaissance in an effort to render enemy attacks ineffective against our armed forces. The use of holograms, phantom fortifications, deployments and decoy ships as well as the careful classification of our full military capacity is vital to the defence of Mandalore.

    The fourth principle of defence is Reserves. This is the coordination and dispersion of all forces and assets not currently deployed to meet an objective. There is no such thing as a great final battle and thus it is never reasonable to deploy every asset and soldier to a single objective. By maintaining a core of reserves we can meet any unexpected enemy attack wherever it might arise. It is only with reserve soldiers and assets left at our disposal after a battle is joined that we can turn the tide of said battle.

    The fifth principle of defence is Depth. This is the principle that seeks to exploit the weakness of attack. All offensives have a tendency to lose momentum over time. As offensive forces push though even lightly defended areas they shall stretch logistical capacity and will be forced to disperse the forces they have available over a larger space. It is under this principle that we should not be overly concerned about the extent of our front nor should we demand that blood is spilt over any and all incursions into our territory. The principle of depth calls for the yielding of lightly defended areas to allow for later counter attack against dispersed enemy formations in such a way that shall allow the encirclement or withdrawal of the enemy forces. Therefore confounding the enemy any real gain in the offensive they have undertaken.

    The sixth principle of defence is Engagement. This is the principle of never remaining completely passive. But to attack the enemy even when they are attacking us while expending the minimum possible lives, munitions or equipment. It is from these attacks that the greatest understanding of our enemies' disposition and condition can be understood. Should one of these continuous probing attacks prove to be effective, reserves can be deployed to turn it from a general engagement into a strategic offensive. Drawing enemy forces and resources to this location at the expense of other fronts.





    General Principles of Offence


    It is a fact that we must contend with that often the greatest means of defence is to destroy our enemy. Even so, we must be careful when contemplating the engagement of an offensive. Offensives are the most fragile elements of war and the most costly, to pursue a strategic offensive is to cast away the lives of many Mandalorians, to do so foolishly is treason.

    The first principle of offence is Objective. Choose a reasonable objective for the offensive. Grand sweeping military actions that will achieve ultimate victory looks great on paper, but in reality pushing your army beyond its capabilities will only result in your forces being cut off and broken apart into smaller pieces until it is destroyed. Any objective you go after must not only be within your capability to achieve, but also be within your capability to secure its flanks in order to prevent that objective from being your last stand.

    The second principle of offence is Surprise. Attack where the enemy does not expect. If you can make your enemies think you are attacking somewhere else they will weaken other locations to strengthen that threatened zone. This will give you two advantages, not only is the enemy possibly surprised at your unexpected attack at a more vulnerable location, giving you the advantage of initiative in this area, which can be worth its weight in manpower, but can leave your enemy in a disadvantageous position that will give you further opportunities to exploit.

    The third principle of offence is Opportunity. When an offensive occurs the force deployed will most likely be outside of direct communication with the command structure. Thus officers must make use of opportunities they identify that can aid the spirit of the operation rapidly without compromising the operational capacity of allied forces. Pursuing an opportunity beyond your capabilities will only create an opportunity for your enemy.

    The fourth principle of offence is Detail. Detail is the logistics, tactics and strategy of bringing a larger force against small enemy units in sequence rather than engaging the entire enemy force at once. Sending your army galavanting off after a smaller force only opens yourself up to opportunities for the enemy, caution is best when we do not have the manpower to spare.

    The fifth principle of offence is Encirclement. Encirclement is the strategy of attacking an enemy force or fortification from multiple angles and the act of cutting off elements of enemy forces from their logistical network or communications grid. By the same token of finding opportunities that allow you to take land without being surrounded, if you find an opportunity to take land and surround the enemy this creates a problem for the enemy. They will need to free their troops which will draw forces to that area and make great opportunities in other positions in the line. Keeping an enemy unit that's been encircled locked in a position and pushing them further away from help may result in them simply surrendering andcausing any further conflict to be unnecessary.

    The sixth principle of offence is Deprivation. Deprivation is the strategic focus on removing from play particular assets or the ability to produce particular assets from the enemy. Raiding parties focused on destroying Tibanna gas refineries are an example of the principle of deprivation on a strategic level. On a tactical level, preventing the enemy from getting resources to pursue war, such as food and other necessities, can weaken the enemy force over a prolonged period of time and could be accomplished by destruction of logistical capabilities. Granted, if we ever came to this phase the enemy would have the theoretical high ground and able to deploy resources wherever they wanted , and as such our fighters are most likely going to be unable to get into the air. But there is a way around this Mandalore has long been a , producer of advanced missiles of various types, arming groups with anti-air abilities or anti-orbital weapons could fill this niche and prevent logistics from running freely during a planetary campaign.





    Responsibility and Command


    To unify our defensive strategy we must not merely fortify hard points and defend our worlds, we must have a mastery of our entire system. To do so we must establish a command structure that can cohesively respond to any threats presented to our people.

    To do so we must codify though law and by establishing a precedent for the powers and responsibilities of our highest positions of power.

    The Mand'alor (Duchess Satine)
    As Commander in Chief of our collective armed forces the Mand'alor has a variety of powers and responsibilities that are more specifically related to the conduct of war. The Mand'alor and the War Council they establish shall control the following elements of war directly or by trusted proxy.

    • Right to make war or peace or institute hostilities falling short of war.
    • Deployment and use of armed forces outside of the Mandalorian Sector.
    • Maintenance of the Mandalorian Navy.
    • Use of the armed forces within the Mandalorian Sector to maintain the peace in support of the police or otherwise in support of civilian authorities.
    • Control the organisation and disposition of armed forces.
    • Requisition of Mandalorian civilain ships in times of urgent national necessity.
    • Commissioning of officers in all armed forces.
    • Armed forces pay.
    • Regulation of trade with enemy state actors.
    • Mand'alors right in time of war, to appropriate the property of a neutral party which is within the sovereignty of Mandalore, where necessity requires with appropriate compensation.
    • Powers in the event of a grave national emergency, including those to enter upon, take and destroy private property.

    Grand Commander of the Council

    The Mand'alor will appoint one member of the War Council to serve as the Grand Commander. This person shall execute the will of the Mand'alor and will be responsible for conducting the campaign assigned to them by the Mand'alor. This person is also solely responsible for bringing weaknesses or mistakes to the attention of the Mand'alor. They must be a trusted confidant, a true servant of the people and of the Mand'alor, a person of wisdom and conviction who shall not work to usurp the position of Mand'alor.

    Prime Minister of Mandalore

    The Prime Minister will be chosen not by the Mand'alor but by every Mandalorian, even clanless Mandalorians. For they shall be the master of the civilian government. It is the Prime Minister who shall propose legislation and who shall manage the bureaucracy of the Mandalorian government. The Mand'alor will of course have a veto on any and all activities of the Prime Minister but should make every effort to avoid using said veto unnecessarily.





    Void Doctrine


    Space is the ultimate high ground, offering the greatest capacity to offer reconnaissance of forces on the ground as well as control the logistical throughput of any armed force. Control of space is absolutely vital for any military operation to be effective.

    Principly, control of space merely requires the deployment of warships with superior numbers and capabilities that of the enemy within a particular zone of operation. In practice this is far more complicated. Ships are expensive and fulfill particular roles and duties, multirole ships are even more expensive and might not be as effective in any given role as specialised craft.

    Indeed when considering space, while the quality of officers and crewmen cannot be overstated as vital, it is the strength of our economy and industry that is most important. It is thus imperative that we examine the situation carefully and pursue reasonable goals that can be achieved with the limited resources we have at our disposal.

    The Mandalorian sector encampses many, many worlds, some barely populated and some are not even Mandalorian. For a great many worlds the investment into a small fighter force and a support ship would be all that is required to keep the ever present threat of piracy at bay. Such forces could also be folded into a larger fleet should the need arise.

    In terms of a core fleet, a force that can swiftly move from one part of our sector to another, we must be careful not to rely too much on colossal ships or expensive superweapons. The fleet must be adaptable and should primarily be made up of light cruisers with gunship and fighter support. Such a force is well outside of the economic capacity at the moment of writing this but with careful investment we might soon see a modest fleet that is able to project enough strength to beat back criminal harassment.

    Such modesty might not serve Mandalore forever, and doctrines must change with the times, but for now anti-piracy should be the primary focus of our void doctrine.






    Ground Doctrine


    In the worst case scenario of a planetary invasion, the final line of defence will be the various PDFs (Planetary Defence Forces) of a defending planet. This is a subject I am more familiar with than Void Combat as troops on the ground are a necessity to hold and secure territory. You could have the biggest fleet in the galaxy but if you don't have soldiers to fight on the ground to defeat enemies that managed to infiltrate your world, you are limited to the amount of tools available to you. If, say, an infiltration force managed to sneak into a populated and industrious planet, you can't just move your fleet in and bombard the planet to get rid of the infiltrators. For one it isn't a guarantee you'd get all of them without wiping the planet clean of life, and second, it would do more harm than good to blast your own factories and populace just to get rid of a few enemy infiltrators.

    This does not mean that a fleet is useless, it means that both Void and Ground forces must work in tandem to cover all avenues of attack and cooperate for the defence of their planet.

    Back to focusing on the Ground Doctrine. It is a well known fact that each planet is different, however this makes a standardised PDF a suboptimal and inefficient way to organise a PDF. A PDF organised and trained on Mandalore with infantry, vehicles, artillery, and aircraft working in sync as a combined arms unit on a wide and open desert can be an extremely versatile and capable force. However in Jakalia's dense forests, vehicles and aircraft are much less effective as they will get blocked by dense trees and vegetation, and artillery can't provide bombardment effectively as their bolts hit the trees more often than the enemy army.

    On Gargon's mountains, mechanised infantry and vehicles might have a hard time traversing over the rocky terrain, the infantry at the very least could have access to jetpacks or air transport, heavy vehicles and artillery don't have that capability resulting in the Gargon PDF to rely more on their air power than their vehicles. Thus it is more beneficial for various PDFs of various planets to develop their own doctrine that can utilise their environment to their own advantage. I will leave the details to the respective PDF's doctrine organisers as they know what doctrine would fit with their own situation best.

    However, there are a few concepts that are universal to modern warfare that are fairly simple to understand. The first are the various roles inside a modern army: Infantry, Vehicles, Aircraft, Artillery, Logistics crew, and Engineers. Each has their own subtype and each subtype plays a role in a modern army.

    Infantry is the backbone of every army and the most versatile combat element in any army. They are the ones to hold ground, take territory, reconainances, and many more.

    There is a reason I am focusing on the Company level, and that is due to the fact that it is well known to be a natural unit size of 150 personnel, and there is a reason for that. Most social sentients have a limit to the amount of other sentients that they can personally get to know and keep track of, that number is very rarely over 150. If you are in a Company, chances are that you will get to know all of the other members of the company, your officers and vice versa.

    Not just their names but also what skills they might have and their family background is kept track of because it can be considered important information that is worth remembering. In battle, the Company Commander can run up to anyone in his company, immediately recognize him, shout out his name, give him an order, and expect it to be followed. That soldier would look up, see his officer, immediately recognize him, recognize his voice, and think 'Oh I've been given an order. I'll just carry it out.'. Above Company level, formality is required with signed and written orders due to the fact that the troops might not recognize the person delivering the order and might not necessarily trust that person which could mean the difference between success or failure in the middle of battle.

    The Armourers handle all aspects of logistics needed to supply a combat sector, from supplying munitions to the combat divisions, maintaining the PDF's equipment, storing and transporting supplies to various bases, and even training for these non-combat personnel are handled by this group.

    The Engineers handle all manner of military construction. Make no mistake, this is a very important role because their building experience can be put to use in times of peace as civil engineers. Being able to deliver vital public and military engineering services; partnering in peace and war to strengthen a planet's security, energise the economy, and reduce risks from disasters. Of course, the Brigade is divided into Engineering Groups which specialise in construction, Equipment Company that manufacture parts for the army, Vehicle Company that manufacture spare vehicle parts, and finally the Engineering Company that are made up of Combat Engineers, who handle engineering jobs on the battlefield itself like repairing bridges, demolitions, mine clearing, creating forward bases or fortifications.

    I must reiterate again the need for clan formations to subordinate themselves to Sector, system or planetary command structures. While a clan army might be formidable it is only through coordinated action that we might seize victory in this modern age.





    Cultural Doctrine


    Conflict is not merely blasters and bombs, there are many soft factors at play. We must not only unify our internal image of the Mandalorians but we must present a useful image of ourselves to the greater galaxy. Our civilian sector is just as vital to the defence of Mandalore as our great warrior clans, every measure must be undertaken to see that the Galaxy at large partakes in Mandalorian food, watch Mandalorian holo-vids, read Mandalorian novels, watch Mandalorian plays, and dons Mandalorian clothes.

    On this front it is vital that the private sector develop contemporary media from a Mandalorian cultural perspective but that such efforts are aided in grants and funding by the various worlds in our sector. While we should take great pains to export this media it should first and foremost be to the taste of the Mandalorian. It is that distinctiveness that shall be a great draw from Non-Mandalorians. A particular emphasis should be placed on producing entertainment for Mandalorian children and teenagers. Modernised tales of heroics and bravery with messages promoting teamwork and good Mandalorian morals. When the young of the galaxy partake in these stories designed for our own young it shall plant the seed of common understanding in them that shall grow into respect and dignity for our culture and people.

    Our culture is unique across the galaxy and that is a great source of strength, we should lean into our long history and from it take elements that will capture the imagination of the people of the galaxy. In our plays, novels and Holo-vids we should not shy away from controversy, from elements that shock and challenge the viewer, indeed we are competing with a corporate stranglehold on entertainment and it is only authenticity that shall more effectively draw attention to ourselves on that front.

    We have an abundance of common heritage that lies in ruin across our sector fortifications and clan holds filled with artefacts not seen in the galaxy for thousands of years. The refurbishment of these places so that outsiders may visit and behold our great achievements can bring vital credits to our sector.

    Many of you believe yourselves, above the entertainment of non-mandalorians, and it is indeed true that many of them will not appreciate what we are offering. But any who turn away from necessary work for the good of Mandalore can hardly be respected. Did Mandalore The Great not chastise the warriors who found themselves too good to fight in the rearguard? Too proud to act as a diversion? There are many roles in our common defence that may seem less honourable than others but are no less vital when presented as a common strategy of the battles we must contend with.






    The White Silver's Speech



    "I have no interest in leading a movement. I have an interest in creating a debate. One to see if we can make a stable middle ground between the Old and the New and as far as I could tell we're well on our way to meeting that middle ground as people are finding things about the Codex that they like and implementing them. And that is perfectly fine with me.

    What I am not fine with is pointless war. Let me be clear, my friends, those who have seen my conduct here will know that I am no novice to war. To conflict and strife. Indeed this is to be expected of any respected Mandalorian! Mastery of battle is in our blood and I do take pride in the ability I have cultivated, as should every respectable Mandalorian. But I know my heart thunders in sympathy for every scattered child of Mandalore, a burning hate that consumes every fibre of my being!

    I hate war! I hate the battlecry of men and women too young to know life before they fall nameless and alone. I hate the cold calculus of orbital bombardment. I hate the savage desperation of a charge and the bloody duty of a defensive line.

    I hate homes blasted to ruin. I hate industry turned to nothing but bombs and blasters. I hate the brilliance of programming twisted to produce insidious droids that do nothing but snuff out life. I hate battles across fields of grain and I hate forests turned to ash. I hate cities turned to rubble and the abundant beauty of nature turned to mud and craters. I hate wars that rage across worlds, across systems, across the galaxy!

    Pointless war takes everything good and turns it into a wasteland, it fills our graves and deprives our children! It steals from us! Robs us of our best and brightest and leaves us friendless and alone! Isolated from the galaxy and residing on a desert world of our own making!

    The New Mandalorians turn away from all conflict, turn away from strength and our ancient customs in the hope of never seeing a war again. I understand them, truly I do! But I do not agree with them. No, I do not. I do not fear strength, the blaster, our armor, our heritage!

    I do not fear our ability to fight for what is right! No Mandalorian should! The right to unify Mandalore shall fall to the men and women who shall carry swords but know when to keep them sheathed! We are not animals! Rabid and wild and less than sapient! We are MANDALORIAN!

    Each and every one of us! We can reason and debate and turn away from battle until we have no other choice! It is only then, when we have demonstrated our patience and rationality that we shall draw the sword and strike down our enemy with a ferocity that will shock and awe the galaxy! That is THE WAY!"
     
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    • ChronOblivion said:
    Things continue to chug along. Might be a risk of getting lost in the weeds of economic agreements and corporation management if we spend much more time here in the pre-war years.
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    no worries were only two chapter from canon
    ChronOblivion said:
    I think you mean "Mandalorian Diaspora" here.
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    Elibott12 said:
    So because the Clone Wars haven't started yet I am going to assume that Qymaen is still intact and working for the trade federation and not yet had his shuttle bombed. I wonder if there is any way for Tanya to help him and his people. I also wonder if during the war she can somehow help Honoghr and the Noghri when their planet is bio-weaponed.
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    Qymaen??? who that as for the Noghri it possible
     
    L4oftheWEST said:
    no worries were only two chapter from canon

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    Think the noghri happened a bit later than that.

    If I remember correctly, It was an ISD crashing into their planet at the tail end of the wars that did the widespread ecologic damage that almost killed them off. (And conversely made them grateful to Vader for the releif aid he sent)
     
    Man, holovids of that speech are gonna be shown to so many grandchildren.
    "I was there you know", repeated across the sector!
     
    Ragingbear21 said:
    He means general Grievous.
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    Also, the main reason Dooku quit the Jedi order, and was let to peacefully leave. It was only later Sideous twisted him. Dooku, and the very CIS, started as voices of very genuine grievances. What would lead to the birth of the cyborg war master was the greatest evil permeated by the Jedi since the days of the Goddess.

    Dooku, pre dark side but post leaving, is basically Roy Mustang from FMA, if Roy Mustang quit the military after Ishval.

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    Have to wonder if any of Tanya conversations with Obi wan and anakin they mention past missions that inspire Tanya, such as the open closed war.
    That planet was one of the few in Star Wars that outright used mechs in battle instead of walkers. I could easily imagine Tanya hearing about these mechs and comparing them to the mechs prevalent in the anime/manga culture of her first life only for her to be doing it while her droid X4 is nearby. I could see him going "so that's why she wanted all the armourers to form their own guild" or perhaps "so that's why she wanted the cancerous broken into several vehicles to make room for this hypothetical mech".
    The mandalorians current treaty against battle droids make them be in the situation where it makes more sense to make mechs instead of secretly making battle droids
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    I could see mechs being used in two main ways at least in the beginning, one as a personal vehicle by mandalorian clan heads or there heirs to use as a kind of champion unit in battle, the other way is by being used by the company leaders to serve as a mobile battlefield control centre for the company and mobile weapons platform in one vehicle to give companies more coordination and kick to combat operations.
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    Dooku, and the very CIS, started as voices of very genuine grievances. What would lead to the birth of the cyborg war master was the greatest evil permeated by the Jedi since the days of the Goddess.
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    Whose the goddess your referring too?
     
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