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"Welcome to Ondolindë. I am not sure how much word of our people has reached yours."

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"Very little. Most of it involves your general power level and dislike of the way the Empire conducts galactic affairs."

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"The prince Nelyafinwë, who dropped you off here, is part of a governing collective with powers that - among other things, I think include 'total control of all space', so they can find anything instantly and rearrange it in whatever configuration they please? And time, but they don't do that often for ethical reasons - they don't share a list with the general public, obviously, 'if they want something to happen then it does' is a reasonable approximation. They're also all indestructible even though it's needless because we're trivial to resurrect. They - pretty much leave everyone alone, if you're not yourself failing to leave alone people under their protection. The rules the Empire would need to abide by in order to get along with them would be 'everyone can leave if they want to' and 'no mind controlling people', pretty much."

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"Hm. That is agreeable to me."

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"Good! Do you have a sense of where you'd like to live? What you'd like it to look like, whether you want it in town or a little ways away from everything..."

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"It has been... some time, since I was anything resembling a civilian. I will take your recommendation."

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"I'll get you a townhouse, then, and we've got a demon - demons are people who can create arbitrary matter, you probably heard of Epic, who is one of them who's been operating in your galaxy? - anyway, we've got a demon so once you've settled in you can come up with a house design you like and take it to her and she'll make it for you."

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"Very well."

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Townhouse! It's pretty. "Here's a computer, you won't be able to reach your galaxy from here but you can send things care of Epic. Here's a credit card, most people get an implant - demon can do that too - just so you don't have to carry the card around, you can use it to pay for whatever you need. Everyone gets enough money for basic expenses every month, you can work if you have expensive hobbies. Questions?"

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"Not at this time."

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"You can message me on the computer or knock on my door, it's across the street. Welcome. I hope you're happy here."

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"Thank you."

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He leaves. The house is furnished and the kitchen stocked (with an interface letting him order things). There are people singing in the streets.

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He will adapt to this, even if the rest cannot. Even the singing, in time.

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The rest: continue to not adapt?

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Wow, it's like he's good at modeling people or something.

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The annoying thing is that they need Cam or Epic's periodic attention to maintain the blockade, and both of them have more valuable things to be doing. He asks Occlus what she thinks will happen if they just kidnap all the Sith in the Empire and announce they're now running it.

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Token initial resistance. If it is clear that the Sith are not returning and they are doing a better job of managing it, they will be accepted.

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Great. 

He has Epic design some more labyrinths for temporary Sith containment. ...based on how Darth Marr's doing, it seems like integration is possible but Sith might actually like orc colony planets, any of those willing to help them out?

 

Some of them are willing to take Sith who are at least pretending to be reformed, but not kidnapped-and-grouchy-about-it ones. 

 

And they set to figuring out how to kidnap all the Sith as efficiently as possible.

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There's about ten thousand of them. Many concentrated on Dromund Kaas, some at Korriban, the rest sort of scattered about in clumps across the rest of the Empire.

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As long as they don't move around too much they can have Cam and Epic find them all and then amass a lot of teleporters to remove them. 

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This strategy works.

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And then an announcement to the galaxy that the Sith have been removed, permanently, all of them, due to repeated violations of parley and warmongering and general incompetence. They have video of the assassins swinging lightsabers at a bored delegate; they release it on the holonets. He is Emperor for the time being, and congratulations the population of the Empire in advance for their calm handling of this transition.

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There is minor unrest on Ziost, Dromund Kaas, and some of the other major population centers.

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People who die get resurrected; property damage Epic bounces around correcting; otherwise protestors can protest.

 

Next announcement: slavery is abolished, slaveholders who release all their slaves today without complaints or complications will get compensation, slaveholders who dawdle will not, slaves who are not promptly manumitted can just write the word 'Epic', anywhere, including on their own skin with their nails or similar, and help will come. This they have to do planet by planet, since there is only one Epic and a lot of slaves.

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