A/V Battlefront II: Campaign Content (spoiler tags required for DLC story)

And then

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secede with the Centrists?

As we see the protag on Starkiller base giving speeches about how she's waited thirty years for this.

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I tend to think that Zsinj's traits are flexible enough you could even make him a post-Empire nuisance. Just make him former regime personnel who ostensibly laid down his arms after the accords, and then have him become the military leader of the Confederation of Corporate Systems, and replace all his Stormtroopers with those cool, underutilized Raptors, and have him be more of a quiet, soft-power threat with some variation of the Iron Fist waiting in the wings if he can form a large enough Anti-Republic power bloc out of the other governments.

 

That's why I chose the "Corporate" Systems successor state. I figure you make CCS the cynical opportunist political bloc that wants a total deregulation on any businesses or trade agreements, and maybe have some of the Imperial-friendly businesses join them, like the Mining Guild. Pretty much a cutthroat objectivist state where someone who uses business and military power side-by-side like Zsinj would thrive.

Then you put all the idealists who had valid complaints in the Other CIS successor state, with the only unifying thing between the two different groups is that they dislike centralized power from the Core, thus making Mothma's roving capital a major political boon.

 

As ridiculous as that concept may seem, yeah. Although...

...If you tried to apply any kind of faux-logic to what an obsessed-with-profit-at-all-costs nation state in the GFFA would look like, it would be a *very* different animal from the usual Star Wars bad guys. They'd be a slim coalition of only a few planets, probably defined politically by being a truly decentralized confederacy, and be far more about economic and occasionally political hegemony; actually conquering territory and holding it would be a drain on resources if your main goal was just to maximize profit, so your military and security forces would almost always have to have some person on the target planet agreeing to act as the supposed authority for it. *If* the CCS were to be made into an antagonist, it would have to field an armed force more like a scalpel than a hammer.

 

I've long suspected that the ISB's use of military ranks are for equivalency purposes, but we see ostensibly lower-ranked ISB people (like Kallus) pushing around admirals. There might be a political dimension to that, though.


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I was about to say.

ISB includes the individuals who can send even admirals to prison at the end of the day, if they accuse you of sedition.


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The sheer size of the Empire's armed forces and bureacracy was apparently big enough for the ISB to surprise everyone with a military force capable of holding Coruscant hostage, so it's possible that ISB's already insane ranking system (since Garrick Versio was apparently Inspector General, then admiral) includes some ranks that are really more about ISB resources; Agent Kallus doesn't command that many other ISB officers and agents, while Garrick may very well head an ISB fleet.

 

I didn't get the impression the ISB had taken control, but rather, their picket ships were all that was left bc the military was under orders (from Rax) not to defend Coruscant.


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