[Star Wars] What if the Empire Won?

[wingsandsword]

They probably wouldn't have much ability to make use of it, once Mon Calamar gets blow'd up by the Death Star. Remember, the Imperial interdictors are based on the Star Destroyer design and have significantly less firepower, so the ones they mount seem to take up a crapload of resources.

Without the Mon Calamari shipyards, they're limited to making a few on what capital ships they can scrounge up.

Brad

Mon Cal didn't go into open rebellion until after the Battle of Yavin, and the Interdictors are built on a much smaller frame than the Imperial Star Destroyer. An Interdictor Cruiser is 600 meters long, compared to the 1600 of an ISD, or 1200 of a typical Mon Cal MC80, and mounts 4 gravity well projectors (although they do tax the power output of the Interdictor heavily).

The Empire did build some other ships with Interdiction technology, and one of the first was an ISD with interdiction hardware present at the blockade at Yavin as Vader's flagship, but they were much less prominent.

Upon a little more research though, apparently they have retconned the events of Battle for the Golden Sun to having taken place before Yavin, since the earliest canonical appearance of an Interdictor is 2 years BBY.

 

[wingsandsword]

On a personal aside, yes I do see the irony in the fact I'm the one that started that giant thread about "Canon Lawyers" in Forgotten Realms, when I can be quite the Canon Lawyer for Star Wars.

Well, at least when I RP Star Wars I'm usually the GM, and when I play I know a GM that's as big, or bigger, Canon expert than myself so we can geek out on tiny points of continuity.

Also, like Forgotten Realms there is a point in metaplot/continuity where I look at it and go "I'm not going there" and happily ignore canon to split off because I feel it was the point where the setting deviated too far from its roots. Spellplague Era for Forgotten Realms, and Yuuzhan Vong War for Star Wars (or even if I accept that, begrudgingly, definitely the Legacy Era with Cade Skywalker and Imperial Knights et al.)

 

[Ghostwind]

On another board, I've been told to read the Star Wars: Infinities graphic novels for lots of good ideas. I've got 2 being sent to me from our sister store at work. I just need to locate the third.

 

[SPECTRE666]

Something kinky, one would hope.

I totally agree. Either way Mara would be hooked up with a Skywalker!

 

[Orius]

On a personal aside, yes I do see the irony in the fact I'm the one that started that giant thread about "Canon Lawyers" in Forgotten Realms, when I can be quite the Canon Lawyer for Star Wars.

Well, at least when I RP Star Wars I'm usually the GM, and when I play I know a GM that's as big, or bigger, Canon expert than myself so we can geek out on tiny points of continuity.

Also, since Star Wars involves a whole galaxy, instead of just one little planet, there's probably more freedom and flexiblity to work with. So instead of worrying about finding a small part of the Realms that's hasn't been mapped to the millimeter that'll only be big enough for a few levels, you can just make up whole planets to keep a campaign going.

 

[hamishspence]

What if the Empire never discovered Interdiction technology and it was a Rebel invention?

Interdiction technology was discovered/invented in the middle of the Galactic Civil War after the Battle of Yavin, as the result of analyzing the bizarre alien growth known as the "Golden Sun", from the old d6 adventure "Battle for the Golden Sun". What if the Rebellion got the technology but not the Empire? Interdiction technology would make for a powerful force equalizer, being able to set up interdiction fields at distance to make it harder to move fleets, or Death Stars to protected planets and give them more time to flee, or provide unparalleled commerce-raiding ability. The first time they drop a massive cargo convoy out of hyperspace, keep them from jumping back, jam the subspace radios, capture the convoy and jump it out to an Alliance relay point they just scored a major coup in not just supplies but ships (albeit unarmed, but they are intact hyperspace-capable spaceframes). Even if they only get away with it a few times before major escorts start showing up, the presence of rebel interdictors means they control when the battle is over and who is chasing whom.

in Outbound Flight, Thrawn captures inderdiction technology from the Vagaari- a very nasty nomadic slaver/conquerer faction in the Unknown Regions.

Its not clear if he brought the knowledge back with him.

 

[Ghostwind]

The Star Wars: Infinities books were exactly what I was looking for to mine all kinds of ideas from. Intriguing possibilities to say the least.