God is in his heaven, all is normal on earth.
Reminds me of the star wars ttrpg I was playing where I shot an engineer in the face without thinking to everyone's shock. We were on a heavily colonized planet that was bombed to shit by the empire fwiw engineers there were helping to maintain the colonial rule and subjugation of the popluation
My easiest test for a player I'm not sure about is to have the party encounter very polite slaveholders who go out of their way to help the party.
Not to say you can't roleplay an evil character but the way in which you do it matters too
Fr a lot of it was a time crunch mission that I normally wouldn't have thought doing this thing but ultimately I made the decision and owned up to it. It did haunt my character for a while and I didn't exactly get the end I wanted but it put a lot of perspective in how things shake out minute to minute.
I thought they were part of like in Engineering Corps in the moment tbf
i swear star wars fans are the thickest shits on the planet, every single pro-baddies point they cling to was made up as a facetious joke they misunderstood. the Clerks guys are fucking idiots and this point is shown to be idiotic the very scene it is brought up in
This looks like an easy to digest, entry level look at conversations about the US military
Very much makes me think of this woman on LinkedIn that went viral like two years ago
I knew someone who changed their name to a synonym for "Peace" and then went to work for a defense contractor
Was your friend Paz from metal gear?
:cognitohazard:
Granted, her job is pulling in people to work for the MIC. Recruiters are ghouls
This, but about my job providing educational resources to teachers and nurses
So cursed
hold on, the empire only wanted to build a cracker slaughter ray?
Critical support
No, there's a typo, it should read "crackers' laughter ray".
yay, we're libposting!
How is this libposting
Some comments in here arguing for and against the fictional contractors and shit. Very reminiscent of libs defending their fictional treats.
I guess everyone forgot the part of that scene where the roofer tells them off.
True, but on the other hand, The Empire does make extensive use of forced labor; both in the form of conscripted labor, but also slavery. So it's not like everybody working on the Death Star actually chose to be there.
The part in Andor where they're in prison, those things they're assembling are structural struts for the Death Star.
That was an interesting twist in Andor
The benefit of blowing that whole shit up ASAP far exceeds the benefit of not killing the hypothetical forced labor on board.
True, and the main villain here is still The Empire who forced the situation.
Slaves and conscripted labor were used in its construction, but by the time it was "fully operational" the slaves would've been shipped out and replaced with the elite of the imperial military hierarchy, everyone of the million or so personnel would have been picked from the top names of countless lists, the Death Star was the most prestigious posting in the empire and there's no way slaves would be present in any significant numbers on such a mission-critical piece of tech
The battle station housed 342,953 members of the Imperial Army and Navy, 25,984 stormtroopers, and nearly 2 million personnel of varying combat eligibility. Furthermore, although there were communal barracks, there also were enough private bunks that most people could expect to receive one within three to six months after arrival. While enlisted personnel used walkways or turbolifts that could move both vertically and horizontally, officers had access to a high-speed, officer-only shuttle system that orbited the station. Massive housing blocks for enlisted personnel featured a large atrium for off-duty personnel to walk in. Officers could expect their own exclusive accommodations. Life-support modules inhabited by workers during the original construction of the Death Star could still be used in an emergency. The station featured several hospital wings. Several color-coded life-support modules existed in the station's lower levels: gray for workers, red for overseers.
Meant to function as a world of its own, the Death Star had creature comforts most other Imperial Military postings did not: decent food, recreation areas, cantinas with latest-model bartender droids, and commissaries with selections of expensive treats and luxuries. The Death Star had its own commissary and bar. Off-duty stormtroopers were known to clandestinely meet to play violent, prohibited ball games in the station's zero-gravity filtration system.
The station's detention block, while large and formidable, was not intended to hold prisoners for extended periods of time. Instead, it served as a place for temporary detention and interrogation, pending transfer to planetary prisons, and execution. Prisoners were kept on the Detention Level in complete darkness, then moved to bright interrogation rooms
selections of expensive treats
Meant to function as a world of its own, the Death Star had creature comforts most other Imperial Military postings did not: decent food, recreation areas, cantinas with latest-model bartender droids, and commissaries with selections of expensive treats and luxuries.
I'm laughing about the ridiculousness of this piece of lore and then remembering that the Green Zone in Iraq had a Burger King for the troops. They had their own little slice of suburbia inside the former government palace.
This is a good point, however the meme that OP posted is referencing the scene from "Clerks" that Arthur Besse posted below me.
The problem with the rationale of that scene is that the labor force that built "Death Star 2" would look more like the kind of labor force building modern-day Gulf State vanity projects, rather than US suburban contractors.
That's a good point, though I wonder if they would have taken the risk of having slaves working onsite on such an important piece of equipment. Still, probably best to storm the place and capture everyone for trial. We can always blow the empty station and put it on the Holonet later
That’s a good point, though I wonder if they would have taken the risk of having slaves working onsite on such an important piece of equipment.
If I recall correctly in Andor the build on site was made by robots. In Episode 3 there are a lot of military personnel supervising the thing with the Emperor.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
