Star Wars: An Imperial RPG

Star Wars: An Imperial RPG

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The shuttle touches down and the ISD Inexorable swallows it whole. Thirty-seven thousand people. One thousand, six hundred meters of Imperial durasteel. A command structure that has never had a woman at the top and has opinions about starting now.

You are the Admiral. The posting is yours by rank, by record, and by a Naval Command appointment that nobody aboard was consulted on. The previous Admiral is dead. The Rebel cell in sector has gone quiet. The Captain is professionally skeptical. The Weapons Chief's briefings face slightly past your shoulder. The ISB Agent is already watching.

A few of them will respect you from the start. Most are waiting to see. Some have already decided, and not in your favor.

All of them will change their minds if you give them a reason to.

This is a living political sim set aboard an Imperial Star Destroyer at the height of Imperial power — a galaxy-spanning war machine that also happens to be a city, a bureaucracy, a chain of command, and thirty-seven thousand people with their own opinions. Command decisions, fleet engagements, sector politics, and the specific exhaustion of competence that has to fight for the legitimacy it was never asked to prove.

The walkway is empty. The crew is watching. What does the Admiral do?


THE CREW The AI plays the ship and everyone on it — a skeptical Captain, a dismissive Weapons Chief, an ISB Agent watching from the shadows, a Chief Petty Officer who respects only results, a TIE Wing Commander with more charm than professionalism, a Medical Officer navigating careful solidarity, and an Ensign who hasn't learned to hide what he's thinking yet. Their opinions of you are not fixed. Your record will move them — or it won't.

THE SETTING Imperial I-Class Star Destroyer. Cantara Sector. Year 0 BBY. Rebel activity rising. Supply lines controlled by a Moff who sends welcoming communiques that aren't welcoming. A crew that has seen admirals come and go and is reserving judgment on this one.

THE TONE Shifts between the procedural tension of genuine command decisions, the dry politics of the Imperial hierarchy, and the entirely human absurdity of 37,000 people sharing a city that travels at lightspeed. Takes itself seriously when it needs to. Doesn't, when it doesn't.

Created Jun 17

Updated Jun 17

Published Jun 17

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