GM tip: If you want some player made chaos, you really need to directly ask for it
Well, from the background in the OP:
which among you are co-conspirators, brought aboard to assist with the treachery? Which among you are loyal officers
of the Empire, merely caught up in circumstance? And if the Commander is brought to justice, will any of you be spared?
Remember, we were still making characters as late as thread pages 4 and 5. The plan was to add to game, player skills, the security system, money, etc. as we progressed, rather than make a
complicated set of rules and background only to have nobody want to go to all that effort. Deciding on day one who was and wasn't a conspirator just didn't seem that important.
I was exchanging PMs with a couple players, inviting people to be conspirators, but nobody took the bait. IronyOwl was almost the guy who killed Dr. Lasken, for example, but he decided he'd rather play a Loyalist. And apparently so did everyone else.
So I figured that even if nobody was a Rebel, nobody
knew that nobody was a Rebel, and was hoping that general suspicion would be enough to carry it. Again, there actually was a conspiracy, it's just that none of you were in on it. None of you
had to be Rebels, you just had to be interested enough in what was going on to investigate, and I figured the dominoes would fall on their own.
Anyway, for those who are interested:
An Imperial lab built some cyberntic implants that sit between the sensory input and motor control parts of the brain, and the rest of it. So, once an implant was installed, everything thattheperson sees and hears is transmitted to a control station, that could then direct the actions of the person's body through direct brain stimulation. They'd remain conscious, but have no control over their body.
Commander Tells was an Imperial loyalist who discovered that this technology had been made, and concocted a scheme to have it installed in the Rebels. The idea was to pretend to be a traitor, meet with some Rebels to reveal a new "secret, superpowerful implant" and then have it installed into them. Once it was installed, the idea was to mind-control those Rebels and have them report back to base with positive news, to get more of the Rebels to have these devices, and eventually work their way up into the Rebel hierarchy.
Tells proposed the play to the Imperial command, but they didn't act on it. Eventually he decided to implement it on his own. He submitted a report explaining exactly what he was going to do, stole the implants and then pretended to go rogue, made contact with the Rebels, etc.
Darth Vader discovered what was going on, but he had already been aware of the plan from the original proposal. In his opinion, it was not an acceptable plan. When Tells went ahead with it anyway, Vader made it his personal mission to put a stop to it.
Doctor Lasken and IronyOwl were both cybernetic specialists. The plan was to meet with the Rebels and have eirher of them perform the installations. Unfortunately for Commander Tells, he approached Dr. Lasken with his plan and the Dr. decided he wanted nothing to do with it and threatened to play whistleblower. Tells then murdered him, and...since he knew couldn't simply hide the body in his quarters, and couldn't space him because it would be picked up by the ship's sensors, he took him out an airlock and strapped him to the outside of the ship, too close for scanners to pick up.
Dr Lasken's frozen corpse has been strapped to the Dependable's hull for the past three days.
After that, Tells still had IronyOwl, but decided to keep him in the dark as to what was really going on. Unfortunately for him, Vader caught up with him and killed him.
Tells personal log had various incriminating messages. He was actually a Loyalist, but you wouldn't have guessed that from the information you'd have found if you'd looked.
The implants were in the crate in the hold.
The Rebels Tells' had arranged to meet with, I hadn't decided for sure what happened to them. Either Vader killed them, or more likely they simply realized it was a trap and never showed.
And of course, the Emperor knew all about this, knew that Vader didn't approve, and in fact it was his plan all along that Tells pretend to go rogue to get these implants into the Rebel command, in a way that left him plausible deniability. The Imperial command never approved the plan.
So, amusingly, even though you guys "won" through a non-standard game over, you also unknowingly thwarted the secret plans of the Emperor.
I'd be totally for this again
Let me think about it. Would need a new premise. And I'm a little concerned that since this game went
so far into the Imperial Loyalist side of things, that with a rehash people might be tempted to swing too far in the opposite direction. Mafia isn't exactly what I was going for. I'll see if I can come up with a scenario I like.
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