COMPNOR Expansion

[Dustflier]

Purely for canon reasons, I like the SAG keeping their established name. Maybe include "Imperial Youth" as a popular colloquial name?
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[CRMcNeill]

For the sake of irony, reread your post, then read your signature...
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[Whill]

[Sutehp]

[Dustflier]

[CRMcNeill]

As part of an unrelated discussion, I came across an interesting tidbit about the economy of Nazi Germany. Since this topic ended up being more about shaping COMPNOR into a sci-fi version of the SS, it seemed on-point.

Apparently, something like 25% of workers across all the various industries in Nazi Germany were slave labor. It's known in the SWU that slaves have been used on various projects for the Imperial war machine (the penal colony on Despayre, where the Death Star was built), but it's always been assumed that that was just the Empire; the various Imperial loyalist corporations like KDY and Sienar are never clearly tied to it.

But if I'm drawing parallels, why wouldn't the Empire's crony-capitalist relationship with these various and sundry mega-corporations extend to providing said corporations with free labor?

IMO, this should definitely be included in the expansion somehow (likely as part of Improvements' Correction Branch), but I'd like to flesh the idea out a little bit before I make the official change.

Thoughts?
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[Sutehp]

Yeah, I don't recall any specific instances of the corporations mentioned in Star Wars (either Legends or canon) using slave labor (that doesn't mean they don't exist, of course), but if the Empire regularly made slaves of aliens (which we have seen) and if several corporations were nationalized by the Empire for the purpose of expanding the Imperial war machine (which we have also seen), then it makes sense that the Empire would provide slave labor at least for the corporations that had already been nationalized.

Who knows, Ol' Palpy deliberately set out to corrupt as much of the Old Republic government as he could before he finally took over, so it's entirely conceivable that he used his political influence as a senator to give perks (a.k.a. old style political pork) to certain corporations as well as part of a long-term scheme to have them on his side when he finally declared himself Emperor. (That's the thing about Palpatine: the guy knows how to think and plan long-term.) After he's already corrupted these corporations with his favors, they wouldn't object at all to having free (slave) labor to cut down on their costs.
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[MrNexx]

My first thought: the spice mines at Kessel. From Solo, we know they used slave labor. Who says they weren't corporate run, with a cozy relationship with their sole legal customer (and a ton of illegal ones)
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[CRMcNeill]

There's also the possibility that he was speaking in underworld terms, much like how a gang or mafia syndicate may "control" a certain piece of territory that is legally under the control of some other government or private entity. By control, it could just be that Company X runs the mine operations on Kessel, but understands that it must pay protection to the Pyke Syndicate in order to insure that theft and skim from the glitterstim shipments is kept to an acceptable minimum.
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[CRMcNeill]

I just stumbled across an old post about horrific Imperial experiment concepts. Because of what I did with this topic - particularly, the grouping of all of the Empire's various secret experiments under the Advancement Branch of the Coalition for Improvements - I thought I'd move my original concept for Reclamation over to the horrific experiments topic, and then link it back to this topic in order to give GMs some ideas for nasty things that COMPNOR can throw at a group of PCs.
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[tonyx33]

I take all the stuff you made. Great addition to my campaign, thank you !
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