Jedi Council OOC planning

Half of them use lightsabers.

Back to the semi-closed RP question; I can't legally hit extra targets without doing so in a closed RP fashion. The fleet regulations will prevent me having enough of a force to do it with any realism. I don't want to go creating fleets out of thin air to further this storyline so it comes back to what we already said about a narration. If I can narrate a certain amount of activity with a certain force (It doesn't have to be in detail and would be better if its not) then we can have that in the background. Its worked well at Yavin, what we've done of it anyway. There its a past tense thing but even present tense it should work. We could either have a corresponding narration from a Jedi writer, both of us sticking to the loosely set out plan, and do a back and forth. Or just write t from my point, with me sticking to a prearranged set of circumstances, and post reactions to it.

Thoughts?

That's actually a good point. We can't really justify blockading Yavin IV.

You can, and for the sake of story, you must. The whole reason Yavin agreed to be in as a leading part of this RP in the first place was because of the sustained blockade, and the effect that would have on the Mandalorian's war footing - and the Jedi's morale. Remove the blockade, and all the effort we put in to the whole Yavin saga will be for nought.

If the fleets leave Yavin, the Jedi will return there, and Yavin is close enough to Mandalore that it's the perfect staging point to crush the Mandalorian capital. The Mandalorians attacked Yavin first because they knew that Yavin posed a very, very real threat, a very real obstacle in their mission, one arguably greater than any other Jedi world. Corellia may well be a major world, but it's a long, long way away from Mandalorian Space, and a long way from being a priority. Ossus, and maybe Felucia, would be the next targets based on their proximity to Mandalore. Yavin is on their doorstep - and as their goal is to destroy the Jedi, something they cannot achieve on Yavin without taking the planetary shield down or getting a successful bombing run under the shield, the last thing they want to do is to retreat and give the Jedi any chance to rebuild over Yavin - because doing so will end the war very quickly. The reason the blockade is in place is that they can't raze the planet. They can't bombard the place - we're too well defended, even now, to do that. And if they retreat from Yavin without finishing us off, they lose. They lose, if for no other reason than they have not achieved their objective. They came to Yavin to kill Force Users, and they've managed to mark off... what, a dozen Jedi? Thousands of soldiers, sure, but the Jedi have, thusfar, come out relatively unscathed. They'd stick around to finish the job.

As for "creating fleets out of thin air", look at it from a story perspective - if the Mandos were gearing up for a war with the Jedi and the Republic, then those fleets would have been under construction a long time ago. Fleets ten, twenty, or more times larger than the fleet regs allow. They would have, simply because trying what they're trying without that amout of hardware would have been tantamount to suicide, and would have been an example of extensive military incompetence on behalf of the Mandos.

The purpose of the semi-Closed RP set up is to actually be able to show that realistically, without having to be limited by the fact that you don't have the writers available to write those fleets under fleet-reg limitations. This is collaborative RP, not competitive - therefore, for the purpose of a good story, we need to accept that not only do the Mandos have a bigger fleet than fleet regs allow, but that they have been building it for a long time and have one big enough for multiple sieges and blockades. Unless Corr and Ashrah are thoroughly inept warriors, they would have foreseen and been prepared for the need to blockade or lay siege to a few worlds, whilst still having fleets enough to fight, in order to achieve their goals.

The Fleet Regs are the wrong things to be treated as immutable scripture, holy law that cannot ever be ignored. They exist to regulate and protect the competitive elements of open RP, and for that, for a scenario where people decide to attack a world with an open ended outcome, they're crucially important. This is not a competitive RP scenario. It's a bunch of us writing a story together, with, for the most part, pre-determined endings - we could do it in the Journal of the Whills as a story, but that would be much less satisfying. For the sake of making the story any good, we have to come to an agreement as a collaboration of writers that the Mandalorian threat is real, dangerous, and far more massive than the fleet regs would allow, and far more massive than the forces currently tied up over Yavin.

Osarian? Bit far from Mando lines, isn't it? But Osarian is also me.

Annikki Perala arrived on Ossus yesterday, though I don't think Devlin is aware of that yet.

Alexis is on Osarian, though I believe we are due to meet up on Dressel.

Jago, IC I hate you, OOC I love your idea.

Beat you to it, Corr. Fresia is joining the Republic, IC-ly as a corporate world administered by Incom, but OOC-ly, also to insert a pro-Mando voice into the Senate.