I posted this question elsewhere, but I wanted to see what y'all thought of it.
OK, so while overtime is being offered at work my d6 Star Wars game is on hiatus. So while thinking about directions to take the game once it restarts, I began musing about Star Wars as a genre since we are now in a post - Rogue One world. I've got a few veterans in the game and I was thinking about going very dark with the atrocities that the Empire is willing to commit. So how dark is too dark?
Just to give an idea of what I am thinking.....
The Empire would want to make examples of high population worlds in order to maintain peace through fear (the Tarkin Doctrine), because if a high population world with some interstellar political clout gets uppity and then is pounded by the Empire - what chance does any other world have to stand against the Empire? So I created a world which defied the Empire and showed the results.
Once the world's military had been neutralized and the orbital bombardment completed, the Empire began to systematically strip the world of all of its remaining resources. Imperial Leviathans were brought in to create more vehicles and equipment for the Imperial war machine from the detritus of the world's smashed technology, specialized processing ships would denude that world's biosphere of all its organic matter and create food with that raw material, the oceans of the world would be drained and contents strained for minerals and organics while the remaining distilled water is shipped off-world, and the population is used as slaves to keep these operations running.
World population members that resist are fed to the food processor while some non-producers are sold off as slaves. World population members who fit the Empire's preferred genetic profile are sent to be used as stormtrooper or soldier trainees, troop entertainment and/or as involuntary mothers for the Empire.
This last part is where I am wondering if it is too dark. I was thinking about the Joy Division of Nazi Germany since that is one of the more hideous things I think that human beings can do to other human beings. Naturally, the Empire would love that.
(The usual hang-ups I have about in character rape remain in effect, I won't have that at my game table. However, the aftermath of rape and subjugation would be shown in NPCs.)
OK, so while overtime is being offered at work my d6 Star Wars game is on hiatus. So while thinking about directions to take the game once it restarts, I began musing about Star Wars as a genre since we are now in a post - Rogue One world. I've got a few veterans in the game and I was thinking about going very dark with the atrocities that the Empire is willing to commit. So how dark is too dark?
Just to give an idea of what I am thinking.....
The Empire would want to make examples of high population worlds in order to maintain peace through fear (the Tarkin Doctrine), because if a high population world with some interstellar political clout gets uppity and then is pounded by the Empire - what chance does any other world have to stand against the Empire? So I created a world which defied the Empire and showed the results.
Once the world's military had been neutralized and the orbital bombardment completed, the Empire began to systematically strip the world of all of its remaining resources. Imperial Leviathans were brought in to create more vehicles and equipment for the Imperial war machine from the detritus of the world's smashed technology, specialized processing ships would denude that world's biosphere of all its organic matter and create food with that raw material, the oceans of the world would be drained and contents strained for minerals and organics while the remaining distilled water is shipped off-world, and the population is used as slaves to keep these operations running.
World population members that resist are fed to the food processor while some non-producers are sold off as slaves. World population members who fit the Empire's preferred genetic profile are sent to be used as stormtrooper or soldier trainees, troop entertainment and/or as involuntary mothers for the Empire.
This last part is where I am wondering if it is too dark. I was thinking about the Joy Division of Nazi Germany since that is one of the more hideous things I think that human beings can do to other human beings. Naturally, the Empire would love that.
(The usual hang-ups I have about in character rape remain in effect, I won't have that at my game table. However, the aftermath of rape and subjugation would be shown in NPCs.)