Planetary Government

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This faction is the legitimate government of a planet. Rebel groups and rival factions may have assets on the planet, but control over the instruments of the state is firmly in this faction’s hands. The faction may rule openly, or it may simply have an inexorable grasp on the existing authorities.
Effect: The faction’s permission is required to buy or import those assets marked as needing government permission. This tag can be acquired multiple times, once for each planet the faction controls.

Leaders:
^{Who leads the faction}

• President balancing political goals with her next reelection
• Nobility endowed with special rules and privileges by their titles
• Calculating head of the security services who is the real power behind the throne

Rules:
^{What are some universal laws or beliefs in the faction}

Strict gun laws

Major tariffs on goods from rival polity

Only natural born citizens may gain government positions

Senior government officials cannot be charged of crimes

Enemies:
^{Which person inside the faction might oppose the group}

Corrupt senior government bureaucrat

Police chief cracking down

Military commander running her own schemes

Opposition:
^{What forces might engage the group in combat}

Local law enforcement

Customs patrol boat

Special operations unit with the best gear government contracts can buy

Obstacles:
^{How might the faction inconvenience the group}

Red tape

Imprisonment

Confiscation of property

Denial of access to special zone or the world as a whole

Friends:
^{Who might offer the group services or missions}

Local bureaucrat that can slip things through the cracks

Intelligence officer looking for deniable assets

Military officer who now owes a favor

Complications:
^{How might negotiations be complicated}

"We can't just bend the rules for your sake"

What is needed happens to be illegal

Important government staff are overworked with no time for outsiders

Missions:
^{What missions might the faction offer}

A bounty has been placed on a criminal who has just left the system

Infiltrate a local maltech cult

Espionage against a hostile power

False flag mission to implicate an enemy of the government

Things:
^{What items might have relation to the faction}

Codes for the navy's encryption machines

Unsigned pardon from the president

Unregistered armored personnel carrier

Pictures of senior official with a prostitute

Digital storage drive with proof of government conspiracy

Places:
^{Where might the faction take you}

Interrogation room deep in the homeland security building

Unmonitored corridor in the House of Parliament

Gravtank hangar on major military base

Bridge of the navy flagship GSN Thermopylae

Tags: Core, PlanetaryGov