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Grand Moff Tarkin ([personal profile] grand_mf) wrote in [community profile] lastvoyageslogs2017-03-20 03:14 pm
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A Different Kind of Alliance

Who: Tarkin, his Alliance cronies, his pawns, his enemies, open to others
Where: Respite, also his ship hovering over the planet, also probably other people's ships
When: All through the breach
What: Tarkin does his usual rounds in preparation for Reunification Day; see bold for prompts.
Warnings: Torture, probably, or at the very least allusions to it.


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1. On Tarkin's ship, he can keep a closer eye on his prizes.

There are only a few of them, but they're each masterful in their own way; a new order of power and control. They will be the future, he can sense. He's proud of them, even the ones who make a habit of regular disobedience. He tries not to be too stern, as he visits with each one; both the ones that are permitted to leave their rooms, and the ones that still need to be monitored. He considers each of them a miraculous gift in their own right.


2. On Respite, he spends his time checking in on his direct reports, meeting with diplomats, companions, captains; people of note who have made appointments in advance. He's one of the people who will be trusted to oversee the potential of this planet, and whether it deserves to join the alliance. As such, he needs to get a sense of this planet's prerogatives, its people, its culture. So after his meetings, he's out and about, with a small group of personal guards, taking in the bazaar sights and sounds.


3. Not all is peaceful, however.Once he catches a whiff of criminal activity, a Browncoat acting suspicious, he turns on them, with a ferocity and anger that's a surprise, in a man his age. They lost the war; it's a wonder some of them never learned to act like it.
hewasweak: (boo hoo nobody loves me)

[personal profile] hewasweak 2017-03-21 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
Kylo follows Tarkin almost everywhere he goes. He is a constant presence, a shadow - he doesn't speak, and he does what he's told. It's been this way for so long that he almost never questions it anymore.

He used to be unsettled when Tarkin would find a new prize. Early on, he would wonder if he'd be freed soon, allowed to return to the family that gave him up. Now, he barely remembers that family. The memories are still there, technically - just quieter. They don't matter as much as doing his duty to Tarkin.

Kylo follows as he checks in on the others and though he doesn't show his agitation easily, there are creases on his brow, shifts in his shoulders. He doesn't say anything - he shouldn't worry about being replaced. Credence said there could be only one of each of them. He's still useful.
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[personal profile] hewasweak 2017-03-21 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)

Kylo watches the door lock, eyes flickering briefly at the metallic sound. When Tarkin speaks he looks up, shoulders straightening. Kylo was the first, and he - eventually - took some comfort in behind the only. That's changed, and he catches his hands behind his back to try and look - professional? Yes. Look like he belongs.

"You have so many, now." What will happen if he's replaced? What will happen to him if Tarkin doesn't need him anymore?

hewasweak: (wait what if I'm not great)

[personal profile] hewasweak 2017-03-29 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
Tarkin has made himself a second father - and Kylo doesn't much remember his first, now. Died in the war, didn't he?

Better still, does it matter?

Kylo struggles to answer, and ultimately shakes his head. If it's what Tarkin needs, how can it bother him? But he's having so much trouble shaking the nerves.

"Are--" He starts and stops, looking down at the floor. This is foolish. This is why he'd be replaced. He looks up again, straightens. "Are they to replace me?"

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[personal profile] geekandthreequarters 2017-03-21 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
Nicodéme's position is one that requires considerable discretion, but the nice thing about being a licensed companion is that everyone always assumes they know why you are where you are. And the right sort of people generally don't mention it first, while the wrong sort have better things to worry about. He doesn't set out to get spotted, but he doesn't have to skulk, either.

Besides, his choice of tactics requires pretty regular support and very robust reports. Not the informant companion bit, of course--that's thoroughly unremarkable, if effective. The other one.

Not that he brings his pet to meetings, of course. She's irritating to transport and pointless to include. He's just always careful to turn up on schedule, cold and businesslike and loving it after all the trouble he has to go to faking human emotion for clients. Most companions have to fake to some extent, of course, but most of them are capable of experiencing the emotions they mimic. "Few leads this week, sir," he says, clipped and businesslike.
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[personal profile] geekandthreequarters 2017-03-23 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"For as long as it remains convenient." That's another advantage to his cover. Disappearing on a moment's notice can always be explained away, and if he really needs to make it look good, he has a few contacts willing to hire him for real and make a fuss about him coming. "Not long, I hope. I don't see any deep conspiracies, just malcontents." Malcontents are fun. Just... not a challenge.
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[personal profile] geekandthreequarters 2017-03-25 04:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"One likes to think, but they're much more interesting than taking potshots at lone wolves, even if it doesn't speak well of our efficiency." He sounds smooth and unconcerned, but that's how he always sounds, and the observation gives him a few moments to puzzle over what answer will serve him best. "Nothing unusual. Spacers who think they're above the law and self righteous over it. Deserter running around, though that seems to be covered." He's rather amused every time his cover works on someone from their side. Being treated like a civilian target to be bullied is at least a novelty.
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[personal profile] witness_this 2017-03-21 07:07 am (UTC)(link)
"Sir."

Says Furiosa, in the corridor on his ship, jogging up behind him. People make way for her- she moves with the kind of authority, purpose, and momentum that get people skittering out of her path, even when her expression doesn't betray any urgency.

"Sir, do you have a moment?"
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[personal profile] witness_this 2017-03-21 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"Let's, yes."

She agrees, without looking around them to check who might be listening. Just best to be careful.

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[personal profile] exceptionalthief 2017-03-21 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Colonel Hans Gruber is admitted to Tarkin's office by one of the general's aides. He crosses the threshold and snaps to attention, firing off a salute with military precision.

"Submitting my regular report, Sir," he says, by way of explanation.

It's a report that has a number of things left out and for good reason—the colonel might be taking advantage of the high ratio of illicit exchange of goods in Respite to pad his own retirement fund somewhat. Not that that's imminent, mind you—he's simply preparing for the future like any practically minded man. When he's a general, he won't have the same hands-on opportunities, so he needs to take advantage while he can. Tarkin might get killed at any time, after all.
exceptionalthief: (my other suit's an armani)

[personal profile] exceptionalthief 2017-03-21 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
He's not specifically aware of the general's suspicions, but the notion wouldn't surprise him any—Tarkin's a smart man and Gruber is smart enough himself to appreciate that. In some respects it's reminiscent of a good chess match and he can take pleasure from it on an intellectual level, even if there's a chance of things going against him. It wouldn't be as much fun without challenges.

He holds up a small data rod before placing it on Tarkin's desk. "For you to peruse at your leisure in greater detail. The short version is, port traffic is unusually high this week, commercial and otherwise, including several ships that have had suspect manifests in the past, although current searches revealed no anomalies."

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This may turn into a two-tag encounter

[personal profile] drunk_ish 2017-03-22 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
Sinjir really ought to be more careful.

He knows the bazaar's danger. He just happens to regard it as a familiar danger, almost comforting, full of its own ebb and flow of violent activity. Today is a flow, not an ebb. Doesn't mean Sinjir won't go out to scrounge for himself. Scrounge clothes, scrounge jobs, scrounge food, scrounge money.

And then he lays eyes on Tarkin and his whole body goes crackling-tense like a surge of electricity from the balls of his feet to his fisted hands.

He doesn't look exactly like he did in Tarkin's service, and that might save him. The beard is new, and without it he looked young, innocent, like he wasn't a torturer. This way, he looks benevolently scruffy. His cheekbones are more emphasized. He slouches. He's not in anything resembling a uniform.

He doesn't take any chances. Ducks away, slipping sideways into a moving current of people, and then into an alleyway.

Tarkin? Here?
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[personal profile] super_seal 2017-03-25 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
It's a surprise when Steve sees Tarkin in the Bazaar. Surely the man himself didn't come looking for him. It must be a coincidence. Steve's not even sure if the other man knows who he is. Steve knows him however and while his instinct is screaming at him to run, he's got his new papers in his back pocket and there's no need to draw attention to himself. Especially if he's not even on Tarkin's radar.

With a quick look around, he then forces himself to relax and casually feigns an interest in the nearest booth's wares.
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[personal profile] super_seal 2017-03-27 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Keeping an eye in Tarkin's general direction, he forces himself not to tense when Tarkin takes interest towards him, and then not to relax when it's clear he doesn't recognize him. He's just waiting for the other man to pass him so he can walk in the other direction when Tarkin stops in the stall just before.

He's already made move to leave, so he looks to the opposite of the bazaar and starts to head that way while still attempting to stay close enough to over hear what he's questioning the owner. It could be considered nosy, but Steve would say it's self preservation. If he knows what or who Tarkin is looking for, Steve knows to keep his distance.
leavetreadmarks: (Jacket Disbelief)

The latest ever, but here she is in the end

[personal profile] leavetreadmarks 2017-03-29 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
If she hadn't caught sight of Kylo yesterday for the first time in over a decade, if the encounter hadn't shaken her so very firmly out of the life she'd settled into, if she weren't half-wild with the desperate, fierce urge not to lose her brother again even though she knows it's damn likely she already has, Letty wouldn't have thought twice about recognizing Tarkin at the bazaar.

But she had, and it had, and she is, so she spends several long moments staring at his face like she should recognize it, but she was only a girl when she last saw him, and there was a war between, too. She does not believe in coincidence, does not believe there's not a reason for two faces from a past she had already buried and left behind showing up in as many days, so she starts straight for him, with no idea at all what she'll say when she gets there.