"There's no time to train them," says Drakkon. "They are to be a militia, not an elite army. It's the best that can be done."
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"Oh, I asked the others to refer the current situations to their respective homeworlds. They are on their ships in the starport. Esgabath and friends probably walked right past them. The Imperials are most likely keeping watch on the starport, of course, but also most likely too distracted by those freighters."
Then you aren't even slightly happy.
Ok, fine, owning guns isn't automatically illegal, but arms importing on a massive scale between interstellar borders is hardly something that is not subject to regulation! Especially under the emergency laws that still date from the Clone Wars, when they were interested in stopping the Confederation arms supply.
Not to mention the fact that this shipment comes from HUTT SPACE. The smallest problem there is that it's almost certainly avoided tax, the largest problem is that the Hutts are a bunch of gangsters; everything they touch is illegal! Those weapons are hotter than a Belseraphon sundive.
And just to finish off the list... think about Osokans. Think about what they are like, their temperament. Then think about what happens if you start issuing thousands of them with guns they have never used before, whilst lots of Imperials are hanging around the planet threatening to invade. What is the outcome going to be?
That would openly give the Imps a reason to invade; the Osokans suddenly forming a militia (However crude that may be) and gaining such an influx of weaponry...
If i were an imp then I'd say that would imply outside help that knows of their current situation, angering me to want to silence the inhabitants quickly and find out how they were strengthened as such. Besides if the Osokans begin to patrol the city armed by the thousands with weaponry thus previosly unavaliable then they would surely send the Imperials (myself in this pretence) absolutely barking mad to resolve the sudden militarialistic attitude that the Empire has spent so long a many year to crush such tendancies.
Isn't it true that they wished to be the only power with an armed force of anykind, the Emperor thinks as much and declares martial law or worse upon any planetship as such.
Overall the Osokans wouldn't be able the easily hide the presence of such armaments as they are hunters that traditionally use more simpler methods for their prey, am i right?
((Just as a last second SPAM kind-of-thing...))
It's my eighteenth Birthday tomorrow; Hoorah!!! Legally 'Of-Age' time!!!