Meet the Team for Issue 54

Each week we ask a question of our staff and featured writers to learn a little bit about them and gain some insight into where they are coming from.

This week's question is:

You've just assumed total control of the galaxy. What's your first act as Supreme Chancellor?

Delegate. Appoint trustworthy aides to manage the day-to-day functioning of the galaxy in my stead. Gather a Galactic Think Tank to create a form of government that can't be corrupted from anywhere except the tip top of the pyramid, and then implement that so that I don't have to worry about things too much. Take an extended Space Vacation. Declare my birthday a galactic holiday: anybody who sends me a present gets a proportional tax write-off.

I would gather an elite force of rediculously garbed scuba-ninja assassins to be my personal guard, and take up residence in a missile silo volcano moonbase, from which I would rule with an iron fist. Then I'd begin work on a weather control device.

I would use my newly acquired ultimate power to seize control of Perry's ice cream, forcing them to reassume the manufacturing and distribution of the flavor Zero Visibility. Then I would afford myself a lifetime supply as my reward for a job well done.

Depends. Am I a benevolent wise ruler to lead my people into a Golden Age? Or a tyrannic despot feeding on their despair and agony? If the second, well, the ol' Evil Overlord guidelines will never do ya wrong: http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html

But either way, I think I'd delegate responsibility to my Trusted Advisor while I went and decided to write a Great Galactic Novel.

I am totally reviving this. It's too cool not to.

For me; let someone else do all the work while I reap the benefits, I think. Corruption at it's finest.
EDIT: And I would fund more crazy tests like these: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.61853

Wow, you really went digging for this one.

nilcypher:
Wow, you really went digging for this one.

Not really, it was on the last page. Makes it easy.

As supreme chancellor? I guess my first priority would be to execute anyone and everyone in the government who is still loyal to the former chancellor.

Or make pretzels.

pie! lots and lots of pie! pie for everyone! unless I don't like you then you get RUBARB pie!

or I would start my own intergalactic empire, attack the borderworld xen, then stumble upon earth only to wreak havok. about a decade after the invasion I will be foiled by a mute...not really...I wouldn't be foiled...I would befriend him with pie

Make Elections that don't matter.

Turn all corporations into goverment contoled enterprises, without puplic knowlage.

In 5-10 years have a utopian military state, filled with robot's and magic powers.

NOTE: My lawyers advice me that I have never heard of "star wars".

Start a eugenics movement involving me and Natalie Portman.

Drugs.

If people complain, then I legalize.

I will make thread necromancy legal. If it is already legal I would reward it.

the monopoly guy:
pie! lots and lots of pie! pie for everyone! unless I don't like you then you get RUBARB pie!

I love Rubarb!

if i was supreme chancello of everything I wouldn't leave my harem except to eat rubarb pie as it would be my duty to make an army of little me's

Khell_Sennet:
As Supreme Chancellor? I guess my first priority would be to execute anyone and everyone in the government who is still loyal to the former chancellor.

...And a few others that I don't like... I follow the Rules for an Evil Overlord, so kill anyone who opposes me quickly and quietly...

...And Star Destroyers! Build lots of Star Destroyers!

Let the galaxy go to hell, and watch over with my harem. Of course, I will have an awesome palace, with a pool filled to the brim with mint chocolate, and then... the dancers... hehe, I think I'll like this life...