Satine vs. Alor Cody - their relationship, on the surface, appears pleasantly cordial. Obi-Wan, sitting between them, is in fact feeling ice cold. Cody always brings gifts to their meetings. Satine always thanks him, but of course - you shouldn't have, she says.

Cody's gifts are not small. They aren't exactly gifts in the normal sense. You see, Cody goes in and Cody solves problems on Satine's behalf.

She doesn't ask for this, is the problem. She doesn't like how he solves these problems, is the problem.

Nonetheless, Cody kindly and persistently performs acts of service and generosity upon her world that slowly but surely push Satine firmly in his debt, whether she wants to acknowledge this or not.

Cody does not leave her the option of failing to acknowledge it.

He's not asking for much in return. A small moon on an outer system of the sector, maybe. It doesn't even have to be that hospitable. His men are good at toeing the line. They'll keep to her policies. Her laws. while on her worlds.

And Cody will see to it that they keep solving her problems.

Satine vs. Alor Alpha 17 - screaming matches. Horrible arguments. Alpha found one of the sectors old bombed out cities and just moved the vode in. When the duchess protests he calls refugee status and reminds her that Mandalore signed a treaty regarding the treatment of refugees, didn't it? She hates him. Alpha's having a great time. He thinks she's fun.

He's got seven million baby vode holopics and Satine finds them begrudgingly adorable. Baby holopics are how Alpha 17 solves every single one of their arguments.

Alpha adheres to none of her policies and ignores a great many of her laws. Alpha makes himself Death Watch's biggest problem. Satine does not thank him for this.

Satine vs. Alor Fox - Genuinely, i think Fox and Satine would get along the best out of all the options. Fox understands politics better than any of his brothers, and administration, and Fox full on sells out blackmail material on half the galactic senate in exchange for allowing the vode citizenship and Satine Kryze is too ambitious and her sector needs too many things for her not to take it.

I think they have caf dates. I think Satine gives Fox a government position and Fox becomes her worst opposition when it comes to enacting security reforms. Fox submits his own security reforms. Satine begrudgingly admits that they're good, and even more - Fox is better than she is as resource budgeting and allocation, but Fox's proposals aren't exactly in line with her personal beliefs and the New Mandalorian party line.

The vode, however, aren't adherent to the same beliefs that the True Mandalorians or Death Watch held, and she finds him more difficult to argue with because of this. His reasonings are entirely different than a traditional mandalorian's. Fox and Satine have very calm arguments, where they get vicious with verbal technicality. These arguments can go on for hours.

When Fox gets tired of arguing about something, he will casually drop in session a reminder that the vode *do not have normal experiences and everything about his life is either pitiable or horrifying* and in the ensuing dead silence he will casually push through a vote on the issue or move on to the next item on the agenda while making the rest of the room feels shocked and guilty as hell.

Satine can't even call him on it without feeling like a monster. Fox is tricky like that.

Satine vs. Rex - Rex lands on the wrong planet because he borrowed a ship from Anakin and the navigation is a little funky and anyway he ends up talking to the Kryze in charge of Death Watch instead of the Kryze in charge of the New Mandalorians and uh - accidentally gets into a challenge and wins leadership of, like, a quarter of the Mandalore Sector under Death Watch's control and, uh, then meets Satine Kryze, the actual recognized ruler of Mandalore and she is not happy with him.

She does, however, agree to accept that quarter of Mandalore back into the fold if they adhere to her policies.

His council says no. So Rex respectfully declines that offer and accidentally ends up at the head of a cold civil war in the Mandalore sector and he didn't even mean to be competing with the duchess and yet the popularity between the two of them ends up in fierce competition in the public sphere and Rex is just - trying to get the cadets in winter coats and keep the arc troopers from blowing stuff up and he ends up fighting his way through half of death watch when they keep challenging him for his position once they realize he isn't interested in actually going to war with the duchess for control of mandalore and -

Ahsoka agrees to come mediate sometimes.

Satine and Rex remain irreconcilable on certain issues. The cold war continues.