okay so firsties thanks to @saga-ordsmed for the Mandatory Service idea and the massive chunk of worldbuilding and concepts I'm about to use to solidify one of the most important arcs in Kiki's life.
Ninoreth I is a mission, at first, to get fair wages for mine workers. It turns into a revolution.
There are two characters whom Kiki establishes an important relationship with: Chular Sahines, who's native to the land, and Beziff Tarsos, multi-billionaire who runs as massive shipping company. All three are present as the "official meetings" that are really just distractions to keep the combination of indentured servants, slaves, and actual laborers occupied while the COalition of Mine Lords keeps them occupied.
Beziff Tarsos, I think, needs a more solid reason to be there beyond just "I'm the guy that ships things too and from the planet -- mostly from". He's not very subtle or politically savvy, but he does know shipping lanes and routes. I also want to use Mandatory Service (MS) as a reason for him to have close economic ties to Ninoreth I. On the outside, he's paying his laborers well and fairly. He has an MS license to operate in the star system, but without auditing there's a LOT of problems and often times those under an MS contract can get shuffled into the minelord's clutches.
Tarsos's shipping company is far-reaching and popular within the Senate, which otherwise ignores him. He has a contract or two with the Republic. He's friends with a lot of Senators. Tarsos is not very bright, however!
At about the halfway point through the arc, when Kiki loses patience with the dull and circuitous (and paradoxical? contradictory? lifeless. limp) "We can't use violence we have to use the power of POLITICS and VOTING" liberal meetings, Kiki very easily blackmails Tarsos. I can see her literally sitting on a chair in his office, the lights off, the glow from his computer highlighting her face, and she's already downloaded like a Terabyte of damning evidence. Normally a billionaire would get off scott-free, especially with an MS license as robust as Tarsos's, but this evidence includes a LOT of Senators, politicians, and even other CEOs by name. So she uses this information to get him to sway minelord coalition votes so that they're sufficiently distracted while Chular can shore up enough resources to arm the workers to the teeth.
Now the question is of WHO gets pulled into Tarsos's mandatory service. Former convicts? People who prefer the term "mandatory service worker" to "indentured servant?" Idk. I haven't thought that far.
moral greyness! Kiki's holding onto butt loads of information of various economic and labor rights abuses and violations and she KEEPS this information for the duration of the war in order to get Tarsos to cooperate.
worldbuilding depth! thanks @saga-ordsmed
This is. the MOST politically dense arc i'd have to write. There's a lto of messages and parallels to real life liberation movements and leaders in here.
I also need to get in enough characterization for Kiki and her master to show how much they dont work together and also justify Kiki choosing to stay while he goes back to Coruscant.
something else im forgetting
Wait wait wait just realized. The indentured servants of Ninoreth I who often have the "better" conditions than the slaves but who are worse off than the "laborers" (wage slaves) CAN be the Mandatory Service Workers. They can be for both the minelords, who employ them with the company as a way to undercut the local labor force and ensure a loyal domestic supply of laborers, AND for Tarsos, who sometimes trades in MSWs rather than like. money.
