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'''Gameplay tips on loyalty, control and garrisons''' summarizes how the official "Rebellion - Gameplay Tips" web page describes loyalty, control, uprisings and the Agent's Manage Garrisons setting in ''[[Star Wars: Rebellion]]''. The page belonged to the game's official site; see [[LucasArts Rebellion website (2004 archive)]].<ref name="tips-main" />

== Three separate ideas ==
The page defines three terms that it calls integral to success:<ref name="tips-loyal" />
* '''Loyalty''' is the popular support a system gives to one side or the other.
* '''Control''' is ownership of a system, whichever side its people favor. The page notes that the Empire can control a planet whose population fully supports the Alliance.
* '''Diplomacy''' is the ability to move a system toward a player's side.

== How events spread ==
Actions taken in the game change loyalty and, through it, control. The page's examples:<ref name="tips-loyal" />
* Winning one system over by [[Diplomacy mission|diplomacy]] may also win over a few other neutral planets in the same sector whose loyalty to that side was already greater than 50 percent.
* Taking planets by force can lead to uprisings, because the population did not back the conqueror.
* Destroying one of a player's own planets with the [[Death Star]], in a sector where the player's other planets are not fully loyal, can push several of them into uprising and may lose some of them.

In general, an event on one system affects other systems in its sector to some degree, and destroying a whole sector can have a galaxy-wide effect on the core sectors. The page says that the page says rim systems seem unaffected, in loyalty, by what happens elsewhere in the galaxy. It also says that control of a planet is often held only because the controller keeps enough troops there to meet the garrison requirement and so avoid an uprising.<ref name="tips-loyal" />

== Uninhabited rim planets ==
To control an uninhabited rim planet, at least one troop regiment must be moved from a fleet at that system onto the planet itself. The garrison requirement shown for such a planet is zero, yet moving the troops off before the planet is developed loses control of it. After a facility has been built there, loyalty is full and the troops can be moved on.<ref name="tips-loyal" />

== The Agent's Manage Garrisons setting ==
With Manage Garrisons switched on, the Agent tries to prevent uprisings and to give each planet a minimal defense against invasion, always keeping one troop regiment more on a planet than the number needed to prevent an uprising. If more regiments are needed and none can be found, new ones are built. When a system is already in uprising, the Agent looks for or builds enough regiments to end it. Regiments beyond what is required are scrapped to reduce maintenance.<ref name="tips-agent" /> See also [[Garrisons]].

== References ==
<references>
<ref name="tips-main">"Rebellion - Gameplay Tips", LucasArts official ''Rebellion'' site (www.lucasarts.com/products/rebellion/), Wayback Machine capture of 8 December 2004; archive file Wayback Machine/Rebellion Gameplay Tips_files/intro.html (frame shell: Wayback Machine/Rebellion Gameplay Tips.html).</ref>
<ref name="tips-loyal">Same page, section "Loyalty, Control and Diplomacy".</ref>
<ref name="tips-agent">Same page, section "Agent Management", item "Manage Garrisons".</ref>
</references>

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