Currently running a rogue trade game with some guys at my barracks.

Tau fleet meaning two cruisers and a transport.

>>53371120
Conscript the populace and force them to hunt down and exterminate every last Tau as penance.

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>>53371120
What my RT group did recently.

Go to a war world and purchase a regiment after performing some favours on the battlefield.

Then have the regiment conquer the planet.

>>53371120
Send your missionary down there and start preaching the fuck out of that shit.

>>53371120
I'm asking because I wanted to prep interesting situations for my players

Wait, why are they resisting? If the population hasnt seen the light in 200 years is the Governor a loyalist or a separatist/independent?

>>53371120
Impart the creed, remind them they owe penance for centuries of impiety, and their planet's treachery to the Tau.

But offer them forgiveness if they return to the church, and get back to work.

Then set up your own interests to ship their foodstuffs offworld at a significant profit to you, while you as slowly as you're permitted, file the paperwork to notify the Imperium of the planet.

The longer you can "legitimately" loot it while they calculate its Tithe, the better for you. Also this way nobody can accuse you of trechery, as you diiiiid report the planet.

>>53371120
If they haven't seen the Emperor's light they're probably more likely to be rebelling mostly against the Governor rather than the Imperium itself.

Depending on how much of an asshole the Governor is you might want to use him as a scapegoat - execute him to placate the rebels and install a trusted retainer as the new Governor, and make his first act re-instituting the imperial faith via your missionaries.

You now have a governor who's position is entirely thanks to you (and who was formerly your man), and have hopefully restored the faith (maybe have them build a cathedral? A little backbreaking labour never hurt anyone, except for unfortunate construction accidents) - this should please the Ecclisiarchy, but may piss off the Administratum (who don't really like governors canging), so give them the news over a nice gift of back taxes, or even forward taxes, which should be drawn from the regions with the most rebels.
If "fulfilment of outstanding tithes" happens to cause the rebels to starve, well, the Emperor forgives.

Effective and productive action still trumps the bureaucratic rules, even in the imperium, so as long as your guy is good the administratum won't mind too much that you've essentially just helped yourself to a planet - though of course your retainer will formally and publicly renounce all ties to you.

The leaders of the rebels that you've not killed via bombardment should be courted in such a way to restore order - I'd congratulate them for their actions against the clearly corrupt former governor, and find a place where their leadership and fighting qualities can be used... such as leading the first waves of attack against the vile xenos still in system

>>53371120
Were the rebels working with the Tau?

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>>53371120
Go isis on them.
Infiltrate the rebel movement with pro imperial agents, preaching that the governor will fall and the chosen of the god emperor will arrive.
Make sure you win the war slowly as to really let the new faith take root.

By the time the old governor is dead the people who fought for freedom against a tyrant will believe that they really wanted to to be slaves to an extremely repressive faith all along.

>>53373330

Here are some historical templates you can use:

Counter-insurgency: you flat-out conquer the place (or occupy on behalf of the existing Governor). So it's primarily a military campaign to kill off the insurgents, combined with a political/economic game to coopt the local leaders. Basically Iraq in space.

Propaganda war: you do what this guy suggests >>53371947 by overthrowing the "corrupt evil" governor and install another governor as a puppet who is loyal to you. So propaganda to get the people behind your new order, plus a political campaign to co-opt the local leaders. Grenada or Panama in space. If your RT character has kids, this is a great way to get third and fourth sons into positions of power without them fighting one another.

Open conquest: make the rubble bounce, brutally take power and destroy anybody who won't submit. Chechnya in space; or make it Ukraine if you fight the war using an insurgency that YOU sponsor.

Remember, however, that you're Rogue Traders. The goal is profitability, not conquest. The cheapest, easiest approach is the Saudi Arabian way: pay someone else to die for you while you collect the rewards. As DM, I'd create a cast of characters in a complex political and economic network. They should all have roles within society,b ut also be personally ambitious. So then the players have to figure out who is on their side, who has to be bought/intimidated/persuaded, and who has to be killed.

Plus they need to figure out a way to make it all pay for itself.