If you're going to be exposing the Governor for crimes against humanity, you might want to think about throwing a couple of your own crimes in with his. He'll be dead and guilty of stuff already so you might as well clear your name of a couple of things in the process.
OW to RT
An excellent suggestion, though we've only just started playing RT so I don't have anything on me... yet
Just to throw this out there if you are interested in a conversion of an Only War version of Rogue Trader, Snap_Dragon made one (I 'think' it was completed) some time back. It might help you.
So that's where I am at. Quite exasperated with the whole situation, I am going to just take the ship and leave at the start of the next session - GM mission be damned. He doesn't want to learn how to be a reactive GM instead of creating whole missions in minute detail for us to go on. So I suppose he will just have to learn!
I'm generally not a fan of "teaching lessons" to either the GM or another player, as these can be a massive downer and break a game. However, do use all the resources at your disposal, especially if your group has a decent profit factor. At around the average, a starting dynasty can rival a noble house, and that is even before you calculcate the value of an armed voidship in orbit. If a planetary governor is giving you problems, you have no few ways to make them pay. Anything from open warfare to hiring assassins to sponsoring a coup to calling the Inquisition (if necessary after planting some evidence, but do be careful*) is a fair game. It may help to drive the point home for your GM when the RT occasionally goes ham with the sort of "Do you know who I am" speeches where s/he deigns to explain to someone that they are dealing with the Lord or Lady of a house with millenia of history, riches that could make any noble jealous, the right and responsibility to go where no man or woman has gone before and secure it in the name of the Imperium, and enough resources at their immediate disposal to consign millions to oblivion in the next, oh, standard Terran hour. All of this, by the way, is completely true for the standard RT game - the starting resources of the party put them on a level where very few organizations can claim to boast more power, and almost everyone in the setting knows it. This reputation alone is a potent tool to get your way.
*: to most 40k characters, this is a very bad idea, but any Rogue Trader has both the influence and likely contacts to deal with an inquisitor on a nearly even basis - and a way to get the hell out of dodge if things go south.
Edited by The_ShamanI solved the problem by taking everything we needed, sending an astropath message to Scintilla with the news, and leaving for the Expanse. The GM tried to rope us into another "mission" which was undeniably an ambush involving daemons, so once we "couldn't find the stolen relic" I once again pulled us away to go explore. Much better, as randomly generated systems don't leave the GM much to railroad us into. I think everyone (except maybe the GM) enjoyed this much more, as the whole exploration part of it was much more exciting than being a rich errand boy. We found an archeotech ruin that the GM ran as a small dungeon, loot was found, everyone almost died, and fun was had. Now we are playing RT!
I solved the problem by taking everything we needed, sending an astropath message to Scintilla with the news, and leaving for the Expanse. The GM tried to rope us into another "mission" which was undeniably an ambush involving daemons, so once we "couldn't find the stolen relic" I once again pulled us away to go explore. Much better, as randomly generated systems don't leave the GM much to railroad us into. I think everyone (except maybe the GM) enjoyed this much more, as the whole exploration part of it was much more exciting than being a rich errand boy. We found an archeotech ruin that the GM ran as a small dungeon, loot was found, everyone almost died, and fun was had. Now we are playing RT!
I was kind of hoping to picture the horrified look on his face when you nuked the governors palace. Oh well, take your victories when you can I suppose.
He insinuated that the governor wasn't there - he may have read the forum, or another one of the players told him what I was thinking about. Either way, he got the message.
My current RT campaign uses OW rules wherever possible. Only RT rules used are the ones that aren't in OW (e.g. profit factor, colony building, voidship combat).
No psykers so those rules haven't cropped up.