What is the best way to bring a rebellious planet to heel...

What is the best way to bring a rebellious planet to heel? Preferably intact with minimal loss of infuctructure/ key assets?

Call in the Knights Inductor.
They specialize in stopping rebellions and preventing future rebellions.
Unfortunately, planets they visit always suffer from the heresies of competent governance, cooperation with xenos, and technological advancement

Allow them to "rebel", and afford them independance, then control the infrastructure. Once you've gained that, proceed to buy the governor or ruler, and bribe out whoever you need to make it subserviant once again.

Crushing the leaders of the rebellion by first destroying their image, then you capture or eliminate them - publicly, of course. Then make a single use of massive, overwhelming force (such as blowing an entire city to ashes via lance strikes) and then demand terms. Not only do you destroy the opponents leadership and disorganize the rebellion, you demonstrate that the rebels exist purely because you allow it, and there will be a visible reminder of what happens when you disobey.

Once they have surrendered and your control is absolute, do your best to correct or institute the more reasonable reforms they were seeking to implement, to minimize the breeding grounds for future rebellions. .

Crush their hope.
Make no martyrs.
Offer then a carrot or a stick.

Send in the Iron Warriors, surprisingly. Perturabo knew how governance worked and on the extremely rare occasion the Iron Warriors weren't sent to a planet filled with gene-crafted abominations of warriors that could rend a man in Power Armor, they made short work of the planet's defences.

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Bonus points: put the rebels in situations where if any large-scale loss of civilian life is going to occur it will be/look like their fault. Turn their power base against them.

do you consider the population a key asset/infrastructure? if not, just use a virus bomb or two

Planetary scale mind control.

Not the most practical, but the best.

Look at Isstvan III. Virus bombs will render cities slag and destroy the atmosphere with the gasses emitted from the dead.

Infiltrate and replace the government?

Because that worked so well in Rhodesia

Kill their children.

I meant to say some of their children.

There's a whole book and movie trilogy about why that's a bad idea.

>The best way to quiet a country is a good thrashing, followed by great kindness afterwards. Even the wildest chaps are thus tamed.

You'd pretty much have to buy the entire government from the top down, which can be near impossible.

It's best to make a planet unable to fully sustain itself from the get-go - a hive world that has a huge population that simply cannot be fed without the support of nearby agri-worlds, an agri-world that cannot farm without regular imports of off-world tools.

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listen to their demands and hope that they're the reasonable type, see if there is a compromise that can be reached

if its about taxes, we can negotiate duties and privileges as well as future tax policy. if its about land, then i would be happy to hear about how they were mishandled.

i would then fire the governor for letting the problems escalate till it reached this point

Bioengineered plague, to which only you have the antidote. Spreads like wildfire, kills anything it touches in a week. Eventually, the people will turn against their own governments, and that is when you have truly won.

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Just like that one french rebellion, right?

If you want a surrender, it's better to leave some leadership that the rebels respect alive to surrender.

Kill the leadership and you make martyrs. Any replacement leader needs to earn the rebels trust before their surrender will be listened to.

Biological weapons. Then you recolonize one year later.
Billions of people die each second in our ridiculously huge galactic civilizations anyway. We have dyson swarms, hypercontinents as huge as 100 earths on saturn like planets and Generation Ships that house thirty billions each.
A "planet" is irrelevant anyway.

>What is the best way to bring a rebellious planet to heel?
An iron fist combined with improved living standards. Kill all leaders, preferably publically, and make examples of all resistance members. However, make sure not to bring undue harm to the innocent, and collaborators are richly rewarded for their loyalty. Maybe even go as far as to install a puppet regime (preferably consisting of figures that are both respected by the locals and loyal to yourself), so the subjugated don't feel directly subjugated.

It's not a rebellion if you manage to take over the government. In which case the royalists are the rebellion (see: Vendée, Lyon, Toulon). And in that case the Revolutionary Regime, especially under Napoleon, did pretty well in suppressing uprisings: fight them in the field, throw traitors under the guillotine and (later, under Napoleon) show acceptance and even minor privileges to church institutions.

The big problem is showing the people that the new regime, whether revolutionary or foreign, isn't all that bad if you're willing to cooperate. And make sure cooperation yields more rewards than penalties (so no mass slavery or bullshit like that).

Let them leave. Forbid anyone from trading with them, forbid anyone from traveling to their planet. Withdraw all Imperial Navy patrols from anywhere within the system. They'll come crawling back after a few Dark Eldar raids.

usa way ?

Given the planet might be prosperious because it either advances in technology, controls some ancient artifact or just plainly cooperate with xenos, it will be purged just to be sure.

This is W40k. If you are expecting reason and logic, change setting.

This user gets it.

A single planet is absolutely irrevelant. A single quadrants in a galaxy... well, it might have tactical worth. Might. But a planet? Unless it houses some super important shit, and I mean really important super shit, nobody will give a fuck.

Third part of Imperium is absolutely disposable before anyone will even consider this might be wasteful. Apply that logic to single planet and it's just fucked.

Don't these and all other Exterminated based responses wind up with the similar result as suggesting to use asteroids as weapons, that it is a huge waste of resources, even when the Imperium has a lot?

I actually have to give the Galaxy spanning Administration credit that they can handle a planet getting uppity about taxes and tithes and being able to deal with that stuff without a net loss of assets.

Or the entire planet will fall to Chaos, in which case you'll be held responsible for such a massive catastrophe. No, rebellions need to be dealt with swiftly.