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<blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 6871933" data-attributes="member: 4936"><p>Man...ticktockticktock...she glanced at the display she'd created that showed the system response rate. She was doing pretty well, all told. Ahead of schedule. That made her nervous.</p><p></p><p>So, just three major bits left to do. Jam the sensors, turn the car, and slow it down to arrive at a station. And jack out, of course. She had roughly enough time to do it all twice over. And so far, no spider to interfere with things. It was seriously messing with her paranoia. What had she missed? Sure, it hadn't been all ponies and rainbows...that botched hack that let the system finger her early had really forced things along.</p><p></p><p>Gift horse. Mouth. Looking. Get the job done.</p><p></p><p>The train car had its own little dedicated sensor array and controlling processor. It handled everything from the little contact sensors in the couplers that told it when it was or wasn't connected to a car, to the SIN monitors in the doors...to the GPS uplinks that let the Big Momma host way over in central control know where each car was at any given moment. And those suckers had to go, or else Knight Errant's response time would be considerably shortened when they stopped. Without that feed, they'd have to check each station's feeds individually to see if it had come through. They could narrow the search based on where they were when they went black, but...every second counted when making a getaway.</p><p></p><p>Quick doublecheck. Crack sprite hidden and crudding up the system, delaying the IC response. FUTBOL huffing and glaring around, waiting to eat some spider stew. GOD on His throne, and all well with the world.</p><p></p><p><em>System diagnostics required,</em> the 'host' informed the sensor processors through the vessel of Death Otter, <em>shut down all feeds and begin self-tests.</em></p><p></p><p>(And...going to try to Spoof the sensors before turning, so it's that much harder to figure out where we're stopping. Dice pool is 13. Remind me to buy more Edge sometime. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shayuri, post: 6871933, member: 4936"] Man...ticktockticktock...she glanced at the display she'd created that showed the system response rate. She was doing pretty well, all told. Ahead of schedule. That made her nervous. So, just three major bits left to do. Jam the sensors, turn the car, and slow it down to arrive at a station. And jack out, of course. She had roughly enough time to do it all twice over. And so far, no spider to interfere with things. It was seriously messing with her paranoia. What had she missed? Sure, it hadn't been all ponies and rainbows...that botched hack that let the system finger her early had really forced things along. Gift horse. Mouth. Looking. Get the job done. The train car had its own little dedicated sensor array and controlling processor. It handled everything from the little contact sensors in the couplers that told it when it was or wasn't connected to a car, to the SIN monitors in the doors...to the GPS uplinks that let the Big Momma host way over in central control know where each car was at any given moment. And those suckers had to go, or else Knight Errant's response time would be considerably shortened when they stopped. Without that feed, they'd have to check each station's feeds individually to see if it had come through. They could narrow the search based on where they were when they went black, but...every second counted when making a getaway. Quick doublecheck. Crack sprite hidden and crudding up the system, delaying the IC response. FUTBOL huffing and glaring around, waiting to eat some spider stew. GOD on His throne, and all well with the world. [i]System diagnostics required,[/i] the 'host' informed the sensor processors through the vessel of Death Otter, [i]shut down all feeds and begin self-tests.[/i] (And...going to try to Spoof the sensors before turning, so it's that much harder to figure out where we're stopping. Dice pool is 13. Remind me to buy more Edge sometime. :)) [/QUOTE]
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