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<blockquote data-quote="Ambrus" data-source="post: 2828175" data-attributes="member: 17691"><p><span style="color: Silver"><em>"Roger that control. Foray shutting engines down. Be advised that refueling procedures won't be necessary; we have sufficient reserves at this time. I'd also request a data transmission containing docking fees, trade taxation or station customs and regulation information you have available ASAP. Please be advised that I'll be sending my droid aboard since it's more familiar with the needed components than I am. I hope that won't be a problem."</em></span></p><p></p><p>True to its word, DRK-1X powers down the Ari's Sorrow's engine, though it is careful to keep it and its support systems ready to reactivate at a moment's notice. The paranoid droid also ensures that the nav-computer, with its jump program, remains fully active. Meanwhile, the med-droids load one of their number with the bacta canisters and a spare comlink. When ready, DRK-1X opens the vessel's hatch and orders the med-droid, which it designates MD-1, to roll out onto the bridge to meet the escort.</p><p></p><p>[Sblock=OOC]<span style="color: Gray">DRK-1X, being paranoid, doesn't want to leave the ship with its cargo unattended and vulnerable. It doesn't yet know if it can trust the station's administration or not; the empire might have left some people here. They might object if they realize the Ari's Sorrow is manned completely by droids. If something seems wrong, 1X is ready to disengage the magnetic locks from the station, pull free from the docking seal and engage the hyperdrive engines. It'll also keep the vessel's scanners focused on the other ships in the vicinity. Do any of them appear to be imperial? Are any of the three shuttles 1X observed leaving Dantooine present?</span></p><p><span style="color: Gray"></span></p><p><span style="color: Gray">DRK-1X is sending MD-1 to the bazaar in its stead while it monitors the droid's sensory telemetry and directs its activities through the remote processor. 1X intends to use the comlink as a remote vocabulator so that it can speak in MD-1's stead and conduct negotiations directly (that's assuming that it can't speak basic itself). Ideally, others around it won't realize that they aren't dealing with MD-1 itself but actually a remote operator. DRK-1X will direct MD-1 around the place, keeping an eye out for goods it's interested in while looking for the type of merchants who might be interested in the kind of stuff it has to sell: bacta tanks, bacta, restricted arms and armor, etc. Unloading some of this stuff in exchange for credits wouldn't be bad though 1X is also interested in possibly trading for stuff it can use. That would include a better ship, useful droids, droid components it could use to upgrade itself (such as a masterwork blaster pistol or a better translator module) and rhyll spice in addition to the replacement components needed for the aft shield emitter. Hopefully 1X's 'illicit barter' ability will prove useful in gaining access to the right people with the kind of merchandise it wants. 1X also wants to take the opportunity to try and learn something of the recent events on Dantooine if possible by listening to what people are talking about. I figure a spaceport in the same system being destroyed might cause a certain amount of rucus and conjecture around the station. Learning what's become of captured prisoners taken from the settlement would be ideal.</span></p><p><span style="color: Gray"></span></p><p><span style="color: Gray">Actually I did know that I had thousands of litres of bacta rather than just "a few dozen". 1X just doesn't see the point in advertising that fact to people on an unfamiliar station. Replacement components for the shield emitter should only cost a few thousand credits worth of bacta so that's as much as it's willing to admit to having at this time. On the other hand, I think you might want to recheck your math. For one thing, you seem to be thinking in pounds; a bacta tank weighs 500 <em>kilograms</em>, and that's not counting the 600 kilograms of bacta to fill it. Also, a <em>metric</em> ton is 1,000 kilos; not 2000 lbs. So 100 full bacta tanks would weigh in at 110 tons just by themselves. The two extra refill tanks add an extra ton each. I'm not sure how much the droids weigh, but they and the remaining equipment probably add up to close to an extra ton altogether. Do you want to rethink the quantities you listed and get back to me?</span></p><p><span style="color: Gray"></span></p><p><span style="color: Gray">It's not a coincidence that I mentioned that the ship looks like a Winnebago. After all, considering its shape, 1X is itself a 'space-ball'.</span> <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /> [/Sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ambrus, post: 2828175, member: 17691"] [COLOR=Silver][I]"Roger that control. Foray shutting engines down. Be advised that refueling procedures won't be necessary; we have sufficient reserves at this time. I'd also request a data transmission containing docking fees, trade taxation or station customs and regulation information you have available ASAP. Please be advised that I'll be sending my droid aboard since it's more familiar with the needed components than I am. I hope that won't be a problem."[/I][/COLOR] True to its word, DRK-1X powers down the Ari's Sorrow's engine, though it is careful to keep it and its support systems ready to reactivate at a moment's notice. The paranoid droid also ensures that the nav-computer, with its jump program, remains fully active. Meanwhile, the med-droids load one of their number with the bacta canisters and a spare comlink. When ready, DRK-1X opens the vessel's hatch and orders the med-droid, which it designates MD-1, to roll out onto the bridge to meet the escort. [Sblock=OOC][COLOR=Gray]DRK-1X, being paranoid, doesn't want to leave the ship with its cargo unattended and vulnerable. It doesn't yet know if it can trust the station's administration or not; the empire might have left some people here. They might object if they realize the Ari's Sorrow is manned completely by droids. If something seems wrong, 1X is ready to disengage the magnetic locks from the station, pull free from the docking seal and engage the hyperdrive engines. It'll also keep the vessel's scanners focused on the other ships in the vicinity. Do any of them appear to be imperial? Are any of the three shuttles 1X observed leaving Dantooine present? DRK-1X is sending MD-1 to the bazaar in its stead while it monitors the droid's sensory telemetry and directs its activities through the remote processor. 1X intends to use the comlink as a remote vocabulator so that it can speak in MD-1's stead and conduct negotiations directly (that's assuming that it can't speak basic itself). Ideally, others around it won't realize that they aren't dealing with MD-1 itself but actually a remote operator. DRK-1X will direct MD-1 around the place, keeping an eye out for goods it's interested in while looking for the type of merchants who might be interested in the kind of stuff it has to sell: bacta tanks, bacta, restricted arms and armor, etc. Unloading some of this stuff in exchange for credits wouldn't be bad though 1X is also interested in possibly trading for stuff it can use. That would include a better ship, useful droids, droid components it could use to upgrade itself (such as a masterwork blaster pistol or a better translator module) and rhyll spice in addition to the replacement components needed for the aft shield emitter. Hopefully 1X's 'illicit barter' ability will prove useful in gaining access to the right people with the kind of merchandise it wants. 1X also wants to take the opportunity to try and learn something of the recent events on Dantooine if possible by listening to what people are talking about. I figure a spaceport in the same system being destroyed might cause a certain amount of rucus and conjecture around the station. Learning what's become of captured prisoners taken from the settlement would be ideal. Actually I did know that I had thousands of litres of bacta rather than just "a few dozen". 1X just doesn't see the point in advertising that fact to people on an unfamiliar station. Replacement components for the shield emitter should only cost a few thousand credits worth of bacta so that's as much as it's willing to admit to having at this time. On the other hand, I think you might want to recheck your math. For one thing, you seem to be thinking in pounds; a bacta tank weighs 500 [I]kilograms[/I], and that's not counting the 600 kilograms of bacta to fill it. Also, a [I]metric[/I] ton is 1,000 kilos; not 2000 lbs. So 100 full bacta tanks would weigh in at 110 tons just by themselves. The two extra refill tanks add an extra ton each. I'm not sure how much the droids weigh, but they and the remaining equipment probably add up to close to an extra ton altogether. Do you want to rethink the quantities you listed and get back to me? It's not a coincidence that I mentioned that the ship looks like a Winnebago. After all, considering its shape, 1X is itself a 'space-ball'.[/COLOR] :p [/Sblock] [/QUOTE]
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