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<blockquote data-quote="Ambrus" data-source="post: 3174648" data-attributes="member: 17691"><p>The diminutive probe droid continues to float unmoving at arms length from its seated Mistress. It watches the nemoidian woman without a hint of emotion in its three unblinking optic sensors or cheap, genderless vocabulator unit.<span style="color: silver"><em>"Report: I only began my search of the facility nearly twenty hours after your abduction due to some critical self-repairs that I was forced to undertake. Conjecture: It is possible that someone entered the facility during the interim and removed both the creature and device and then erased all pertinent research data from facility's mainframe. Report: If that is the case then they would also have had to modify the facility's security logs to hide their activities, as I did not find any data to support such an intrusion. I did find it odd that the imperial forces did not seem interested in exploring the facility following your abduction though."</em></span><span style="color: silver"><em>"Report: Of course. Most droids are programmed with ethical protocols to help guide their conduct; especially in regards to preventing harm to sentient organics. Class 3 droids naturally have the most sophisticated ethical programming, except perhaps for class 1 medical droids. Even we class 4 droids, who often lack life preservation protocols, have ethical programming that help guide us in matters of loyalty to our masters and personal honor in regards to fulfilling our duties. We also do not usually inflict harm upon anyone unless it is unavoidable or we are instructed to do so explicitly or by implication.</em></span></p><p><span style="color: silver"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="color: silver"><em>An artificial intelligence without any ethical programming is, some argue, not truly sentient. The primary difference between the conscientious droids and organics is that droids cannot violate their personal ethics."</em></span><span style="color: silver"><em>"Report: I reversed the facility's ventilation system to suffocate the three surviving rancors that were loose. I then powered down the facility's environmental systems before my departure. I also had the medical droids dispose of all organic matter in the facility. Inquiry: Would the lack of air and sustenance over the past several weeks have killed the creature?</em></span></p><p><span style="color: silver"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="color: silver"><em>Conjecture: This may be of some relevance Mistress. Report: During my preliminary search of Dantooine for a suitable place to hide the Ari's Sorrow I discovered an abandoned research complex nine and a half kilometers north by northwest of your drop-point. In it I discovered evidence of violence as well as a recording by one Deren Hulat, a Chandrillan scientist. He said that three individuals; Phy'ryx, Goldus and his assistant Darla were dead. He went on to describe that during their research they'd discovered some creatures that they'd believed to have left the galaxy long ago but had now returned and that had to be kept below the surface if at all possible. His previous log entries reported odd occurrence around the facility which he described as a 'haunting'. The most recent log entry dated to three months before our arrival. Inquiry: Does this have something to do with the development of the creatures in the second research facility?"</em></span><span style="color: silver"><em>"Report: During my interrogation of your daughter Four said that she had sent Torrba to Tatooine to be with his cousin following the seizure of his residence on Nar Shaada. She then intentionally did not follow up on his progress to avoid inadvertently revealing his location to Kellon for fear that he'd sent his people after the hutt.</em></span></p><p><span style="color: silver"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="color: silver"><em>As to whether you can trust him, while you were drugged in his audience chamber he spoke at length with Ventress during which he addressed her fondly as his 'apprentice'. Conjecture: Since you and Ventress were mortal enemies I'd imagine that might cast a critical light on your future relationship with the hutt."</em></span></p><p></p><p>DRK-1X pauses momentarily to converse briefly with its HRD counterpart via their comlinks. Together they discuss how to proceed tactfully with a subject that both droids find troubling. Derek finally convinces the probot to proceed by reminding the droid that if it had the courage necessary to overcome all the obstacles to rescue Dofina, that it certainly had the courage to breech this very important topic with their Mistress. What the human replica droid doesn't mention to the probot is the relief it feels in not having to do so itself.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: silver"><em>"Statement of opinion: Mistress, it occurs to me that attempting to re-establish your holdings may not be the best course of action to pursue at this time. Statement of fact: The Separatists have lost the Clone Wars. Your holdings on Taris and Cato Neimoidia and those of your former ally Torrba on Nar Shaada have been forcibly seized by the new empire regime. Each time we've attempted to return to one of your former holdings we've found the empire's forces there waiting for us. The empire has also displayed a willingness to expend extensive resources in their attempts to capture you.</em></span></p><p><span style="color: silver"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="color: silver"><em>Conjecture: I believe it worth mentioning that it was Four's opinion that it was most likely one of only three people who she entrusted with the knowledge that you were heading to Dantooine that in turn betrayed your destination to the empire. It remains quite possible that Torrba's location on Dantooine has similarly been communicated to the empire and that, if they haven't confronted him already, that they remain poised to capture you should head there in search of the hutt.</em></span></p><p><span style="color: silver"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="color: silver"><em>Statement of intent: The extreme measures I took to enable our escape from the cluster were enacted in the hopes that the empire would have no reason to believe you hadn't died in the construction facility's destruction. Statement of opinion: It would be a shame to relieve them of that belief at this time.</em></span></p><p><span style="color: silver"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="color: silver"><em>Suggestion: It is my belief Mistress, that it may be in your best interest to focus on acquiring altogether new holdings while continuing to obfuscate your continued existence from the empire by avoiding your old contacts. To that end I have secured some of the resources of the Dantooine research facility, which I can conservatively estimate to be worth over two million credits, for your future use. Statement of loyalty: I defer, as always however, to your better judgement Mistress."</em></span>[sblock]<span style="color: gray">Please Mistress, don't make me bitch slap you! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite4" alt=":mad:" title="Mad :mad:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":mad:" /> </span></p><p><span style="color: gray"></span></p><p><span style="color: gray">You know, I'm fighting the nearly overwhelming urge to drop this broad on Endor where she can safely cuddle up with a bunch of teddy bears for the next two decades without much risk. <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" /> </span>[/sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ambrus, post: 3174648, member: 17691"] The diminutive probe droid continues to float unmoving at arms length from its seated Mistress. It watches the nemoidian woman without a hint of emotion in its three unblinking optic sensors or cheap, genderless vocabulator unit.[color=silver][I]"Report: I only began my search of the facility nearly twenty hours after your abduction due to some critical self-repairs that I was forced to undertake. Conjecture: It is possible that someone entered the facility during the interim and removed both the creature and device and then erased all pertinent research data from facility's mainframe. Report: If that is the case then they would also have had to modify the facility's security logs to hide their activities, as I did not find any data to support such an intrusion. I did find it odd that the imperial forces did not seem interested in exploring the facility following your abduction though."[/I][/color][color=silver][I]"Report: Of course. Most droids are programmed with ethical protocols to help guide their conduct; especially in regards to preventing harm to sentient organics. Class 3 droids naturally have the most sophisticated ethical programming, except perhaps for class 1 medical droids. Even we class 4 droids, who often lack life preservation protocols, have ethical programming that help guide us in matters of loyalty to our masters and personal honor in regards to fulfilling our duties. We also do not usually inflict harm upon anyone unless it is unavoidable or we are instructed to do so explicitly or by implication. An artificial intelligence without any ethical programming is, some argue, not truly sentient. The primary difference between the conscientious droids and organics is that droids cannot violate their personal ethics."[/I][/color][color=silver][I]"Report: I reversed the facility's ventilation system to suffocate the three surviving rancors that were loose. I then powered down the facility's environmental systems before my departure. I also had the medical droids dispose of all organic matter in the facility. Inquiry: Would the lack of air and sustenance over the past several weeks have killed the creature? Conjecture: This may be of some relevance Mistress. Report: During my preliminary search of Dantooine for a suitable place to hide the Ari's Sorrow I discovered an abandoned research complex nine and a half kilometers north by northwest of your drop-point. In it I discovered evidence of violence as well as a recording by one Deren Hulat, a Chandrillan scientist. He said that three individuals; Phy'ryx, Goldus and his assistant Darla were dead. He went on to describe that during their research they'd discovered some creatures that they'd believed to have left the galaxy long ago but had now returned and that had to be kept below the surface if at all possible. His previous log entries reported odd occurrence around the facility which he described as a 'haunting'. The most recent log entry dated to three months before our arrival. Inquiry: Does this have something to do with the development of the creatures in the second research facility?"[/I][/color][color=silver][I]"Report: During my interrogation of your daughter Four said that she had sent Torrba to Tatooine to be with his cousin following the seizure of his residence on Nar Shaada. She then intentionally did not follow up on his progress to avoid inadvertently revealing his location to Kellon for fear that he'd sent his people after the hutt. As to whether you can trust him, while you were drugged in his audience chamber he spoke at length with Ventress during which he addressed her fondly as his 'apprentice'. Conjecture: Since you and Ventress were mortal enemies I'd imagine that might cast a critical light on your future relationship with the hutt."[/I][/color] DRK-1X pauses momentarily to converse briefly with its HRD counterpart via their comlinks. Together they discuss how to proceed tactfully with a subject that both droids find troubling. Derek finally convinces the probot to proceed by reminding the droid that if it had the courage necessary to overcome all the obstacles to rescue Dofina, that it certainly had the courage to breech this very important topic with their Mistress. What the human replica droid doesn't mention to the probot is the relief it feels in not having to do so itself. [color=silver][I]"Statement of opinion: Mistress, it occurs to me that attempting to re-establish your holdings may not be the best course of action to pursue at this time. Statement of fact: The Separatists have lost the Clone Wars. Your holdings on Taris and Cato Neimoidia and those of your former ally Torrba on Nar Shaada have been forcibly seized by the new empire regime. Each time we've attempted to return to one of your former holdings we've found the empire's forces there waiting for us. The empire has also displayed a willingness to expend extensive resources in their attempts to capture you. Conjecture: I believe it worth mentioning that it was Four's opinion that it was most likely one of only three people who she entrusted with the knowledge that you were heading to Dantooine that in turn betrayed your destination to the empire. It remains quite possible that Torrba's location on Dantooine has similarly been communicated to the empire and that, if they haven't confronted him already, that they remain poised to capture you should head there in search of the hutt. Statement of intent: The extreme measures I took to enable our escape from the cluster were enacted in the hopes that the empire would have no reason to believe you hadn't died in the construction facility's destruction. Statement of opinion: It would be a shame to relieve them of that belief at this time. Suggestion: It is my belief Mistress, that it may be in your best interest to focus on acquiring altogether new holdings while continuing to obfuscate your continued existence from the empire by avoiding your old contacts. To that end I have secured some of the resources of the Dantooine research facility, which I can conservatively estimate to be worth over two million credits, for your future use. Statement of loyalty: I defer, as always however, to your better judgement Mistress."[/I][/color][sblock][color=gray]Please Mistress, don't make me bitch slap you! :mad: You know, I'm fighting the nearly overwhelming urge to drop this broad on Endor where she can safely cuddle up with a bunch of teddy bears for the next two decades without much risk. :p [/color][/sblock] [/QUOTE]
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