A New Power - Rebel Group OOC

[Kemrain]

Well there must be something we could do to sate our role-playing bug. Perhaps we could each describe how we've been busying ourselves since having joined with the rebels before we're assigned on new mission; how we've been spending our time. Now that we've each joined the band of misfits that are the rebels we may also simply cross paths and observe each other even if we don't actually interact. Surely Angcuru wouldn't mind if we made up a few insignificant NPCs and routine events to flesh out our backgrounds a wee bit. At worst, he just says it never happened.

Well, I see Jaess asking for assignments the moment she's finished with her last job. Very military, very task oriented. I suspect that she would be put wth small teams for recon or surveilance, or more rarely for covert demolitions work. I suspect she's been reassigned multiple times, put with different teams as her expertise was in demand. I don't see her having forming many friendships, a byproduct of her quiet personality and singleminded approach to her work. I'm not saying that she's anti-social, merely that strictly enforced comm silence doesn't win you many buddies.

I'm very interested in seeing how our characters are introduced. If Arley isn't specifically mentioned as part of the team, she's going to assume he's merely 'used equipment' until he shows otherwise. ..Then again, he could be an espionage droid, sent to spy on us. Oooh, paranoia.

- Kemrain the.. Realising there are No Sigs in PbP Posts.

 

[Ambrus]

The existence of incognito espionage droids in hardly common knowledge, even amongst imperials. They'd hardly be effective if they were.

Arley, at first glance, doesn't usually stand out in a bustling rebel hangar bay. It looks like it's been there forever with its scratched and dented chassis and patina stained body panels. When counted amongst the various protocol, repair and astromech droids in use in most rebel outposts and ships it's just one more expressionless faceplate amongst many. Most of the time it can be observed going about routine repair work, plugged into a computer port or consulting with another droid in binary. It certainly wouldn't have caught Jaess' eye.

The only organics who would take note of it would be those who work alongside it; hangar bay administrators, flight crews and maintenance personnel. Most likely, only those higher up individuals who dealt with Arley during the time it smuggled materials for the rebels would be aware of its more colourful background. Some of the shift bosses may have taken a particular liking or distaste for Arley depending how they feel about its tendency to organise, supervise and direct a hangar bay's droid work-force without being authorized to do so. Arley may also have stepped on some toes with its proclivity to plug into every available computer network and access what some believe to have been secured files without permission, merely out of curiosity. It's also been known to encourage some droids to tie up some comlink channels to hold long and seemingly useless conversations with each other.

It's quirky behaviour would probably have brought up the idea of having the odd droid memory wiped on at least a few occasions; and it probably would have been if it didn't prove so efficient at its job. As it is, the unit continues to avoid being memory wiped by simply doing its assigned duties well and not drawing enough attention to itself to warrant being put onto the repair schedule itself. And now, some high-up somewhere has recalled the droid's covert background and has found a mission it would be ideally suited for.

 

[Kemrain]

Ambrus, what, exactly, is Nergon 14?

Arley sounds very interesting, but he isn't the sort that would catch Jaess's attention. Well, except for him accessing perviously secured files. That would get her eye like little else, given her paranoia caused by being a(n especially) wanted criminal. Security is important. We need to have it, and crack theirs, and people (or droids) that crack ours need to be watched.

Then again, having Arley work on improving our encryption would be useful.

- Kemrain the Pleased.

 

[Ambrus]

Nergon 14 is a highly volatile material that is used in the fabrication of proton torpedo detonators. Think of it as weapons-grade plutonium. The empire closely monitors its production and is its primary consumer. The rebels likewise need it to fight the empire so they have to acquire some covertly; which I imagine is done via smugglers.

Arley's accessing of secured files is usually only the result of a misunderstanding. The droid's ability to cirumvent security measures is akin to someone mistaking a door bared with a poor quality lock for a merely stuck door. Its computer skill is such that Arley probably doesn't often recognize low-level computer security measures for what they are, instead mistaking them for an inefficient computer interface design: something that can and should be fixed if possible. Arley surely hasn't breached any of the really high security rebel systems, yet.

 

[Kemrain]

Very cool. Arley sounds very valuable, and once we get to know it better, coming up with ways to get it to want to do what we need done will be fun.

While I doubt we'd need to go the plausable denyability route, I imagine that convincing Arley to hack into an imperial system to 'help us better secure our files since we lost our passwords' would be terribly amusing. I'm assuming that he (and I use the term loosely) is brighter than that, though.

I hope he has a user friendly interface. He has a vocabulizer and is programed for basic, so, that's one hurdle crossed. His storage space could prove very useful, as I think I saw some extra room in his chest cavity. Useful for smuggling weapons, especially given that he could walk around most hangars without drawing any atention. This will be very cool. How deliciously covert.

- Metal Gear Kemrain.

 

[Ambrus]

While I doubt we'd need to go the plausable denyability route, I imagine that convincing Arley to hack into an imperial system to 'help us better secure our files since we lost our passwords' would be terribly amusing. I'm assuming that he (and I use the term loosely) is brighter than that, though.

Check out "his" intelligence score. Arley is a genius. Essentially he's too smart for his own good. Like I said, Arley was probably surprised when he was confronted by security personnel with having hacked into a "secured" computer network. I imagine he thought the organics were a bit silly when they told him, figuratively, that that velvet rope he'd stepped over was seriously meant to keep unauthorized people out of a sensitive area. "Those were... security measures? I thought they were, uhm... decorative."

As for being user friendly, he is designed to interact and facilitate communication with organic spaceport personnel. He's not as chatty or personable as a 3P0 protocol droid, but he's not a beeping astromech either.

You're also correct, he does have some free space in his storage compartment.

 

[Kemrain]

"Decorative.. Right..." I'm sure that won Arley friends! Haha! I remembered the 19 Intelligence, I was wondering more about his Wisdom. 13 isn't bad. Hell, it's better than Jaess. (Always funny when the Droid has the highest Will save.) So, he's pretty damn sharp. Good to know.

Hmm, he has IR vision, doesn't he? That's gonna make him extra special useful. I need to get me some of that goodness. Pity I'm nearly broke. Wonder if I can find a way to see through his sensors. That'd be a terribly useful recon feature.

- Kemrain the Dark Project.

 

[Angcuru]

Somehow, I see Arlee acting a lot like a less homicidal HK-47.

I'll have the game up in a little while.

 

[Ambrus]

I keep hearing people's fond recollections of HK-47 but am unfamiliar with him beyond the fact that he is a video game character. What's his schtick?

 

[Kemrain]

I keep hearing people's fond recollections of HK-47 but am unfamiliar with him beyond the fact that he is a video game character. What's his schtick?

Apparently, he was homicidal.

- Kemrain the Ignorant As Well.