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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ambrus" data-source="post: 2316967" data-attributes="member: 17691">The existence of incognito espionage droids in hardly common knowledge, even amongst imperials. They'd hardly be effective if they were. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />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.</blockquote>

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