Jaess Talori said:
"Thanks for the heads up," she says sarcastically. "Next time, how 'bout a little more warning, eh?"
The patina stained droid turns his head to regard Jaess with its one glowing photoreceptor.
"I'm sorry. Were you injured during the transition to hyperspace?" R-LE-1 tilts his head down and up to ascertain the woman's condition from head to toe.
"I'd been mentally calculating our hyperspace transit locus since we left the briefing room and have been anxious to get underway since our mission's success may very well depend on our timely arrival. Once our supplies were finally loaded I saw no reason to delay."
While speaking, the old droid continues exchanging code with the Deepscan's computer, double checking their trajectory, course and speed to minimize their travel time and to estimate their ETA to the new system
(Astrogate +11, Computer Use +16, Pilot +5).
Jaess Talori said:
"Could you get past the voice recognition block on that damn datapad for me?" she asks over her shoulder, "I don't have the tools I'd need to do it myself."
Continuing to watch the human as she turns to leave, R-LE-1 responds:
"Of course ma'am. I will be along shortly."
R-LE-1 turns its attention to using the ship's scanners once more upon the vessel itself and the space surrounding it; this time scanning for signs of a homing device transmission, transponder signal or any unusual or unidentified signals or particle trails emanating from the Deepscan
(Computer Use +16, Search +10, taking 20). Assuming he finds nothing out of the ordinary, R-LE-1 will then set the vessel on automatic, physically disconnect himself from the console, get up and walk back into the cargo bay. Arriving a few moments later, the patina stained droid walks up to the crate upon which Jaess has deposited the T.R.A.P. unit and the datapad. Flipping open the datapad cover, Arley thumbs the ID recognition button, modulates its vocabulator to issue a voice the datapad's software will recognize as its owner's and says in a pleasant human woman's voice;
"Recognize, Triss Mason" (Computer Use +16, Disable Device +13). The pad now unlocked, the old droid will turn it so its screen faces Jaess.
Next R-LE-1 will turn its attention to the small T.R.A.P. unit resting on top of the crate. A soft whir and click can be heard in the cargo bay as the repair droid's right leg opens up to reveal a small compartment with a circular rack of tools inside. Within seconds, the rack spins, stops and extends a small tool which R-LE-1 picks up with its right hand. Carefully but deftly Arley begins dismantling the unit; analyzing its architecture as he goes. He determines what each component's purpose is and ensures that there is nothing else hidden inside its housing aside from its power cell, holoprojector, processor and data-storage components
(Disable Device +13, Knowledge (technology) +13). R-LE-1 then begins carefully crafting a secure virtual data-buffer within its own mind, a small fenced off piece of its mind separate from all of its other systems
(Computer Use +16, taking 20). This is where he will store any information he gleans from the T.R.A.P., a fail safe security measure to ensure that the obnoxious Artificial Intelligence cannot possibly reinfect him again. This virtual space now ready, R-LE-1 warily picks up the T.R.A.P.'s memory storage component and attaches it to the tip of his scomplink at his left hip. The patina stained droid then begins very carefully sifting through the binary data contained within it, taking great care to identify personality subroutines and problem solving algorithms from the T.R.A.P.'s raw memory files. He'll transfer one bit at a time if he needs to, moving the data into his secure data-buffer to be analyzed in full afterwards.
What R-LE-1 is looking for in the T.R.A.P.'s data files is the promised information pertaining to the unidentified ionized molecules that were used to disable his systems so effectively earlier. He wants to see for himself what the molecules are made of, how they were researched and developed, the delivery system used in the scanner room to actually deposit them on his components and finally the listed means for purging a contaminated component of the molecules. R-LE-1 will integrate this data into his own databanks for use in anticipating, preventing and repairing such a contamination in the future. Next he'll investigate the T.R.A.P.'s own program architecture. R-LE-1 wants to determine how the T.R.A.P. overcame his antiviral programs and infected all his systems so quickly and effortlessly. After being thoroughly analyzed, such information should serve R-LE-1 very well to improve its own slicing abilities as well as to improve his defenses against similar future slicing attempts by A.I. programs. R-LE-1 is also curious to review the R&D program design notes concerning the T.R.A.P. to determine who developed it and how for the T.R.A.P.'s design points to a designer or designers with a touch of genius.
Finally, the repair droid will turn his attention back to the matter at hand and begin reviewing all of the data that the T.R.A.P. contained concerning Bosch, the recent events concerning the Dawnspringer, the acquisition of the Deepscan and the defection of its crew and any information pertinent to the mission itself that wasn't revealed during the briefing. The T.R.A.P. itself also made mention of some recently procured schematics of Imperial supercomputers and some lists of the Empire's latest encryption codes that it knew. R-LE-1 will likewise incorporate such useful information into his systems once he locates it.
OOC: I figure all this data will help R-LE-1 increase his skill ranks if he ever goes up a level. So, in the meantime, is there any information in the Deepscan computer core, the datapad or in the T.R.A.P. unit that Kemrain and I should know about before exiting hyperspace?
