Shadow:[sblock]After scanning the shaft DRK-1X reaches down and presses the button to close the hatch again. The diminutive probe droid then silently drifts back to its unconscious mistress. As it moves it folds its tiny arms and retracts them within its matte black housing, closing the two panels on either side of its body and resuming its spherical profile. Coming to a stop a meter above Dofina, DRK-1X pitches forward to focus its large primary photoreceptor on the prone woman. The droid then rotates its two external sensor pods so that one is focused on the hatch and the other on the door behind it. It then grows still and silent as it patiently waits.
Cognitive Processing
Datum: Mistress Dofina's body temperature is 37.1º c.
Com-channel #975215A: Voice ID Kellon: "Drop your weapons."
Com-channel #975215A: Voice ID Felia Sardo: "Wait, don't shoot!"
Datum: Refuges have successfully located Kellon.
Proposition: Violent altercation between Kellon and the refugees is imminent.
Transfer com-channel #975215A audio transmission to holorecorder data-buffer 17.4B.
Recording.
Datum: Mistress Dofina's pulse is 42 beats per minute.
Com-channel #975215A: "We're here to see Kellon, on command of Torrba the Serene.
We were told to meet him to discuss a job, though with the soldiers out front the point
might be moot. But don't shoot us; they'll hear it and come running. We all need to get
out of here, or we'll probably be arrested or worse."
Com-channel #975215A: Voice ID Ka-Femi-Odo: "Yes, there is no need for violence,
friends. As I'm sure they say around here, violence and death is bad for business.
Let's be reasonable and talk about this, although as my friend says, we'd best get out
of here before we commence discussions."
Datum: Mistress Dofina's respiration is 36 breaths per minute.
Com-channel #975215A: Voice ID Kellon: "Listen friends.Torrba is old news. I am the
new thing in this city. Play your cards right and you can be a part of it too. I brought
those troops here. I was going to sell that Jedi to them. Matter of fact they should have
him now. Unless you're wanted by this Emperor Palpatine for any reason I see no
reason for you to run. I also don't see why you had go through my window but who am
I to question? I suppose I should let you talk now."
At the sound of Kellon's voice DRK-1X begins recording the audio transmission for future reference.
While it waits, DRK-1X continues to listen to the local com-channel chatter for any new information while it visually monitors its mistress' breathing, pulse and body temperature. The diminutive probe droid also listens carefully for the sound of anyone approaching the door or the hatch. Hanging motionless in the air, doing nothing more than watching, listening and waiting, DRK-1X begins to meditate. It systematically analyzes the events that have occurred since the group's arrival on the moon and the appropriateness and efficiency of its own responses. The heuristic processor contained within the droid's chassis works through millions upon millions of lines of its own code. It builds virtual constructs within its mind, runs simulations exploring alternate actions it itself could have taken and analyzes the possible results. As it meditates it consciously adapts or changes some of its response algorithms, improving the efficiency of its Code, and growing in sentience.
OOC: FYI, since DRK-1X can't justify leaving Dofina in her delicate and vulnerable condition with dozens of enemy troops nearby, it is essentially limited to sitting and waiting for something to change. Until either Dofina wakes, it hears someone approaching, someone busts into the room or it gets crucial new information from a comlink transmission, DRK-1X is going to keep waiting and meditating with the patience only an inorganic being can possess.
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