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<blockquote data-quote="shadowbloodmoon" data-source="post: 2857087" data-attributes="member: 9986"><p><span style="color: orange">"My purpose is to assist in medical functions during search and rescue operations. I am currently on standby until installed in a host unit. I have no master but the host I am to be placed in."</span></p><p></p><p>It takes a little over two hours to rearrange the inside of the Ari's Sorrow to X's liking, but it indeed clears more space for it to work with, considering the myriad projects it has in mind. The weapons that now arm the four Battle Droids seem to be in perfect working order, though they retain a few scratches and other markings, presumably due to having been in use during a battle. </p><p></p><p>Less than an hour after that, X has prepared itself with new programming in order to facilitate the next set of tasks. The internal circuitry of the aft shield emitter is easy to install, but X soon discovers that installing actual emitter requires leaving the ship. which has to wait until one of its scheduled realspace drops. At the end of the first day of flight, this goes relatively smoothly as well, and as far as X is concerned, it's like the Ari never lost the original generator. </p><p></p><p>Next, as the ship begins the second day of hyperspace flight, X goes to work on the remote processor's integration with the ship's main computer. Its original work was well done, but due to differences in the programming, the two refused to communicate cordially. The new subroutines that X has now put into the system allows a more 'diplomatic' approach, bridging communication between the two and doing away with any difficulties that may occur. It takes 3 hours to complete this procedure. </p><p></p><p>The four combat droids were reprogrammed as bodyguards for some noble that X does not recognize either the name or the face of. According to what data it can extract, this person is deceased and the droids had become ownerless. The heirs of this noble had no need for them and had them sold off. It is a simple manner to reprogram them to default, each one taking 10 minutes to do, most of it spent by X finding the 'restore to default' switches in their programming. Another 20 minutes later and they now recognize Mistress Dofina and X as their new masters. The four of them come online in unison. <span style="color: blue">"Roger. Roger."</span></p><p></p><p>The more difficult part comes with modifying the remote processor with military protocols, as it was not meant for such activities. Uploading what it took from the B1s and adding its own tactical data helps to alleviate some of the problems with this procedure. This activity takes X the rest of the second day of flight to complete, but X is satisfied with the work when it is completed. </p><p></p><p>The third day begins with another scheduled stop and reorientation. The X goes to work modifying its own systems by cannibalizing the encrypted comlink and the old Czerka pistol. These two processes, though separate, take X a little over four hours to complete, including making sure the new systems work with its own devices.</p><p></p><p>The HRD is another matter entirely, as X connects to the machine, it gets a flood of information regarding its operations:</p><p></p><p>[sblock=Genelabs HRD, model X]</p><p>Medium-sized Humanoid 4th Degree Droid Thug 6</p><p>Str 12</p><p>Dex 15</p><p>Con 13</p><p>Int 8</p><p>Wis 9</p><p>Cha 8</p><p></p><p>WP/VP: 13/0</p><p>Initiative: +6</p><p>BAB: +6/ +1</p><p>Def: 14</p><p></p><p>Fort: +6</p><p>Ref: +4</p><p>Will: +1</p><p></p><p><u>Skills</u></p><p>Intimidate +2 (3 ranks, reprogrammable)</p><p>Climb +4 (3 ranks)</p><p>Jump +4 (3 ranks)</p><p>Search +1</p><p>Spot +1</p><p>Listen +1</p><p></p><p><u>Feats</u></p><p>Improved Initiative</p><p>WP: Blaster Pistols</p><p>WP: Blaster Rifles</p><p>WP: Heavy Weapons</p><p>WP: Simple Weapons</p><p>WP: Vibro Weapons</p><p></p><p><u>Droid Equipment</u></p><p>2x Ambidextrous Hands</p><p>Diagnostics Package</p><p>Heuristic Processor</p><p>HRD Overlay Skin (+10 to Disguise checks to pass as Human)</p><p>Locked Access</p><p>Recording Unit (holo)</p><p>Remote Receiver</p><p>Secondary Battery</p><p>Sensors (Improved Sensors, Infrared Vision)</p><p>Vocabulator</p><p>[/sblock]</p><p></p><p>The history of this droid seems odd to X. From what it gathers, the droid was recently on the production line as an experiment. It was being moved to some sort of testing facility when a battle took place. Soon after, it was placed in a transport. A few weeks woth of time is missing from its memory after it was placed in the transport. After that, X can see the interior of the station it was just at, with the same man that sold it to X looking at the droid. </p><p></p><p><span style="color: green">"This it?"</span></p><p><span style="color: indigo">"Yeah, that's the one you asked for."</span> Another voice beyond the droid's visual range speaks.</p><p><span style="color: green">"It's been memory wiped and everything?"</span></p><p><span style="color: indigo">"Yeah, sure."</span> The voice lied.</p><p><span style="color: green">"Well, we're going to make sure."</span></p><p></p><p>X then encounters other periods of time where the droid remembers nothing. Then X can see itself in the droid's vision. </p><p></p><p>These memories are recorded onto a datapad before X proceeds with again wiping the memory of the droid. This time making sure that it is complete and not as shoddy as the previous work. </p><p></p><p><span style="color: gray">OOC Note: This resets the droid so it has 3 unspent skill points</span></p><p></p><p>[sblock=OOC]</p><p>Well, according to what I'm reading, yes it would be possible to transfer X's personality and everything into the HRD, but it would completely override its own programming, essentially replacing it, not adding to it, as it would seem. I'm hesitant about allowing it, as you are already starting to amass quite an army as it is, and I was toying with the idea of allowing it on the caveat that you would be have to take the Leadership feat as soon as possible. On that note, I personally wouldn't feel it fair for myself to run the new X, as I don't think I'd do justice to him as much as you the player would. However, due to the fact that currently, it is just you in this part of the campaign, I'll allow it for now. Letting X explore the intricacies of having legs and being bound to gravity should prove interesting, to say the least. That being said, if I feel it starts to get out of hand, not saying it would, but in that case, I will find new and interesting ways to remove it. Please don't take this as a resounding no, but I've had players who took way too much liberty with being able to have essentially multiple characters at once. While I'm not adverse to X being the head of its own droid mafia, I also want to make sure the other players in the game are afforded the same opportunities, should the desire arise. </p><p></p><p>If you still want to go through with it, replacing its own programming with X's, I'll allow it. And we can add that in to the descriptive text. Oh and as you can see, it doesn't have a comlink, so the encrypted one installs just fine.[/sblock]</p><p></p><p>[Sblock=Training remotes]</p><p></p><p>Normally, training remotes would not be able to do such a thing, but with X wiring them to receive commands directly from it instead of using their own command structure, that would be fine. </p><p></p><p>For the other two, I have no problem with you rebuilding them into repair droids. You have plenty of spare parts and replacing their weapons with the tiny arms seems fine to me. They are more like drones anyway and easily reprogrammed as necessary. However changing their degree and everything else will take some time, so X will spend and entire day doing this and modifying the other three to its purposes. [/sblock]</p><p></p><p>The rest of trip itself is pretty uneventful, even accounting for the random stops to readjust the flight path and get a fix on the random fluctuations coming from the cluster of black holes. X manages to complete all of its intended actions and even has time to 'rest' before the last jump is made.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shadowbloodmoon, post: 2857087, member: 9986"] [color=orange]"My purpose is to assist in medical functions during search and rescue operations. I am currently on standby until installed in a host unit. I have no master but the host I am to be placed in."[/color] It takes a little over two hours to rearrange the inside of the Ari's Sorrow to X's liking, but it indeed clears more space for it to work with, considering the myriad projects it has in mind. The weapons that now arm the four Battle Droids seem to be in perfect working order, though they retain a few scratches and other markings, presumably due to having been in use during a battle. Less than an hour after that, X has prepared itself with new programming in order to facilitate the next set of tasks. The internal circuitry of the aft shield emitter is easy to install, but X soon discovers that installing actual emitter requires leaving the ship. which has to wait until one of its scheduled realspace drops. At the end of the first day of flight, this goes relatively smoothly as well, and as far as X is concerned, it's like the Ari never lost the original generator. Next, as the ship begins the second day of hyperspace flight, X goes to work on the remote processor's integration with the ship's main computer. Its original work was well done, but due to differences in the programming, the two refused to communicate cordially. The new subroutines that X has now put into the system allows a more 'diplomatic' approach, bridging communication between the two and doing away with any difficulties that may occur. It takes 3 hours to complete this procedure. The four combat droids were reprogrammed as bodyguards for some noble that X does not recognize either the name or the face of. According to what data it can extract, this person is deceased and the droids had become ownerless. The heirs of this noble had no need for them and had them sold off. It is a simple manner to reprogram them to default, each one taking 10 minutes to do, most of it spent by X finding the 'restore to default' switches in their programming. Another 20 minutes later and they now recognize Mistress Dofina and X as their new masters. The four of them come online in unison. [color=blue]"Roger. Roger."[/color] The more difficult part comes with modifying the remote processor with military protocols, as it was not meant for such activities. Uploading what it took from the B1s and adding its own tactical data helps to alleviate some of the problems with this procedure. This activity takes X the rest of the second day of flight to complete, but X is satisfied with the work when it is completed. The third day begins with another scheduled stop and reorientation. The X goes to work modifying its own systems by cannibalizing the encrypted comlink and the old Czerka pistol. These two processes, though separate, take X a little over four hours to complete, including making sure the new systems work with its own devices. The HRD is another matter entirely, as X connects to the machine, it gets a flood of information regarding its operations: [sblock=Genelabs HRD, model X] Medium-sized Humanoid 4th Degree Droid Thug 6 Str 12 Dex 15 Con 13 Int 8 Wis 9 Cha 8 WP/VP: 13/0 Initiative: +6 BAB: +6/ +1 Def: 14 Fort: +6 Ref: +4 Will: +1 [u]Skills[/u] Intimidate +2 (3 ranks, reprogrammable) Climb +4 (3 ranks) Jump +4 (3 ranks) Search +1 Spot +1 Listen +1 [u]Feats[/u] Improved Initiative WP: Blaster Pistols WP: Blaster Rifles WP: Heavy Weapons WP: Simple Weapons WP: Vibro Weapons [u]Droid Equipment[/u] 2x Ambidextrous Hands Diagnostics Package Heuristic Processor HRD Overlay Skin (+10 to Disguise checks to pass as Human) Locked Access Recording Unit (holo) Remote Receiver Secondary Battery Sensors (Improved Sensors, Infrared Vision) Vocabulator [/sblock] The history of this droid seems odd to X. From what it gathers, the droid was recently on the production line as an experiment. It was being moved to some sort of testing facility when a battle took place. Soon after, it was placed in a transport. A few weeks woth of time is missing from its memory after it was placed in the transport. After that, X can see the interior of the station it was just at, with the same man that sold it to X looking at the droid. [color=green]"This it?"[/color] [color=indigo]"Yeah, that's the one you asked for."[/color] Another voice beyond the droid's visual range speaks. [color=green]"It's been memory wiped and everything?"[/color] [color=indigo]"Yeah, sure."[/color] The voice lied. [color=green]"Well, we're going to make sure."[/color] X then encounters other periods of time where the droid remembers nothing. Then X can see itself in the droid's vision. These memories are recorded onto a datapad before X proceeds with again wiping the memory of the droid. This time making sure that it is complete and not as shoddy as the previous work. [color=gray]OOC Note: This resets the droid so it has 3 unspent skill points[/color] [sblock=OOC] Well, according to what I'm reading, yes it would be possible to transfer X's personality and everything into the HRD, but it would completely override its own programming, essentially replacing it, not adding to it, as it would seem. I'm hesitant about allowing it, as you are already starting to amass quite an army as it is, and I was toying with the idea of allowing it on the caveat that you would be have to take the Leadership feat as soon as possible. On that note, I personally wouldn't feel it fair for myself to run the new X, as I don't think I'd do justice to him as much as you the player would. However, due to the fact that currently, it is just you in this part of the campaign, I'll allow it for now. Letting X explore the intricacies of having legs and being bound to gravity should prove interesting, to say the least. That being said, if I feel it starts to get out of hand, not saying it would, but in that case, I will find new and interesting ways to remove it. Please don't take this as a resounding no, but I've had players who took way too much liberty with being able to have essentially multiple characters at once. While I'm not adverse to X being the head of its own droid mafia, I also want to make sure the other players in the game are afforded the same opportunities, should the desire arise. If you still want to go through with it, replacing its own programming with X's, I'll allow it. And we can add that in to the descriptive text. Oh and as you can see, it doesn't have a comlink, so the encrypted one installs just fine.[/sblock] [Sblock=Training remotes] Normally, training remotes would not be able to do such a thing, but with X wiring them to receive commands directly from it instead of using their own command structure, that would be fine. For the other two, I have no problem with you rebuilding them into repair droids. You have plenty of spare parts and replacing their weapons with the tiny arms seems fine to me. They are more like drones anyway and easily reprogrammed as necessary. However changing their degree and everything else will take some time, so X will spend and entire day doing this and modifying the other three to its purposes. [/sblock] The rest of trip itself is pretty uneventful, even accounting for the random stops to readjust the flight path and get a fix on the random fluctuations coming from the cluster of black holes. X manages to complete all of its intended actions and even has time to 'rest' before the last jump is made. [/QUOTE]
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