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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ambrus" data-source="post: 2975553" data-attributes="member: 17691">DRK-1X records the unexpected betrayal and cold blooded murder from its concealed vantage point. As it turns to watch the disguised murderer make his escape the probot systematically purges all but a few seconds of key footage from its limited holo-buffer. For future reference it keeps an image of the two men installing the explosives, the pair changing into their disguises and the murder itself. When satisfied that the remaining saboteur has in fact left the hub 1X floats over to the body of his partner to conduct a quick scan to confirm that he is in fact dead. The probot remains mindful that although alone, it yet remains in a foreign and possibly dangerous environment and so continues to periodically scan the room and its access points in case the saboteur or some other imperial agent should approach (Listen +9, Spot +13, taking 10).The diminutive probot then deploys its twin arms from within its chassis and traces a quick arc through the compartment to the wall panels the two saboteurs had just finished replacing. DRK-1X pries the panels off one by one and gently deposits each onto the deck below. The probot then rises back up and slowly pans the assembly behind the panels, surveying the various components the saboteurs had just finished installing. Without hesitation, 1X then moves from one permacrete detonator to the next, manually disconnecting each one from the receivers which might deliver the trigger signal. The diminutive probot them carefully removes each of the six explosive charges and moves to set them down gently onto the deck below in a small pile.Thinking itself safe from explosive destruction for the moment, 1X examines the various data recorders and receiver/transmitter components as well as the systems they've been connected to in an attempt to determine what the saboteurs might have been attempting to accomplish with the devices' installation (Search +10, Knowledge (technology) +6, taking 20). Since the saboteur or his cohorts would be expecting to receive data transmission from the hub DRK-1X judges it wise to leave the components in place for the time being, less the saboteur become aware that his handywork had been sabotaged in turn. The probot does however note the frequencies that the receivers and transmitters are set to and begins monitoring those frequencies with its comlink so as to directly monitor the data exchange.DRK-1X pauses in its work to respond once it receives Four's transmission. "Eyes blue. Ears yellow. The small man killed the large man. Remains in aft hub. Eyes proceeding as planned."Assuming all has gone as planned until this point, DRK-1X will proceed to jack itself into an available computer port to cautiously begin slicing into the freighter's computer. The probot's first goal is to attempt and determine the vessel's operational status, the status of the ore loading procedure and the estimated time to departure. It'll then attempt to tap into the freighter's communications system to try and determine the result of the slave revolt as well as the purpose of the two star destroyers in orbit (Computer Use +14).[sblock=OOC]Glad to hear you had a good time on your vacation, and even more glad to see that you're back! Is a trip to China actually in your near future? I'd love to visit the orient.I'd say Four's plan to try cutting into the superstructure of a moving freighter undetected would count as 'thinking outside the box'. It does make me question her supposed intelligence though. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh    :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" />Great, now 1X has got to deal with a dead body. If it'd wanted to leave dead bodies piling up in here it would just have shot the two saboteurs in the first place. Damn saboteurs, so messy. No consideration for others. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" /> I'm not clear on where the saboteur went; did he squeeze out through one of the vent ducts to the outside or simply walk along the ship's spine along the interior companionway?I'm curious to know if 1X could somehow make use of the explosives itself. Could 1X simply reprogram the various receivers to operate with a different frequency and then reconnect them to the charges to make its own set of remotely activated explosive charges? If so, what might be the range and damage of one of the charges, or all of them put together? BTW, isn't permacrete a construction material in the SW universe? Shouldn't the explosive be made of detonite or something else? <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=";)" /> [/sblock]</blockquote>

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