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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ambrus" data-source="post: 3012222" data-attributes="member: 17691">[sblock=OOC]I started PBP games right here on ENworld shortly before this campaign began, say about April of last year (this campaign started in May IRC). Since then I've joined, created characters for and played in 3 Star Wars campaigns, 3 D&D campaigns and an Iron Heroes game. Of those, yours is the only one still running; three fizzled out after less than a few dozen posts while the other two managed a few hundred before collapsing. Most ended because the GMs quit, for whatever reasons. Not only is your campaign the only one I've leveled in, but it also has the distinction of being the only PBP RPG in which combat has occurred and in which I've received experience points; any experience points. Why do you think I'm so appreciative of your effort and game mastering skill? Not only is your game challenging, true to the genre and action packed; best of all it's fun, rewarding and it keeps happening! Kudos to you! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Wow. Five feats really helps to round out a character. Stacking bonuses is fun. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" />DRK-1X will try to convey to Four that it is willing to help her to fullfil her goals, whatever they may be, as long as they don't interfere with rescuing Dofina. It'll most likely be able to go places and slice networks that she won't; it would seem to be her advantage to increase her chances of success by allowing 1X to help her if possible. Out of curiosity, did Four's personal journals contain any hint of what she might be planning? Recognisance? Sabotage? Terrorism? Assassination?[/sblock]DRK-1X witnesses the convoy's arrival at the detection-net through the freighter's long-range sensors. As expected, an timely influx of navigational directives makes its way through the telemetry link shared by the arriving vessels to the ore freighter's computer core. In response the massive vessel's breaking thrusters fire, causing the equipment and the bulkheads in DRK-1X's storage compartment to shake and creak loudly before settling.The hovering probe droid, with its scomplink probe quietly spinning in the computer access port before it, pays the disturbance no mind. DRK-1X is busily projecting its consciousness across open space along the three arriving vessel's shared telemetry-link. It is frantically searching for a new avenue to appear along which it could travel to the distant control ship's computer core. Knowing that that vessel, along with the network of sensor satellites spanning the region, remain capable of detecting the Ari's Sorrow DRK-1X waits for it to contact the three arriving vessels and so join their telemetry link.[sblock=OOC]If a telemetry link is established to the control-ship, DRK-1X will use the slicing techniques it's developed over the last few days of the trip to quickly try and give the control-ship a similar blind spot (Computer Use +20, taking 10). If possible it'll also attempt to gain some measure of control over the sensor-net satellites and either modify them as well or, at worst, identify their scanning procedures and communicate that information to Derek over its own short-range encrypted comlink to help him in his attempt to breach the network undetected.[/sblock]******Derek, sits unmoving at the helm of the modified heavy hutt fighter, his dark brown human-like hands folded simply in his lap. His brown photoreceptors stare unblinking at the distant wedge-shaped control-ship and the many pinpoints of light of the network of detection satellites. A small panel at the back of his head stands ajar with a cable dangling from it, joining the droid directly to the fighter's computer core. Having executed hundreds of thousands of virtual simulations of his attempted penetration of the sensor net over the past few days, the human replica droid turns its full attention to its one and only real attempt. His Code is strong, and failure is unacceptable; Derek's mistress' fate lay in his success.The human replica droid's heuristic processor teems with electrons as he studies the satellites' configuration through the vessel's sensors. Derek continues to wait patiently for his opportunity to occur; that moment when the freighter would enter the net and the distant satellites would focus their sensors on it (Pilot +15). Through its direct link, the HRD verifies one last time that the nav-computer is ready with a pre-programmed hyperspace trajectory out of the area should it fail in its attempt (Astrogation +16).</blockquote>

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