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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ambrus" data-source="post: 3014921" data-attributes="member: 17691">[sblock=OOC]I'm so happy 1X is finally here; I've been anticipating being inside the cluster for months now. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> The enemies of my enemies planted explosives on my ship... If it's all the same to you, for the moment at least, DRK-1X is going to stick with those people it knows it can trust; itself and its other self. <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" />  Speaking of the explosives aboard the freighter; did 1X ever intercept the signal which would have remotely detonated the planted explosives, perhaps during the fight?Don't worry, I'm getting an adequate mental image of the sheer immensity of the complex let alone this room. I'm used to the Star Wars universe in which everything is built on a titanic scale. I feel sort of like R2-D2 heading off by itself into the planet spanning desert of Tatooine in search a single old man. I'm not sure which is worse though; a planet sized desert with jawas or a giant three dimensional maze the size of Great Britain swarming with stormtroopers. You've got to hand it to us small droids with heuristic processors though; we never despair or give up no matter how seemingly impossible the task may be! <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:" />  I am a little unclear however on the general shape of the facility though. Are the three spheres arranged in a straight line with two connecting stations or clustered in a triangle with a massive central hub?BTW, my intention for Derek is to have him monitor the comings and goings of the various ships moving throughout the cluster. He'll be trying to record and analyze the various imperial identification transponder signals each ship is transmitting. I assume the facility incorporates some form of space traffic control to direct all the ships moving around it. My idea was that Derek could reprogram the Ari's Sorrow's transponder to transmit various copied signals when it eventually powers up and starts fliying around the place. By picking appropriate ships, say a handful of small personnel transport shuttles, and tracking their movements he'd know which were currently flying about and which were off the grid because they were currently docked inside a larger ship or landing bay. He'd particularly take note of any small ships he detects that are similar in configuration to a Kimogila Hutt heavy fighter, if there happen to be any in the cluster. He could then fake an absent ship's transponder signal to appear as that ship in case the Sorrow were picked up on flight controls' sensors. Sound feasible?Similarly Derek also intends to monitor and learn some of the various protocols and codes that pilots and flight control officers use with each other in case someone tries to contact him. He's got little else to do for awhile.  Hell, if he has enough time to analyze and learn all this stuff he might even get confidant enough to try and file an official flight plan before heading off to rendez-vous with 1X and Dofina. That'd be sweet! <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" /> [/sblock]Crawling hand-span by hand-span along the exterior of the freighter, transfer tube and then docking facility hull all in the cold vacuum of space had been a slow time-consuming endeavour. DRK-1X wasn't built for zero-g environments; its repulsorlift engine needed a gravity field against which to repulse. No, this trip was accomplished with far simpler technology; a pair of small hand held magnets used to cling precariously to the metallic hulls of the freighter and docking station. Mindful of the amount of extra mass it was hauling and have to support once it was safely back inside a gravity field, the diminutive probe droid had jettisoned the saboteurs' various troublesome data slicing modules into open space after shutting them off. The magnets, hydrospanner and bombs it kept in its pack, ready for later. DRK-1X's goal was to avoid leaving a trail behind it that imperial investigators could follow. Hopefully its stay inside the freighter had been sufficiently obfuscated before it had left.Having made its way through the air purification machinery from the inside DRK-1X's emotive node was now registering both pleasure and relief but also trepidation at the sight of armed stormtroopers. The probot knew first hand that their helmets contained sensor systems which made each of them more difficult to sneak past. Still, its chassis plating had been designed to absorb the sensor signals emitted by such sensors. Its Code is what would make the difference and keep it safe from detection while it searched for Dofina. Luckily the technicians seemed rather oblivious as they were all focused on their work. Trusting in its abilities, DRK-1X sets out across the walkway, moving cautiously through the shadows of whatever consoles and jutting machinery or conduits available (Hide +24, Move Silently +18, taking 10).[sblock=OOC]I assume the other end of the walkway leads to a doorway of some sort? Depending on available cover, DRK-1X will either hide and wait for someone else to open the door and then slip through behind them, or try opening it itself if it is in an exposed position. 1X doesn't have much of a clue where it is going, except in the general sense of 'away' from any large rooms full of personnel. In general it wants to try and find a relatively isolated computer access port in a low traffic area. If it finds any it might move out of the main corridors and enter a maintenance crawlspace or ventilation shaft to avoid the station's personnel altogether. It'd first scan it (Search +10, taking 20) to try and identify and circumvent any security measures in place though. If such a crawlspace led to a computer access port or data conduit which it could jury rig to its scomplink probe that'd be ideal.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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