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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ambrus" data-source="post: 3088635" data-attributes="member: 17691">OOC: Clever little things, though a little lacking in personality perhaps. <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=";)" />  So was Four's shape-changing ability the result of the foreign genes or the nanobots or were the nanobots part of the cure?Pleased to have made contact with the micro-droid collective, DRK-1X sends them two follow-up binary commands:Command: List operational requirements.Command: List program code.******Having finally reached a safe point within the central command facility, the diminutive probot spins slowly in a 360º arc to scan the uncompleted office space (Search +10, taking 10). DRK-1X then approaches the computer access port as it flips open its probe compartment cover. With a soft whirring sound 1X raises and extends its scomplink probe, marrying it to the port in the wall. As the probe begins to slowly spin clockwise, the black spherical droid tentatively extends its Code into this new network, studying its virtual architecture as it begins its cautious explorations (Computer use +20, taking 10 if sufficient).OOC: 1X is certainly a little nervous about pitting itself against the virtual defenses of the hub's nestled computer network but there's little else it can do. To that end, 1X will cautiously slice the network, doing its best to avoid drawing attention to its ingress by trying to remain out of primary systems as much as possible; instead trying to extrapolate the kind of information it wants from secondary and tertiary systems is possible. For instance, instead of attempting to download floor plans, 1X might try accessing ventilation, sewage and utility systems to try and extrapolate (based on what it's learned of the outer station's design) where corridors, hangars, labs, work areas and living quarters are likely to be located in relation to such sub-systems. Throughout its slicing attempt, 1X will continue to monitor its own activity while doing its best to cover its virtual tracks and obfuscating its computer access port's location by weaving a circuitous route through the network as it searches.DRK-1X's primary objective is, of course, to locate Dofina and determine her current status. The probot's secondary goal will be to determine the multiple safe routes to reach her while identifying any obstacles along the way. Following that, 1X has a series of secondary objectives which, although not as pressing, it does hope to achieve during this and subsequent slicing attempts and throughout its physical explorations of the central hub. The probot is interested in identifying power conduits or generators which, if blown up with a permacrete detonator, would amplify their destructive power and possibly begin a chain reaction. Another possible target for 1X's destructive power might be the station's flight control facility; crippling the imperial's ability to track vessels in their flight space might aid 1X and Derek to escape the cluster safely. Identifying its location would be handy in such a case. 1X will also eventually need to access a small communication array; nothing big, just powerful enough to send an encrypted signal to the Ari's Sorrow inside the cluster. 1X's tertiary objectives are to locate such things as hangar bays, airlocks, medical bays, droid recharging facilities, extra-vehicular suit storage compartments and computer access ports.</blockquote>

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