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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ambrus" data-source="post: 3138925" data-attributes="member: 17691">DRK-1X pauses in describing its plans to listen to its Mistress. Never having experienced pain or suffered such deliberate cruelty itself, the droid doesn't know what to say or do to comfort the nemoidian woman. An awkward silence ensues as the black spherical probot stares at its Mistress with its impassive three eyed gaze, suffering poignant feelings of inadequacy. Eventually, feeling the press of time, DRK-1X hesitantly offers its opinion. "Suggestion: Perhaps we should focus presently on your escaping him." DRK-1X, in turn, watches Dofina's as she rises and moves over to the drawer to retrieve the blaster and comlink the droid had given her. Her next words, unexpected as they are, refocuses 1X's code.Suddenly the turmoil which had beset the probot's heuristic processor virtually ceased. With those simple words from its Mistress, what had been but a possibility expressed in 1s and 0s within DRK-1X's neural network became a very dangerous and real option. Up until this moment, many of the probot's plans and preparations were simply theoretical exercises awaiting its Mistress' authorization to implement them. Having now received a clear and unambiguous order to that effect, DRK-1X's code was modified in such a way as to make mass-destruction and wholesale killing of countless thousands a viable option in this circumstance. The probot's own emotive node registered a fleeting sense of fear and uncertainty at the realization of what lay before it. Thankfully DRK-1X's algorithmic node uploads a simple pre-programmed response to its vocabulator buffer. "Order acknowledged."OOC: I'm just going to retcon a bit here if you don't mind. 1X intended to take advantage of the long lift ride to communicate with its allies since, I figure, being on the move would make its signal more difficult to track in the event that someone might try.DRK-1X moves past the clone troopers as it follow Dofina onto the lift, turning to watch as the pair disembarks. Once the lift doors close the black spherical probe droid extends its telescoping comlink antenna to its full height. 1X adjusts its encrypted comlink to the channel it had preset in the derelict shuttle's communications array; using that unit in the shuttle-bay to boost and retransmit an encrypted signal to the far distant Ari's Sorrow. To its Mistress the droid offers only a brief explanation. "Report: I am now transmitting a report, an inquiry and instructions to our ally waiting in the distant Ari's Sorrow."Not waiting for her response, DRK-1X uploads the the incoming and outgoing transmission data to its vocabulator module so that Dofina can listen in on its cryptic conversation with Derek. "Blue eyes. Infrared Face. Green Body. Enacting 2-besh-advise, 4-besh-14, 5-aurek, 5-besh, 5-cresh-4, 5-thesh, 5-shen, 5-Dorn, 6-Dorn-variable-advise-assume 876825a, 356795b, 672895e, 973825d, 986123b, 623578b, 935813i, 735962f."******Out in the deep reaches of the cluster, sitting in the pilot's chair within the Ari's Sorrow's chill cabin, with a data cable linking the back of his head with the ship's computer core, the human-replica-droid's eyes flicker open in response to the long awaited transmission. It's counterpart was still processing and, according to its report, had succeeded in reaching their Mistress. Dofina was alive! Somehow Four was dead, but DRK-1X was nonetheless ready to attempt escape.Furthermore the probot had succeeded in reprogramming some of the station's native droid population and had secured multiple vessels for escape, though the exact number was curiously unknown. In addition, its counterpart had succeeded in planting its permacrete detonators in several key locations, including the cluster's flight control center and the station's main reactor. Finally, 1X had requested coordinates for a rendez-vous location from Derek and had offered the HRD remote control of the decoy vessels. With but a thought, Derek activates the cabin's interior lights, re-initialises the vessel's life-support system and fires up the Sorrow's sub-light engines. The droid hadn't had reason to move in several days, spending all of his active time directly connected to the Sorrow's computer core. During that time he had been monitoring local comlink channels, tracking the movement of the imperial vessels within the cluster and carefully programming a multi-stage hyperspace jump out of the cluster. Suddenly though, it was time for Derek to act. Retransmitting along the same encrypted channel, the human-replica-droid sends DRK-1X a brief status report and the requested coordinate information.******Back in the quickly moving lift, DRK-1X echoes out loud Derek's message. "Violet Ears. 2-besh 862.214 – 438.151 – 987.265. 6-Dorn-assume-awaiting. MTCBWY." Without responding to Derek, the probot switches comlink channels to send a message to the astromech down in the hangar-bay; a simple signal indicating that it should prepare all flight-ready vessels for departure, respond affirmatively when ready and then await further instructions. Once it receives the astromech's affirmative response DRK-1X retracts its antenna back into its chassis while waiting for the lift to come to a stop. "Report: Our allies are ready to proceed."OOC: Back to the present...Alerted to the possibility of danger, the diminutive probe droid deploys its enhanced blaster cannon from within its chassis with a soft whir and click. "Suggestion: Mistress, please take one of the trooper's blaster rifles for your own protection." Assuming she pauses for the few seconds necessary to retrieve one of the weapons, DRK-1X traces a swift arc overtop of the security console and turns to quickly scan the readouts and screens there for any clue of what had slain the troopers. "Inquiry: What do you suspect happened here Mistress? Statement of fact: I need to know what to anticipate to succeed with our current plan." Already the probot's sensor pods are turning to scan all directions simultaneously as it moves to lead Dofina towards the nearby conference room.OOC: Assuming the guards hadn't had time to log-out or deactivate the console before being violently eviscerated, I figure that it might still be displaying the current security information for this section; showing any activated alarms for the area. If it's not too time consuming or tricky, DRK-1X might pause a few seconds longer to access a playback of this security station's video scanner. (Computer Use +20, taking 10)</blockquote>

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