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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ambrus" data-source="post: 3140896" data-attributes="member: 17691">[sblock=OOC]The scene is set, the orchestra engaged... Heh. I feel like a conductor stepping up to the podium. I'm nervous to see if 1X's plan goes off as intended or if it'll all tragically fall apart at the last minute. I won't feel too bad if it does; 1X didn't cut any corners in its preparations or leave any loose ends as far as I can see. The droid has put as many factors in its favor as possible. I couldn't have done much more than I have to setup Dofina's rescue. Hopefully the element of surprise will help keep the imperial forces off balance long enough to ensure success... <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh    :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" />You mentioned that the lift ride took a few minutes. Add to that the time to investigate the  scene at the security desk and then reach the conference room; by my guess the droids in the shuttle bay should be just about ready to launch the shuttles following their five minute prep time. I figure that it'll take a few minutes to depressurize the room and finish cutting a big enough hole in the window. If my guesses are accurate then by 1X's timing the astromech's shuttle should arrive just in time for Dofina and 1X to board it. I don't know if or when anything will go wrong so I'll describe what 1X will do assuming there aren't any problems in the hangar-bay, with the Ari's Sorrow or any sudden invisible stalker attacks in the conference room... <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" />BTW, you mentioned that the footage on the security monitor seemed familiar to 1X. Could you tell me what in the droid's experience it compares to?[/sblock]As soon as they are both through the door DRK-1X quickly turns and deploys a manipulator to tap the door's control panel to close and lock it. The probot then spends a few seconds manually modifying the door's code-lock program (Computer Use +20 or Disable Device +10 as appropriate, taking 10) As it works, 1X once more extends its telescoping communications antenna while continuing to swivel its external sensor pods to scan the room with its sonic, infrared and low-light sensors (Listen +9, Search +10, Spot +12). "Inquiry: Did the bio-lab on Dantooine develop some type of sensor resistant creature? If so how would this creature have come to be here on this station?"While listening to Dofina's answer, and waiting for the astromech's ready signal, DRK-1X deploys and ignites its lightsaber's crimson blade. Floating up to the top of the door, the probot slowly descends towards the floor while sliding the tip of the light blade gently along the door's gap to weld its metal edge to the door's frame. As it works, DRK-1X receives the ready signal from its astromech ally down in the hangar bay. The probot responds by sending a simple single word command to the droids waiting in the shuttle-bay: "Execute." 1X then cycles through various predetermined comlink channels to relay the same command to Derek, "Execute", and on to the pre-programmed and flight-ready shuttles (however many there may be) "Execute". To Dofina, the diminutive probe droid offers a brief warning to alert her to what is about to happen; "Suggestion: Perhaps you should brace yourself against the table Mistress..." DRK-1X sends one final transmission keyed to the receiver that it had built into the permacrete detonator affixed to the station's flight control center's main power relay.KA-BOOM!******[sblock=FYI]As previously mentioned, DRK-1X pre-programmed the shuttles with relatively simple flight control instructions to power up and, in sequence, taxi out of the hangar bay in the wake of the astromech's shuttle. The shuttles are programmed to then spread out away from each other for a few hundred meters where they'll hold position until they receive their destination coordinates along a preset comlink channel. 1X sent those comlink channels to Derek. Each shuttle then sets off towards its destination at normal cruising speed with relatively simple programming to govern obstacle avoidance and evasive maneuvers if the ship is attacked. Speed, maneuvering and destination can also be controlled directly by comlink if desired.Since you mentioned that it'll take the astromech about five minutes to reach the conference room window I figure that each of the other shuttles will take roughly as long to reach their destinations. That way they'll only hit their targets at roughly the same time as 1X and Dofina are boarding their shuttle.[/sblock]Having received DRK-1X's relayed execute command Derek fires the Ari's Sorrow's maneuvering thrusters to bring the vessel out of its leisurely spin. The human replica droid then registers, through the vessel's sensors, the subsequent explosion near the station's main control center. In the chaos following the explosion, Derek fires the fighter's engines to send it drifting swiftly towards a pre-selected rendez-vous spot within the sensor-gap between the satellite perimeter net and the station's flight controlled area.The droid then cycles the fighter's comm-systems' channels through the preset ones needed to direct the decoy shuttles; channels transmitted to Derek earlier by its counterpart. In sequence Derek sends each such shuttle its own specific set of coordinates, in order of priority. Having closely monitored the space around the construction facility along with the myriad imperial ships flying around it over a period of several days, the HRD had long since chosen its targets.[sblock=OOC]The first shuttle is directed to head towards the satellite sensor net directly and then accelerate as it veers on a collision course towards the bridge of whichever control ship is stationed there. The second shuttle is directed to circle back towards the central hub and then accelerate to collide with the station's main command deck. The third shuttle is to head towards the Imperial Victory-class Star Destroyer Repulse (assuming its still in the cluster) and then accelerate as it veers on a collision course towards the ship's bridge. All remaining flight ready shuttles are to circle around the station's central hub before accelerating and crashing into each of the station's largest and busiest hangar bays, aiming for the munition or fuel depots in each if possible.Derek's selection of targets may vary depending what's available and what he thinks is attainable at the moment while taking into account the traffic. The goal of sending the shuttles all over is to help sow confusion and panic while simultaneously hindering the imperial forces' ability to coordinate their efforts and crippling their ability to effectively evacuate the station.[/sblock]******After the subsequent explosion the black spherical probe droid reorients itself and traces a quick arc through the room to the window along the far wall. Having already warned Dofina, DRK-1X wastes no time in plunging the burning crimson blade into the transparisteel window to begin venting the room's atmosphere out into space. With the station's security forces scrambling in the aftermath of the explosion it was the probot's hope that the sudden depressurization of a unused conference room would go unnoticed or be ignored. Using its telescopic sensors, DRK-1X quickly confirms its own location by comparing what it knows of the station's layout with the view outside the window. Once enough time has passed for the astromech droid to taxi its shuttle out of the hangar bay, DRK-1X transmits its coordinates to the R-unit. The probot also informs the droid pilot of the need to depressurize the shuttle's interior and prepare to manoeuvre it close enough to the window to allow passengers to drift safely through the shuttles' open hatchway.As the room's venting atmosphere begins jostling the floating probe droid, DRK-1X continues diligently cutting through the melting transparisteel as it chooses a new frequency on its encrypted comlink. With only a few dozen seconds or so since the last explosion, it was the probot's hope that the officers on Dofina's room's level were only now scrambling out of their quarters in a panic. Regardless of what was truly going on down there the black spherical droid sends the detonation signal to the second explosive device. Hopefully the second explosion would only increasing the panic that must be surely gripping the station's personnel.KA-BOOM!After another minute of careful cutting and venting of atmosphere, DRK-1X continues its terror attack by transmitting the detonation code for a third explosive; that of the device positioned along its hangar-bay's main power relay. It was the probot's hope that the facility's panic-stricken personnel had sought to find escape by flooding into the station's various hangar-bays in search of evacuating ships. If so, then hopefully this latest explosion would have destroyed more than just the reprogrammed droids left behind there.KA-BOOM!Once the atmosphere is fully vented DRK-1X finishes cutting a large opening in the window and deactivates its lightsaber. After retracting the device into its chassis, the probot nudges the center mass with a gentle tap of its manipulator, causing it to drift away from the station's hull slowly. 1X then turns back towards its Mistress and floats over to her to retrieve one of the magnetic clamps she was carrying in her suit's pocket. Taking it in hand, the probot waits with its Mistress in the airless room while monitoring the local comlink chatter to gauge the reaction to its attacks.[sblock=OOC]If all of that went off without a hitch then Dofina and 1X are already half-way home. And if there was some kind of invisible creature in the room then hopefully it didn't survive explosive decompression. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" />I figure that the airless environment will cool down the molten edges of the window quickly enough for it not to be a concern by the time the shuttle arrives. If it arrives as planned then 1X intends to propel itself through the gravitational field of the room and out through the hole in such a way as to drift straight into the open hatch of the shuttle where it'll break once it's inside the artificial gravity field there. The magnetic clamp will be used to quickly grab a hand hold on the shuttle's hull if it misses somehow. If, for some reason, 1X misses the shuttle entirely it can throw the clamp away from itself to change its momentum favorably.Hopefully, Dofina's longer armspan will be enough to reach across the gap and pull herself safely into the shuttle's interior. She can also mimic 1X and use her own magnetic clamp for extra purchase if necessary. If there are any mishaps 1X can always reach the astromech via comlink and instruct it to manoeuvre the shuttle appropriately to retrieve drifting people. Once inside, 1X will close the hatch and repressurize the interior while tapping out the coordinates of their rendez-vous spot on the ship's conn for the astromech to proceed there as quickly as possible.Once they're underway, 1X will transmit the last two detonation signals for the explosives attached to the main and backup reactors, thus sealing the station's fate. KA-BOOM!KA-BOOM!If they haven't done it yet, it's my hope that whoever is left in charge will signal an official evacuation of the facility. If so then there will quickly be hundreds of escape pods, shuttles and fighters all rushing away from the station simultaneously; the perfect camouflage to help cover the shuttle's departure.That's about it for the moment. Now it's time to see if it all actually goes off as described... <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh    :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" /> You know that mysterious faction that tried to sabotage the freighter and took over a Star Destroyer to attack the sensor net? I hope they're still around and wondering (as 1X did itself) "what's going on?", "who did this?" and thinking "damn! I wish I could have pulled that off myself!" <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:" /> [/sblock]</blockquote>

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