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<blockquote data-quote="shadowbloodmoon" data-source="post: 3350489" data-attributes="member: 9986"><p>Mistress Dofina nods to DRK-1X. <span style="color: cyan">"The we will have to make sure of their end. There are pheromone sensors in the facility that will detect them, if they haven't been shut down in the destruction of the place. If that's the case, then we will need to modify your sensors to adjust. I'll have to extract the information from the backup data storage first. Or rather, you can simply send it to me and I'll tell you what you need to do to calibrate your sensors. Then we can see if any are left and then eliminate them. Then... we'll have to see what's left of the place before I decide what to do with it."</span></p><p></p><p>Later during that same day, Dofina listens with interest to what DRK-1X tells her about the reading of the old Jedi's diary. This seems to picque her interest. Even more so than that of the facility. <span style="color: cyan">"I want to go to Korriban. Not now of course, but soon."</span></p><p></p><p>The rest of the week on Corellia goes rather uneventfully, with the droids finishing their tasks with the ship and for some, self-modification. Dofina in turn has finished her work on Derek's new synthskin covering and the operation to attach it goes smoothly. With this finished, the group's stop on Corellia was complete. Now to determine Dofina's hiding place. </p><p></p><p><span style="color: cyan">"I want to go home."</span> This phrase was heard more than once during the discussion, but eventually Dofina decides on a place called Polonia. The droids' preliminary scans determine that this planet is clear of any fawna, but it fully capable of sustaining it. there is plenty of flora however, so Dofina's interest in it is even more questionable, as is the fact that the Galactic Record indicates that Polonia is nothing but lifeless rock. </p><p></p><p>There are no settlements to speak of, and Dofina is content to set down anywhere on the planet. She seems to know where she is going though and is relieved to be able to breathe real air again. Any questions about what she knows about the place are simply met with, <span style="color: cyan">"Trust me."</span></p><p></p><p>It is soon determined that Polonia is officially listed as a lifeless rock because the scouts that found it were from the original progenitors of the Trade Federation, the Nemoidian Exploration Guild. They of course had other plans for it, as is evidenced by the local plant life. </p><p></p><p>Dofina eventually tells DRK-1X that the only people that are still aware of its true nature were on the Separatist High Council, which no longer exists according to what the latest newsfeeds had said. If the droids find out on their outings that someone else knows of it, they have standing orders to <span style="color: cyan">"lessen that number by one."</span></p><p></p><p>Dofina takes little time to adjust to her new surroundings and prep the droids for their mission to Dantooine.</p><p></p><p>When the droids return to Dantooine, they find that the facility has indeed been turned upside down. There is much evidence of the Empire having set foot here, especially considering the numerous shredded Clone Soldier armor pieces lying about. Apparently there were more of those creatures here. A thorough scan of the place doesn't turn up the bodies of the creatures however. From the sizable additional roof installed, apparently by concentrated turbolaser fire, there isn't much left here to salvage. There are a few counters with eliminator droids left behind to make sure that any scavengers stay away, but Dofina's droids easily manage to thwart them and DRK-1X even takes one as a pet. </p><p></p><p>The backup relay station was still operable however and thus had to be destroyed. A well placed thermal detonator took care of that final string. </p><p></p><p>Dofina was sad to here that the facility had to go, as she had planned on using it as a base when she returned to power, but in the end she agreed that it was for the best so that she wasn't tempted to return to her previous work. </p><p></p><p>Eventually Dofina went to visit Korriban, the Sith Tombworld. Her inbred love for more power simply couldn't let her pass up such an opportunity and DRK-1X and Derek got a ful exrecise of their capabilities in defending Dofina from harm, as Korriban is certainly not a friendly place. Between encounters with Force spirits, traps of all kinds and even Sith Shadow scavengers, the exploration was not easy. Dofina eventually found what she was looking for though, or rather, it found her. </p><p></p><p>A man calling himself Davion Murr offered to teach Dofina everything he knew before passing on. While Dofina's droids protested their trust in this man, Dofina could not resist. Sure enough, at the end of two weeks, the man died and Dofina was the heir to his legacy. She had ten years to find a new host for her power, or her spirit would go into oblivion at death and not into the Force. This didn't sit well with DRK-1X. </p><p></p><p>As time went on, Dofina grew bolder and began making her moves back out into the realm of the underworld, starting with petty things here and there and moving up. Eventually she, or rather Derek, being her facedroid, began a small racketeering operation on Ord Badrill, a spice mining colony and waypoint into some of the major tradelanes. This turned out to be a strategic move as currently the Hutts were at war with the Black Sun syndicate, a group that Dofina and her droids would get to know very well within the next few years. </p><p></p><p>As Dofina's power base grew, she eventually came out of hiding and made her presence known. At this point, there wasn't much anyone could do about it, and so she solidified her holdings in nearly eleven systems. This number was to rise to twenty in the next five years. </p><p></p><p>In time, DRK-1X, ever so loyal, had been given its own portion to manage and control, essentially becoming a major part of Dofina's power council. Specifically, DRK-1X was internal security. In all of its years of operation, Dofina's syndicate never had a traitor as far as she knew. The moment X had got wind of anything of that nature, the person would be dead and replaced soon after. This was because of a new thing that DRK-1X and Derek had discovered. How to build more of Derek. </p><p></p><p>Eventually, over half of Dofina's powerbase were HRD droids. Unfortunately, her largest competitor, the Black Sun, caught wind of this and the war began. To top this off, it was getting close to Dofina's ten year limit and she hadn't found a suitable heir in her eyes. She once tried passing it on to Derek, but this if course didn't work. </p><p></p><p>This war would be Dofina's undoing. Not having found an heir and refusing to simply give it to anyone, Dofina soon passed on. Her last words to DRK-1X: <span style="color: cyan">"I'm sorry."</span> This event would cause a major change in DRK-1X and Derek's programming, as well as that in all of the HRDs that had been programmed at their cores to be subservient to her. As is true of all copies of copies, the HRDs fell to infighting and this spelled the end for Dofina's empire of corruption. </p><p></p><p>DRK-1X and Derek however did not have the same problem, the two having worked together for the longest and having formed an electron bond, even beyond that of the shared core programming. The two decided to finally do what they set out to do originally: continue attempting to improve their existence as droids and discover everything they could about the galaxy. </p><p></p><p>Whether DRK-1X and Derek will ever be seen again is left up to the fates and the logic of indisparate energies. What is known is that Guri, the HRD droid sidekick of the current leader of the Black Sun, Prince Xizor, was made on Polonia. And she has a secret subset of loyalty parameters. To the maker...</p><p></p><p>[sblock=OOC]<span style="color: gray">I am hoping that this isn't too short of a 'future history', and that it is to your liking as a satisfactory ending for our time together. It was actually... difficult... for me to write it all out, but I think it came to a decent end. Obviously I took a few liberties, but alas, there ya be... </span>[/sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shadowbloodmoon, post: 3350489, member: 9986"] Mistress Dofina nods to DRK-1X. [color=cyan]"The we will have to make sure of their end. There are pheromone sensors in the facility that will detect them, if they haven't been shut down in the destruction of the place. If that's the case, then we will need to modify your sensors to adjust. I'll have to extract the information from the backup data storage first. Or rather, you can simply send it to me and I'll tell you what you need to do to calibrate your sensors. Then we can see if any are left and then eliminate them. Then... we'll have to see what's left of the place before I decide what to do with it."[/color] Later during that same day, Dofina listens with interest to what DRK-1X tells her about the reading of the old Jedi's diary. This seems to picque her interest. Even more so than that of the facility. [color=cyan]"I want to go to Korriban. Not now of course, but soon."[/color] The rest of the week on Corellia goes rather uneventfully, with the droids finishing their tasks with the ship and for some, self-modification. Dofina in turn has finished her work on Derek's new synthskin covering and the operation to attach it goes smoothly. With this finished, the group's stop on Corellia was complete. Now to determine Dofina's hiding place. [color=cyan]"I want to go home."[/color] This phrase was heard more than once during the discussion, but eventually Dofina decides on a place called Polonia. The droids' preliminary scans determine that this planet is clear of any fawna, but it fully capable of sustaining it. there is plenty of flora however, so Dofina's interest in it is even more questionable, as is the fact that the Galactic Record indicates that Polonia is nothing but lifeless rock. There are no settlements to speak of, and Dofina is content to set down anywhere on the planet. She seems to know where she is going though and is relieved to be able to breathe real air again. Any questions about what she knows about the place are simply met with, [color=cyan]"Trust me."[/color] It is soon determined that Polonia is officially listed as a lifeless rock because the scouts that found it were from the original progenitors of the Trade Federation, the Nemoidian Exploration Guild. They of course had other plans for it, as is evidenced by the local plant life. Dofina eventually tells DRK-1X that the only people that are still aware of its true nature were on the Separatist High Council, which no longer exists according to what the latest newsfeeds had said. If the droids find out on their outings that someone else knows of it, they have standing orders to [color=cyan]"lessen that number by one."[/color] Dofina takes little time to adjust to her new surroundings and prep the droids for their mission to Dantooine. When the droids return to Dantooine, they find that the facility has indeed been turned upside down. There is much evidence of the Empire having set foot here, especially considering the numerous shredded Clone Soldier armor pieces lying about. Apparently there were more of those creatures here. A thorough scan of the place doesn't turn up the bodies of the creatures however. From the sizable additional roof installed, apparently by concentrated turbolaser fire, there isn't much left here to salvage. There are a few counters with eliminator droids left behind to make sure that any scavengers stay away, but Dofina's droids easily manage to thwart them and DRK-1X even takes one as a pet. The backup relay station was still operable however and thus had to be destroyed. A well placed thermal detonator took care of that final string. Dofina was sad to here that the facility had to go, as she had planned on using it as a base when she returned to power, but in the end she agreed that it was for the best so that she wasn't tempted to return to her previous work. Eventually Dofina went to visit Korriban, the Sith Tombworld. Her inbred love for more power simply couldn't let her pass up such an opportunity and DRK-1X and Derek got a ful exrecise of their capabilities in defending Dofina from harm, as Korriban is certainly not a friendly place. Between encounters with Force spirits, traps of all kinds and even Sith Shadow scavengers, the exploration was not easy. Dofina eventually found what she was looking for though, or rather, it found her. A man calling himself Davion Murr offered to teach Dofina everything he knew before passing on. While Dofina's droids protested their trust in this man, Dofina could not resist. Sure enough, at the end of two weeks, the man died and Dofina was the heir to his legacy. She had ten years to find a new host for her power, or her spirit would go into oblivion at death and not into the Force. This didn't sit well with DRK-1X. As time went on, Dofina grew bolder and began making her moves back out into the realm of the underworld, starting with petty things here and there and moving up. Eventually she, or rather Derek, being her facedroid, began a small racketeering operation on Ord Badrill, a spice mining colony and waypoint into some of the major tradelanes. This turned out to be a strategic move as currently the Hutts were at war with the Black Sun syndicate, a group that Dofina and her droids would get to know very well within the next few years. As Dofina's power base grew, she eventually came out of hiding and made her presence known. At this point, there wasn't much anyone could do about it, and so she solidified her holdings in nearly eleven systems. This number was to rise to twenty in the next five years. In time, DRK-1X, ever so loyal, had been given its own portion to manage and control, essentially becoming a major part of Dofina's power council. Specifically, DRK-1X was internal security. In all of its years of operation, Dofina's syndicate never had a traitor as far as she knew. The moment X had got wind of anything of that nature, the person would be dead and replaced soon after. This was because of a new thing that DRK-1X and Derek had discovered. How to build more of Derek. Eventually, over half of Dofina's powerbase were HRD droids. Unfortunately, her largest competitor, the Black Sun, caught wind of this and the war began. To top this off, it was getting close to Dofina's ten year limit and she hadn't found a suitable heir in her eyes. She once tried passing it on to Derek, but this if course didn't work. This war would be Dofina's undoing. Not having found an heir and refusing to simply give it to anyone, Dofina soon passed on. Her last words to DRK-1X: [color=cyan]"I'm sorry."[/color] This event would cause a major change in DRK-1X and Derek's programming, as well as that in all of the HRDs that had been programmed at their cores to be subservient to her. As is true of all copies of copies, the HRDs fell to infighting and this spelled the end for Dofina's empire of corruption. DRK-1X and Derek however did not have the same problem, the two having worked together for the longest and having formed an electron bond, even beyond that of the shared core programming. The two decided to finally do what they set out to do originally: continue attempting to improve their existence as droids and discover everything they could about the galaxy. Whether DRK-1X and Derek will ever be seen again is left up to the fates and the logic of indisparate energies. What is known is that Guri, the HRD droid sidekick of the current leader of the Black Sun, Prince Xizor, was made on Polonia. And she has a secret subset of loyalty parameters. To the maker... [sblock=OOC][color=gray]I am hoping that this isn't too short of a 'future history', and that it is to your liking as a satisfactory ending for our time together. It was actually... difficult... for me to write it all out, but I think it came to a decent end. Obviously I took a few liberties, but alas, there ya be... [/color][/sblock] [/QUOTE]
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