"It had to be destroyed sir." Harry answers him. "You okay Dawn?" he asks her.

"Come on Eldorado, let's go find the droid and get it back here and check it out for sabotage." Phillip says to the big man. He suits up for the place and waits for Fatboy before he goes to carry out the order. "We'll be on our way to get it in a minute Capt, putting on protective gear." He informs the captain.

"Pity's sake." Fiator huffs at hearing that. He then shrugs. "Guess there was nothing else to do for it."

The nervous man glances at the one checking Daqor's condition.

"Say, can we move him sir? Can you wake him up?"
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Dawn grins at Harry through the HUD information on her helmet visor. "I'll be okay. Maybe a cracked collarbone. Hurts like hell, but makes you feel alive."

She looks down at the unconscious man. "Want me to carry him to transport?"
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"He's concussed, but he can be moved, just be careful with him." Zbig tells him. Then he checks on Dawn.

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13:48, Today: Zbigniew Soboleskii rolled 10 using 2d6+5.  Medic +3, Edu +2. – 10

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Zbigniew's diagnostic leads a conclusion that Dawn suffers from a contusion of the collarbone.  It is not cracked or broken. Time will heal. Excessive movement will irritate the condition.
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Tanja thinks to the arrival of her two shipmates, and decides to prepare for them taking the droid. "Fiator, was it?? Droids are machines that can be repaired. I've tasked a couple of our crew to have a look at the damage and see if we can offer repairs.

If it is damaged beyond our ability to repair, they'll let us know.

If you help Dawn and Harry here, the three of you can move your comrade here. I'll stay and start checking on the state of the droid until they arrive," she suggests.

[COMMS/LaPierre]
Eldorado felt a need to talk, now that he learned that one of them nearly died, so few weeks after Balakov's death...

"You heard the captain, Phillip. Let's go and examine some mysterious droid getting mad after some mysterious cloud station getting damaged... Shall we meet in the middle of the way? Or the furthest of us go and pick the other? I confess I'm not at ease inside this asteroid, which I find "labyrinthic" "

"Let's go big guy, I think they actually want us to hurry too, you up to it?" He asks Eldorado.

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I thought I already posted! ????
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Fatboy and Phillip return to the Katarina with one disabled droid.

With the help of Lexon and Dawn, the injured Daqor is moved to the trasport for a trip to the Moneyspider with Fiator, leaving the companions to the shuttle.

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Elec/computers 8+, INT  to accomplish an Intellect/piloting software override. 
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Levi had been listening to the communications and had remained silent. He was looking forward to.looking at the droid during the flight. They had a few weeks, he could spend time working with his team (those that were still on the Katerina). They needed something to pull them together that wasn't going to explode, suck them into vacuum and kill them.

It had been too long since he'd pulled a droid apart. Back in his naval college days in fact. Once they were underway he'd take a look, for now he had procedure and protocol to follow.

He checked and double checked the systems as he powered them up, careful of any anomalies in the readings no matter how minor.



Engineering: Powerplant 12
Engineering: M-Drive: 14

21:33, Today: Levi Stensgaard rolled 12,4,14,4 using 2d6+6,d6,2d6+4,d6.  Engineering: Power, Engineering: M-drive. 

After Lex and Dawn dropped off Daqor and Fiator, Lex headed back to the Shuttle.

With Mr Stout and Mr LaPierre back aboard the ship with the now inoperable droid Karma powers up the gravitic arrays and M-drive. At nominal output, she throtttles up and lifts the ship from the ice hangar's floor.

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Karma Starwind rolled 5 using 2d6+2.  2D, pilot(starship/+1), INT(+2)

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The Empress Katarina lifts, breaking contact with the flooring of the hangar. Suddenly, there is a shudder throughout the ship, and Karma winces. She forgot to compensate for the rotation of Snobol, sending the right quarter of the ship into the ice wall of the exit to the hangar. She quickly makes necessary adjustments for compensation and the ship glides from the hangar into open space.

"Get ready Phillip; the captain will soon request a damage assessment.", Eldorado states with a straight face.

Feeling the shudder through the ship, and hearing the familiar sound of impacting metal, Levi winces..

"What are you doing to my ship??" He shouts from his station in engineering.

He checks the display to see if there are any changes, or whether it's a cosmetic repaint and hammering out if the dents.

Boarding the shuttle and finding the pilot's seat, Tanja begins powering up the systems.as she settles, becoming familiar with it's controls and displays.



Checking over her sensors, and having landed earlier, she was aware of the rotation that caught Karma unaware.

The weight ratio of the craft however threw her, and she neglected to compensate for the additional weight of the ice shield.

22:38, Today: Tanja rolled 6,6 using 2d6+5,d6.  Piloting

Used small craft - it it's spacecraft +2 to roll.

Karma sighs, relieved there is no damage indicators flashing on her console vid. She plots a course to the indicated orbital position above Jetsom, then throttles up the M-drive to 30m/s/s accel/decel to target position.

"Iris, pilot the ship on the trajectory entered to a stationary low orbit above targeted object.  Synchronize orbital speed to  the target's indicated airspeed."

The screen changed, indicating Intellect software control. Satisfied with her calculations and command of the Intellect software, Karma moves to the crew lounge to retrieve a mug of hot tea. She wants to get a look at this dysfunctional droid.

She finds Phillip  and Eldorado standing near the droid in the cargo bay forward. She sips her herbal tea, then regards the two.

"What do you think fellas?" The captain asks.

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Karma Starwind rolled 10 using 2d6+3.  2D, pilot(starship/+1), INT(+2)
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Phillip disassembled the droid and went over the electronics of the little bot. "Working on him Captain, what do you think Eldorado?"

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10:34, Today: Phillip La'Pierre rolled 6 using 2d6+3.  mechanical +1, Int +2. – 6

10:34, Today: Phillip La'Pierre rolled 10 using 2d6+3.  electronic +1, int  +2. – 10
Phillip and Eldorado begin work on the droid. With their skills they determine that mechanically, the droid is repairable. Structural plating can be repaired. Robotic ligature, gears, and gizmos can be peplaced or repaired. Power supply is intact. The positron generator is intact. Transcranial positronic connections are not damaged. Protective artificial synaptic overloads are all tripped, indicating a shutdown to protect the positronic brain structure.

Beyond that requires Levi's knowledge of the science behind robotics. He joins the two after satisfied all is well in engineering. Karma sips from her mug of tea, watching the process with curiosity. Phillip and Eldorado remove the protective synaptic grid covering at Levi's direction to reveal the positronic core, or brain, that houses the quantumly encrypted Law of Three algorithm and allows for artificial sentience in droids. The module appears completely intact undamaged, leaving a mystery as to why the droid would actively break the first law that states no artificial intelligence can harm a living, sentient being of any kind.

"If it's not the hardware, it's the programming," Levi suggests.

"Disconnect the droid from its limbs, reconnect it's power supply to its brain. Attach some sensors Then repower it, see what it's programming says."

"Sounds like a job for Eldorado" Phillip says as he puts it back together and powers it just enough to read it's "mind."

Billianah watches the work on the droid with contained fascination. To see the inner workings of a droid, though not rare, was usually left to techs in labs somewhere. To be honest, she has never been a tinkerer ofvthings mechanical, but the science of the artificial intelligence intrigues her.

She has often wondered why the Imperium bans androids past a certain level of technology. What do they know others do not?

Levi offers technical advice as Phillip dismantles and rebuilds sections of the droid.

21:14, Today: Levi Stensgaard rolled 12 using 2d6+4.  Technical: Robotics

Eldorado does not know much about robotics, so he follows Levi's instructions. Personally he would have removed the brain from the body and laid it on some berth, but maybe Stensgaard does not walk around with a full robotic workshop.

So he unplugs all connection to the brains, and in the same, generic ports, installs a sniffer to analyse the signals, and his own faithful computer with the relevant software (on a secure, isolated profile) to list the programs in the "brain" and their installation date.

With two cables in hand like a mad scientist, Eldorado inquires: "Levi, would you happen to have under hand another droid of the same model, with whom - or with which - we could compare the files?"
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"No, and I doubt the staff on Snobol had a spare either with the way they were being precious about this one," he replies.

"We could check.the data net, see what the basic program would be as I'm sure it's generic software. Or we could ask the scientists on the station for their diagnostic reports and specs for this droid here. When did it last receive updates?? They'll have a backup of all the software and programs in case they needed to roll back to a previous version."

The computer Guru contemplates the files from the droids brain.
"I can guess what some files are, but knowing how to read does not mean you can understand a foreign language, and that's what robotics are for me. So I suggest you Levi skim through the files.

Meanwhile, Phillip would you agree to find the basic program on the data net, and compare the version numbers?
I'd go and ask Snobol's technicians for any backups.

At least we could restore the droid's programming and hope the same causes won't produce the same effects. But if we suspect any sabotage - and incidents on the Jetsom, incidents at Snobol, one shuttle lost: there seem to be a fraking lot of coincidences - ...if we restore the programs with the backup, we'll lose all evidence of wrongdoings and their modus operandi".
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"I'll get on that El, going to get on the webs to see if I can find it. Wait, I'm not a computer guy, where the heck do I look?"

He doesn't even have computer 0.