"Great Work" Forim says distractedly as he pours over the sensor readings, however he does not get much from within the hangar.

Looking to Kraken he says "Its Flight Officer, or FgOff if you want.  You can call me Forim outside of briefings though.

That Bulk action freighter" he says pointing to the blip "I can't seem to get past the interferrence from the hanger.  Can you get me a signature reading on it?"

After a pause he says "I know we cleared Hypno, but I have irrationally hated that droid ever since I laid eyes on it.  I hate that command gave us that droid.  We captured it on a Bulk Action transport... its setting off my alarm bells."

ooc: forgot to roll sensors...

Gave myself 2D for active sensors, due to being docked in the hangar (normally 1D for active sensors)

12:35, Today: Forim Luk rolled no successes, 1 threat , 1 triumph using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 1A 2P 1B 2D.  Sensors.

Spending triumph to make it so they do not realize it was us who pinged them with active sensors.
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Xyklo sits up suddenly from lounging in the turret seat. He slips off his headphones and comms back to the cockpit.
"Err...  Forim you seeing this? A threat?"

He gently activates the power feed to the guns batteries.

Kraken is fairly sure that Lucent station would have the equipment necessary to conduct a silhouette modification. It might take awhile, though. Rebuilding the engines with a different signature can take days for a dedicated crew and be expensive.

Kraken recalls the name of an underworld contact that the Alliance has rated as 'conditionally reliable.' A twi'lek who Ardana Tao-ni runs a business out of the station, getting this & that for those anxious to avoid Imperial scrutiny.

The large transport slowly comes into line with the space station. Such a large vessel cannot be moved by the station's tractor beams, so some maneuvering is necessary.

Forim responds "Maybe.  Stay alert bunt dont break any station rules" he adds seeing the power drain "We are docked still remember."

"Understandable.  And it is unfortunate that your masters have treated you so... unkindly."  She removed the appropriate number of credits and places them within the strongbox.  "Could you please arrange a meeting with them so that I can discuss the matter further please?"

Caddy is, as yet, unaware of the new arrival.

"Got it..." Xyklo acknowledged.

 Roger looks to Forim, “You’ve got it, Flight Commander.” Roger works with Kraken, and reviews the calculations when they’re done.
When Kraken asks him about the station, Roger processes for a moment, “I don’t know much more about the station than we’ve already seen.”

14:54, Today: B1-P3 'Roger' rolled no successes, 1 advantage using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 2A 2D ((7(A), 8(A), 8(D), 6(D))).
1 Advantage used to … nothing?  I dunno, pass it on to the next person rolling.

His attention shifts to the freighter that’s inbound, “Just looks like a regular freighter to me… why’s everyone so edgy??”

Kraken nods, "I'll see if I can find anything on that ship." he mutters.  with a little assistance from Roger, Kraken pulls up some info on the ship.

"By the way, I know of a contact that works here.  Ardana Tao-ni has done some work with us and is fairly reliable.  Might be better POC than anyone else here to get the silhouette modification work done."

Finishing the computer scan, Kraken taps the computer, "Interesting.  This is what I've got on the scaner for that ship."

"Good work Roger." he nods to the droid, glad to have him on board for the assistance.

OOC:
'Kraken' rolled 1 success, 1 advantage using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 1p 1a 1b 2d.  Sensors - 1b from Roger.

The droid accepts the money and checks the strongbox's automated holocounter. As Caddy feeds in coins, it increases until the correct value is displayed. The droid nods.

"Thank you, madam. I will speak to the management regarding your request. Until then, you may wait here or in the station's cafeteria. Fuelling will begin shortly."

The droid totters off back along the gangplank towards the station.

The sensor sweep concludes a few key details. This is a stock trading vessel with a few old laser scores and occasional repairs. The engines are burning a little hot; either it needs maintenance or they've been modified for extra speed. The vessel's IFF identifies it only as "ZC-162-2197."

Forim pulls up the the sensor logs from the action with the Royal Prize, and compares the two, hoping not to find any similarities other then the vessel type... but fearing that dumb astromech droid has brought its co-conspirators here for revenge...

Caddy thanks the droid once again and suggests that she'll be in the cafeteria while she waits for the management response - before heading off in that direction, smiling and nodding to folk on the dock as she walks.
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The two ships don't seem that similar. Last you saw the Royal Prize it was venting firey atmosphere. Other than being the same model, they don't seem to have anything in common. This ship seems older, and more stock. The Prize had been painted and had extra guns mounted near the hanger. You also see no escort, although they may have fighters in the hanger.

Caddy resolves to go into the station. Some of the team may wish to go as well.

Zeic follows Caddy to the cafeteria, leaving his carbine and ion blaster behind.

Not wanting to be left behind again, Forim sees Caddy leaving on the security holocams.

Getting up and jogging down the ramp, he catches up with Caddy before asking "Whats the status?"

Xyklo notes the senior crew leaving, but that's ok though, they probably had important business to attend to. Gunner in place when not in hyperspace, that was simple, he would stay put. He settles back into his seat gazing out the window at the other ship, the station, and the stars in general. After a few moments he puts the music back on, at a lower volume.

Xyklo's eyes also rove the framework of the turret. Maybe Caddy and Luk would let him put a couple of nice landscape photos there. Possibly a small hanging basket from the ceiling...

"They'll be starting the refuelling shortly.   All is well?"  She continues towards the caf.
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Landing completed, scan of the area reported, Kraken takes his leave of the cockpit and makes his way back to the interior of the ship, wanting to spend a little more time with the Astromech droid, Hypno, as requested by Forim.

Ensuring the Astrodroid still had the restraining bolt in place, Kraken began to inspect the programming of the droid ...

[Private to GM: Kraken completed the Secret access-logging Programming.

Kraken:

'Kraken' rolled 4 successes, 1 advantage dice pool: 2p 2a 1b 1d 1c.  Computer -  Secret program.

GM:

After running a diagnostic on the R2 unit, the team determines that Hypno is operating under normal parameters for its class. No external programs are running.

If their are no abnormal parameters, how could Hypno have sabotaged the ship? (Kraken's opinion).
My own opinion (I'm not a computer geek, so might be off) is that someone could have remote access to Hypno and done the work using the droid as a remote control.
Or Hypno didn't do it and Roger is causing a smoke screen and he's the problem.]

The station's hallways are cramped and not very clean. Liquids drip from the ceiling and run along the walls. Piles of junk litter the halls. The floor is stained. Pipes that should be covered by plating hang exposed. You are sure you can hear chittering creatures in the bulkheads. Occasionally holocams is visible in the ceiling, blinking as they stares at you.

You follow the clanking tread of the protocol droid through winding halls until you reach the centre of the station. This place is cleaner but not terribly tidy, with piles of junk sitting in corners and against walls where they are momentarily out of the way. One of the bulkheads contains an open window at waist height, about twelve feet across, behind which is a tired-looking whiphid. She is wearing hairnets all across her body. She is checking one of several pots and adjusting the temperature of a hot-tray when you arrive. There are a number of round tables with mismatched chairs around the room.

Back on the ship...

During the flight, Hypno the R2 droid has been employee of the month. It sits in the main room of the ship in low power mode until someone comes along. If they ask it to do something, it rolls off to accomplish the task. When this is finished, it comes back to ask for more tasks. If there are none, it wheels back into its charging alcove and closes down again.

[Private to 'Kraken': Kraken muses on the possibility that someone is using Hypno as a remote terminal. The possibility seems remote as well. How could a signal be broadcast across light years of distance, to be detected without special equipment? Especially if some of the work was done during hyperspace, such things are simply impossible with known technology.

Perhaps there is something hidden deeper in the droid. Something so deep that even a skilled slicer cannot pick it up. If so, it is likely that even a standard restraining bolt cannot stop the droid from pursuing its programming.]

Pulling out his datapad, Kraken considers some options, throws a few away and still is unsure of the small droid.  Using his comlink, Kraken calls Jospi, asking him to join him.

Once Jospi joined him in the cargo hold, where he had more room to work on Hypno.

[Private to Jospi Renning: Kraken frowns nodding to the droid, "I've searched the droids systems, I've found nothing in there.  I think there could be something else in the droid.  Not a program but another device or something."

Looking about, Kraken shrugs, "However I'd like to do a scan on Roger sometime as well, just to cross eliminate him as a thread."

"I'm a pretty good mechanic but a better slicer.  How are you at taking droids apart?  I'd like to take him down to the bare bones to see if there is anything inside which shouldn't be there.  Do you have the time?  I really don't want to go flying around doing what we do with a loose link who might inform the Empire of what we are doing."]

Receiving the Nautolan's call, Jospi heads over to him.  [Private to 'Kraken': "What's crackin'?"  He listens as Kraken explains the situation with the seemingly rogue R2 unit.  "I can dismantle anything.  Yeah, I'll get to work on it right now.  It'll take me a couple of hours to get it down to it's component parts, but we'll know if there is anything 'extra' inside it."]

[Private to 'Kraken': Pulling out some tools, he began the laborious process of dismantling the astromech, looking for anything that was not a stock part.]

[Private to 'Kraken': 03:09, Today: Jospi Renning rolled 5 successes, 2 threats, 1 triumph using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 2A 2P 2D. Mechanics - Dismantling.]

Why....  As seems to be the norm, Caddy stands out like a sore thumb, her clean clothing, crisp lines and bright colours forming a stark contrast to the dirt and grime and the place.  And yet she continue on to the caf to await 'management'.
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This place, while dirty and in disrepair, reminds him of home where he was hatched.  It may be a different station, and the smells here have more of a fuel undertone, but the atmosphere is the same.  Since he left home, he has been on hundreds of similar stations.

Forim follows Caddy, looking a bit nervously at the people here.  Standing out in the way that she does is liable to attract the wrong kind of attention.  The kind of attention that you can't talk your way out of.


Forim walks behind her, scanning the area keeping his hand on his blaster wary of trouble.

Wandering through the hallway comes a human in riot armour, carrying a pump-action slugthrower. He looks you over without interest, then wanders over to chat with the cafeteria lady.

A harried-looking woman wearing a coverall enters, carrying a datapad. She glances around and sees the team seated, then goes over to join you.

"You're from the... Shimmer?" she says, checking her datapad. "Your refuelling is under way. Should be less than an hour now. Your account is settled. What else did you want?"

Having considered the cafeteria lady and the various pots, she smiles at the woman, but chooses to sit down and wait without ordering.

She's considering the security officer's passing when the more officious looking woman arrives and she will smile at her too.  "Ah.  We certainly are.  And well, we were hoping to complete some repairs before leaving and I was hoping to acquire the use of an engineering bay?"   She continues, "That and, if it's possible, it was suggested that I might be able to speak to you about recognition as a trader or haulier in this parts.   We're all looking to make a living and I've a capable ship and as I understand it, you have need of goods transport.  Perhaps we can come to a deal?"
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Forim leans in to Caddy and whispers Ardana Tao-ni is the guy Kraken said to look for