New Ally

[GM Craig]

Are Collan and Jex going staying put, or are you going to join the troopers on the lift?

[Collan]

I'll go on the lift...

[Keshani]

Hey Craig, any answer to whether anything else can be found out from the controls? (Schematics or anything?)

[GM Craig]

The secret panel does appear to be hooked into a larger computer system. You might be able to get more data, but it will take a few minutes.

[Jex]

This is a dilemma. If we explore the lower levels, we seriously risk the mission. If we do not, you can be sure the imperials will go through this building with a fine tooth comb after our raid, since we used it for the e-web attack, which means we will not get a second attempt to search it.

A few minutes may be worth it to see if this building is a secret entrance into the Imperial site, after all this is an intel group we are attacking. They may have need of covert entry ...

[GM Craig]

Ok, I'll zap my posts if you guys want to explore.

[Jex]

Just hold off a bit. Let's have a bit of discussion if that is okay for you.

[Trax]

The imperial's building was built by them, it's highly unlikely there's an underground passage to this building unless they made it, and if they did it'll be closely monitored.  At this point I'm just hoping that us even using the lift won't trigger some alarm.  I think we need to move quick now or risk the whole mission.

[Keshani]

Hmmm...wonder what information my little puppy dog droid has....could I copy the info from the main computer to a data pad while you guys are heading up to the roof to check out later?

[Jex]

For the most part I agree, but if this is a link to the other building, then if we can get schematics from the system, then that may give us an alternative exit strategy if things go south. I think it does not hurt for Mariah to do a quick scan of the system. They are going to know we are here very shortly anyways, so I don't think a quick system scan will hurt us too much.

[Niil Spaar]

And there's the fact that the longer we stay here, the greater the chance that the shuttle will be spotted - either by someone on the ground, in the air or by satellite.

So . . . how long would it take to get that wee droid's voice box up and running?  I've got a funny feeling it ain't Imperial, and that it was fighting like hell to tell us something.  That droid could probably tell us a lot about this building.

[Jex]

It's not the droid we need access to. It is the building systems that Mariah found access to. The secondary lift controls.

[GM Craig]

Getting ti up and running is a bigger project than you likely have time for, on the order of hours. Mariah might be able to take a dump of the memory on her datapad in about twenty minutes, but analyzing it will take some time beyond that, depending a lot on luck. It's possible if you reactivate the droid it might be able to give you information.

The vocabulator is very basic, so you're not going to bet anything from it verbally beyond beeps, clicks and whistles.

Mariah could focus her efforts on the more recent memories, that can narrow the time required quite a bit.

You're still looking at something close to 20 minutes, barring exceptional circumstances, CP expenditures and the like.

[Jex]

Are we confusing two systems here?

There is the damaged droid and there is the building system. Which are we talking about?

[Trax]

I think the hope is the droid is aware of the building layout.