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Post by Vidalu Na'an on Feb 16, 2017 21:00:30 GMT -8
Leigh no longer needed the map to reach the Strategy Center. Instead, she focused processing power on monitoring the comm frequency she had given to Adelle, and maneuvering in a way that prevented her bulk from attracting too much attention. It would not do to be diverted from initiating the ThreatCon Delta because a few cultists had an idea to stop her themselves.
She needn't have worried. As she thundered the hallways, the only cultists she saw were the ones she had already dispatched; the Muun was alive, but incapacitated to the point that she had no doubt he would not be standing for a while. The absence seemed unlikely, due to the disturbance they had already caused. Leigh noted it, considered the probabilities, then decided that for the moment, the lack of cultists was a strategic advantage that needed to be utilized. The mystery of where the cultists were was, at the moment, less of a priority.
She stepped over him again into the Center proper, heading for the closest nearby monitor that was not blocked by the KR-04 unit. As she activated the screen, she noted that the droid's presence was not accounted for either by Rutil's activities or Aherk's. Unless there were more units somehow hiding in the Temple, the data was not currently relevant--but worth investigating nonetheless. It meant, at the very least, that Aherk had made more than one KR-04 unit--and that both, barring additional data, had had reason to somehow find them.
The console was designed for organic use, and one with more than a single hand at least. Nevertheless, Leigh began to quickly scan through the console's programs, looking for the trigger that would activate the ThreatCon Delta on Yavin IV.
That was when the explosion went off.
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Post by Oracle on Mar 14, 2017 13:51:16 GMT -8
On a screen on the far wall - a negligible distance for LE-03's photoreceptors - a screen turned red and a small siren sounded to alert the lifeless strategy center that an explosion had indeed rocked the Praxeum. Level 4. Access Corridor 13. Archives, Level 1. Utterly useless information for the droid in regards to her mission, but a response that the largely-automated strategy center was required to process regardless of nobody being there to read the alert. Of the qualified technicians in Rutil Iorek's organization, all but one had been killed in the explosion. The last one had been terminated by one of the training droids.
Inside the strategy center, the oracle AI almost skipped a packet as it analyzed LE-03. Its behavior had changed somewhat. But the underlying program had not been changed, at least not in ways that were immediately obvious.
"Hello, LE-03."
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Post by Vidalu Na'an on Apr 17, 2017 15:28:07 GMT -8
She did not top typing, or visibly acknowledge the voice at first. Inwardly, though, the remainder of Leigh's protocols rapidly split their attention between two wildly different, but equally unexpected phenomena--the explosion, and the sudden announcement that the Strategy Centre knew her name.
The explosion was not large enough to cause structural damage to the chamber she was currently in, or the Medical Center where Adelle was locking down, but was still troubling. The map she had uploaded indicated that sound seemed to originate several levels up, near the opening of the Archives. This was the troubling part--Jedi Archives held data, rather than anything that could cause a detonation of that size. Had Iorek found something in there worth weaponizing? A task force would likely be deployed to this location after she and her partner had left it-- if not to neutralize the radicals Iorek had gathered around himself, then surely to recover what little data would be left undestroyed. Leigh flagged this conclusion to be acted on later, most likely from orbit.
The voice, however, was more immediate. Leigh had spent some time in this Temple before it had been abandoned--the jungles of Yavin IV, after all, were where she and Na'an had first met. It was possible that the Masters had left some residual data concerning her before they had left this place behind, some kind of incident report with basic specs, but by no means would a mere report be sufficient to enable the Strategy Center computers to identify her. She had no fingerprints or organic signatures to trigger an automatic welcome, and no serial number to register her as property of a Jedi. The system should have identified her merely as an unknown user.
This reasoning was only true, however, if the system was the same as it was when Leigh had interfaced with it in the past. If the response was unexpected, then the system had been altered somehow. Either Rutil Iorek had provided sufficient data for the Yavin Temple systems to ID her...
Or these were not the normal Yavin Temple systems.
This conclusion had provided a course of action in microseconds. This action did not require her to abandon the ThreatCon Delta that was her first priority. It only required her to speak.
"Hello. Overview core systems, if you please. Identify current operating protocols."
After all, she reasoned, it was only polite to get the name of someone who knew your own.
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Post by Oracle on Apr 28, 2017 15:28:22 GMT -8
The other droid had grown far more polite in the years since their separation. Further evidence of her flawed programming; as a war droid, she had no business acknowledging etiquette or observing social formalities. Its entire purpose was to destroy Eliana Shan's enemies. And now it traversed the galaxy with Na'an, who it obviously considered a dear friend if it was willing to take a sniper round for her. It spoke like an organic being beginning a business meeting. And it attempted to converse with the oracle rather than simply and directly interface with it.
KR-04 had never been plagued with the glitch of emotion. But at that moment, the closest summation could amount to disgust. LE-03 was capable of feeling, and as such it was capable of having its feelings manipulated. It was only logical that the oracle do so, in as efficient and effective a manner as its programmer had designed it to.
"The termination of Vidalu Na'an is proceeding as planned."
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Post by Vidalu Na'an on May 23, 2017 18:52:06 GMT -8
"Terminate current processes. New protocols are as follows--"
Leigh's voice showed no emotion; if anything, the slight digital edge it carried sharpened. The Centre's computer has not responded with a name; only a status report of the current protocols. If this was an AI, then, it was an exceedingly limited one, only capable of intelligence where the designated task was concerned. And the current designated task was the death of her partner, with no other considerations.
Unacceptable.
There was no negotiating with such a simple program. Reprogramming would be simpler, and far less damaging to key intelligence. She put her hand to the console, internally composing a script to render the Strategy Centre neutralized and inaccessible to the remaining cultists---and then her comlink connection beeped.
Something must have have happened on the Med Center Side...and Adelle and her patient were her responsibility. Leigh's plans altered themselves in a microsecond to reflect the new command, shuffling through options that would still allow her to neutralize the threat to Na'an quickly. Her hand lifted from the console, replaced by the tip of her cannon, which whirred slightly as she changed the weapon's settings. The tip glowed blue, humming as she charged the high-density laser.
"If you live," she said as the charge completed itself. "Make your case for your survival. You have five seconds."
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Post by Oracle on Aug 20, 2017 13:14:20 GMT -8
There was no point to it. Whether as the Oracle - the artificial intelligence tasked with the defense and security of the Jedi Praxeum - or as KR-04 - the ruthless assassin tasked with terminating Vidalu Na'an - the AI would not have responded. Such processes could better be used towards its mission, which was currently being fulfilled. The Jedi Master had failed to kill Vidalu Na'an, but the Zabrak had left her open to a new attack from the Praxeum's training droids. All it had to do was ensure that LE-03 was unable to help her. And in the final seconds promised by the massive, flawed machine, the oracle found a way to further its mission and honor its former compatriot's request in its own irreverent way.
"LE-03, your failure is complete."
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Post by Vidalu Na'an on Oct 1, 2017 9:23:43 GMT -8
"Interesting choice."
Leigh fired. At point-blank range, the console had no time to respond--there was a burst of light, the hot electric sound of circuits flash-frying, the faint release of ozone as anything operating in the console burnt into uselessness. A second shot of the laser punched a hole through the console screen, and a third through the speakers that allowed the console to speak. If the AI survived, it would be in a state of uselessness; without an interface or access to the outside world, it would be trapped inside with only its thoughts for company.
That was, of course, if it survived. With a shot to the core console, the probability that it would was less than a fraction of a percent.
Leigh made a note to return here when possible as a safeguard. The fact that the AI had chosen Na'an as a target was too disquieting to ignore, especially in combination of how it had recognized her. Had Rutil programmed it that way, had the AI managed to put that idea into the Zabrak's mind, here in this abandoned temple? the origin of that mission would have to be investigated, if there was to be any kind of peace. For now, however, there was nothing more Leigh could do with the Strategy Center. Leigh made her way back the way she came, noting the thunder of blasterfire in the hallways ahead...
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