Kill All Robots (TEC - Ord Mantell)

[KORAH]

Well, she wasn't built for combat in reality. Her new coding wasn't completely set in, which meant that she wasn't perfect and could make mistakes just like an organic would. This was especially the case considering the coding was foreign and forced to overwrite her base coding. That being the case, she'd made the critical mistake of not running away.

She'd been cleaved in two as a result. Wrapped in metal, she stared at nothing, her remaining circuits barely even functioning anymore. She only thought of Omni.

 

[Cai Sanis]

Cai pressed the com unit on his arm. "We've neutralized an enemy leader. We are requesting a pick up for the droid." He looked over at Velok and gave a cocky little smirk. The droids were still closing in on them. "You ready to continue? Or do you need a break?" It was an honest question, even though they both knew there would be no reprieve. The droids hadn't stopped.

 

[Janira Fenni]

Janira saw the skiff for a brief moment, but the attack on the droids missed as they drug her along. Deeper they went, descending through the tunnels beneath the junk field. There were many droids to be seen underground. They were dragging droid pieces and metal deeper into tunnel network. She wished she could relay this information to command, but she couldn't move. At least someone had seen where she'd gone aside from Zandra. Maybe they would come in search of her and discover all of this for themselves, and then neutralize whatever the thread down underground was. If they could do that, then they could win this battle and free Ord Mantell of this threat.

They drug her along until they entered a great cavern. Enormous beyond all belief. And at the center, a giant machination of a droid. Huge, unlike anything she'd ever set her eyes on. Obviously cobbled together and not something that was designed by organic life. It was this, she saw, that was making all of the IG droids. She coughed up more blood as the droids drug her along towards the beast. She sensed an end to her life coming soon. She wouldn't go out without a fight.

 

[Jorga the Hutt]

And then, they just had to drag her underground, headed in the direction of that big cavity that the sensors detected. Hissing, Connory turned the skiff around to answer the call. An enemy commander captured...

The Koensayr mapping skiff hovered over Cai and Velok. A force tube descended, and a miniature tractor beam within it. The metal-encased @[member="KORAH"] rose gently into the skiff.

The Bard examined the droid's exposed face. "All right then, you beauty...what have you got for me? Who's in charge, below Omni? Where are they taking the Echani? Why could they possibly need an organic?"

 

[Ashin Varanin]

@[member="Cai Sanis"]

"I'm as ready as I'll ever be. Whatever sits at the core of this, it's a prey unlike any I've ever hunted. Let's move."

He set off through the junk fields, following the tracks of droids. A stray patrol imploded as he strafed them with lightning, and he ducked into the entrance of a massive tunnel.

"Down here, Cai...I think she came this way."

 

[KORAH]

"Resistance is futile, Organic. Your leader is captured, soon to be assimilated or killed."

Eyes sparked, trying to see what was going on, but she found it largely useless. Her eyes would not work as they were created or programmed to do. She caught glimpses of the new organic that was looking down at her, but only glimpses. Like all others, he would soon be one of them. He need only touch her and it would begin, but she wasn't going to say such a thing in hopes he would be dumb enough to do so.

"Join us an ascend. Resist and die."

 

[Cai Sanis]

Cai narrowed his eyes at the Whiphid. He'd met some of hie type before on Dathomir. They were big game hunters, and every time Cai had seen them in Holovids they were big game hunters. Although Whiphids rarely apeared on holovids, too much hair and not enough sex appeal to the human and near human majority. Either way the comment about hunting made Cai realize that he didn't know much about his Whiphid companion. Was he a hunter in some past life?
The lad couldn't ignore his questions. "You're a hunter?" he asked the whiphid as they descended into the tunnel. Cai couldn't help but feel a bit sorry for the old creature and took point, not wanting to see harm come to him.

 

[Allyson Locke]

@[member="Bard of the Hyperlanes"]

"You better hurry up and do something. She's going to go crazy again."

Spencer stepped into the room and watched the bard, she was curious on why he wasn't making all his music or whatever. Instead of being the woman known as sanctuary, she came as herself upon her father's requests. She wore her old padwan tunic and looked almost like a mirror image of her previous self.

"What can I do to help?"

 

[Jorga the Hutt]

The Bard scanned KORAH with the sonic servodriver, then grimaced and adjusted the skiff's sensors to reorient and scan the interior of the vessel. "Hello there, Miss Jacobs. For the moment...pass me that armature over there. Our friend here is crawling with nanotechnology."

He took the armature and set it up around the immobilized, metal-wrapped droid.

"This should give us a clear picture of every communications connection between our friend here and, well, anything else. We should be able to tell soon enough whether she's in command, or, if not...what direction the commander is."

 

[Ashin Varanin]

@[member="Cai Sanis"]

Velok whuffled in amusement as Cai took point. "I am the hunter, son. I've hunted Dark Lords, Nightsisters, Abominors, Vong. Everything. All the nastiest predators in the universe. Now, this reminds me of killing a planet-sized Abominor...that took some doing. What about you? What are you?"

 

[Allyson Locke]

Spencer handed over the tool the Bard needed. She looked down at Korah and frowned, the nanotech was something that she had encountered before. Shaking her head she moved towards the bard, her lightsaber now ignited.

"Well if she gets to be too much we might have to lop off her head..."

 

[KORAH]

"Organics always waste time. No control."

She paid no mind to the woman who'd just come in. None of it mattered. She knew that her circuitry was about to give out. It wouldn't be much longer and she would no longer exist. They would have to preserve her cortex so the new KORAH could come and claim it. If they did not... history would be lost. She refused to mention such a thing however.

"The longer you wait... doom comes..."

 

[Jorga the Hutt]

The Bard split his attention between Spencer, KORAH's words, KORAH's deteriorating state of power, the sonic servodriver, and the combined armatures of comm tracery. He moved the skiff somewhat, just enough to triangulate and confirm his suspicions.

"Yeah, I think we need to separate her from her body somewhat. Her power matrix is dying; she's shutting down. See if you can plug her in and disengage her brain or her head, all with telekinesis. Don't touch her, whatever you do. She can't die. We've got, let's see. Three major connections. One leads to that cavern over there, the staging point; one leads...well, too far away for me to track it, probably another world...and one, of course, leads to Omni. And that one, I'm not even going to touch. I like my servodriver the way it is."

 

[Janira Fenni]

The droids drug her towards the great behemoth in the center. It turned to look at her with a face bigger than her body. She stared at it defiantly as it spoke. This thing was not a creature of natural origins. She could see loose rivets, patches of material from all kinds of sources. She spit blood at it. "Creature of abomination... You will never defeat the Echani and their allies. You and yours are nothing." In response, the droids dropped her and she lay there, unable to lift herself, staring right at the great beast. It lowered itself down towards her, head nearly on top of her as if to crush her. It stared into her, and she stared back, refusing to yield in the face of certain death. She would not be weak.

"Your kind are outnumbered and possess weak bodies. My IG army will crush them for the glory of Omni. Bear witness, Organic. When they are all dead, you will suffer on a pire for all to see."

The droid lifted away and went back to creating droids. She lay there, being guarded, not moving, sick, blood dripping form her mouth.

 

[Allyson Locke]

Spencer nodded and went looking for something to plug the thing into. Her first thought was to plug into the outlet that was next to her, but decided not too. Seeing it she thought the machine might think the same thing so she put a chair with her telekinesis in front of it. Ha, stupid droid. Anyways back to searching, she looked around and around then found this box.

BATTERY FOR DROIDS

"Wonder what this does?"

Using her telekinesis once again, she lifted the cords necessary to plug in Korah into the battery. Flipping the switch the droid now had a new power supply.

"There we go, hurry though she's creeping me out...like a lot, those eyes ugh"

 

[Cai Sanis]

Cai was a holovid hero. Plan and simple, but saying as much out loud would be comedic. "That remains to be seen," he replied instead. And it was true. He wasn't a Jedi, not really. He was in the military, but that didn't define who he was. He often thought of leaving the life behind but where would he go? Perhaps somewhere with nice resorts. If it was possible he would have retired to a beach somewhere and lived the rest of his life as a bar tender at a resort hotel.

"How far do you think these tunnels go?"

 

[Ashin Varanin]

@[member="Cai Sanis"]
@[member="Janira Fenni"]

Cai and Velok turned a corner, and the floor dropped away into a ramp, revealing a gigantic droid factory...and a gigantic droid. A humanoid droid the size of a starship.

"Not quite far enough." Velok grimaced and pointed to two important things. Janira Fenni, lying on the ground...and a whole host of newly built droids climbing up to this very tunnel to join the surface battle. "We could bring this whole place down, but I doubt we could escape. No..."

His frustration grew, and the new batch of droids found itself levitated and crushed together into a useless mass.

"...we need to fight our nemesis, like proper heroes. You and me against that monstrosity. I'm tired, but we could get started. I think she's bleeding out."

 

[Jorga the Hutt]

"All right, we're in business! Keep that signal strong!"

The skiff drew a broad arc in the sky, narrowing down the triangulation in three dimensions.

"OK, Miss Jacobs. We can't touch that signal, any of these signals, or the whole ship might get infected. We can trace them at arm's length...

"And we can jam them, now that we've locked their end points down."

The sonic servodriver whined, overheating. The Bard cursed and kicked the skiff's console. "Come on!"

A jamming pulse, a communications blocker, rode the carrier wave of KORAH's connection to the thing in the pit -- and from there, it had half a chance of jamming the thing's coordination of the droid army.

 

[Janira Fenni]

A high pitched blare echoed through the cavern. She wanted to cover her ears, but when she tried to move her hands to do so, the droid guards put their feet on her arms. She was unable to do anything but lie there and endure it. Newly created droids smashed into one another. The others largely stopped in confusion. The giant monstrosity of a droid rose and turned upwards, staring towards the sky. It's control was being jammed. On top of that, the death of some of its newly created droids alerted it to a threat. Scanning found the source. It lifted a giant arm and pointed right at Velok and Cai with an enormous finger. A finger big enough to crush the both of them at the same time.

"Destroy them."

It might not be able to command through communications between it and the droids, but there was always verbal commands for those close by. Elsewhere, the droid army was thrown in disarray because of the jamming. The tide was quickly turning in the organics favor.

 

[Allyson Locke]

"You know kicking it always doesn't make it work! Typical man."

Spencer rolled her eyes as she placed her hands on her hips, of course she was probably the worst person to be in this situation with. She wasn't one for droids or anything mechanical -- she liked organics. Looking at the arch, she frowned not really understanding what she was seeing.

"You know I can understand the complexity of the Force but this stuff....no dice"