Much More Machine Than Man

[Kiso]

Sector: Yavin Hex.... Time Unknown..... Operation: Metal Gear
Kiso's personal Kuma class torpedo cruiser/frigate excited hyperspace a few Parsecs away from the planet of Yavin. A strange energy reading had been picked up by the Shrouded Republics ships as they wandered deep space, it had the reading of a capital ship, a seemingly old one judging from the power output, but a ship non the less, and if a ship was dead in space it was very often greatly preserved, no erosion or rust, not wear or tear, a perfectly preserved ship for the taking, and the republic needed everything the you get their hands on.

"Report Marine.. what do the scanner pick up"

"Readings say its a Venator Class, seems to be adrift, reactor core still instant, but main engines off line, life support minimal.... but why is it all the way out here".

"Its almost been a century since the since the clone wars, I would not be surprised that such a ship would be so far away from any planet, most likely it was damaged, evacuated and left, but got out of reach... proceed dock on its star bored side, well see what we can get from with wreak".

The captain of the ship gave a salute before relaying the orders, Kiso turning around with a flip of the cape, making haste to the ships small fighter hanger.

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[Kelictu Moreantu]

Sector: Yavin| Time:Unknown| Ship I.D: The Unsinkable

The Unsinkable was last seen during the Battle of Corusant, before being boarded by several Droid Boarding parties, and a Hydra Bomber hitting the Hyper drive. In a strange occurrence, instead of the Hyper drive being destroyed, it actually activated and jumped the Unsinkable to the Yavin System, where the crew was killed by the droids and they spent most of their time repairing the Ship. Once Order 66 fell, the droids ignored it, fixing the ship and believing the order was a fake out by the Republic. VV7-0QZ was one of the many droids on board, Working as a security droid for the bridge. "Sir, a Republic ship has jumped into the system." A B-1 battle droid reported to a Super Tactical Droid. "Allow them to come on board, and wait for them to approach the bridge. If they open fire, Rip them apart." "Roger Roger." The Battle Droid walked away, a welcome party of B-2 Battle Droids, B-1's and Magna Guards approached the small main hanger bay. [member="Kiso"]

 

[Kiso]

Kisos cruiser slowly came up to the Venators side, her Solid Eye picking up strange readings from the inside, no life forces present but movement, inorganic... "driods"? "Some thing wrong commander"? "Yes, I'm picking up presences on bored, but they are inorganic, to many to be protocol and astromech, hmmm". There was a always the chance of a fight breaking out, the Republics last operation on an old Clone Wars planet giving a good lesson that 900 year old droids can still kill effectively.

"Keep your weapons at the ready, but do not shoot unless I give the command", the ships came to a stop at the docking bay, latching onto the air lock, the door slowly opening into the main hanger. Kiso gave some hand signals to have the marines fan out, but gave a closed hand to indicate 'hold position', followed by another few hand signs 'contacts, unknown, hold fire'.

Kiso stood firm as the droids approached, her codec HUD classifying them, "Approaching targets, B-1 class battle droids, B-2 class super battle droids, IG-100 class Magna guards". 'Sure know how to throw a welcome party, lest see how the act before doing anything rash'.

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[Kelictu Moreantu]

One of the Droid's, a B-1 Battle Droid with the identifying Captain colors on it, waving to them. "Greetings, I am BD-152468, Welcome aboard the Unsinkable, Ladies and Gentlemen. Is there something we can help you with?" The B-2 and IG-100 Droids stood back, and Most of the Other B-1's stayed with the Captain. It was rather obvious that they did not want to open fire unless fired upon, and who was commanding them was unknown to the newcomers on board.

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[Kiso]

Kiso tried to suppress a laugh at the way the droid greeted her, as well as the name of the ship. Well truth be told it had yet to sink, it was rather ironic in her mind. 'Droid classification serial number BD-152468, downloading to memory'. She gave a snort quick salute to the B1 captain, "I am Commander Kiso of the Shrouded Republic Marine Corps, you can call me TB-20-14". "As for our business here, we detected a energy source from a capital ship size vessel and came to investigate as such a ship could prove useful for our military, but I must say, was not expected to find a small army of droids on board".

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[Kelictu Moreantu]

"Of course Commander, I'm happy to lead you to-" a Communicator on the Captain's arm starts going off, He answers it and a voice comes out, one that the Droids Listened to immediately, and what the guests on board can identify as a CIS Super Tactical Droid. "Captain, I need the Boarders on the Bridge Immediately. My Commander wants to see them personally." The Droids looked around, before silently surrounding the group and their boarding ship. "To take you to the Bridge, you'll have to escorted via an Armed Escort...Sorry." The Captain turns around and the droids start escorting them to the bridge under the order of this Super Tactical Droid.

On the Bridge, the Super Tactical Droid keeps his view not outside the window, but to about half his height. "Sir, The Commander and the boarding party are on their way here. The Captain reports they had detected the Ship's energy signature and wanted to investigate as salvagers." "Very good...I can't wait for them to be here. I have many questions for the group."

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[Kiso]

She gave the Captain droid a quizzical look as he answered his com link, sure she may have been able to easily hack into the conversation, 800 year old tech and all, but preventing a fire fight or any compilations was the main objective. 'Stay calm everyone' she whispered through the squads codecs as the droids surrounded them, "It is no problem captain, I have been in your situation more then once, and I know what it feels like".

'Jessica, up front with me', Kiso kept in time stride behind the droid as her second in command followed closely to the side, 'Kiso... do you have any idea why they are taking us to the bridge? seems a little strange". "I've run though this simulation in my circuits a few times, most likely they want information of some sort, what that is varies greatly in my probability outcome, but if I had to go on my human intuition, I'd say they want a run down of galactic history, being separated from the rest of the galaxy for so long, it would be my first want to know upon meeting people".

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[Kelictu Moreantu]

The droids and this team got up to the bridge, having them go face to face with the Super Tactical Droid. The droid turned around to face the team before speaking out. "Commander, The Salvagers have arrived aboard the bridge." The Super Tactical Droid now moved over, showing a Droid that had the lower half of a Droideka, the Upper body half of a Commando Droid, and one arm is a B2 Battle Droid cannon. He'd step forward, some strange devices on his legs as he approached the group. "Greetings. I am VV7-0QZ. Before you ask, The Droids know what's happened the past 800 to 900 years. What they do need to know about is that the CIS Signals were reactivated recently. The main question for them and myself is 'Is the Clone Wars starting again?'." He'd be referring to the new CIS Faction that has reappeared in recent times, along with the fact that the Ship they had come in the system with was Identified as a Republic Ship in their Databanks.

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[Kiso]

The droids commander was, needless to say interesting, an odd design choice to her, but it did look cool, 'I wonder if such a design was deliberate, or did they just run out of parts over time'. Turned out her gut feeling was right, but the again such a question was most likely part of the tactical droids programming, learn assess act, and at this point it was learning. "If you allow me access to your holo map I can show and tell you what I know, my memory core has most of the galactic history stored in it, and I can offer personal information that may elude you through the more official channels". "Though to answer your question simply, no, the clone wars has long ended, but does not mean a new one cannot start".

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[Kelictu Moreantu]

"Hmm....Alright. Go right ahead...this Ship is almost done being fully repaired anyway. Our Holomap might be a bit out dated by a few hundred years though." He'd Point to the Galaxy Map and Hyperdrive computer, where the Holomap would be. VV7-0QZ moved over to the Super Tactical Droid, and whispered to him. "What are the chances that these salvagers will destroy everything here?" "I'd believe that out of 100%, there is a 80 to 85% chance of that happening...but that could be uncertain." VV7-0QZ would nod his head, and walks back to where he was standing before he went to go and talk to the Super Tactical Droid.

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[Kiso]

She gave a small nod to the tactical droid and walked over to the holo table, removing her glove, the metal limb Universal connector plugging into the device. A small wiring sound could be heard as Kiso uploaded several maps and historical files to the ships data base, before bringing the most up to date version of the galactic map for those around to see.

"This here is a map of the current galaxy lay out, and the major factions and governments at play with planets under command", Her finger pointed down to an area highlighted in purple, around Geonosis. "This here is the newly reformed Confederacy of Independent systems, basis off the old one, a government that wants to stay neutral in the current wars". "Right next to it, this faction in grey is whats left of the Galatic Empire, after the clone wars and the republic won it was reformed into an Empire, and all the Jedi were hunted down". "This small faction the operate out of Kimino is the remnants of that, they still use clones and are rapidly expanding again".

"Over here to the far right it the Order of the Sivler Jedi, a very militaristic Jedi government that formed around 20 year ago due to the rising Sith threat, the are currently at war with the Galactic Empire and to the North, the new Sith Empire, which is modeled on the Sith Empire form millennia ago". Her finger moved to the next highlighted are, this one in yellow, "This here is the Galactic Alliance, similar to the republic but not really the same, to its left is its current cease fired enemy, the First Order, a slightly more radical break off of the Galactic Empire, below that is the Outer Rim Coalition, similar to the CIS, but more... lawless".

Next Kiso zoomed in on the core worlds, pointing to each small highlighted area, "This here is the Commoner System Alliance, a neutral trade hub faction, that uses Grey Jedi a lot in its military, a sort of safe haven from the galaxy, thought that does not stop the Sith Empire from attacking". "Above that is the Free Coalition, again similar to the CAS, tries to be neutral, but again, comes under attack from the Sith and Galactic Empire". Kiso paused for a bit for the droids to take in the information before continuing.

"Here are the Metal Lords, a government ran by droids for droids, you may notice Corellia is no longer on the map, that because the Metal Lords kind of blew the planet up, over her in green is the Mandalorians, have not changed at all, war fighting honor, etc". "Lastly up here in the former unknown regions is the Iron Empire, just a typical monarchical regime, kind of neutral". Next Kiso moved to historical report from the last 20 years, "Did you have any questions so far VV7-0QX"?

 

[Kelictu Moreantu]

"Oh I don't need the history lesson. We figured all that out on our own. We just took a look around the Galaxy and assumed a second Clone war was about to begin." He stepped over to [member="Kiso"] and tapped her shoulder, whispering into her ear. We need a way out of here...We've been stuck here for centuries...Heeeelp. VV7-0QZ moving away, going over to the elevator to go down to the second floor to head to the hanger they landed in. "I will meet you at your ship to bid you farewell when you are ready to leave. Tyranus, Make sure you tend to whatever our guests need. "Yes Sir." The Super Tactical Droid responds, as VV7-0QZ goes down the elevator and out of the bridge.

 

[Kiso]

"Of course, what ever pleases you, If you need anymore information just give me a call", Kiso disengaged from the outlet, the holo projector powering down. She was about to turn around before the cold metal hand of the droid clamped onto her shoulder, making her flinch a bit. 'What the fuuuuuuuuuck'? what [member="VV7-0QZ"] was unbelievably creepy, was he talking about himself, all the droids.

Regardless she kept a straight face, trying her best not to look puzzled by his words, "Um yes, I look forward to meeting you again". Her circuits worked over time to try and understand what the droid meant, but regardless there were more important things to attend to. Kiso turned her to the super tactical droid, "Tell me, what is the operational capacity and capability of this ship, supplies still on board and small arms on broad.

 

[Kelictu Moreantu]

"To answer your questions in order, The operational capacity of the Unsinkable is at 97.365% and will be at 100 percent by the next rotation of the Planet of Yavin. The Ship is Fully capable of all functions except for that of hyperspace, which the hyperdrive is being repaired at this very moment. There are no supplies that could sustain organic lifeforms on board besides oxygen and water, and the Small arms on board have been completely repaired and upgraded to combat modern enemy craft."

Once the Super Tactical Droid named Tyranus finished speaking, one of the B-1 battle droids go up from the pits and spoke up. "Even we got upgrades! Better programming, better aim...even better deduction and logic!"

Tyranus looked at the droid with a stance of disaproval, as the B-1 droid sat back down, and went back to work. [member="Kiso"]

 

[Kiso]

Kiso kept a hand on chin and nodded to herself at the droid listed the workings and logistics of the ship, "Very well, though I would wager the ships shield generator and armor plating would need to be upgraded if it is able to take on more newer class ship, but thank you for the data". The B1 that spoke up earned a chuckle from her as it bragged about its new upgrades, "True, but from what I heard you guys where programed to be deliberately bad aims so the Republic would win, more up to date record reval that the Sith where playing both sides of the war so they could weaken both the Republic and CIS to eventually take over... you can see from today that didn't work out in the long run".

"But I digress, I'll be going to talk to your commander now, there is some stuff I wish to discuss with him". Kiso gave the super tactical droid a salute before exciting the bridge, being escorted back down to the manger bay.

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[Kelictu Moreantu]

VV7-0QZ had been at their shuttle for the past few minutes, pacing back and forth as he waits for their commander, [member="Kiso"], to arrive to the hanger bay. After several minutes of pacing, he'd see the commander come through the hanger bay doors, and makes her way over to the shuttle they used to board the Unsinkable. He'd go up and shakes her hand. "I apologize for the rather...awkward situation I put you in with that, but I am technically not with these droids. I found them after I went out and did some exploring. My ship failed, and I had no choice but to remain on board and take command of these battle droids. I would like to keep them, since I put my time into upgrading them, but I at least need to get somewhere other than stuck in this one system all the time."

 

[Kiso]

Kiso hand reached and shook [member="VV7-0QZ"], the two metal surfaces clasping onto one another, "You found them? and I am going to assume started the reconstruction effort of this Venator, but tell me, where you once human? You central hub is that of a brain is it not? Just how long have you been on this ship, just curious is all". "As for transportation, I will be more than happy to take you and a few of your compatriots on broad me, but where will you be going? Does your 'crew' wish to take up arms with the new CIS? and what are you plans for this ship, though still useful it is greatly outclassed by modern standards, heck even the Imperial Star destroyers from 800 years ago have more fire power then this Capital Ship.

 

[Kelictu Moreantu]

That was....the point of this experiment with the Old CIS. I do have a human brain, but I'm used to it at this point. I've been on this ship for about a year now, but these droids don't seem interested in joining the New CIS. Maybe I'll keep the Ship and the other droids, but for now...a few will do. [member="Kiso"]

 

[Kiso]

She pondered what to do after the new relational, if the droids where not interested in joining the new reformed CIS what were they going to do, conduct raids on Galactic Empire worlds, attack Kamino, truth be told she would considered letting them do it, but then again, waiting such resources. "Your welcome aboard my ship with what ever personal guard you wish to take, but I am limited in parts of the galaxy that I can do due to the Shrouded Republics current hostilities with the Galactic Empire, and thus Sith empire and First Order, anywhere else though I am free to come and go".

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