Tao of the Machine

[Corey's OOC]

Alana was really starting to hate her position here. It was a whole lot of 'do this, now, do that after.' Really, Marek Starchaser should be doing that, but nooo, he was off doing his casino and who knew how many women. Was Alana jealous?

A bit, she would admit. But that was because the blonde and Marek had a weird way to interact in the Force. It was at times both intimate and down right scary. She didn't mind, it gave her a place to feel like she belonged, and truthfully? She felt safe. And well, there was this whole Suvian Science thing.

Marek had sent word to his assistant who was basically doing his frelling job for him, that the leader of the SS company was showing up. A droid by the name of [member="Jeff Solaris"], he apparently had a destroyer droid to sell. And Alana didn't really like droids. She found them useful, of course, but ones that had their fake sort of sentience? They just creeped her out. So even if she was wearing her black dress, she had her silver hilt on her hip, ready for anything. The blue blade would make short work of most things, or give her the necessary distraction.

But she was just waiting, in the office, typing away on a datapad on Spacebook doing real work. Just get the meeting over with, she could survive this.

 

[Warren Century]

As Alana was waiting, a couple of droids would enter the room. One walked in normally like a human being. The other rolled in, and it was one of the roller droids that Jeff had brought with him to give a demonstration of the droid's capabilities. "Hello Alana. I trust you wish to see what my most recent droid is capable of?" asked Jeff, as he looked at the new body he was in. His new body was a Warden model, and very powerful. It could even remotely control the droid, should he need to. Jeff waited for a few moments so that she'd have time to reply. "I see you like to wield a light-saber. How skilled are you with it?"

 

[Corey's OOC]

How did the droid know her name? Was her secretary telling? She was going to have to get the bug zapper for the Xi Char, wasn't she? Frakking insects. They were smart, but too... forward for her. Looking to the droid as he entered, she was hoping its programming was simple. Give her what she wanted, and ask for payment. She would take the best way to get these units that wouldn't bankrupt the Technate, and by association the ASA. Simple.

It was making small-talk... That made her skin crawl.

"I've seen the data you've sent over on the droid. If you have some demo that you feel would be useful for me to see, i'd appreciate it." As for the lightsaber? "I'm adept at using it. When the situation calls for it."

Like slicing droids open.

[member="Jeff Solaris"]

 

[Warren Century]

"You know, I was once human." said Jeff, before he nodded. She wanted a demo of what the droid was capable of. Very well, it could be arranged and provided for her. Using one of the abilities of his new body he sent a wireless signal that carried a command to the roller droid, putting it in Demo Mode which would cause it to roll around the room with the Force Field activated. "So do you want to actually fight the robot to see why you should buy it from Suvian? I guarantee your light-saber will most likely fail for a while at least against it."

 

[Corey's OOC]

Sure, he was human once, but now? He was all sorts of machine gizmos. "Thats nice..." Really, she was being polite, she wanted to make the deal and get on with the rest of her meetings. Biting her lip, she gave him a friendly smile, running a hand through her hair. Seeing the droid come in, her body did go a bit rigid as she watched it.

Wonderful.

And her hand went right to her lightsaber.

"I don't need to test it, but..." She shrugged. "Send it to the third level, there is a mock training course." Something simple, some Clanker droids, and a few of the melee units, which she was forgetting its name... Damn.

"We can watch it from here." And it could leave her alone.

[member="Jeff Solaris"]

 

[Warren Century]

Another silent command was sent to the Roller Droid by Jeff, and sure enough it proceeded as fast as it could to the level she had told him about and entered the training course. Jeff then examined her. She seemed not to like droids. It was almost prejudice. Yet another reason for him eventually to become a human once more. It was a good thing he was getting the training he needed before doing so though. The terminal illness possessed by him would be a problem that he had to deal with on a regular basis unless he didn't use his own DNA. Finding a suitable candidate so as to create a new body for himself would be something he'd so soon enough.

When his droid had arrived, Jeff waited. As the Roller Droid approached a couple of the clankers it automatically activated it's Force Field, and shot a high powered blast piercing through the clankers. It started to proceed around the area, looking for threats.

 

[Corey's OOC]

See? That she could understand, the Hydra War Droids were able to do that with their unit. Hooking one of those up to some of these beasts? That would be interesting... Granted, she felt Prime didn't need more metal to move around and be crazy with. Droid already made her antsy and now it wanted to be a tank. Why couldn't they just be people, or droid, and not think they're people like Kazak. And maybe she was prejudice. She didn't care. Thinking droids bothered her.

Kind of like how furry creatures bothered Marek. Simple, and it was the way the galaxy went, speciests, racists and sexists. There was a natural order to things, and as much as the Sith didn't like it? Well, they had to die sometimes.

Watching the droid on the screen, she was nodding. That was some blast. When more clankers and the martial droids... what in the hells were they called? came in, she smiled, watching them surround the unit. Droids were creepy.

Like children.

[member="Jeff Solaris"]

 

[Warren Century]

When surrounded, the Roller Droid immediately drew more power from the crystal core and unleashed a barrage of blasts from all 6 guns at every droid that was surrounding it, without lowering the Force Field. It seemed the power source used in the droid allowed it more than enough power so as to maintain the Force Field, and fire the blasts simultaneously. Once it had wrecked them all, it stood waiting for further commands.