[Sith War 2003] Can't anyone think of an origional attack on the Hacker?
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gift by his new allies. Given, a sentient being? Still, best to not
upset his guests. "If you'll excuse me." The hacker offered his arm to
the lady and led her out into the corridor.
"Are you sure this is what you want?"
"I exist only to please you." A smile as sweet and tempting as any he'd
even seen.
This was too good to be true. Still, no sense in sending away a girl who
actually liked him. "I'll arrange quarters for you."
"I thought I'd stay in your room." By the Force, her smile was tempting.
"Is that a marrage proposal?"
Touching the tip of his nose, and a gleam in her eye, "Silly boy."
Not entirely sure how to handle this, "As you wish."
Turning to escort his lady to their room, the Hacker tickled his
internal datalink to set course for RASSM orbit. And found it missing.
Pulling a datapad from his belt, "Computer, diagnostic on unit 'Chuck
Babbage'." The display on the tablet showed a perfectly operating
droid, of the completely wrong model.
Boy this lady was distracting, nibbling on his ear.
Time for drastic action, starting with parking the girl 'til he had time
for her. A software glitch beckoned. Yes, he was a geeks geek.
Entering his room, he called up drinks in the food synthasizer, hot
chocolate for her, spiked with a mild trancauliser, spiced cider for
himself. Soon enough she was dozing, leaving him a window for his work.
Telneting to a secret address and port, he repeated his remote self
diagnosis. Apparently he was off line, his head bashed in. Reverse
trace connection. The Anabaptist rep had left something, and he was
inside. They'd pay. A flury of keystrokes and he mooned them. Every
monitor on their ship would show only an image of the full moon. As for
the backwards space amish, well, another flury of keystrokes and
whatever direction they told their ship to go, it would go the reverse.
Next, regain proper control of his real ship, and escape himself from
this prison. And take Mara with him. As distracting as she was, he was
sure she'd be fun.
Programming the simulation ships computer as an interface to his real
ship was easy. Any tools not built into the simulation, it had been
programmed to download from the real world. Getting himself out would
be harder.
And require new bodies. Fortunately, he knew where a few were in
storage, ready for refit and use. Set course, RASSM planet, prepare a
shuttle and a team of constructors.
Cracking an unknown system without crashing it is tough. And the Hacker
had forgotten how tedius doing it without a direct digital link was. He
was fairly certain that if the simulation was crashed, he'd be released,
though possably with some serious memory loss. The girl would not be so
fortunate. True, he reminder himself, she would be a computer program,
but sentient. And he was in love.
(hours later)
Entering RASSM orbit, he was alerted as the preplanned shuttle launched.
And paused at the scan of a large debree cloud. "Identify debree"
Polygonal deathstar build by R5-P1, plus wreckage of a fleet hit by ion
storms. "Project debree tarjectory" arcs curved out from the cloud,
rising and falling back towards RASSM planet. R5-P1 appeared th be out
of the game, but whoever had done it had chosen a bad time to attack.
Another few days, and RASSM would be in desperate need for another
miraculas reset. Still, enough time to retrieve his packages, and a bonus.
Soon, his shuttle returned, and he watched as a cylendar was brought
into the conference room turned lab. Backups secure, he started the
upload sequence.
Back on the real Giant PDA, data surged, and the hacker awoke. He
looked over his new body, self diagnosed. Successfull transfer. He
thought of repeating the procedure for Mara, but not now. Be best if
she awoke in a setting and body matching where she went to sleep, to a
hacker who appeared as she knew. Nanites would have the cosmetic
changes made on both bodies in less than a day. 'Til then, he had some
catching up to do.
Retrieving a data module from the wreckage, he uploaded logs. Many sith
warrier ships had departed on route to a plannet called middle earth.
He'd follow, and be ready when he got there.
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Summary:
- R5-P1 appears to be out of the game
- debree from his deathstar is in an orbit to his RASSM planet starting
in a couple days.
- The Hacker escapes his prison, and prepares to retrieve his girl.