Synthetic Bloodlust
Location: Starship Hangar, Hibridium Mining Facility - Garos IV
Objective: Resource Management
Dialogue Legend: <<Technopathy Link>> │ “Verbal”
Direct Engagement:
Drego Ruus
With her extensive anatomical databases, Lucia was not surprised to hear the Mandalorian’s pained grunt in response to being struck. The back of the knee was not only an immensely painful place to be hit, but was also incredibly hard to defend. It was vital to mobility after all, to such an extent that even the heaviest powersuits were compelled to leave the area less-protected in order to ensure that the user could run, jump, and dodge inside their armor.
Nevertheless, her opponent was still formidable and very much capable of fighting. Had Lucia not already witnessed his feats of durability, she might have thought that such a wound would put him down immediately. Instead, he planted his feet to pivot around, using what was almost certainly his good leg to do so. The gynoid’s photoreceptors registered the movement the moment the moment it began and in turn, she immediately threw her body into a flying, cartwheeling somersault in the opposite direction of the Mandalorian’s spin, effectively moving into his turn so that he might overshoot and be forced to stop, then restart his momentum in the opposite direction in order to follow her. She hoped that such a maneuver would not only put additional strain (and pain) on his injured knee, but would also give her an opening to inflict further injury.
Unfortunately, the downside of her maneuver was that for a split-second, it put her body right inside the sights of the Mandalorian’s machine blaster pistol, giving the opportunity for a snap shot as the gynoid briefly passed in front of the weapon. Lucia registered the ensuing hit to her torso almost immediately, the force behind the shot briefly stunning her as she landed, compelling the gynoid to use one of her hands in order to save her balance. Nevertheless, with synthetic, inhuman resilience, she sprang back up onto both feet (albeit still crouched low to the floor), at which point a trio of particle beam blasts exploded out from the barrel of her scatterblaster all fired within the span of a half-second and from 10 meters away. Each blast was aimed to strike the Mandalorian inside the (presumably) raised armpit of the arm carrying his machine blaster—another area that she hoped might represent an exploitable weak point.
All the while, Lucia felt the attempt at probing her systems, her synthetic mind functioning as a computer running multiple programs at once. However, the AI tasked with compromising her had an obstacle to overcome before she could begin hacking. She needed to gain some form of access—a remarkable challenge given the fact that like any droid, Lucia was essentially a closed system. Gaining said access would be even harder now, as Lucia swiftly shut down all external communications and sent her systems into lockdown—a measure intended to buy time for power to come back, so that she might activate her threat-prevention suite (which was disabled due to the sudden power draw from her phase shift).
And yet, now knowing that the Mandalorian had an AI on his side, Lucia was not entirely comfortable with that measure alone.
On cue, the gynoid drew power from her systems, thereby shutting off her Feilong Repulsors and plasma whips, before shunting their power into the threat-prevention suite. Said decision would immediately compromise her aerial mobility and meant that she now had no weapon suitable for melee combat, should the fight come to that. Nevertheless, the measure gave her a small amount of solace. For any droid, there was nothing more terrifying and invasive than getting hacked.
Objective: Resource Management
Dialogue Legend: <<Technopathy Link>> │ “Verbal”
Direct Engagement:
Drego Ruus
With her extensive anatomical databases, Lucia was not surprised to hear the Mandalorian’s pained grunt in response to being struck. The back of the knee was not only an immensely painful place to be hit, but was also incredibly hard to defend. It was vital to mobility after all, to such an extent that even the heaviest powersuits were compelled to leave the area less-protected in order to ensure that the user could run, jump, and dodge inside their armor.
Nevertheless, her opponent was still formidable and very much capable of fighting. Had Lucia not already witnessed his feats of durability, she might have thought that such a wound would put him down immediately. Instead, he planted his feet to pivot around, using what was almost certainly his good leg to do so. The gynoid’s photoreceptors registered the movement the moment the moment it began and in turn, she immediately threw her body into a flying, cartwheeling somersault in the opposite direction of the Mandalorian’s spin, effectively moving into his turn so that he might overshoot and be forced to stop, then restart his momentum in the opposite direction in order to follow her. She hoped that such a maneuver would not only put additional strain (and pain) on his injured knee, but would also give her an opening to inflict further injury.
Unfortunately, the downside of her maneuver was that for a split-second, it put her body right inside the sights of the Mandalorian’s machine blaster pistol, giving the opportunity for a snap shot as the gynoid briefly passed in front of the weapon. Lucia registered the ensuing hit to her torso almost immediately, the force behind the shot briefly stunning her as she landed, compelling the gynoid to use one of her hands in order to save her balance. Nevertheless, with synthetic, inhuman resilience, she sprang back up onto both feet (albeit still crouched low to the floor), at which point a trio of particle beam blasts exploded out from the barrel of her scatterblaster all fired within the span of a half-second and from 10 meters away. Each blast was aimed to strike the Mandalorian inside the (presumably) raised armpit of the arm carrying his machine blaster—another area that she hoped might represent an exploitable weak point.
All the while, Lucia felt the attempt at probing her systems, her synthetic mind functioning as a computer running multiple programs at once. However, the AI tasked with compromising her had an obstacle to overcome before she could begin hacking. She needed to gain some form of access—a remarkable challenge given the fact that like any droid, Lucia was essentially a closed system. Gaining said access would be even harder now, as Lucia swiftly shut down all external communications and sent her systems into lockdown—a measure intended to buy time for power to come back, so that she might activate her threat-prevention suite (which was disabled due to the sudden power draw from her phase shift).
And yet, now knowing that the Mandalorian had an AI on his side, Lucia was not entirely comfortable with that measure alone.
On cue, the gynoid drew power from her systems, thereby shutting off her Feilong Repulsors and plasma whips, before shunting their power into the threat-prevention suite. Said decision would immediately compromise her aerial mobility and meant that she now had no weapon suitable for melee combat, should the fight come to that. Nevertheless, the measure gave her a small amount of solace. For any droid, there was nothing more terrifying and invasive than getting hacked.
- Bloodflower Sapphire
- Energy Shield
- Utility
- Synthspray
- Lucia Naberrie’s Headband - ¹⁄₁₅ Concentration
- Droid
- Energy Shield
- Breshig War Forge Consolidated DP-02 Class-D Heavy Disruptor Pistol (2)
- Ammunition
- Gas Cartridge-Power Cell Combined Unit (8)
- Attachments
- 1-5x FAE/S-08 Electro-Sight
- Ammunition
- Lucia Naberrie’s ETL-36 Assault Scatterblaster Rifle
- Ammunition
- Power Cell (4)
- Attachments
- 1-5x FAE/S-08 Electro-Sight
- UPC-06 Underbarrel Plasma Caster
- Ammunition
- Medium Plasma Gas Canister (2)
- Ammunition
- Ammunition
- AI-Gx02 Si-Plasma Grenade
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