Snowflame

[Sala'dine]

[member="Vivian"]

THe patrol craft was moving quietly, Sala'dine had spent a great deal of time designing it. From the sleek design that hid most of its weapons and didn't leave a large profile. Top the polymer covering the surface of the ship that masked it from sight in the blackness of space and sensors. They had worked hard then to give it the stealth systems, a layer of the biot jelly. THat prevented it from being detected in the force even so out of sight, out of mind and it could detect a stealth ship. Something important to her before Sala'dine had brought it out of stealth mode to accept new shuttles into the hanger. People she had hired and was working with to well test out new security measures. With the silver jedi now something she didn't recognize she did what she always did. Survive and she had been a grand admiral in another life, able to strike fear into the hearts and minds... here she was an admiral with a small fleet she could use and it was the stealth ships they had. TUrning the buttons over in her hands and finished working on them to ensure her outfit looked proper. The synthmesh and skylar uniform, with her hair back behind her shoulders. her eyes looking out and she walked in the silver, grey and black outfit. "Welcome to the judgement."

 

[Vivian]

With the usual kick that came with it, Vivian's small fighter ship jumped out of Hyperspace at the coordinates she was given. After all, she had been hired for her skills with computers and was told to come here to meet up. As she looked around and checked the sensors, she didn't see anything special here though, but before she could run a proper check with the scanners, the stealth ship came into appearance, causing Vivian to just look at in awe it for a moment nefore a smile formed on her snout. This was already promising to be great.

Grabbing the controls of her small fighter ship, Vivian steered it forward towards the opening hangar, the bright white of her ship in contrast to the sleek black of the much larger ship. Once inside of the hangar, she searched herself a nice spot to land at, probably being told just where to land, and then shutted down the fighter's engines. The cockpit glass glided up and a small ladder extended down the side of the ship's nose to the ground. The small fox girl stood up on the pilot's seat and got a backpack from behind the fighter's seat and with it climbed down the ladder. Apparently, right now she was only wearing her fur and her backpack. After arriving down at the ladder, she turned around and smiled at the taller human female. "Hello, quite the imposing name for an imposing ship! I'm Vivian, nice to meet you!" she said as she stepped forward and helf out a hand to her contractor to properly introduce herself.

 

[Sala'dine]

[member="Vivian"]

She looked at her for a moment, different cultures asides well she had worked to try and be more accepting of things. After so many years with pro-human imperials it wasn't always easy but at least with a diverse crew she had learned how to accept better. The only furs thing was new and she waited for a moment to keep herself composed falling back to that needed icy exterior that would work to hide emotions. "Thank you." She said it while walking and her eyes were warm again before she watched the ships being taken care of. Cared for, refuled even as she was walking. This was a talented slicer after all and she had designs on improving the ships security methods that would require testing... plus they were in a region of space where she could use the help with computers for other things. "Your skills though are most welcome, we have been working on a number of new components to protect from slicers. So getting one to test them out is important."

 

[Vivian]

[member="Sala'dine"]

Vivian smiled as she greeted her contractor, but then looked around left and right in the hangar as they started to walk, leaving her own ship in the care of the crew. They knew what to do, she was sure of that. Clearly, Vivian wasn't experienced enough to not trust others with her possible getaway vehicle. For those who knew, this was clearly a sign of her being new. As they walked, Vivian slided off her small backpack from her shoulders and, without stopping, pulled out a shirt and short pants, both in grey and yellow. So as she walked after Sala'dine, she slipped on her shirt and then put the backpack on her back again, then stepped into her pants and jumped a little bit to keep up with the woman as she quickly got dressed.

Once in her working outfit, as she liked to call it, she smiled and said "So, I'm doing some white hacker work? Poking your securiy systems? That's fine, I can do that! Want me to use only conventional methods a normal slicer could use, or also some more unusual means, like things the Jedi or Sith could use?"

 

[Sala'dine]

[member="Vivian"]

She looked at her with a grin when she came to a stop. "Well normal means are good and using the force is spomething else. The biot layer of the ship is designed to block the force from getting into the ship so inside it might be a little diferent." Still she wasn't against it the agena was something that other force users could connect with but it required a great deal of concentration to reach the biomechanical fluid. She stood there on the bridge and brought out some of the displays from the command chair that was for her. Smaller chairs for everyone moved around and you could see they were designed for crews on long missions with gel memory form as the cushions and headrests. Sala'dine sat down in her chair and the biometrics activated it for her. "From here I can monitor the entire bridge and lock out each of the consoles as needed. So testing your skills won't hinder our performance. There are also the new locks we are designing for the doors."

 

[Vivian]

[member="Sala'dine"]

The small fox girl looked around once they reached the bridge of the ship, and looked at the seats. She even let out a little whistle and smiled even more. "That's a really nice ship! Looks rather expensive. And you have a force-blocking plating? Well, I can still try to use the Force for the hacking to simulate an intruder who got onto the ship. Where may I sit?" She looked around and walked up and down a little bit, taking a look at the consoles on the bridge. "Also, were there any known issues that you fixed and want me to try out again? Or anything specific that you want to see tested? Any requirements? Or want me to just go crazy and see what I can do?"

 

[Sala'dine]

[member="Vivian"]

"Any of the seats are fine, they are made to seat mandellian giants and jawa's with everything in between." So it could be comfortable for her as well, there was also the small screen that came over and as some fo the crew had asked a small place to store pistols in the arm under the cushion should a problem arise. THis would prevent completely being disarmed as if they threw away their weapons and were held on the bridge the crew had an armory ready to use. Sala'dine touched a screen and a seat moved lighting up before she was speaking. "We have worked and only encountered one mechu-deru user but that is a rare skill not manuy have. Using the force to connect wirth the agena component can take a lot of concentration we know that from experience and history."

 

[Vivian]

[member="Sala'dine"]

Vivian slided the backpack down from her back and sat onto one of the seats, with the backpack right in front of her. Opening it up, she took out a small assortment of gear, specialised and modified slicer gear, which she placed onto her lap as she pulled up her digitigrade feet to the seat to sit with her legs forming a triangle. "Sorry Miss, but.. I have no idea what a Mechu-Deru user is. Care to explain?" As she talked, she already tried to access some systems on the bridge using wireless connections without plugging any of her devices into any ports, trying to gradually test out the systems.

 

[Sala'dine]

[member="Vivian"]

"It is a force technique developed by the sith but some jedi have been able to use it sparingly. It allows them to manipulate and control machines." She was sitting there and turned in the holochair as it came to look at the slicer when she was sitting up. Before she could think about it though she was bringing up the information about the bridge and the systems but she had moved them all to her. Where she might be able to really work on it and seeing what countermeasures they mgiht be able to use and do with. She wanted to see if the neural net within the ship would help as it should and with the systems, with everything here she was prepared to watch it.

 

[Vivian]

[member="Sala'dine"]

Vivian leaned back in the seat as she brought up all the monitoring screens she could and basically watched herself with the ship's systems as she started to move around through those with her slicing gear, slowly slipping through lines of code and doing little minor changes as she spoke to Sala'dine. "Ah, well, then I think it's similar to something I can do. Allows me to reprogram things on the fly, pretty much. Doesn't really help with writing up new code though. Well... can I get a glass of juice maybe? I'm compiling a little virus, an Agent so to say, and will release him onto the system to see how far it gets. No worries, it's a friendly little Agent, only moves around, creates a new file, deletes it again... just testing where it can write and where not." At her last word she pressed one last button, then smiled and leaned back a bit more, looking over to Sala'dine. "So, you know a bout about the Force then?"

 

[Sala'dine]

[member="Vivian"]

Hmm hearing about the virus she was glad to work with it. As long as it did what it said after all, she had to be careful but was looking at a great deal going across her screen as the semi organic agena reacted to the intrusion and its amniod fluid would work to try and make it harder to hack the mechanical parts of its make up. Where Sala'dine could focus was on the exclusion of the computer from the system and how to lock it down. She needed to test the lockdown and make sure the droid brain within the ship could react quickly to when a system was infected, switch over to another one or a redundant system like with her holochair.

 

[Vivian]

[member="Sala'dine"]

Vivian mostly layed back and let the virus work now, kind of similar to some computer people who let the automatic help do the job for them. Except that in this case she actually knew what she was doing and was observing the countermeasures. Needless to say though, she wouldn't make it too easy for the systems, because if they weren't able to stop light attacks, they weren't allowed to call themselves countermeasure systems at all. So she added another little virus, rather similar to the first one, but with a replicating function and a killswitch she could activate from her slicing gear, followed by another little virus that did nothing but trying to stay unnoticed and try where it could go to, essentially breaching the little seperated network Sala'dine had created under the direct guidance of Vivian who was controlling it rom her slicing console.. After all, that was kind of the ultimate test, so to say. And it was better to just place a picture of a dolphin onto Sala'dine's monitor to proove the breaching than to cause anything destructive.

"You know a lot about the Force? I really don't myself, I just have some abilities, most of them are intuitive though. Can't control them myself. But I can do that where I manipulate code only with my force of will, without gear. And I can shoot lightnings at droids and consoles." She chuckled a ltitle bit at the last part and smiled over to the woman. "So, may I ask what kind of faction you are working for? I mean, I think you don't own this ship all for yourself, do you?"

 

[Sala'dine]

[member="Vivian"]

"I am an admiral within the Silver jedi." or was she, she could never be certain they tended to just brush people off and ignore them rather then answer questions or give anything. She stil could get access to her ships she had helped design though so there was that and she would be able to work on a few of the things for them. "The ship, I designed it, I oversaw its construction and went across the galaxy to get the parts for it. Then no one else wanted to use it so now I control or at least a the one who knows the location of the ghost fleet. Several destroyers able to cloak and move around the galaxy where they are needed. She was looking at the screen and the droid brain was working to keep the system isolated as it quickly shut down the image trying to go on the screen and she could fel the Agena from the force as it was reacting to the intrusion itself protecting the systems.

 

[Vivian]

[member="Sala'dine"]

"Oh, Silver Jedi? That sounds great! Do you have a lightsaber and such?" she asked without much hesitation. "You've designed the ship yourself? Well, that's really great work! Congratulations! I don't know that much about ships, I couldn't design one. Well, I could probably write a program that controls one, but that's it." Vivian looked down at her slicing gear and opened up a small cover that was laid over a single button, flipping it over and then pressing the button. Within moments, the self-replicating virus stopped and deleted itself, as did the two others that she had sent on their journey. It all shutted down quickly and removed a lot of stress on the ship's computer, leaving Vivian smiling. "Ah, great. So... You know, this is a process for multiple days, maybe even three weeks. My next step will be to study the recordings of today's session and see where I can do some minot improvements, before I go on with the really next sessions. Can I get a room with a bed here on the ship for the time being?"

 

[Sala'dine]

[member="Vivian"]

Did she have a lightsaber.... yes and no. Not a traditional type as the other jedi, the one she had was more or less a saber with the flatter blade and pointed. The darksaber something from the mandalorians was a better non jedi style weapon. She looked at the slicer and taking time to really make sure this process worked and the systems were defended could take time. it should take time... anyone who only went of of one result wasn't someone she would have trusted as she gave a nod of her head. "That works, we are heading to the unknown regions where there is a research base. So that will take some time without using the official routes through it."

 

[Vivian]

[member="Sala'dine"]

Vivian smiled and nodded. Going into the unknown regions was kind of dangerous, but they were on a big ship with probably a lot of weapons, so she was sure that they'd be fine.
The next day, Vivian came to the bridge wearing only her fur and her backpack again. Given that she was going to stay here for a while, she also could get homely, right? As such she sat on one of the seats on the bridge again, once more pulling her legs up and placing her paws against each other to form a triangle with her legs as she started to work, once more digging into the systems a little bit to try and confirm some of the findings from the day before, making sure that the readings were correct. "Erm... Ma'am? I will need to work on some of the settings, but for that I'd need a console with higher access. I think your captain's seat has those, right? Can I sit there?"

 

[Sala'dine]

[member="Vivian"]

Sala'dine raised an eyebrow less at the girl and more at her request as she was sitting there in the seat. THe holograms going around them and she spoke. "It is biometrically locked to me and if I leave it the chair will lock down and stun you." Hmm she thought about a way to get past the counter measures and while she was sitting here she could do a great deal... so she motioned. "Alright, a small plan, you aren't to large and should be able to fit and handle the controls from here. Even if you are at an angle." Sala'dine remained there while she didn't look at her crew, they were smart and loayl, they didn't make a lot of noise or talk with others. So offering a seat so the slicer could access the ship from her console.

 

[Vivian]

[member="Sala'dine"]

Vivian let out a little bit of an impressed whistle as she heard about the security systems of the seat and smiled. "That sounds like you've had some problems with that in the past and took measures to not let that happen again! Thanks for the offer." she said, then packed up her gear and moved over to the captain's chair. With her being only about half the woman's size, this wasn't too problematic. So after climbing the seat, she sat down on the captain's lap, her tail pulled to the side to not disturb anyone as she once again spread out some of her slicing gear in front of her and reached out for the captain's console, continuing her work like that.

 

[Sala'dine]

[member="Vivian"]

Sala'dine was looking at the holographic console while the slicer was going to work. Where she would be able to work on a few things and observe what she was doing and where she was getting in. The small girl was different compared to the others she had met and being small like this she fit rather well in the seat on her leg. Dark hair in a ponytail before she spoke. "We have had problems with ship systems suddenly being overtaken within seconds despite the best security measures. So worked to make sure the only way would be to kill a lot of people and even then the droid brain reads body temp and patterns so that it can't be tricked with someone who is dead."

 

[Vivian]

[member="Sala'dine"]

Vivian leaned back against the woman who was her seat now and pulled up another console, looking at the body temperature monitor the droid brain would use and write a few more lines of code in there. "Body temperature alone is a bit unreliable. I'm adding a sub routine to also check the heart frequency. When someone dies, the heart frequency usually stops rather quickly, while the body needs a long time to cool off."