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"Provided Alexnick iz done vith ze pancakes, I've svitched off even ze microveave" Fixer answered "Ze only zings ztill vorking are ze ovvious, die rradios, ID transmitter if you unzerstand mich, und der slavezirkuit...

A small rain of sparks emerged from a diferent maintenance hatch.

"... und die Jukebox. Die Jukebox vill be down für a few days: I had to rretrief a few kapazitators von it. Die auxiliary komputar ist doing a test right now... I'll be avle to tell you morre onze it is kom-plete... ze shiff believes it has a Mynock orr tchoo. I vas vondering if energizing the hull may give dose bastards an overdose"

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Fixer switched off everything that may be an interference in the lower level. Given he was the closest thing to something illegal onboard, he didn't want the imps to inspect them; although it was not difficult to pretend being a reprogrammed maintenance unit made up of thrash, it was not pleasurable. For the maker's shake: some of the new guys in the order didn't even knew how a B1 looked like. It had been just 50 years, and half the galaxy seemed to have forgotten the most numerous army in galactic history!.

Once everything was done, the droid runned the test he had promised to the computer, and included a sub-routine to ensure nothing else was transmitting. If he was forced once more to pretend being a lobotomized sub-par R1 just beacuse someone couldn't stop downloading xeno-porn for a few minutes ... ¡Rargh!.

The cook announced the Corellian Pancakes day through the commlink. It reminded Fixer of one of his many personal and never-started projects: find an SE-4 servant droid and strip it of his taste sensors. The organics on-board always became true animals when those things arrived on the table. They couldn't possibly be THAT good. There's nothing that good in life.

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@Sleater Nice reaction, I wouldve put the tracers in my post in the same manner, the only thing being that they might be mistaken for regular small debris amongst the field. ^^

@frapet

Im just trying to write something down in the meantime. :-) I've plans. And Plans for a droid army too :-P

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"No, no, no! Fur ze last time! I Kan't know if zere's an incongruenze in ze Negativ Energy Connector if you zon't tell mich!"

Up in the control station, Fixer was arguing with the ship's computer. Phisically. His comm device was plugged into the machine. He should had been able to silently speak with it... but he was franctically introducing commands in the keyboard as well as pointing and yelling at the computer with his spare limbs.

"Rogerroger: Of course wie are receiving smll Impakts! I'll check on those later: zis is an asteroid fild, damnit! Get som energy from ze veapons to die shield. Nein! Die Reserve Energy is fur der slave circuit. You vant us lost&vaporized out zere?"

The droid became silent for a moment. He seemed to be concentrated in some hidden part of the screen: "Vhatt?!" "No, I zon't zink Musuka can drive you zrug dat fiild!"

Definetly, the nerves were worsening the problem with his vocabulator. Finally he disconnected from the computer and headed towards the low poop levels again: "Fine! I vill run a test. AGAIN! But If you happen to be ok, I svear to ze Maker I shall have your memory viped out!. You're perkier zan a freaking R5!... Mynocks... ze zinks a droid has to hear. Ze nexte vill be Banthas or somezing like zat. Now, let's see if I rremember die Passwort..."

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Posted! Run for your lives!!

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And uh...he scares us all ;)

@Rawk

We better! Cloak device? Untreaceble, track-slugs? All of a sudden? :-(

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Inside the "Milano", a distinctive vocabulator informed the crew via comm-link: "Ze rreaktor isz running zmoothly. Everizing down here rready for der hyperspace as soon as we exit die asteroid field... kan I Pressume ze aztrogration shall be ready too, Musuka?"

Inside the reactor compartment, Fixer kept, howewer, working with both hands full into a maintenance hatch. His third arm, at his back, made constant gestures to support his words in front of nobody. A task it only interrumped to exchange one or another tool with the main arms:

"Damn kapacitator, damn cheap and overrated kuati spare parts. Zat's the only zing zey do, and zey believe demselves experts because of that! Zis zing may fry up even if it vas installed in ME"

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@Sleater So the idea is that Fixer's met everyone before, right? It's a interesting idea, him (it?) being the one thing everyone had in common before they actually banded together. Though we would have to watch a bit for inconsistencies. With a bit of tweaking I wouldn't mind it too terribly, however it's not solely up to me. If the others agree them i'm down.

@POOHEAD189 Seeing as someone prior to you submitted a CS for the bounty hunter role it may very well come down to who can make the more interesting character, unless of course frapet is willing to have more than one hunter in the rp. It'd add an extra bit of difficultly for the crew, which is good for the sake of the role play in my opinion. I'm thinking this could go one of three ways if frapet accepts two bounty hunters: the first being that they two bounty hunters operate as separate entities entirely, the second is that they're willing to work together and split the profit, and the third is that they're competitors who aren't above doing something underhanded to ensure the other guy doesn't get the pay day before they do. Whichever way this goes it'll add a bit of pressure that helps us to avoid the monotonous rut that space opera types like this can get into.

@MonsieurShade

The idea is that we all met more or less at the same time, while travelling to the Outer Rim. The droid isn't really the junction point. The Smugglers fill those roles better, I think

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BTW: I edited my "Propositions for shared backstory" but want you guys to tell me what you think... cause I got LOT of liberties:

They are not quite conscious of it, but Fixer and Loinen have met before: the droid was on board during the pirate attack that costed him his freedom, but was hided by security units instants before the assault, allowing the ship to return safely once abandoned by the corsairs. Viik and Grobul were "smuggled" alongside Fixer several years before, by noneless than Marduk "the man" himself, who also had had businesses with Loinen. In fact, during that travel, Loinen was outsourcing Marduk to get the droid, the cook and the Twi'lek to the outer rim. After a few "Imperial encounters" the passengers were forced to help Marduk and his shiny new pilot, Mussuka, to jump out of the pan. That, and the amazing discovery of Grobul's state-of-the-art corellian pancake recipe, ended up by deciding the fact that they could easily work together. And that's what has been happening, while no one takes droid oil as if it was endorian sirup.

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@frapet Posted :)

@Sleater That Droid is awesome, can I get one of those? ;)

@Rawk

I vill need an OOM or B1 unit mostly intakt, a spare arm, blau paint and 1000 stardard krredits vorth in vork hours and I kan zeliverr you one... vithout anymore "extras" of Kurze... :-)
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I really hope this whole "german accent"thing doesn't blow up in front of my noses ^-^u

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@Sleater A very nice piece indeed, wouldn't mind cruising around in that!

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I'm down for smuggling being more of a side business with the shipping of legit goods being a cover/source of main income. Perhaps the crew could also do a few odd jobs between shipments based on what their field of expertise is in order to get a bit of pocket money.

@MonsieurShade

This sounds about right to me. Makes more sense.