Golden Link Casino

[Zara Nargal]

((I think you need reminding of what the Link is... the highlighted section at the end being the security systems. The Link is State of the Art, not some crumby joint that's just been knocked up. ))

 

The over all design is that of a massive roulette table, spinning eternally in space. It's flanked by a series of docks and bright, neon signs.

 

First off, you have the basic design: Catchy and appealing. The various adds are holo projections from special emitters. You can do flat out signs or holocasts and earn additional ad revenue right off the bat. There's be a few free floating sign boards, which in addition to being adds, would include concealed long range sensors and small laser weapons systems.

 

The outer shell turns translucent and fades away, showing the interior of the casino-craft. There are a series of hangars along the rim of the docks. The central spindle of the wheel running from top to bottom also carries hangars.

 

There's ample docking for up to even 2 capital class ships, which can include luxury liners and other massive space transports. In addition, there is a series of droid automated repair and service centers. The lower docks on the bottom of the wheel for maintenance craft and cargos, and other service projects. There are a few more defenses there- bioscans and others, as well as tractor beams which can aid in removing debris, et cetra.

 

The image fades away yet again, showing a series of dining establishments and shops just past the casino area. It's basic fare: Souvenir shops, restaurants, sushi bars, and commercial chains, but it's all there.

 

The upper levels of the wheel are shown now: Herein are hotel and conference rooms, as well as administrative posts for your own private offices. I've reserved a few luxury sweets for your own private use so this new home will be comfortable. In addition, staff and other housing can be found here, along with a small medical center. There's enough amusements including a gravity & water park here to entertain an entire family besides the gambling. We even have a giant arcade, a special shooting gallery, ghost hotel, and large bird races there to boot, though breeding those damn birds can be a pain in the arse. I've also added on a holographic funhouse section. This will attract additional revenue from tourists too and could be considered a drain on the primary focus of gambling. Still, if the kiddies are at play, it'll be easier to lure mommy and daddy into the casinos.

 

The interior segments are now shown around the central spindle: Here are the casinos proper. Every game you can imagine from sabacc to dragon poker is here. More adult bars, and clubs are littered at even intervals around the ring to keep our target customer base inside. I'm working on a specialized harmonics field with the engines, that in addition to keeping the gravity going, also nerfs all force use inside the place. This will make the games a bit more balanced. You have cameras and special sensors to prevent cheating. Below the casinos near the central axis are a series of enclosed rings for races- those birds, blobs, and along the very top of the roulette table, covered by a glassteel half tube, is a special pod race track.

 

Finally, the central axis is shown in detail: The bottom portions are closed off, running the engines and other technical controls- climate, shields, etc., while the very top three levels hold a magnificent, domed park, open to the stars and filled with the most romantic spots on the whole ship- featuring an "open air" cafe' and a giant dance stage.

 

The innermost portion of the axis is heavily armored and shielded: Inside is the central safe. I've studied the matter carefully and come up with a nearly fool proof security system. The roulette wheel has four hidden planetary turbo lasers at the cardinal points, and as the wheel spins, it can fire them off. There are cameras and security droids along with the other server and dealer droids, and over 10 meters of durasteel lined with cortosis keep the central safe area well... safe. There's a special gravity lock system that keeps the Link's holdings in a kind of pocket dimension, making it nearly impossible to steal.

 

Zara held Brina back from going along with the men as they went out to deal with this threat. At least they knew the security measures worked well. Kheldar had done a brilliant job in the construction.

 

"Umm Brina, can I ask you something?"

[Kat Nargal]

As soon as kat was aware of exactly what was happening, he keyed in the automated full alert code through a wrist mounted unit on his wrist. Instantly, all network connections apart from his own personal one were cut off, each and every door within the building was shut down and all elevators were cut off. All power was shut down to anything bar life support and kats own personal dealings, and blast doors instantly sealed all of the gateways in and out of the casino (including vents, droid bays etc etc. Complete and utter lockdown), and the vaults extra security measures were engaged, rendering the vault completely impossible to access from anywhere.

 

Leaning back in his chair, he first turned to ronin.

 

"Relax, he isnt going anywhere." Suddenly, a thought entered his head... If this person had attempted to decrease the oxygen levels in the link, he had to have some other breathing aparatus. Contacting security, he asked them firstly to begin calming the crowds down via PA, and then to detain anyone wearing anything that could be thought of as a breathing device.

 

Standing up, he looked straight at brina, before embracing her and kissing her. It had been quite a while since he had seen her, and he wasnt going to let some fool stop him from greeting her properly.

 

"Its been quite a while since ive seen you dear. Dont mind the little intrusions."

[handofthrawn]

OOC: Okay, now it's my turn. What I have isn't some crummy droid. It is a positronic processor. These little droids were produced in a very limited quantity by Imperial Intelligence during the Galactic Civil War. They were capable of hacking into a computer and completely taking control of all systems with incredible ease.

 

They were extremely expensive because of their unlimited processing power as well as the fact that their personalities were questionable and they often didn't take orders because they were "bored" with their jobs. This is something exciting enough, I believe.

 

Additionally, this is not your average positronic processor. This is Flirt, from the Tales of the Bounty Hunters. Flirt has been modified by the best of the best to be twice as effective as your standard positronic processor. It's main ability is to be able to hack into even something as insignificant as a power socket and gain complete control.

 

Realize that the chances of Fett obtaining one of these is next to nothing, but I did a lot of research and worked a plausible way to get his hands on one of these things. You can read the whole thing in my last posts on Dubrillion and Kashyyyk. But it is this powerful.

 

I can even understand why you guys would be angry with my posting right now, and I certainly wouldn't like to have the same thing happen to me. However, don't think this is bad RPing. This makes sense, and it is possible and well thought out. It's not coincidental or made up for my own conveniance.

 

Remember, you guys have no access to do anything to Flirt, because you don't even know that Flirt's there. Flirt can find a pathway into the main hub, because there has to be one. You can't pump volts through the terminal, because the terminal can't receive the command from anywhere. The doors can't close because they can't receive the command from anywhere. And Kat can't key an alert command through his wrist unit, because the command has nowhere to go. Everything is cut off.

 

Bear in mind that I know full well what this space station is. I read that post aforehand to be sure I knew what I was dealing with. Call a mod if you want, but I know full well what a positronic processor (especially this one) is capable of.

 

IC: Still without anyone capable of stopping him, for most of them were asleep already (including Kat, Zara, and Ronin) ((two-post disable, as cheap as it may sound, unless you guys have breathing apparatuses)), ShadowFett reached the main vault.

 

"Open the door," he said, indicating it.

 

Flirt complied, and the door slid open without hesitation. Once inside, Fett accessed the computer there, on its own server for security's sake. He quickly tapped in and transfered all of the Casino's credits to Black Sun's account. He was impressed--there were a lot of credits in there.

 

Leaving and stepping over the bodies of a few sleeping guards, the Mandalorian made his way for the exit, almost daring someone to confront him. He didn't really like infiltration without combat, and he had fully expected a fight. But perhaps there was someone capable of finding him despite Flirt's handiwork.

[Brina Thalin]

OOC: I don't think it's such a big deal guys. I've read about Flirt before, and although the methods of ShadowFett obtaining it are kind of sketchy, it really is capable of hacking into the systems. In my opinion, just let him take the credits and get out of there. He's leaving all of the customers alone, so whatever...I'll go along with ShadowFett's post for now.

 

IC:

 

After returning Kat's affectionate greeting, Brina turned to Zara with a smile. "Anything, Zara," she said. "What can I help you with?"

 

She started to get lightheaded as she said that, and her eyelids began to droop. By the time she realized that she was experiencing symptoms of oxygen deficiency, she was too tired to find an oxygen mask. "This bounty hunter...is...more clever...than we...give him credit for..." she said slowly. Slowly, she slumped to the floor. She could still breathe, but her body was shutting down parts so that she could survive in the low-oxygen atmosphere.

[Tarrian Skywalker]

HoT... Not gonna fly... first of this is about 4 or 5 hundred years after the galactic war if not more since I am not sure when that took place... but I do know that this rp is about 200 years after return of the jedi... so even if that old droid was state of the art then... it is garbage now... even is you managed to get your hands on one that was not covered in rust, the state of the art stuff from the galactic war... pales in comparison to the state of the art stuff from this time and day...

 

Not only did you ignore all posts blocking your posts, you ignored all security measures posted on this thread for Link...

 

Go take a cold shower and regroup... you efforts are for naught... you did not pass go, and you did not get to collect 200 bucks...

[handofthrawn]

OOC: I have three things to say. First of the two, due to further research and thought I have realized quite truthfully that Flirt has the ability to bypass the lockdown. You see, Flirt and Flirt alone has the ability to plug in to a power outlet, which she is now. No matter what you do to isolate computers, they each have to be connected to the central power source, which Flirt can use to access each. There is no way to prepare for that.

 

Second, Tarrian: Flirt has been maintained by its owner in these last two hundred years, so it's quite operational. Positronic processors were way ahead for their time, with the processing power of something one hundred times their size. The famous Stars' End prison, state-of-the-art and perfectly designed with flawless security, was completely controlled by the positronic processor known as Blue Max, who wasn't as updated as Flirt. You say that technology has come a long way...but think about the Old Republic during the Mandalorian Wars four thousand years before the movies. They have blasters and ships that aren't far behind what they are in the movies. If four thousand years doesn't make a huge difference, then two hundred certainly won't.

 

Finally: none of this matters, anyway. Kat sent me a PM giving me permission to leave with the credits, just because he doesn't really care and wants to, let's say, let others have fun in this game. Chris should have talked it over with him and Brina before calling the mods.

 

Again, I'm terribly sorry for what could be considered terrible RPing, and I didn't want it to half to be this way, but when someone is ordered to single-handedly infiltrate a state-of-the-art space station and steal all of its credits, one has to go to extremes.

 

IC: ShadowFett, unchallenged, reached the service hatch that he had left Flirt in to complete her work as she had so brilliantly. "Restore everything to its original state exept the security systems," he said, calling the little droid after it completed the task and watching as the positronic processor floated out on its small repulsorlift.

 

"Well done, Flirt," the Mandalorian said, black helmet gleaming.

 

"Thanks loads, sir. It's times like this that I stop and reflect that my creator was truly a brilliant bag of meat and blood," the droid answered.

 

Fett raised an eyebrow from behind his mask. Of course, anything with such processing capability would tend to have personality quirks. At the moment, however, it was time to leave. The bounty hunter stood, deactivating Flirt and placing her back in the box he brought her in.

 

Boarding the Night of Vengeance, Fett turned towards his next destination, taking the precautionary random jumps before actually heading towards Black Sun's base.

[Tarrian Skywalker]

and when one is ruled against... and ignores the ruling, they get a 24 hour ban from rp. I don't care what Kat said... maybe he should have talked it over with the others... since he didn't, and all the others have called in a mod... and the mod ruled that you can't do what you said, and that there is no one droid in the universe that can do what you are claiming... your posts are now NULLED, and since you felt the need to argue and ignore my previous ruling, you can take a 24 hour Ban from rp. Thank you and have a nice day...

[Ronin Wartide]

Ronin looked a little confused, now that all the dumbass mando's actions were nulled. He went back to the last thing he could think of.

"So yeah, Kat- weapons, Tekkan- pirate."

[Brina Thalin]

OOC: Okay then....now, where to pick up?

 

IC:

 

Brina smiled at Kat, then turned to Ronin and Zara. "What's been happening since I've left?"

 

She glanced at Zara, who seemed distracted. "Are you alright?" she asked softly.

[Zara Nargal]

Zara looked back up at Brina,

 

"Huh? Oh... yeah, fine."

 

She answered automatically, then blurted out by adding,

 

"Do you know anything about babies?"

 

She blushed, averting her gaze from Brina to where Ronin stood talking with Kat and Tekkan.

[Sadja]

"I'm suprised we are not yet out of money.. with all the shopping you are doing......" Jari leaned into the table and glanced at the bag sitting next to Cel on the floor.

 

"Woah, woman, we really need a job or we'll be in some big trouble!"

[Celestia]

Celestia laughed at Jari before leading her into the weapons shop to grab some more amunition for her arm launcher. (ie: Mira's rocket launcher in Kotor 2)

 

"Yeah guess you're right - again. I'll just grab these and we'll head back and work on the Pazaak."

 

She got a good deal on her rockets and grenades, maybe because of the bosses connections to the owners here. The two women made their way back to Cel's ship, dumping their purchases in their respective rooms before meeting back in the living area of the ship. Hopefully the Cap'n would have something for them to do soon.

[Brina Thalin]

Brina couldn't help but let out a soft chuckle. "Babies, eh? I guess a lot has happened since I left."

 

She winked at Zara. "Well, I can't say it's quite my area of expertise...but I do know some. When I was younger, one of my friends got pregnant. She refused to give up the baby. I was the only one should could turn to. So naturally, I learned a lot about babies and giving birth than I ever knew before...or cared to know," she added with a small grimace. "However, I will give you all the help I can."

 

Adding a slow smile, she said, "I'm happy for both of you. Congradulations."

[Kat Nargal]

In a strange warping of space and time (The casino was going through that time of the month ), Kat found himself exactly where he had been a couple of seconds before this whole strange incident had happened, doing exactly what he had been doing, and with no memory of the incident that had just gone on. For some reason, Kat had the strange idea he was forgetting something very important, but couldnt put his finger on what exactly it was.

 

Shrugging it off, and returning to reality, kat looked down at the hologram of the jak-in-a-box hovering a few inches off of the table, before smiling, and saying

 

"Anyway, as i was saying, this guy is yours for whatever you want him for... yeah, i think thats what i meant to say..." Blinking, kat looked over and saw brina, who had magically appeared inside the room, and began to think he was hallucinating. Looking at his packet of cigarettes, he smelled them carefully, before putting one in his mouth and lighting it, taking a few experimental drags before he trusted it. Looking back over at brina, he shrugged, stood up, and carefully approached her. Slowly he reached out, and poked her shoulder gently. When it didnt go straight through her, his eyes lit up, and he threw his arms around her.

 

"Ohh good! Your not a hallucination. Nice to see you again dear."

[Zara Nargal]

Zara gasped looking at her brother, she too was alittle disorientated but put it down to being pregnant. She hadn't told her brother and neither had Ronin. She didn't know how he would react.

 

"Brina thanks, you'll be a great help."

 

Then to the men she turned,

 

"I just had the most crazy dream, only I think I was still awake. Do you think we should check the security again? I don't want anything to get thru and destroy us. I think we better don't you? I think we should start doing security drills. Make sure everyone knows where to go in case of an emergency."

 

From what she could tell with what KVC had done for them, they could separate each and every section of the Casino could be kept separate when it was shut down, including the computer systems. No computer outlet could control the whole of the station, only the section that it was currently in. Each section had it's own network and oxygen supply that couldn't be remotely shut down.

 

She went over to the security monitors and began to look through the security precautions, asking the men to help out incase she missed anything.

[Brina Thalin]

Brina was also a little disoreinted, but she figured it had to be due to jetlag from her trip. She shrugged it off and greeted Kat.

 

"No, as far as I know, I'm not a hallucination," she laughed. She swiftly kissed him. "It's good to be back."

 

Listening to Zara's comment about security, she nodded. "I don't think there'll be any problems...KvC is usually very thourough in his work, I've come to learn. But I guess I never hurts to check. The computer can make a sweep of the system."

[Kat Nargal]

Turning to his sister with an arm still around brina, kat said

 

"sis, dont worry about it. Ive got this place to the point where I can be the only person that can access any of our systems. Ill set you up with a portable access unit so you can do it as well. Relax, we have guests."

 

Leaning a little closer to brina, he said

 

"Im afraid ive got some business to attend to for a bit, but ill come find you in a few hours. Ive missed you, alot." He kissed her gently, before moving over to ronin and tekkan.

 

"If you two care to join me, we can head to my workshop, and make a side stop at the jak-in-a-box on the way."

[Zara Nargal]

Zara breathed a sigh of relief that her brother didn't hear, or didn't catch on to what she had said to Brina. He didn't know that she and Ronin were going to become parents.

 

She went over to Ronin, giving him a cuddle and quick kiss before he left to do whatever it was that they were going to do, then went back to Brina, whispering softly,

 

"Kat doesn't know yet. I'm not sure how he'll react when he finds out."

[Ronin Wartide]

"I'm up for a trip to the ship," Ronin announced as he got out of his seat, "I need you to get me some new equipment."

 

Ronin nodded as he stood, singalling for Tekkan to follow too.

 

"Lead the way, Kat."

[Kat Nargal]

Making his way out of the room, and heading for the jak-in-a-box, kat ordered the guards to open the cell up. Making his way into the room above the cell, kat watched as the guards opened the hatch in the floor of the room, letting everyone look down into the pure white box that contained jak. Gesturing to ronin, he said

 

"Ladies first"

[Ronin Wartide]

"If I'm a lady then your sister is gay."

 

Ronin smugly added, going into the cell where the horribly mal-nourished Jak sat. Calmly he pulled out his stun baton and gave Jak a big blast, then joyfully repeated, watching as his muscles spasmed uncontrollably, doing it over and over until at long last Jak was unconscious and smoking.

 

"Teach you to steal from the Pirate King. B*tch."

 

Ronin reholstered his baton, then signaled for the cell to be sealed again.

 

"Why don't you install a comm and a small drip of water in there? That'd be funny, watching his mental state decay into oblivion."

[Kat Nargal]

Shaking his head at the man, kat began walking

 

"Aye, ill have to have that installed. Anyway, you were saying something about some equipment. Come to the workshop and ill see what i can do for you."

 

Leading the way to the workshop, he sat down and said

 

"Now, what can i do for you."

[Brina Thalin]

Brina patted Zara on the shoulder. "I'm sure he'll be happy for you, Zara. When he sees how happy you are, that will make him glad. Although it means some serious changes around here."

 

She suddenly had an idea. "Is there anything you need to pick up to get ready? Well, I guess I should ask how far along you are. That would be an important step. But I can definately see a shopping trip coming up before you get to pregnant so that it's hard to get around."

[Ronin Wartide]

Ronin's hand slid into the breast of his coat, withdrawing a small data disk with the encryped plans for the two items he wanted, followed by a smaller disk decryption code on it.

 

"I suppose it's stupid that I have both the encrypted disks and the decryption on me, but you understand. You can get my standard codes for later. Give us an indecipherable link."

 

Ronin smirked as activated the disks with his datapad, seeing the secret plans for the first time.

 

"Just the first two things, the glasses and the belt."

[Nahstaa]

sorry, wrong alias

[Kat Nargal]

"Those shouldnt be too much of a problem at all. Ill send off for the parts ill need tonight, and they should be in tomorrow. After that, it will only take me a day or two to sort them out, and make sure they look like normal clothes. Ill either come find you when they are done, or comm you. Now, while i wait for the parts, how about we go get royally trashed."

[Tekkan Raas]

Staring at the the jackass in the box, Tekkan merely shrugged as he put out his cigarette in the man's forehead. As the poor bastard screamed in pain, the Hunter merely shrugged his shoulders as he addressed Ronin.

 

"I hope torturing some slacker isn't the only thing I showed up to do."

[Bad karma]

Trowa's ship dropped out of hyper space near the Link casino. The lights on the outside of the massive place were simply amazing. He requested permission to land, only seconds later to have a response and a docking bay that would be open to him.

 

Before leaving the ship, he walked into the room that had both of his apprentices in it. He tossed each of them a cred stick. ”œThousand creds, get yourselves some normal clothes for when we leave the temple. Be done and ready to leave by the time I call you. ”œ

 

He walked off of his ship and headed for the main desk. He kept a keen eye on the people around him, noting what was where and who looked to work here.

 

When he arrived at the desk he spoke to the clerk. ”œI need to speak with the man who deals in arms. Now.”

[Kat Nargal]

Nodding to the man, the clerk promptly commed kat, telling him that there was a customer at the table. Setting down his drink, and making his way to the front desk, kat managed to pull off being fairly sober, and said

 

"What can i do for you?"

[Bad karma]

"I need something special made. A coat to be exact. Here are the specifactions. How much will it be?" He watched the man carefully, but his eyes shifted about the room. Perhaps it was paranoia taking over. He had afterall commited what most would call evil deeds.

 

"Oh and how long shall it take?" His spoke quickly, his voice monotone.