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Sabine is sitting in a booth with excellent lighting and has several tools laid out, as well as a datapad with its case opened before her. She is very focused, studying the circuitry and components, while making the occasional note to a blue print she is sketching on a piece of paper.

She's been working for some time but there is neither food or drink to show she's not been eating. This could be a problem, but she is too busy to notice. She could like use an interruption.

[OOC: Open for the weekend only.]

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(OOC: About to have dinner but wanted to tag.)

Quentin's in pajama pants and a t-shirt as he walks by and stops to peer at what she's doing, "Is that from a computer?"

His bronze hair's a little messy with his ears showing, Bar caught him soon after her woke up.

[OOC: Oh yay! I was trying to see if Sabine would stop to visit Quentin.]

"It actually is a computer. A very small one, that doesn't have a lot of processing power comparatively, but yes, a computer. Quentin wasn't it?*"

"Like a smartphone, cool. Yes, Sabine?" He yawns and smiles before looking to see if it looks more like what he knows.

"Yeap. What's a smartphone?" She asks. The thing she is working with could be a large smartphone.

[OOC: I don't think Toby-verse has tablet devices yet? If so, then it would look like one.]

(OOC: I don't know, if so, no mentioned so focusing on phones.)

"Mine's back in my room or else I'd show you. A smaller version of that," When he says that, he gestures at the datapad.

"Ah. It must be very convenient." She replies with a tired smile which turns into a yawn, which turns into a stomach growl. She may be focused on the problem at hand, but her body is still that of a teen. "Excuse me! I guess I've been at this a while. Mind if I get something to eat?"

"I was going to get something myself. Do you want some pancakes?"

A rat walks by and Quentin places a generous order as he sits down.

She pauses in thought. Sudden having options for what to eat, being able to chose something for herself and to be given the nutritional goo the Academy serves, it makes you stop and think.

"Space waffles," she says, or the translation field says at least. She adds a few more things, trying not to get carried away.

"Those sound good, I'll try some of them too. Can I join you?" He didn't want to be rude but the seat was there.

"Sure. I could use a break." She replies as she gathers the tools and parts into the tray the datapad was resting in. "Want to do this family style where we grab from communal plates? Have to admit your food sounds interesting as well."

"Good idea, more food for everyone. Pancakes are always delicious."

A white drone floats past her, then doubles back. It lands on the edge of the table, scanning her blue print interestedly.

Sabine is used to droids, though given what the blue print is, her first instinct is to hide it. She lunges forward to cover it, before remembering where she is and that this is not an Imperial droid.

"Hi," she says laughing and moving back slowly. "Sorry, thought I was back home."

Assuming the droid is still interested and isn't scared off by her move, the paper holds a few designs of something like a data spike.

The drone backs off when she lunges forward, giving an apologetic little whistle. But it settles when she says hello, giving her a dipping bow.

It looks at her drawing again and clicks, as if warming up a camera. A moment later, a 3D holographic projection of her design is floating over her blueprint.

Jay looks up from the gadget he's working on at another table and calls over. "Stock, I hope you're not bothering anyone?"

"No, no!" Sabine says quickly and waves a dismissive hand over the shoulder in the direction the voice came from. Seeing the design in 3D is so much more helpful! "Could you rotate that 4 degrees towards yourself?"

The drone beeps happily and obliges. If she touches the floating image, she'll find she can rotate, expand or contract the design herself.

Jay chuckles and comes wandering over. "Making friends, I see?"

"That is some impressive holotech," she replies distractedly. "Could you scan this datapad and put it back together in a holo too?"

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"I'd claim credit but what I had was pretty basic, This lot took the idea, miniaturised it and built it into themselves." Jay mutters, watching Stock work.

Stock scans the datapad and nods. giving off a low whistle. A moment later there are three more drones, all perched on different parts of the table to project a much clearer view of the datapad's inner workings.

{ooc: :) at last, they meet!}

"So they've built on the technology they're exposed to? Wow! Oh, hey, can you magnify this area right here?" Sabine asks as she points to an area, accidentally touching it and cause the holo to shift. Startled, she gasps. Holotech doesn't do that in her world. Of course it does transmit in close to real time across light years, so, give and take.

"They learn like you won't believe." Jay chuckles. "I have to round them up every now and then just to make sure they all recharge instead of going flat somewhere out in the garage. Twice now, I've had to rescue the Rat Pack." He gives one of the drones a fond scratch, causing the image to shimmer.

"Interesting. It usually takes a high level of programing for a droid to learn and improve on itself. At least in my world. Oh...I'm sorry, could you stop that? I need to see the spot that getting fuzzy. I think that's a trigger or ID lock."

"This lot are sentient, self aware. They don't need programming to learn. They do it because they want to."

He raises an eyebrow and removes his hand, getting a disappointed little murmur from Jeckle who was rather enjoying the scratch. "You know, if you tried asking them nicely, they might build you a scanner to do this without them having to hover here."

Sabine catches Jay's meaning, blushes, and closes her mouth with a click.

"You're right. I'm sorry, I've been working on this for a while and I just got focused." She says looking up to the first droid, Stock, who helped her. "Thank you for your help. I am Sabine. May I ask your names?"

As she finishes, she looks at each droid in turn until she ends looking at Jay.

Jay nods. Better. "Stock, Heckle and Jeckle." He points them out in turn, each of them making a little squeak of greeting. "And I'm Jay. Nice to meet you, Sabine. So, what are you working on?"

She gives each droid a nod and smile.

"It's nice to met you as well. I'm...well, this is a military grad datapad and I'm trying to slice it so I can access the networks it can connect to but I'm not a good enough slicer to make a program that can hide on its hardrive, so I'm making a dataspike with its own operating system which will hijack the screen, comm, and other hardware of whatever datapad its plugged into."

"The Empire is very paranoid though and so I need to make sure there aren't trigger circuits or the like to alert the system when someone tries what I hope to do."

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"Hmm." Jay gives an interested hum and reaches out to play with the projected image. He expands it, the drones moving with him as he draws up an expanded view of the datapad.

"Yeah, I see what you mean. This thing's full of triggers, both soft and hard. Stock, can you run a data-sim for me? Let's have a look at this puppy."

A moment later, there's a data-stream being projected into the air in front of Jay's face.

Sabine studies it as well, still very impressed with this tech.

"This is a 'pad I got from Bar. I wanted to make sure there wasn't a timed alarm that was triggered by tampering before I went after the one assigned to me."

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"The real test is to do it live, somewhere you risk connection to their network but we can run a bunch of simulations before then."

"So, the data-spike you're designing? The idea is to bypass the inbuilt operating system and allow you to jack into the data stream without them noticing you're in?"

"That's it. Bypass the operating program to use the hardware of the system with my own OP."

"I think there's another one. That one looks like it will shut down the whole device if triggered."

"Smart, I like it. So is it just bypassing the software you're after or are you looking to hack the inbuild data? What are you looking to get out of it?"

"Just bypassing the software. I don't need what's on the datapad. Well, I don't need what's on the one I mean to use. It's been assigned to me and I can access its data."

"I mean to access data outside of my clearance and don't want a trail leading back to me...or the datapad I use. If possible."

A flash of paranoia makes her wonder why he'd want to help her slice the device and so she studies his reaction. She hides the reaction behind a smile, but then she hasn't been trained by the Bat.

Jay's good at spotting these things and backs off a step. "I read you. It's all good." He gestures to the drones. "If you like, the boys can whip you up 3D projector. And something that will track data flow movement, so you can see if something's triggered or broadcasting. How you chose to use them are up to you."

"Shouldn't you be asking them if they're willing to do it instead of volunteering them?" She asks with a smile. She appreciates the help but can't resist to ribbing.

He touches his ear and tilts his head, revealing a small earbud, glowing blue in the hollow of his ear. "I would ask them," He grins, "But they're already busy designing and building it."

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