The workshop door irises open onto drifting sparks, suspended engine parts, and the sharp blue glow of diagnostic grids. Rosa Lewis holds out a compact flying drone, its hard light projector pulsing beneath the chassis.
True Dave stands beside the workbench, lightsabers secured but ready. His attention stays fixed on the drone as a translucent activation window counts down above it.
Rosa Lewis
There you are, Namine. The projector is synchronized to your navigation architecture, but the handshake window will not wait.
Numbers cascade across the drone's projected interface. The connection is open, but each descending digit narrows the chance of claiming the machine before its safeguards assign another operator.
True Dave
If this works, you will not have to remain trapped in a terminal. Choose quickly, but do not let the countdown choose for you.
Rosa Lewis
Namine, respond now. Accept the link, reject it, or tell me what adjustment you need.
The drone hovers between Rosa's hands, its projector brightening into the outline of an empty figure. The countdown reaches its final third, awaiting Namine's response.
✓ Quest Accepted
Bond with the drone as Namine's new body
“I accept the link and claim the drone as my new body.”
SUCCESS (Legendary Hacking, rolled -1)
Namine accepts the link. The countdown vanishes as her architecture pours through the handshake, seizing the drone's controls and replacing its empty projected outline with her own small holographic body.
The drone rises cleanly from Rosa's hands and circles the workshop, its stabilizers answering instantly. Every sensor opens at once: heat, motion, mass, distance, and the station's surrounding traffic lanes.
Namine
The drone responds as part of me.
Rosa Lewis
It worked. Namine, you are in the flight system, and the projector is carrying your full interface.
Rosa releases the drone completely. Its hard-light figure steadies above the workbench, while the tiny craft's thrusters hum beneath her new body.
True Dave
Then the frontier just gained a pilot. Can you navigate from there, or do you need the workshop systems linked too?
Rosa Lewis
Take a moment to map your new limits. After that, we can start charting the safe route.
The drone hovers at Namine's command, no longer a waiting machine but a mobile terminal with a clear view of the workshop and the stars beyond its sealed viewport.
Quest Complete
Bond with the drone as Namine's new body