Docking: Welcome to Vandammung

Dice Roll: 1d20+16
d20 Results: 4 (Total = 20)

Knowledge: Technology ; what else do I know?

Kismet frowns. "Oh those bastards!" she curses, "The sentient AI cores aren't shown in these schematics....if Doctor Worm tags us as a threat, we're going to have to find him before we can try to cut off his access to the ship's defenses."

"What kind of defenses, exactly, are we talking about?" Frank said, studying the hologram.

"Well..." Kismet begins, her hands once again moving to pare down the diagrams to reveal a dark shape with only one colour of highlights remaining - in this case a foreboding red-orange.

Do I need to make another knowledge check? If so:

Dice Roll: 1d20+16
d20 Results: 18 (Total = 34)

Knowledge: Technology also

Dice Roll: 1d20+14
d20 Results: 12 (Total = 26)

Knowledge: Streetwise or

Dice Roll: 1d20+17
d20 Results: 20 (Total = 37)

Mechanics. Kismet is trying to determine not only what systems exist for the express purpose of securing the Vandammung, but also ship systems that could easily be weaponized by an AI gone rampant. That would include heavy blast doors that could be closed to crush or saw a person in half, airlocks and vents that could open parts of the ship to vacuum, heavy industrial equipment with things like Co2 lasers or power drills, etc.

There are blast doors are positioned at various strategic locations, capable of sealing off entire sections of the ship. As for heavy equipment, the almost all of the center and rear sections of the ship could count. The AI also has control of life support and climate conditions, as well as automated security. Fortunately, there is a counter-balance AI on the Vandammung and there is a high likely hood that an AI can be cut off from a section due to damage to the network. As for actual weapons, the Vandammung is heavily armed, capable of taking on most pirates and raiders, as well as orbital bombardment for extracting chunks of planet for mining.

"...we're going to have to play a lot of this by ear. Before we get a good look at the two sentient AIs, anyone who wants to touch something electrical or mechanical - hell, pretty much anything besides the deck plating - onboard had better clear it by me first, got it?"

"Got it," Frank replied, "but if it shoots first, I'm shooting back. I don't care what it is.

Subject 20 frowned. Are we certain it will even let us approach?

"Seemed like the party line was that the Balancing AI - the, uh, DEB system - would be on our side. The feeling I got from the corp AI in the briefing was that they don't want us mucking about in their pricey AI cores. I doubt we even have sufficient clearance for either system to grant us physical access."