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Office of National Security

April 8th, 824 A.S.
West Point Military Academy, New York system, Sector Charlie 5

Opening transmission . . .

Identification: Chandler, Mason
Recipient: Prosper, David
Topic: Firestalker Drones

Mr. Prosper,

I am Special Agent Chandler, contacting you on behalf of the Office of National Security. Today I made contact with your Firestalker Drone 01 [H], the first time I have encountered these new ships that are currently around Liberty for mercenary tasks. The drone provided me with the following commands that I could let it process.

● Engage
● Follow
● Defend
● Unaccessable
● Unaccessable
● Cancel Contract

These commands are fairly simple but they are not numerous. A higher number of commands could make them highly useful combat assistants. The ONS would be interested in obtaining one of your drones for constant support or renting its services, as long as this is possible. Under the circumstance that the two locked commands need to be unlocked and other commands programmed so our operatives can profit from a reliant A.I. system. If you are interested, I would like you to explain the two locked commands.

A pleasant day.

Special Agent Chandler
Office of National Security
Department of Internal Conflict Dissolvement

Office of National Security

"Liberty is great because Liberty is good"

- Clintary Hillon

sindroms · (This post was last modified: 04-08-2018, 10:16 PM by sindroms.)

Signal Strength: ......................................................................................................................Poor
Signal Source: .............................................................................................................Omegas (?)
Subject: .................................................................................................................................Drones

Well now. That's an encryption key I did not expect to see for a long time. I see that the old farts have a new division kicking. And the name's Daniel, not David. To keep things simple, syntax errors are a bitch to fix when dealing with these things, so I don't usually care to. I am an ex-member of the primary intelligence branch's TacOps division. The drones you have come across are my creation and were created for field operations outside Liberty Borders back in the Rheinland War, when things were sensitive enough where hired goons weren't reliable. In other words, the simplicity of the drone you encountered is my design choice, not a flaw. The simplicity of the drone means that it has almost no chance to be tampered it by an outside source, be it a Gammu, a Lane Hacker or whatever poses as your benchmark for electronic warfare these days. It is as dumb as a brick and be glad it is.
It has no other commands that will be available for secondary wings.
The two restricted commands you are implying about are just a killswitch that is in the hands of the primary security force group, you can inquire them about it.

As for obtaining the drone, you need not bother. If you see one floating around and it does not have its red status indicator active, you simply need to keep it within your radar range and issue a command. Feel free to cruise disrupt it if you have to, it will not react to such things. That alone makes it more reliable and predictable than the secondary fleet naval forces. Forget about any AI, it has none. All of the commands are hardcoded and it will answer only to those. So please be careful how you phrase them.

Honestly, do yourselves a favor, issue a follow command even if you aren't in an active engagement. I think I do not need to explain that if you have a loaded gun to be used in the center of a room, you don't leave it there only because the asshole on the opposite side of you ain't reaching for it yet. Someone with more time on my hands has collected enough information for a crudely written manual for them, if you really care about that sort of thing. You can find it somewhere in the public transmission archive.

For me, the ship that I made these drones for is long gone, but they are bringing me the financial benefits that I am entitled to at my age. Feel free to use them as you wish and send them to their deaths, as long as you pay for the contract and keep them out of the hands of imbeciles. The reason they are as they are, again, is because we needed an automated weapon that cannot be outbid or sabotaged at the time. It should serve you as a good offensive and defensive weapon, as long as your brain is not located inside of your rectum. If you need any other instructions, give me a holla.

~Daniel Prosper
Retired

Transmission Status: .................................................................................................................................Closed

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Office of National Security

April 8th, 824 A.S.
LNS Missouri, New York system

Opening transmission . . .

Identification: Chandler, Mason
Recipient: Prosper, David
Topic: Firestalker Drones

Mr. Prosper,

thank you for the quick and detailed response. That the drones are, in your word, stupid, guns for hire, is as good of a message as it is bad. The drones are reacting to unlawful as well as lawful commands. The ONS doesn't need the whole wing of drones I assume you have sent out but only one single that could be modified. A modified drone equipped with more knowledge and commands could be allowed to help with operations we cannot let a normal drone do with us. While it is not my intention to accuse you of the attempt of espionage, if a drone of yours was to come over sensitive information or locations, we cannot be sure it doesn't record and re-direct this information, a modified drone would not be victim of such possible problems.

In case you are implying that you have contact to a person capable and eventually ready to provide the requested service, the ONS would be thankful if you provided detailed information about this contact as well as their identification so we can reach out to them. Until then, I will make sure to keep such a drone as close to myself as possible.

A pleasant day.

Special Agent Chandler
Office of National Security
Department of Internal Conflict Dissolvement

Office of National Security

"Liberty is great because Liberty is good"

- Clintary Hillon

sindroms · (This post was last modified: 04-09-2018, 08:01 AM by sindroms.)

Signal Strength: ......................................................................................................................Poor
Signal Source: .............................................................................................................Omegas (?)
Subject: .................................................................................................................................Drones

Mr. Mason, take some damn pride in your work. You are a part of one of the best staffed, best funded agencies in Sirius. You have the resources to complete any mission you are given.

My firestalker drones were created to benefit the security force and their ability to take commands regardless of the side issuing them is intentional, because they were meant to be launched from our ships and the commands input by us at the time. Regardless of who'se affiliation we were rocking at the time.

The commands you have access to are quite literally all you need for the thing to perform its task. If you find yourself in a situation where you need something smarter than a drone to accomplish your tasks, it is clear at that point that you must send in someone who is competent. There is no -point- in creating a ''slightly smarter drone''. You have to either rely on your agents or an AI. And from what I can recall, we had at least three ''true'' AIs available for us in the primary security force. You will need to inquire them about it.

As for my drones in particular, it is a drone. It does exactly what you tell it to do. If it gets in the way, simply shoot it down. Using them for espionage is, again, completely impractical due to the abundance of electronic warfare in Sirius. If you are using a -device- that can be controlled in order to obtain information, you have already made a mistake. You use agents to obtain information, because you tend not to be able to plug a USB interface up their assholes to extract data in the case where they are captured by an enemy.

If you need a non-human analog for field operations, you either use a dumb brick or an AI. There is no in-between. I offer the former. Your primary branch have access to the later. As a result you already have access to best of both worlds.

~Daniel Prosper
Retired

Transmission Status: .................................................................................................................................Closed

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Office of National Security

April 8th, 824 A.S.
LNS Missouri, New York system

Opening transmission . . .

Identification: Chandler, Mason
Recipient: Prosper, David
Topic: Firestalker Drones

Mr. Prosper,

as you are not involved in any of our missions, I will allow myself to doubt your judgement ability regarding "any task". The drones are not supposed to replace an operative, nor is a drone supposed to conduct any operations by itself, what it would do is assist present operatives with tasks where another agent might not be able to attend. I want to add that the ONS does currently operate on its own and suffers from a significantly lower budget than the high office of the Liberty Security Force, therefore we are forced to rely on ourselves more than any A.I. You made your point clear and I understand that these drones are not supposed to be used for more than they are now. We accept the denial of our offer.

A pleasant day.

Special Agent Chandler
Office of National Security
Department of Internal Conflict Dissolvement

Office of National Security

"Liberty is great because Liberty is good"

- Clintary Hillon

sindroms · 04-09-2018, 01:50 PM,

Signal Strength: ......................................................................................................................Poor
Signal Source: .............................................................................................................Omegas (?)
Subject: .................................................................................................................................Drones

There is a saying I am very fond of, Mr. Mason. Where there is a will, there is a scam. Even if you are currently not as backed as the primary branch, there are plenty of ways to remedy the situation. Or at least a few ways to provide a crux until you can straighten things out.

I can say for sure that you are easier to communicate with than the old farts I had to deal with in the primary wing and I'd like us to part on a pleasant note. While I cannot really provide you with more than I already have, I hope that the tools at your disposal will not fail you should you put them to the task. I am attaching my private transmission key to this message, so if you need to contact me on less formal situations - by all means. I might need someone reliable to test an upcoming project. One that might put the Type ''H'' to shame when it comes to size.

~Daniel Prosper
Retired

Transmission Status: .................................................................................................................................Closed

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PSA: If you have been having stutter/FPS lag on Disco where it does not run as smoothly as other games, please look at the fix here: https://discoverygc.com/forums/showthrea...pid2306502
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Office of National Security

April 8th, 824 A.S.
LNS Missouri, New York system

Opening transmission . . .

Identification: Chandler, Mason
Recipient: Prosper, David
Topic: Firestalker Drones

Mr. Prosper,

we will stay in range, reply to this channel if you need to inquire us about something.

A pleasant day.

Special Agent Chandler
Office of National Security
Department of Internal Conflict Dissolvement

Office of National Security

"Liberty is great because Liberty is good"

- Clintary Hillon

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