Heist the Colours (OOC)

Talking about "sidekicks"... will our ship have any AI on it? Raf could construct a drones for it(with time of course). Or could the hacker gal be somekind of genius that developed her own "flavor" of AI for the ship... maybe even not telling us initially, that she is going to install it on the ship's computer... ? :D Having ChatGPT in our world would make it even more interesting to have developing with time AI on our ship to explore in fiction word... Probably even with not-so-clear intentions... :D Raf would help make a drone (with time again) for "her" to allow it accompany us on some missions.
I'm talking about longer perspective, but if we are talking about sidekicks, that I could help RP - that would be so great for me and Raf...:)
Even more so it could be interesting when AI would be quite different in "personality" then the hacker gal that made her.... so they could be co-played with GM by different players.

Question to all: So it is ex-girlfriend of Ronny and his contact? I'm ok with that - of course.
My first idea, or more like scene that came to my mind was: Lio doing some no-so-complicated medical procedure on someone important from the planet's "elites". The guy or gal get the sudden call or someone comes in and after receiving the message s/he simply lives Lios office. Maybe s/he likes Lio and told him that is time to get off the planet. Or maybe Lio have "accidentally "overheard the conversation. Of course: just my ideas to share/develop.

I hope we are already formed as a team(that's the way a see it) and was preparing for a heist for a some time now... if not, there will be very little time to prepare anything.

Or... as I recalled just now, that Cat and Ronny don't know each other well it could be Raf who "puzzled" different contact together to make ship heist possible. Maybe: fixing some needed resources with Ronny, clearing some political way or fixing fake documents with Cat, asking Ronny about trusted hacker, calling some favors with Lio to better infiltrate or get some info about the Depot or something like that.

That would make "just getting to know each other right now" still possible AND having some preparations made during past weeks. Of course: IF others feel that we need that to make story logical.

Cool.
Once they have told us their preferred pronouns (i.e. we decide) I will try to use specific pronouns. But there is a good chance I will devolve to using 'they' by mistake, as it has been my defaultly-used pronoun for more than 30 years, and habits are a thing.
If you want, your navy's intelligence service can be working in this sector. They can let you know that the timetable has moved up.
That would be the simplest. It looks like the crew have been working on this for while, and expected it to take a few more weeks.
Sure. If you want, you can be a last minute addition, maybe due to the sped-up timetable? Decide amongst yourselves.

Sure. You could also have been working together for weeks and not have met yet. That could help with the 'we don't know each other, but sorta trust each other enough to set out on a simi-permanent ship trip together'.

I do not know. We can see what the landscape looks like. AI --as envisaged by sci-fi-- are always a tricky thing.
Setting an AI loose from its containment sounds like a very bad idea. There are probably laws against that. We can talk about it once we know what the situation is.
Might be. You will have to deal with that when it rises up.... um, comes up, I meant to say 'comes up'. :)
You have a library, that is presented very similar to ChatGPT-type stuff. We can work with that and see how it develops.
AI stands for 'Alien Intelligence'? No? 'Alien' as in, we can not come close to understanding what it wants. :)

Instead of a drone it could just be built into our comms, maybe? I'm envisioning it like Jarvis for Ironman. Is that what you had in mind, Pedrop?
Yes, that would be the same person. It makes sense that someone who he used to be very close to is the one he trusts with this hack. Breaking up doesn't necessarily break trust.

Yes, I think something like Jarvis. But to this be even more fun it could be very "stupid Jarvis" at the beginning when(as probably it should be after our initial heist, or not?) we will discover him/her/it. But it should develop with time. And drones could come latter... but indeed it could be also not the most "wise" idea - as VougeGM said - to provide it with drones... but we will see what will happen:)
Great for me.

I’m good with the hacker being Ron’s ex.

All, my father-in-law is in the ICU with heart trouble. Please forgive me if I miss a beat and if I am slowing things down too much, go ahead and bot me, please. I don’t know how long this will be, but I expect at least through the weekend.

Sorry to hear that, @WhtKnt. I hope he recovers well. Take your time

Me too

@pedrop. There is a 'poll' function for questions like these. Could come in handy.

Auch, not good.
No rush here, all the best for your father-in-law.

Going for a combination of Pedrop's and Vague's idea.
Hope it's ok for all of you. Lio will make the call to Raf.

Sorry to hear that @WhtKnt. We will work around you. Best wishes to your father-in-law and to you and your whole family.

Sounds good.

It sounds like the hacker is Ronny's ex.

@TheGenerator: Tell us about her. When was this? What was she like before? What is she like now? What is the most surprising thing that has changed? What does Ronny think caused this change? Oh, and maybe give her a name, and a online handle or two?

We can help with any of these once you have had your say.

It turned out to be quite the story, but if you don't want to read all of it, only the last post is important ;-)

I hope I didn't make any TL - anomalies. Still figuring out how 'futury' this future is. feel free to correct me.

Hehe. This city definitely has a old-timey vibe, but that is fine. Many places will be modelled after our world, and have 'modern' references.

One wonders what was showing on the dice in the cabby's mirror. :)

Are you going to post your arrival at the bar?

Good stuff, by the way.