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Esoomian
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| garhkal wrote: | | Quote: | | Doors are allready a problem for the PCs, but they have a really good techguy so its mainly a problem of time. I plan to have some deactivated or just plain powerless. |
Just cause he is a good tech does not mean he can always access a door's controls to get it open. What if the controls are remote, or they are requiring biometric/comlink freqs to open (sensitive areas), or are time locked (really sensitive areas). Or as you said just flat out of power. |
Killing the power to doors will generally leave them open as otherwise a powercut can trap people and leave them starving to death. That said an unpowered blast door may not be locked but it will still need some force to be lifted.
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bobenhotep
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my thoughts
-maybe a janitorial with keys to everything, but he is old as dirt...
-lots of melee combat with labor droids, or oppressed factory workers/labor droids vs imperial oppressors
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ZzaphodD
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| Esoomian wrote: | | garhkal wrote: | | Quote: | | Doors are allready a problem for the PCs, but they have a really good techguy so its mainly a problem of time. I plan to have some deactivated or just plain powerless. |
Just cause he is a good tech does not mean he can always access a door's controls to get it open. What if the controls are remote, or they are requiring biometric/comlink freqs to open (sensitive areas), or are time locked (really sensitive areas). Or as you said just flat out of power. |
Killing the power to doors will generally leave them open as otherwise a powercut can trap people and leave them starving to death. |
Yes, very logical, and very un-Star Wars-ish..  |
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ZzaphodD
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| bobenhotep wrote: | my thoughts
-maybe a janitorial with keys to everything, but he is old as dirt...
-lots of melee combat with labor droids, or oppressed factory workers/labor droids vs imperial oppressors |
Hmmm, or an janitorial droid and labour droids....
The players 'are stuck' with the Void Droids from scavenger hunt (as they came directly from that scenario right into this mess). They are being led by an interrogation droid with megalomania, so perhaps some more underlings would fit his up and coming droid army.. |
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garhkal
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| ZzaphodD wrote: | | Esoomian wrote: | | garhkal wrote: | | Quote: | | Doors are allready a problem for the PCs, but they have a really good techguy so its mainly a problem of time. I plan to have some deactivated or just plain powerless. |
Just cause he is a good tech does not mean he can always access a door's controls to get it open. What if the controls are remote, or they are requiring biometric/comlink freqs to open (sensitive areas), or are time locked (really sensitive areas). Or as you said just flat out of power. |
Killing the power to doors will generally leave them open as otherwise a powercut can trap people and leave them starving to death. |
Yes, very logical, and very un-Star Wars-ish.. |
IIRC in several of the novels where power outages happened, the doors there STAYED shut. So that is not always the case.
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| garhkal wrote: | | ZzaphodD wrote: | | Esoomian wrote: | | garhkal wrote: | | Quote: | | Doors are allready a problem for the PCs, but they have a really good techguy so its mainly a problem of time. I plan to have some deactivated or just plain powerless. |
Just cause he is a good tech does not mean he can always access a door's controls to get it open. What if the controls are remote, or they are requiring biometric/comlink freqs to open (sensitive areas), or are time locked (really sensitive areas). Or as you said just flat out of power. |
Killing the power to doors will generally leave them open as otherwise a powercut can trap people and leave them starving to death. |
Yes, very logical, and very un-Star Wars-ish.. |
IIRC in several of the novels where power outages happened, the doors there STAYED shut. So that is not always the case. |
Wut, that was what I was saying.. |
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Esoomian
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| garhkal wrote: | | IIRC in several of the novels where power outages happened, the doors there STAYED shut. So that is not always the case. |
Yes It'd take power to open them just like an automatic door anywhere but unless the lock is a physical thing it too should be shut off and the door would be unlocked. It would however remain closed.
That said a heavy blast door may not ever lock per se it might just be heavy and rely on the fact you need the opening mechanisim to move it. In that case a power cut would effectively 'lock' it.
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bobenhotep
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you could do some GEN Cracken (or Jawa) stuff and take one of those droid's power cells and jury rig it to power the door controls and open the door...
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