[ RPG ] Battle Network!! *EDITED RULES*

[Marine]

In the five minutes of the demosntration, Allistair Lorne became intrigued by Hawk's attempt at a flawless design. Like he predicted, the man faltered trying to impress him, and fantastically stumbled. The shock seemed to have returned Hawk to his senses. Now the Gaurdians would wipe the Navi from existance.

Allistair crossed behind Hawk and opened a small hutch caddy-cornered against a wall, pulling a small flask with his index and thumb pinched around the neck. He pulled the cork. Pressing the cold aluminum to his lips, he discovered the liquid was Bardacruz, an import liquor found in only one place - in the Bosses private stock inside his office. Could Hawk have more importance than he realized?

He shrugged the notion. Walking beside Hawk, Allistair thumbed the activiation sift on his PET. Underneath the growl of the Hypno Program, Auspex groaned awake, prattling away at a Trooper bodygaurd.

"Let's hope the kid's not packing Battle Chips Hawk." Allistair said. "I've seen impervious Gaurdians reduced to shrapnel from a Program Advance. Sometimes just a plethora of regular Battle Chips."

Gaurdian Navi's failed to impress the Commissar. Any controlled system or multi-linked router had several fail-safe routines. One of them was a Guardian Navi, a program built from the system itself, often flawless due to the A.I., and gaurded the system's main grids: Power, Data, and Function. These powerful Navi's tear through rank NetOps like crepe paper. Even Auspex had almost been scrapped by a Daemon Gaurdian.

'What'd you wake me for?'

"You are collateral in case Hawk fouls this up more than it is. Based on how the program is unfolding, it might be soon."

'Can't Hypnoman-'

"He's just as bungling as his NetOp." Allistair hissed. "If this blows up in his face I don;t want anything of this getting traced to us or the Boss."

'Hawk?'

Allistair watched Hawk hunch over the monitors. "I don't know yet."