Who would be your computer expert!

Romulan_nemesis · Post by **Romulan_nemesis** » 2003-03-18 08:32am

Here ya go. Have at it!

Cheers,
nemesis

Romulan_nemesis · Post by **Romulan_nemesis** » 2003-03-18 08:36am

I was trying to make this a poll, but my mouse clicked too fast.....

Data (ST)

C3p0/R2D2 (SW)

Oracle/Barbara Gordon (Birds of Prey)

Some stuck up Vulcan

Margie the Librarian

(Im in 1st period in school @ my library.......you can tell how bored I am......)

nemesis

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2003-03-18 08:44am

r2. he can hold the schematics of a death star, and can hack star destroyer mainframes.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-03-18 10:18am

Me, because I'm already a computer expert, so I don't need to subcontract.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-03-18 10:34am

r2d2. He can do things a lot better than the others.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-03-18 02:23pm

none of them, i'm an MCP i can fuck up my computer on my own.

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2003-03-19 12:52am

Ghent, if EU characters are allowed.

Post by **Kuja** » 2003-03-19 01:40am

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2003-03-19 01:54am

R2. He can hack anything, carry lots of data, and he's a straight-up mackdaddy with the women. What woman can resist that smooth dome, that shiney metal, and his special attachments?

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2003-03-19 02:24am

r2 being able to hack anything seems like more of a brain bug than an actual ability. Also, lets not forget EsB when he mistook a power socket for a computer terminal.

Ghent, an untrained slicer, was cracking military codes for fun and profit better than the best the NR had to offer, and I would thin that includes Bothans from the infamous spynet as well.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-03-19 03:25am

R2D2. He's not only a computer expert, he is a computer on his own.

Darth Servo · Post by **Darth Servo** » 2003-03-19 10:47am

R2. Vulcans are vastly over-rated and Data is incompetant. They can only hack their way into Romulan security systems because the systems themselves are crap. Don't know enough about the other choices to make an analysis.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-03-19 02:21pm

SirNitram wrote:R2. He can hack anything, carry lots of data, and he's a straight-up mackdaddy with the women. What woman can resist that smooth dome, that shiney metal, and his special attachments?

Remember R2D2: Underneath the Dome?

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2003-03-19 06:21pm

IIRC R2 hacked a SSD in DE which rammed the Galaxy Gun thereby destroying Byss. He aslo hacked the World Devastors. He carried the Death Star plans with him. Han was confident in R2s abilities in opening the blast doors on Endor.

He seems to be the best man-errr...droid, for the job.

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Post by **Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman** » 2003-03-19 11:00pm

R2. Aside of his enormous storage capacity (Death Star schematics) and his hacking skills, he's also **DURABLE**. R2 has been blasted by TIE Fighter's laser cannons (ANH), throwed several feet by a swamp creature on Dagobah (TESB), and blasted by blaster bolt on Endor (ROTJ), yet he still functions properly after repair. Moreover, he is still the same R2. So it means that the memory that keep his droid "personalities" is intact despite all those catasthrope.

Now try to do the same things to your PC, then see what happens to your data.

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2003-03-19 11:40pm

you forget survivng the escape from naboo in TPM, even though he didn't get hit that was pretty ballzy. Also,his initiating a complete shutdown of the droid foundry in AoTC was rahter well done, but I don't think that demonstrates an ability to hack into a computer and obtain information as the thread sugests. Plus, the Geonosis Foundry was an entirely automated operation, which leads me to believe that there was a large variety of problems that r2 could exploit.

Still, calling r2d2 the ultimate slicer based on evidence from the movies is a little extreme. In ANH all he did was openand lock doors (a lock which was overridden) and turn off the garbage compactor. I don't think that required very much in the way of security clearance to do in the first place. His storage caacity is rather amazing but for an advanced civilization like the SW galaxy I would have to think that their Zip Drives are rather impressive and easy software to install in an astromech.

in TESB he mistook a POWER SOCKET for a COMPUTER TERMINAL. That to me seemed rather ridiculous. TeSB did show that his scanner were rather impressive though. Then, in RoTJ he was unable to finish the task han gave him after being hit by blastter fire. But opening doors is far different from breaking into complicated security systems.

this brings us to Dark Empire, where the "R2 can hack Everything" Brainbug has infiltrated everyone's mind. His attack against the Galaxy Gun was well done (but a cop out in the scrpit nonetheless, that sucked for oth Eclipse II and The Galaxy Gun which deserved better deaths)

Kamakazie Sith · Post by **Kamakazie Sith** » 2003-03-20 06:36am

R2 seems to be the obvious choice but can R2 even interface with a modern computer?

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2003-03-20 08:04am

phongn wrote:
SirNitram wrote:R2. He can hack anything, carry lots of data, and he's a straight-up mackdaddy with the women. What woman can resist that smooth dome, that shiney metal, and his special attachments?
Remember R2D2: Underneath the Dome?

Yeah, that was hilarious.

R2 naturally.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-03-20 06:36pm

R2 is massively superior to the other choices.

Andrew J. · Post by **Andrew J.** » 2003-03-20 08:55pm

Yeah, definitely R2.

Captain Jack · Post by **Captain Jack** » 2003-03-23 10:17am

Take R2, add screen, mouse and keyboard.

Maybe add a sound card.

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2003-03-23 10:24am

R2-D2

He can break into the Death star computer and find hidden files in a secured surver on Cloud City as well. He the man er can for the job

Post by **Kuja** » 2003-03-23 10:39pm

Darth Fanboy wrote:Then, in RoTJ he was unable to finish the task han gave him after being hit by blastter fire.

Uh, hello? He was HIT BY A BLASTER BOLT! Would you be able to contiune working after being shot by a stormtrooper? I doubt it.

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2003-03-23 10:41pm

IG-88E wrote:
Darth Fanboy wrote:Then, in RoTJ he was unable to finish the task han gave him after being hit by blastter fire.
Uh, hello? He was HIT BY A BLASTER BOLT! Would you be able to contiune working after being shot by a stormtrooper? I doubt it.

The very fact that he took the risk of that happening makes him a even better canidate for this job. and for that scene he definatally deserves at least a purple heart

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2003-03-23 10:46pm

Darth Fanboy wrote: Ghent, an untrained slicer, was cracking military codes for fun and profit better than the best the NR had to offer, and I would thin that includes Bothans from the infamous spynet as well.

Ghent would be my choice, if EU is allowed.

And remember, the Bothans weren't THAT good. Palpatine hinted he LET them find info on the DSII, and some of my more favorite EU books talk about the Imps just "dropping the Bothans a morsel or 2 ever now and then to keep them happy", but keeping them under control. Ghent on the other hand was appointed MASTER SLICER OF THE NEW REPUBLIC in the EU books, I think that is pretty damn good. Plus, he is always out of place when not among computers, which seems a lot like me. (don't flame me, i just admitted I'm a "nerd")