| Name |
Weight |
Description
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| Crash Pad |
1 lb. |
One use, produces an air-filled bag which reduces the damage taken from a fall for a single person. Requires an action to deploy, Athletics (Agility) with difficulty 4+ based on conditions, so will only be practical for falls longer than the distance fallen in a two-second round: sixty-five feet.
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| Portable Cover |
X lb. |
One use, produces barrier with 5X Armor and 10X Toughness along three sides of a hex.
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| Electromagnetic Unit (E.U.) |
1 lb. |
A multi-sensor communications device, a smartphone bolted to a tricorder. Usable with Tech (Smarts) for reasonable tasks, including extended (10-fold increase) communications ranges, hacking, and gathering information.
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| Radio Flare |
1 lb. |
A single-use flare (Shooting(Smarts) or Tech(Smarts)) that releases a cloud of micro radio transmitters into the air that will transmit for approximately fifteen minutes. Cheaper ones transmit garbage data on a generic frequency, better ones can be set to one signal from a set of pre-programmed messages (target below, please extract, etc.), military models often include frequency-hopping encryption.
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| Rocket Relay |
100 lb. |
A single-use rocket capable of storing an encrypted message, launching itself into orbit (a Tech (Smarts) check), connecting to a satellite communications network, sending the message, waiting for a response, and carrying the response down to its point of origin (guided by a radio beacon). Used in the Waste by operatives to exchange very-high-priority messages with their commanding executives.
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