Botnet Comms

Botnet Comms

Industry: Cybernetics
Usage: conjugate(scene, R, 5hp 1fp)
  ->   1(tg,touch)
  ->   eff= comms 1K(range) for day
Aspect-Usage: provenance -> Bio, Tech
Description: When you complete this conjugate and touch a willing, biological creature, you can give them a thermally-powered transceiver built into their ear canals, or onto a mnemonic substrate. For the duration of the conjugation (1 day), the subject, and only the subject, can hear your messages, and is able to respond to you, as if equipped with mnemonics.

This method scores over regular mnemonics because it does not broadcast any signals. The messages are relayed by nanobots that array themselves between you and the subject. You don’t have to be in line of sight, but a pathway must be navigable between you, with a minimum of conductive materials blocking or interfering. The bots themselves can send messages through wood and stone, but electrically conductive materials like metal generally prevent communication. The total distance must be less than a kilometre.

This is most useful as a replacement for compromised mnemonics.