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Command

Command

Industry: Neuronetics
Usage: conjugate(main-act, R, 2fp)
    -> 1(tg), 10+2•fp(range) -> set(CC)=8+M*
Aspect-Usage: provenance -> Bio, Tech
  ◊   imp(sv,Resolve,8+M*)= cond,driven (see text) for rnd
  ◊   chk(CC-S)= +M* -> eff= cond,driven (see text) for rnd
Description: When you complete this conjugate, you target a creature within 10 metres, and potentially make it subject to your commands.

If the targeted creature fails an Resolve save (or you overcome its CC-S):

  • and it's a biological creature, you may speak a one-word command to it and, provided they understand you, and can comply with the command, they will obey for the current round, until your next turn.

  • and it's a software system or neural net, you can issue a simple command to that software that takes priority over others for a round. The command chosen must be one of the functions of the software system.

Typical biological commands are:

  • Approach. the creature approaches you by the shortest available route and ends its turn.
  • Flee. The creature spends the whole turn moving away from you at the fastest possible speed.
  • Drop. The creature drops whatever it is holding and ends its turn.
  • Grovel. The creature falls prone and ends its turn.
  • Freeze. The creature stops moving and ends its turn. Other, similar commands can be used, which the GM can adjudicate.

Typical software system or neural net commands are:

  • Pause (routine). The system stops is primary function for the round.
  • Reset (routine). The system stops and resumes at the very beginning.
  • Start (routine). The system resumes a stopped process
  • Stop (routine). The system stops what it's doing right now. At the end of the round it awaits its next command or, if served by a lifecycle, carries out the next item.

Commands must be commensurate to the strength of the conjugate and be logical:

  • ordering a Striker to Start (self destruct) would involve issuing a command to an extremely privileged system within the Striker, which would have an commensurately high Security Complexity Challenge (CC-S).
  • ordering a robot to Start (self destruct) would likely fail, because most robots don't even have a self-destruct sequence.

You set(CC)=8+M*, therefore an opposing engineer may be able to break your Command effect by

  • a successful Bypass chk(Bypass (Neuronetics),8+M*), followed by
  • a succeful Disable chk(Neuronetics,8+M*).