Cut

You release bots onto any surface within 10 metres of you, which can cut or erode the surface atom by atom for up to 10 minutes. The shape of the cut or erosion is determined at the beginning. An example is cutting through a bulkhead door, you would do this cutting a shape into the door that allows you passage. Erosion is used more if you want to tunnel through something.

Cut

Industry: Machinery|Materials
Actions: conjugate(main-act, 1ep 1fp) 1(tg) with M*(range) then cut or erosion (see text) for 10 min or chk(C) +M* with 10+M*(range) then fp•d6+M(hp,sls)

For the sake of speed, the cutting is done usually through the weakest molecular bonds. This means that harder and denser materials take longer to cut or erode. The following table presents some common materials and their cutting rates per minute and erosion rates per round.

Material	Cut (cm/rnd)	Erode (cu cm/rnd)
Wood/ice	40	40
Glass	20	20
Stone	10	10
Metal/synrock	5	5
Diamond/Corrundum	1	1

If the material you are attempting to cut or erode is itself, patrolled by repair bots or kill bots, then the conjugater needs to make a conjugate attack roll against the CC-S of these artefacts. If the material succeeds, your attempt to cut or erode fails.

If you are capable of Neuronetics bypasses, then you can first attempt a bypass, then disable, then attempt the cut again.

A conjugate attack roll can also be made, if you want to use cut offensively against a target. The attack roll is made either to the TDC or the SDC of the target (whichever is applicable). If the attack succeeds, the creature is subject to your conjugate effect roll in (hp,sls) damage.