Chapter Five: Covert Ops and Security
Exophase Field Generator: Experimental versions of this have been developed, resulting from studies of metahumans with the Insubstantiality power. Predictably, many of these experimental devices have been stolen and used for nefarious purposes. Also predictably, accidents involving them tend to result in their user acquiring permanent Insubstantiality ...
Active Flesh Mask: Security professionals the world over confidentally assure each other that this device is years away from being perfected. This is, of course, exactly the way that the Ghost, field commander of the IST's covert team, wants them to think.
MT Interceptor: A similar device that affects only the Warp advantage has been developed, though as yet only a local field can be generated.
Power Damper: This device affects all powers, regardless of origin. Note that this includes Magical Aptitude, which means that mages affected by a power damper can only use spells if they're in a high mana zone.
Neural Pacifier: The revelation that an "electronarcosis" (or Deepsleep) machine can be altered to produce an "electrohypnosis" frequency was an unpleasant revelation in the early 21st century. It was also a serious blow to the IST's credibility, despite the claims of IST commands that they were wholly unaware of such a fact. (The truth of such claims remains open to question.) Currently, all IST deepsleep equipment has been hardwired to prevent changing the frequency in such a fashion. Other agencies, of course, have been less scrupulous ...
Biopresence Software: Owing to the absence of puppet implants and the still-experimental status of neural interface, this software has yet to be developed.
Brainwipe Machine: Developed by PSI, ironically enough, given how often it's been used to completely destroy telepaths and espers who found out things that other people didn't want them to know. Only the larger, "clinical" form exists.
Neural Programmer: As yet, this technique is only theoretical, as neural interface remains experimental. Apply a -5 penalty to Brainwashing skill when it's attempted.
Exophase Field Generator: Experimental versions of this have been developed, resulting from studies of metahumans with the Insubstantiality power. Predictably, many of these experimental devices have been stolen and used for nefarious purposes. Also predictably, accidents involving them tend to result in their user acquiring permanent Insubstantiality ...
Active Flesh Mask: Security professionals the world over confidentally assure each other that this device is years away from being perfected. This is, of course, exactly the way that the Ghost, field commander of the IST's covert team, wants them to think.
MT Interceptor: A similar device that affects only the Warp advantage has been developed, though as yet only a local field can be generated.
Power Damper: This device affects all powers, regardless of origin. Note that this includes Magical Aptitude, which means that mages affected by a power damper can only use spells if they're in a high mana zone.
Neural Pacifier: The revelation that an "electronarcosis" (or Deepsleep) machine can be altered to produce an "electrohypnosis" frequency was an unpleasant revelation in the early 21st century. It was also a serious blow to the IST's credibility, despite the claims of IST commands that they were wholly unaware of such a fact. (The truth of such claims remains open to question.) Currently, all IST deepsleep equipment has been hardwired to prevent changing the frequency in such a fashion. Other agencies, of course, have been less scrupulous ...
Biopresence Software: Owing to the absence of puppet implants and the still-experimental status of neural interface, this software has yet to be developed.
Brainwipe Machine: Developed by PSI, ironically enough, given how often it's been used to completely destroy telepaths and espers who found out things that other people didn't want them to know. Only the larger, "clinical" form exists.
Neural Programmer: As yet, this technique is only theoretical, as neural interface remains experimental. Apply a -5 penalty to Brainwashing skill when it's attempted.