| From: | "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Turing Police ! (fwd) |
| Date: | Thu, 10 Feb 1994 11:00:51 -0600 |
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 13:08:26 +0000
From: The Powerhouse <P.C.Steele@*********.AC.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list SHADOWRN <SHADOWRN@*****.NIC.SURFNET.NL>
Subject: Turing Police !
As we're dealing with AI's on shadowtalk I thought I'd post this. I got the
idea originally from the Jayhawk postings (available on ftp) but thought the
idea was good enough to incorporate into my own campaign.
Many of the suggestions may seem munchkin or overbalancing but don't forget
these guys don't give two hoots about most deckers, besides most of them were
wiz deckers defore being snatched up by the FBI. So by and large they leave
deckers alone. The other thing is that there are very few of them in existence,
especially the ones with the high grade cyberware that makes them into a lethal
fighting force. Poorer countries just use good deckers with a good deck,
countries known to use such teams include, UCAS, UK, Japan, Tirs and Germany.
Anyway let's hear your comments, I've been suitable vague on most details as
this is more intended, I hope, as plot device for shadowtalk. If you wish
to use it yourself then I'd strongly advise against PC's having access, of
course this could make an interesting plot device with an NPC.
One last thing I would like to bring the turing police into the war with MONICA.
With a turing police detachment and an army of PC deckers we may just be able
to beat her for good :)
Oh, and when replying send plot related stuff to plotd.
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TURING POLICE
The turing police are a special unit set up by the major goverments of the
world to police the world's matrix. They are constantly on the look out for
rogue deckers and 'other' anomalies. In UCAS the FBI are responsible for
their own net though there is very close co-operation between other crime
fighting authorities and if needs be authorities will work together. The turing
police's biggest job is to prevent something like the crash of 29 from ever
happening again.
>>>>>[ There's alot of tension between countries like UCAS and the T.T. ,
UK and TNO, they guard their corner of the net jealously from Turing
police. ]<<<<<
-I.B.A. (**:**:**/**.**.**)
The standard setup involves a heavily modified deck. Three deckers work in
unison to provide a tank like set up. One steers, one man's sensors the other
fires the weapons, to achieve such an integral link up a special piece of
cyberware has been designed to allow the deckers to link themselves together.
This has some similarities to the hitcher jack found on decks but is far more
flexible. It is possible through this cyberware for all deckers to man the
guns for example, or any combination, this allows the police to shift their
defences rapidly according to what it is they are encountering.
>>>>>[ I think Ramierz and Wolf 359 use something similar, you can bet
though
that they don't have their own speicalised cyberware, he he ]<<<<<
-I.B.A. (**:**:**/**.**.**)
The deck is far from anything found on the street. It is truely cutting edge,
even the corps won't have something like this for the next 5 years. It is a
fully multi-MPCP deck with banks of hardening, top notch persona programs
and a speed which exceeds a Fairlight. All decks are linked to a massive
MSX-CRAY T99000X, which supports lethal doses of black IC. It is possible for
the police to instruct the mainframe to send that IC out into the matrix where
it comes under their control.
>>>>>[ Yeah it's possible, but ma chummer says they hardly ever do it as
black IC crawling over the matrix seriously impeeds network traffic. Last time
they did it they faced lawsuits from 3 virtual stock excahanges who lost mega-
nuyen due to transmission delays. They also have to be careful with this stuff,
some of it sounds as deadly as the Renraku know-bots we keep hearing about.
]<<<<<
-I.B.A. (**:**:**/**.**.**)
One of the most ingenious aspects of the deck is the ability to be able to max
out three of the personas and kick in the spare ones should one be damaged.
In a normal deck it is possible to max out only one persona chip, that value
is increased by 50% and the others decreased by 50%. On the turing police
deck each decker can raise one of his persona chips by 50%. So it is possible
to have 3 out of the 4 persona chips raised by 50% and only 1 decreased by 50%.
Yet another possibility exists though. Each decker can raise the same persona
by 50%, the result is cummulative.
>>>>>[ What this means chummers is that these guys can get BOD's that
benchmark
at about 24. Ok, everything else is gonna be down to about a 3 but frag !
]<<<<<
-I.B.A. (**:**:**/**.**.**)
Now we come to software. These guys, are hot when it comes to programming on
the fly, again they don't seem to suffer the same constraints that us normal
deckers have to go adhere to. They also use cutting edge custom stuff made
by some of the brightest brains in the country who are on permanent contract
to their respective govts. The UCAS and UK sport the biggest, baddest software
but you'll often find that the elven nations can come up with some real mind
bending stuff. Expect most software to benchmark at 10+.
>>>>>[ IBA, let me ask something. How come we hardly ever hear about these
guys, I mean I`m no decker but I keep up to date. ]<<<<<
-The Powerhouse (12:39:31/10.2.55)
>>>>>[ Well the basic fact is that the govt wants to keep them secret,
they're
supposed to be secret, after all these guys could probably break into just
about anyones fraggin computer. They had to kinda acknowledge them after the
drek with the New York, vitual stock exchange, and I think the corps had
guessed for some while. If you listen hard enough you'll have heard the
rumours in deep little corners. ]<<<<<
-I.B.A. (**:**:**/**.**.**)
>>>>>[ Well how come you know so much ? ]<<<<<
-The Powerhouse (12:43:35/10.2.55)
>>>>>[ Ah, well let's just say I had done many things before I met you PH,
many things. ]<<<<<
-I.B.A. (**:**:**/**.**.**)
Phill.
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