From:	Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject:	Electro-Magnetic Pulse Questions
Date:	Mon, 23 Oct 2000 12:17:18 +0200

According to Oliver McDonald, at 22:08 on 22 Oct 00, the word on the
street was...

> >1) What would happen if someone used an EMP in downtown Seattle? Would
> >it knock out the corps?
>
> Nope. Most of the computers etc in Shadowrun are optically based. EMP
> has no effect.

Except for their power supplies. Unless you want to operate your computer
only in front of a window during the day, you're going to need something
to generate those optical signals, which would be using electrical
equipment -- in turn, that's sensitive to EMPs, though it could be
shielded as described in another post.

> >3) What would happen to any deckers on the Matrix when an EMP hit?
> >Dump shock? Or worse?
>
> None. See above.

They would be dumped if the deck's power supply quits, so I would say yes,
they do get dumpshock.

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