Hardware Breaker

Routine

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Type	Active defense

Responses to Targeted Batch

Function	Message	U	Result
2-7 Offense	The breaker not only doesn't fail, you don't think it even notices your attack.	?
2 Command	The breaker not only doesn't respond, you don't think it even notices your command.	?
1 View	It's not uncommon for computer systems to have basic hardening and physical defenses against electronic attacks. This design is a little more extreme, however, routing all of its communications through a breaker. Basically, if it decides the system past it is under attack, it'll shut off all external connections. That will kick you off, sure, but it'll totally isolate the system. It seems sort of like overkill.	0-1
Defense Other	The breaker doesn't respond to your batch.	0

Active Responses

Every round, if you used any Offence:

Condition	Message	U	Result
Defense	The hardware breaker doesn't trip. You suppose with that all or nothing design, they must have to give people the benefit of the doubt sometimes. Suckers.	0?
High Incognito?	You slip your batch quietly past the hardware breaker.	0
If your [Unsubtle? – Incognito] > Defense??*	The hardware breaker trips on seeing <function>, cutting all connections to the system.	—	Disconnect
Sometimes	(nothing)	0

* Normally: a 1-unsubtle? tool (eg. Brute Strike) along with 1 Defense (eg. Simple Filter) works fine at 0 incognito. If you have -1 incognito, it will always(?) trip.

Sources

Shipping Drone Net
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