the-prophet

Technically all the following information is beyond top-secret {eci} and players or their characters

can legally be killed for blabbing about it. The only persons who know about it are

• The Bounty Hunter ; Tulon Leifssen, a humanoid
• The Xeno Preistess ; Tinafey, a winged alien.
• The Enginseer ; Monty-65, an imperial ad-mech
• And the servants of the Bounty Hunter,
• and the assistants of the Enginseer.

By reading on after this point you agree that this info will not spread

and that your life is forfeit to the whims of those to whom the info rightly belongs.

Tinafey likes to collect favors, and when she heard of Monty's mechanical prowess, she decided to put him together

with her "friend" Tulon, who had dropped hints he was looking for an advanced technician.

So she brought the two together, and they looked at the Prophet, an ancient machine.

Truly old almost beyond belief, the Prophet is an ovoid "computer" over 5 meters tall.

When operating, black and red vanes extrude from the surface, and an opening appears in the front

into which a very tall person can step and commune with the machine.

It was manufactured on Mezoa in M31, a combination of pre-heresy tech, old nav methods, and

psychically attuned crystals of elegant design. It was made for the XVII Legion, and was designed to

aid any psyker, librarian, astropath, navigator; really any humanoid with a sixth sense to be a better searcher.

The Prophet, as the machine came to be called, could be used to sharpen one's mind, and affect one's enemies.

In essence, the user became better at finding the way to a goal, and others became worse at finding the user.

Powers:

Navigation: functions as a Navis Prima, a valid user can navigate a ship with this thru the warp. (good quality)

Combat: the user can see better, and can see the way to victory.

Obfuscation: the device and the user will be hidden.

Side Effects:

Vanishing; Obfuscation; Radiation

Drawbacks:

Item was considered "Ramshackle" by its builders.

massive and power inefficient, constantly radiating as if toxic (1) every half hour

to human crewmen assigned to work on it). Increase its Power and Space requirements by 2

However, thanks to its sheer bulk, this Component ignores the first Critical that

would affect it each session. Finally, its obvious weirdness permanently decreases Morale aboard the ship by 1

Users must have high will power, high perception and the the psyniscience skill to use the item at all.

the item doesn't wish to be found or used at all, except by a valid user:

is infuriatingly difficult to find, even when its owner only puts it out of sight for a moment.

Search Tests to find this item suffer a –10 penalty. As a voidship Component, Search or

Navigate Tests to find it aboard the vessel suffer a –10 penalty instead. Willpower tests

can mitigate this penalty. An undisciplined mind might never find it.

Multiple persons can use the item, but not simultaneously. The first user enters the machine, sets up whatever

mode or menu, then swaps places with the 2nd, and they can then access what the first saw.

Frequent users may come to distrust other mechanical sources of information.