Unless otherwise noted, these accessories are compatible with commlinks, cyberdecks, and (with GM permission) other electronic devices. All peripheral accessories are wireless, and unless slaved properly, offer a sneaky ingress into a user’s PAN. Commlinks can have a maximum number of “slaves” equal to their Data Processing. All other accessories are “open” connections and can be exploited.
This device locates wireless devices within twenty meters. The scanner measures a signal’s strength to pinpoint its location.
Rating:
-
Availability:
3
Cost:
¥200
Notes:
Roll an Electronics + Logic as an opposed Matrix Perception test.
Any net hits will reveal the device's location.
Wireless: You gain 2 free hits on this test and only need to tie the opposed test, not achieve a net hit.
The headjammer is used to neutralize implanted commlinks and cyberdecks. Once attached to the location of the device, it works in the same way as any other jammer but limits its effect to your implanted device.
Rating:
1 - 6
Availability:
5 (Illegal)
Cost:
Rating x ¥150
Notes:
Removing a headjammer from someone without the proper key requires an Electronics + Logic or an Engineering + Agility (10) test, requiring a Major Action and 2 minutes of time to disassemble the headjammer.
Removing a headjammer from yourself is a Strength + Agility (7) test, requiring a Major Action.
Failure to succeed in any of these actions could activate any additional anti-tamper devices this jammer may be attached to.
This device floods the airwaves with electromagnetic jamming signals to block out wireless and radio communication, creating what is known as "noise" - wireless spam which weighs down the ability to communicate or hack efficiently. The jammer only affects devices that are within the jamming area, but it affects all of them. Walls and other obstacles may prevent the jamming signal from spreading or reduce its effect.
Rating:
1 - 6
Availability:
8 (Legal)
Cost:
Rating x ¥200
Notes:
The area jammer's Rating is reduced by 1 for every 10 meters from the center.
Affects all devices within its area.
Wireless: You can set the jammer to not interfere with devices and personas you designate.
This device floods the airwaves with electromagnetic jamming signals to block out wireless and radio communication, creating what is known as "noise" - wireless spam which weighs down the ability to communicate or hack efficiently. The jammer only affects devices that are within the jamming area, but it affects all of them. Walls and other obstacles may prevent the jamming signal from spreading or reduce its effect.
Rating:
1 - 6
Availability:
8 (Legal)
Cost:
Rating x ¥200
Notes:
The directional jammer affects a conical area with a 30 degree spread.
The directional jammer's area Rating is reduced by 1 for every 30 meters from the center.
Affects all devices within its area.
Wireless: You can set the jammer to not interfere with devices and personas you designate.
The quintessential piece of shadowrunner gear for anyone whose smart enough to make it off the streets. This short-range communicator doesn’t do anything special - it just lets you communicate by voice with other micro-transceivers and commlinks that you link together within a kilometer. The micro-transceiver consists of an earbud and an adhesive subvocal microphone. It is best used slaved to a better device when used for secure communications.
Rating:
2
Availability:
2
Cost:
¥100
Notes:
Operable within 1 kilometer of linked devices.
A -4 Dice Pool Modifier is applied to audio aural Perception tests to overhear what is being said.
Attached with adhesive to the center of the throat, this hard-to-spot microphone allows the user to communicate via subvocalized speech.
Rating:
3
Availability:
6
Cost:
¥50
Notes:
A -4 Dice Pool Modifier is applied to audio aural Perception tests to overhear what is being said.
This device is to sound what a laser is to light. It projects audible sounds in a tightly focused beam over a distance of up to one hundred meters, which can only be heard by the individual targeted. This means of communication can only be intercepted by physically interrupting the beam.
Rating:
3
Availability:
7
Cost:
¥400
Notes:
-
This handheld device creates an electromagnetic pulse for burning out RFID tags and other unshielded electronics. To use it, bring the eraser within five millimeters of any electronic device and push the button, instantly delivering matrix damage. The short range makes it impossible to use on targets such as vehicles, most drones, maglocks, and cyberware.
Rating:
-
Availability:
6
Cost:
¥450
Notes:
Delivers 10 Matrix damage
Carries one charge.
Can be recharged in 10 seconds if plugged in.
Wireless: The tag eraser recharges fully in an hour via induction.
A variation of the standard white noise generator, this model is tuned to ultrasonic frequencies. While inaudible to unaugmented metahumans, it is suficient to blind ultrasound sensors.
Rating:
1 - 6
Availability:
8 (Restricted)
Cost:
Rating x ¥250
Notes:
Each point of Rating adds a +1 Dice Pool Modifier to the user's Stealth + Agility tests to avoid ultrasound systems.
This device creates a field of random noise that inhibits audio surveillance. A white noise generator is redundant in a noisy environment (such as a nightclub or a firefight).
Rating:
1 - 6
Availability:
-6
Cost:
Rating x ¥50
Notes:
All Perception tests to overhear a conversation within (Rating) meters of a white noise generator receive a negative dice pool modifier equal to the generator’s rating.
If more than one generator is in use, only count the highest rating.
Wireless: As the device scans and chirps out local noise, the white noise generator’s effective radius is tripled.
Data taps are small, handheld devices with a variety of connectors designed to allow direct access to another device or network. Standard data taps are a common tool used by legitimate technicians, but hackers have adapted them for more nefarious purposes. It's a widely known fact that directly connecting to a device makes it easier to hack.
The standard data tap is legal and widely available. Unless you're using it to connect to something you aren't supposed to, no one is going to bother you about having one. Installing a standard data tap requires you to be close enough to touch the device you're connecting to. If there are no exposed wires or dataports, you may need to pry open a case or something, and some security systems are designed to detect such tampering.
Availability: 2
Cost: ¥300
Special Qualities:
Attaching a data tap requires a Major Action and an Electronics + Logic (2) test. This creates a connection but does not grant automatic access.
Unless you take an action to conceal it, the threshold for a Perception test to notice the data tap is 1.
You may make a Stealth (Palming) + Agility test to conceal the data tap, in which case your hits set the threshold to discover it.
If you can't get close to a device to install a data tap, why not strap one onto an arrow or crossbow bolt? Well, it's not that simple. Quite a lot of innovation has gone into making these things actually work. These marvelous projectiles repurpose a micro-drone into a data tap delivery system and fits it all within an oversized arrowhead. Using these requires considerable accuracy.
Availability: 4 (Illegal)
Cost: ¥2,000
Special Qualities:
To bring the Arrow Tap online and designate a device to connect to requires a Major Action.
You must score at least 3 Net Hits on an attack test to hit your target.
If successful, the arrowhead pierces the case or sticks to the wall next to it, doing 0 Damage, and then dissolves due to a chemical reaction similar to that used in stealth grapple line technology. The micro-drone activates, connects the data tap, and then bricks itself.
As long as no one saw or heard you shoot the target, the tap is not any more obvious than a standard one. No Stealth test to make it harder to detect are allowed.
An Arrow Tap will only function for 5 minutes. An extended battery life version exists, which lasts for 30 minutes.
Available as crossbow bolts, arrowheads, shuriken, throwing knives, or as darts. If used as a weapon, they do 1P damage.
Arrow Taps are one-use items. If you fire and miss, the projectile will dissolve and the micro-drone with brick itself.
Someone looked at the concept of a grapple gun and had the inspiration to use it to establish direct wired connections. These grapple guns are a complete redesign of the original concept and are much smaller. Roughly the size of a small revolver with a data cable spool in place of a cylinder and the end is capped with a small metallic pod. The data tap itself is not wireless in this case, but the grapple gun itself is, leading to a level of possible hijinks for creative hackers who may want to fire, establish a direct connection, and get some distance from the grapple gun in case someone comes looking for the source of the newly established data cable.
Availability:
4 (Illegal)
4 (Illegal) (Grappler Tap Pod)
2 (50m Cable Spool)
Cost:
¥750
¥350 (Grappler Tap Pod)
¥50 (50m Cable Spool)
Special Qualities:
In order to use a Grapple Tapper, take a Minor Action to activate the pod.
To connect to the target, make an Athletics (Bows) + Agility (3) test. If you target a vehicle or drone, the pilot may make a Defense test and you then require 3 Net Hits to make the connection.
When fired, the pod extends it's grapple claws and latches, then secretes a conductive gel that is used to establish a crude connection for the data tap.
If the attack is successful, the connection is automatically established the the grapple tapper's cable - a direct wired connection.
Removing the grapple takes a Major Action. If the cable is cut, the connection is severed.
The cable can be retracted, but the tap itself is a single-use item.
For those requiring a secure, unhackable wireless connection there is the laser jack. This tiny laser emitter/receiver module is used to establish a direct connection between devices and requires an uninterrupted line of sight. Any break of line of sight will completely sever the connection but fog, rain, and other atmospheric particles may raise Noise levels. Unless interrupted with an emitter, it's impossible to detect or access the connected devices wirelessly, although the laser is faintly visible to IR sensors and people with thermographic vision. Due to the bandwidth capabilities making it so VR cannot be used with Laser Jacks, they seldome see use except when stealth and discretion is required.
Availability: 4
Cost: ¥100 per pair
Special Qualities:
Both devices must have a laser jack in order to connect with one another.
Light Rain or Smog generates 1 Noise per 50 Meters of distance.
Heavy Rain or Light Fog increases this to 1 Noise per 20 Meters of distance.
Thick Fog adds 1 Noise per 10 Meters of distance.
No noise reduction of any kind has any effect on boosting a Laser Jack's efficacy.
On a clear day, the effective range is 2 Kilometers.
Spotting a Laser Jack requires a Perception (3) test.
Laser Jacks are not capable of providing the bandwidth required for VR - only wireless device functions and AR mode can be used if you are solely relying on a Laser Jack connection.
These gloves have been obviously modified with the required chips and cables to generate a special electromagnetic field that can create a direct connection to any devices they touch. The gloves are impossible to disguise as normal clothing, though some clever designers have been known to make them seem fashionable rather than functional.
Availability: 5 (Legal)
Cost: ¥500 per glove
Special Qualities:
The connection established through Link Gloves is of limited bandwidth, incapable of VR mode. Link Gloves are incompatible with a living persona.
Standard data taps are not designed for concealment. They are bulky and include a wide variety of connection cables and adapters. A stealth data tap discards everything non-essential, resulting in a device roughly the size of a small-caliber bullet with several contact points. Due to a lack of included cables and dataports, you'll need an electronics toolkit to install one.
Availability: 2 (Illegal)
Cost: ¥500
Special Qualities:
Attaching a Stealth Data Tap requires a Major Action and an Electronics + Logic (2) test. This creates a connection but does not grant automatic access.
Attaching a Stealth Data Tap requires an Electronics Kit.
The threshold to detect a Stealth Data Tap with a Perception test is 2 if no special attempts are made to conceal it.
Gain +2 Dice Rerolls on any Stealth (Palming) + Agility tests to conceal a Stealth Data Tap.
The Defiance Super Shock taser fires wired taser darts that allows one to detect a target's medical status with a successful connection to flesh. Some nefarious - some say brilliant - deckers managed to adapt this tech to help deal with those pesky street samurai who turn off all of their wireless functions to avoid getting their augmentations hacked. Taser Taps are taser darts specifically designed for the Defiance Super Shock taser and they deliver a payload of short-lived conductive mincro-drones hat establish a direct connection to all of the target’s augmentations and linked devices. Even if they’re offline,using an internal router, or they’ve switched off their augmentations. Of course, you have to tase someone to do this, so it isn’t exactly a clandestine assault, so most hackers aren’t crazy enough to use these.
Availability: 5 (Illegal)
Cost: ¥400
Special Qualities:
Can only be used in a Defiance Super Shock
Once the connection is established, the target can take a Major Action to remove the Taser Tap.
If left indisturbed, the Taser Tap connection will be lost after 1 Minute.
You can choose whether or not to have the taser deliver its shock or only establish a connection. This is useful if you want to use it to connect to a camera or maglock without frying the thing.
Whether or not you apply the shock, a taser tap is not reusable.
A Matrix relay is a device that helps you extend the range of your wireless network, allowing you to operate at greater ranges or within a blackout zone. They come in a variety of shapes and sizes, from small handheld personal devices no larger than a credstick to massive systems that require a semi trailer to move. Hackers have discovered that these also work really well as signal boosters, allowing them to cut through Noise caused by jamming and distance.
A Matrix Relay that is connected to your PAN essentially allows you to be in two (or more) places at once, as far as the Matrix is concerned. Setting one up requires a Major Action, and if you wish to conceal activating it that requires a Stealth (Palming) + Agility test.
If you move away from your Matrix Relay, determine if there is any Noise directly between you and your wireless relay due to distance, jamming, or other effects. If the Noise level exceeds the Matrix Relay's rating, then you are out of range. You benefit from a stronger signal if you're not at the edge of the relay's range. If the relay's Rating exceeds the Noise affecting your connection to it, reduce all further Noise penalties by that amount.
If you're within 100 Meters of your Matrix Relay, its full Rating is available to boost your signal. Reduce your Noise level by the Matrix Relay's Rating while it is active.
A Matrix Relay can be restricted by its owner for personal use. If access is allowed, a number of users equal to it's (Rating x 3) may connect to one.
Rating 1 - 3 Matrix Relays are roughly the size of a credstick.
Availability: 2
Cost: Rating x ¥1,000
Special Qualities:
-
Rating 4 - 6 Matrix Relays are the size of a large briefcase.
Availability: 4 (Legal)
Cost: Rating x ¥5,000
Special Qualities:
-
Rating 7 - 9 Matrix Relays are the size of a delivery van.
Availability: 6 (Legal)
Cost: Rating x ¥20,000
Special Qualities:
-
Rating 10 and above Matrix Relays are the size of a semi-truck trailer.
Availability: Rating (Legal)
Cost: Rating x ¥50,000
Special Qualities:
-
