CT-224 Cipher

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Produced in great numbers by a variety of arms manufacturers, the common frag grenade is the basic anti-personnel grenade fielded by nearly every military and paramilitary force throughout the galaxy. At their most basic, frag grenades are little more than disintegrating shells of hardened alloy or polycarbonate surrounding a small, wirewrapped core of high explosives controlled by a simple timer. Upon detonation, frag grenades produce not only a powerful concussive blast, but a quickly expanding cloud of razor sharp shrapnel which is extremely deadly to massed squads of unarmored or lightly armored combatants. Heavily armored troops, especially Imperial stormtroopers or those equipped with heavy battle armor, are largely immune to the effects of frag grenades and can often shrug off even direct hits. Frag grenades can be set to detonate on impact or set with a timer to detonate up to 3 rounds after being activated at the beginning of the attacker’s action. Some also have a “dead man’s” or pressure switch that, once pressed, detonates immediately upon release.

The term “hand scanner” is a catchall designation used to describe a wide variety of handheld scanning devices used for specialized purposes. Medisensors, circuit tracers, materials fatigue and stress-fracture scanners, scanners designed to detect specific gases or minerals, and narrow-band comlink scanners are all examples of devices that fall under the hand scanner banner. Most hand scanners can be connected to larger computer systems for the collection and analysis of data.

The ubiquitous datapad can be found in even the most remote galactic locale. A powerful combination of communications device, holo messenger, handheld computer, and personal database, datapads combine a number of common electronics in one easy-to-use package. Most have touch screens, but some use holographic imaging devices to project their data, and all can be connected to the galactic HoloNet. All datapads can be encrypted, and many have emergency data destructs that wipe their memory if they are lost or stolen.

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Additional qualities: A scramble key bypasses most simple electronic locks within five minutes of application. At the GM's discretion, more complicated locks may require additional time to crack or might trigger alarms at the brute force incursion. The user may attempt to speed up this process with a Daunting Skulduggery check, relying on pure intuition to select the correct code from those the scramble key generates. Success reduces the time needed to crack a common lock to a single minute, but failure immediately triggers any relevant alarms. Force-sensitive characters may make a Force power check as part of this check, adding either Success or Advantage for each Force point generated.

Additional qualities: Once per round, a character with a dataspike may expend it to attempt to disable a security program as a maneuver (rather than as an action). This can include the use of the Disable Security Program action. Reduce the difficulty of the subsequent Computers check to disable the program by 2, to a minimum of Simple. After one use, the dataspike burns out and becomes useless.