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Touch 'N' Go Biosoft Skillware
Developed in conjunction with the Pentapods, Biosoft Skillware is a combination of alien biotechnology and human cybernetics. Unlike normal chip skills, Biosoft need only contact an area of the skin where there is a high concentration of nerves, such as the finger tips, and the information contained within becomes available to the user immediately. There is no disorientation, everything feels perfectly natural. If physical contact is broken, then the knowledge is lost as well. Obviously, it is possible to give Biosoft equipment to someone who has never used that equipment before and they can operate it with a high degree of skill instantly. A prototype firearm was supposedly tested with Biosoft in the grip, so that whoever held the weapon could automatically use it. A Biosoft skill chip may contain a level of expertise up to level 2 as per a normal skill chip.
Touch 'N' Go are no longer trading after the principals of the company vanished in mysterious circumstances and only a limited number of the Biosofts were produced. There are less than a thousand such devices in circulation. Some were purchased by rival corporations hoping to reverse engineer the technology. To date, no one has succeeded in doing this. Other Biosofts were stolen from their original owners and have filtered down to the street, where they can command a high price, especially for the rare combat packages.
Quantum Tunnelling Event Predictor
A device that can predict with a reasonable accuracy the likely motion of a Stutterwarp vessel by analysing the quantum field emissions of the drive. Since these field emissions can persist for some time, the device can be used to track Stutterwarp vessels through space, by predicting where to find the next "footprint" from the current one.
The QTEP cannot detect a trail more than 4 hours old or further away than 0.1 AU. The task to do so is normally Difficult, Int, Sensors and requires about ten minutes to perform a scan. It masses 5 tons, has a volume of 3 m3 and requires a surface area of 10 m2 for a rather strange collection of antennae. As for price, there is only one QTEP known to exist and that is in the possession of a certain Bruce Dawn Sky ...
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