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[Voran]

Sorry, to try to avoid the adding to my new topic count for what I think will be fairly active over the next couple days as I get familiar with the ruleset again, I'm going to setup a single new post (for the time being) to address brainfarts and small questions that probably wouldn't generate much response after the individual question was addressed. Also, others please feel free to drop in their own questions for the community. Just want to try and keep all my miscellaneous questions in a tighter grouping for the time being.


1. Under the existing ruleset, would it be feasible/plausible/game balanced to add something like 'portable smart cover'. I'm envisioning a roll of material about the size of, I dunno, christmas wrapping paper, maybe two feet wide, that when activated, uses its battery to reform the memory material into well...portable cover. It expands out into a maybe shoulder high ballistic glass (or better) like barrier, which lasts until its battery gets geeked. The battery would also represent its structure, depleting the battery through damage to the barrier would cause it to fold like a wet (or dry) towel.

2. Variant of above. Memory material smart shield? For those that don't want to carry around a riot shield, but could benefit from a short term more easily portable one?

3. If two hidden nodes are communicating with each other via wireless, and you're using sniffing, would it be accurate to say its possible to sniff the traffic, without knowing where the nodes are, without specifically searching for the hidden nodes?