I designed a scout and location "caser" character. He's a mundane human designed to familiarize himself with an area and mark the locations of anything signifigant. Using Becks I gave him the nightvision and perceptive edges, but he's built around his cyber. He has the standard wired reflexes1 just 'cause he'll need to duke it out. However, his cyber systems are built around an orientation system/internal NAV Dat GPS system. Everything is linked through a router with the required number of ports. The list is as follows...

ORIENTATION SYSTEM/NAV DAT GPS

-Smartlink 2 with rangefinder

-Math SPU (for the stopwatch, alarm clock and chronometer functions) with jolt alert.

-Cybereyes with: protective eye covers, display link, flare compensation, electronic vision magnification 3, ultrasound vision with high frequency hearing discount

-Cyberears with: Dampener, hearing amplification, Select sound filter 5, spatial recognizer and high frequency hearing

-a datajack

-a knowsoft link

-a chipjack.

When I get more cash I intend to add a few hundred MP's of headwear memory. All the 'wear is alpha grade because reliability of his equipment is essential.

Now, when this is combined with his stealth skill of 5 and his intelligence of 5, I was curious what you muncher-crunchers out there believe he could do with all of this. The implications I see so far include:

-Whenever outside he has a complete understanding of his environment and can mark the locations of everyone/thing.

-Whenever inside the same to a slightly lesser effect (Roofs block satellites from the GPS).

-By feeding info from his datajack into a portable computer he could build 3 dimensional maps for others to use.

-With architectural blueprint chips in the datajack he could plot escape routes, points of entry, etc.

-with the proper emitters he could monitor the progression of teammates and give helpful suggestions through a transceiver/cellphone.

What else can you guys come up with? Surely I haven't exhausted the repertoire! Just so ya know, the cost of all this 'wear was a little under 400K nuyen assuming alphawear.

I'd go with a eye camera and ear recorder. Makes putting together reports of security much easier. Anyone who is involved in espionage should have access to at least an eye camera.

Are cybereyes and the Night Vision edge compatible? How?

I'd say you loose it. The cannon companion says:

Extra-sensetive nerves perhaps?

(Edit): N/m

I'd go with an Image link rather than that display link. The maps won't be accessible by a display link (which can only display textual info) or a knowsoft link/chipjack. It might be possible to convert the maps to knowsoft form, but most blueprints you find would need converted somehow and there are no real rules for that.

If you do have cybereyes then the natural low-light vision provided by the edge would go.

I'd ditch the WR1. Yes, they come in handy in a fight, but they turn an otherwise potentially very street-legal character into someone who is going to at least upset a few cyberwear detectors.

Unless, of course, his usual cover is as "a bodyguard for VIP so and so, needing to assess security at a location. In such a case, wires make sense.

The cybereye laser range finder/laser microphone/laser comlink could be usefull, its rather a lot of essence though so you might not want it.

A second, concealed datajack could be usefull. Like an induction jack in your leg, or something so you could connect things to it while appearing unconnected.

I have always wanted to put an independant cybereye into a charachter. Maybe on the back of thier neck, or on thier hand someplace.

Yea go for bioware and maybe boosted 1 instead of wired reflexes. Wired 1 just isn't worth it. The alternatives cost more money, but less bio index, are more concealable and have more beneficial side effects (eg synaptic accellerator 1 and or boosted 1, enhanced articulation, cerebral booster 2 maybe start with just one or two of these).

A good edge for such a charachter might be the blandness one, or some of the social ones.

You should definitely get an opticam and ear recorder.

Laser microphones in your eye are a lot of fun too, but you won't have space if you get the opticam.

That's a good one, but for this type of character, a really appropriate Edge would be Blandness.

By the way, since you already has a knowsoft link, you don't really need a chipjack. If you want to have a free datajack when slotting a knowsoft, it would probably be better to get another datajack instead of a chipjack. That way, if you're not slotting a knowsoft at the moment, you have two functional datajacks to keep your options open, instead of one jack that is only good for softs.

I have to admit, that's an interesting spin Tisoz, but I've always understood it to mean the ability is tied to the meat eyes -- if the meat eyes go, so does the inherent ability embedded in the eye(s).

Some interesting ideas to consider for the character:

Spatial recognition, SSF, amp/damp

GPS + Orientation system (did you have this already?)

*Combining the GPS/OS together gives some scary ideas. If you convince your crew to wear coded transponders, you can become a walking tactical advisor -- you'd have a map with real-time locations of all your people to coordinate information. You might have to link to a multi-channel transceiver, but the potential is there. Even better if you can use the sec guards' radios to fix their positions...

Ditto the lowlight/thermo enhancements

-Siege

Taking that to a further extreme, I see BattleTac in your future.

You could do tactical support then, and using small-units tactics to really mess up a corpsec's day. This doesn't have to be lethal, mind you, but it really makes a runner team a lot better.

Heck if you can position the corpers with theri own radio signals (they are recieving, so you could pinpoint them) then you've got a great advantage. Get your mates to have snake-eyes or other Battletac stuff and you're getting some decent bonus dice.

This hinges, however, on convincing them to carry transponder chips. Good luck on that one (Wear this transponder chip. Heck no. Then wear this set of cuff-links. Okay).

Don

IIRC doesn't city electronic noise drown out weakly satelite signals and make GPS just so much silicon in the cities?

just my 2 nuyen