Mechanical
Root • Physical • Craft
World Class Mechanical Engineering is the creation of robotic drones. When you unlock Mechanical, you learn the Schematics for Firefly Drone. The Firefly Drone’s basic functions do not require Dynamis Cartridges or Chemical Base, but for them to perform their advanced functions they’ll require the material or ammunition to take action.
Augmentations: Augments allow you to add functionality to your Drones. Drone entries will show what each Augment is able to be applied, and the mechanical definition of how the Augment works specifically with the drone’s type. When you unlock an Augment, the Augment becomes available for all Drone Schematics you have unlocked, and any you may unlock later. Other Engineering Trees may automatically unlock Augments, such as Chemical unlocking Self Destruct and Electrical unlocking Rail Shot.
Interface: The Drones will follow their creator’s mental commands as long as they are in range. Advanced Interfaces like the Heads Up Display may be unlocked for more precise control and much longer operational ranges. More Advanced Interfaces will also allow you to connect to more than 1 Drone at a time.
Activating Drone Actions: Drones have default behavior. This behavior can not be changed. Only one Drone may be active at a time without a Heads Up Display. Activating a Drone takes 1 Action Slot, if you are already at your maximum Drone Connections, one of your Active Drone Connections is severed during the activation, causing the drone to go offline.
Routine Craft: 1 Routine Path
You craft one Firefly Drone.
Active Drone Connections: +1
Firefly Drone
Item Type: Flying Drone
Containment: 1 Pocket
Materials: Scrap (Automatically Generated by the Routine)
Load Weight: 0.1 Load (0.5 Firefly Loaded)
Durability: 20
Firefly Loaded
A Firefly may hold 1 Chemical Base and up to 3 Dynamis Cartridges. It takes 1 Action Slot to add a Dynamis Cartridge or Chemical Base.
Firefly Light
Fireflies are easy to spot in the dark but do not provide any illumination to their surroundings.
Default Behavior
The Firefly Drone stays clear of obstructions and slowly flies around you within 2 Tiles. Any action you give the Firefly Drone uses the Tile you are occupying as the Point of Origin.
Drone Delivery
Base Action
Activation
Celerity: 1 Action Slot
Durability Cost: 20 Durability
Movement: Restricted
Range: 1 Kilometer (0.621371 Miles)
Effect: Deliver a letter or item weighing no more than 0.1 Load and no larger than 1 Pocket up to 1 Kilometer.
In general this allows you to send a letter in an envelope which features a wax seal or a small item.
The Firefly is reduced to 0 Durability and disintegrates after delivery.
For the purpose of simplicity, this takes around 10 minutes and is 99% successful.
If for any reason it is not, you know the Firefly didn’t make it immediately and about where the Firefly was when it experienced failure.
If you have a HUD, you can watch the Firefly fly and are able to see what happened in most cases.
If you activate another Drone while Delivery is active and have to sever the connection, Drone Delivery fails.
Developer’s Notes: If you suffer a clueless disconnect including a lack of knowledge about where the failure was or “Failure with 0 reason,” the event is an abuse against the value of this effect.
Micro Rail
Required Root: Electrical
Activation
Celerity: 1 Action Slot
Durability Cost: 2 Durability
Dynamis Cartridge: 1 Stack
Movement: Restricted
Range: 30 Tiles
Effect: (v:4)
Micro Rail Misses
Micro Rail deals 1% of Awareness as a Puncturing Force Injury Card.
Micro Rail deals 3% of Awareness as a Puncturing Force Injury Card.
Micro Rail deals 5% of Awareness as a Puncturing Force Injury Card.
Self Destruct
Required Root: Chemical
Activation
Celerity: 1 Action Slot
Durability Cost: All Remaining Durability
Chemical Base: 1 Stack
Movement: Restricted
Range: 10 Tiles
Effect
The Firefly flies into the target and applies a Burn Injury Card equal to remaining durability to the target.
This effect does not have an Effect Accuracy Check, but may still be treated as if it does. If an action or effect reduces Self Destruct’s Static Effect Accuracy to 1 or less, the Action does not hit and the Firefly Drone explodes harmlessly.
For Determination, The Static Effect Accuracy of Self Destruct is 4.
Surveillance
Requires Branch: Heads Up Display (wip)
Passive Sense of Sight
With a Heads Up Display, you can see what your Firefly Drone sees based on the Heads Up Display Augments.
Targeting Solution
Requires Branch: Heads Up Display (wip)
Passive Buff
You may activate all Firefly Drones you are connected to as a single action without additional costs. The Activation Time when you do so is equal to the action with the highest activation celerity.
Vital Statistics Adjustment
Strength: +31
Awareness: +186
Mental Endurance: +2
Unlocking Mechanical
Potential Cost: 175
Requirements
Minimum Level: 22
Required Roots
Well Educated
Mechanical Branch Effects
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