Re: [HOE] Headbangers & doomsayer's EMP

["Nick Zachariasen" <zacharin@pluto.dsu.edu>]

> > I BELIEVE that according to the Accumulated Rulings, that if a Doomsayer
> > EMP's a Combine soldier against a TN of...was it 11 or 13?...then the
> > headbanger goes off, killing the slob.

Directly from the AR:

Q) Buffy the Doomsayer wants to use EMP on some black hats. The Black Hats
have chipped brain bombs, chipped assault rifles, and are riding around in a
chipped HMV. Will EMP work on them, what's the TN, and do their brains
automatically explode? - darrin

A) EMP does work on Combine equipment. If a Combine chip is shorted out by
EMP, the attached charge detonates immediately. Throckmorton has taken steps
to prevent this, of course, so the chips have some degree of hardening
against this. The chips in individual soliders and small arms are considered
military computers (TN 11). Combine vehicles and large, crew-served weapons
have more shielding, requiring a TN of 13 to short. [John Hopler, HoE
listserv, 6/14/99]


Nick Zachariasen
Editor Emeritus
Trojan Times