Squib Techie
- Intent: Create a personal weapon for
Under Foot
- Image Source:
- Sergey Kolesnik
- Darkwire logo by
Daiya
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: Combat Utility Vibroblade | Scomp-Spiker
- Manufacturer: SQUIB GAMES
- Affiliation:
Under Foot
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: N/A
- Modularity: Yes
- Production: Unique
- Material: Madog Steel, Agrinium, Rubber, Ion Field Generator Augmented Vibro Motor
- Classification: Vibroshiv, Computer Spike
- Size: Small
- Weight: Very Light
- Computer Spike plugs into any compatible scomp-link, computer terminal, or I/O jack. This allows physical delivery of the slicer virus or scomp-spiker.
- Vibroblade. Cuts through many materials, including most common plastoid-based armor.
- Electro-Mag Pulse Disruptor. Causes circuit overload in contact with computer or droid-based systems.
- Shield Disruptor. Ion field can disrupt ray shielding, granting access to some shielded computer ports or door locks.
- Things that deflect vibroblades, such as spider-silk armor, deflect this one as well.
- Physical connection required. For either the vibroblade or the computer spike to really do much of anything.
- Don't Bring A Vibroblade To A Blaster Fight. This is simple melee.
- You Call That A Knife? This is a dirk, not a machete.
- Shield Disruptor won't bring down the shields of a ship or vehicle, but it might be enough to create an opening enough to access a computer port.
Project JINX was the prototype for what became the Netrunner Vibroshank. Originally conceived as a versatile computer spike, it became a proof-of-concept for an ion-charged vibroblade that could disrupt a broad spectrum of computer-based electronic systems, including droids or ray shielding. The Netrunner kept the ion functionality but was a much-simplified design from this weapon, which was so complex as to have been only hand-crafted.
When used as a vibroblade, it functioned identically to the Netrunner, generating an ion charge that ran along the length of the blade in addition to the vibration of the edge. When used as a computer spike, the two sides of the blade folded down to 90 degrees, becoming something like a hand guard and revealing the long spike that was then inserted into a data port. Software stored in the memory core of the handle could then be uploaded, such as spyware, data breakers, or a slicer virus -- such as Darkwire's ransomware. In the alternative, the electro-mag pulse disrupter could be channeled in the spike, allowing it to function as a scomp-spiker. In practice, one or more of these were likely used in combination. Such as breaching security in order to download or transmit files, then using the scomp-spiker to destroy the evidence of the crime or how it was perpetrated.
As this was a unique model, the Squib simply called it Jinx, which became the weapon's name. Owing to how it operated, Jinx was a brute force approach to slicing, but extremists rarely have a luxury of time on their hands when in the field. It was best operated as a first strike against a computer's defenses, which was when followed up using another tool in tandem, such as a CryptLink to manipulate or control the resulting system infection.
