Raziel
Dark Jedi Spymaster
Image Source: Unknown, originally part of a hoax story regarding the US Navy
Intent: Create a spying device for Spynet
Development Thread:
Manufacturer: InnoteQ
Model: QD220 “Spydor”
Affiliation: Bothan Spynet
Modularity: Micro-needle can be left off
Production: Mass production
Material: Lightweight plastics, circuitry, micro-power cell
Description: The Spydor is not actually designed to appear like a spider. It comes with wings to provide the required mobility to infiltrate enemy premises. However, someone coined the term at a design meeting and the name stuck.
The Spydor is made out of an incredibly lightweight polymer, with some metal parts and a small powercell. The wings are an exceedingly thin and fragile polymer. The Spydor contains a short range transmitter, microphone and camera. It is designed to enter covert mode (radio silence), at which point its programming will mimic that of an insect. Several different patterns for behaviour and flight can be loaded for different environments.
Once it has reached a pre-designated area of interest, it will find a quiet wall and settle down and record. Occasionally moving to avoid suspicion. Once it has recorded for an appropriate amount of time (pre-determined based on time, amount of data collected, or relative to battery life) it will leave the premises and find a nearby wireless access point or its handler. It will then transmit encrypted capture intel over the holonet, or if it is returning to Spynet control, upload it directly. Handlers will typically use a terminal loaded with anti-malware packages to scan any uploaded content, to ensure the Spydor has not been compromised and loaded with malicious code.
The recordings are of a reasonable quality and quick sensitive. The Spydor can often cut out background noise and listen to a conversation several rooms away, focusing on the waveforms of speakers. The video or images capture are relatively low quality. Facial recognition is possible, but the Spydor would have to be within three metres to read text on a datapad.
A more malicious model is available. This one is loaded with a small needle, that can inject into a victim. It can be a little “hit and miss”. The needle is telescopic in nature, in order to penetrate and administer a subcutaneous and intravenous injection. Often it will break on particularly thick skin, or fail to administer enough toxin.
The device is obviously fragile, and will be easily destroyed with, for example, a rolled up newspaper. A small well of fluid can often disguise the nature of the device when destroyed, by making a typical dark smear when crushed.
