Strike Force Zero Gadgets

Weapons

Raiden Heavy Electrolaser
Part of the push to make death rays coincidental. Gigantic electrolaser, size of a light machine gun. Nonconcealable. Can dial damage from 1-10 B/L, and has a "battery" of 40 dice of damage (lethal damage takes double power). Living targets hit by the Raiden who fail to soak the damage are stunned for their next turn, adding +1 to action difficulties.

UV Knife
Anti-hemophage melee weapon as a last-resort for agents, using a binary chemical to create a brief but intense burst of UV light. Attacks as a normal knife, but deals additional (1-3 levels?) damage against creatures vulnerable to UV. Due to its use of a blade made of tempered glass and transparent plastic laminate and the side effects of the reaction, a successful attack shatters the knife and renders it useless as both a cutting tool and a UV delivery method.

Ultrasound Grenade
Anti-shapeshifter grenade that creates a high pitched ultrasound burst. Living targets immediately next to the grenade take 8B damage decreasing as distance increases, with more than 1 level of post-soak damage causing temporary (scene-long) hearing loss and more than 3 levels making it permanent. Dogs and other things with superhuman hearing ranges (like say, werewolves) must roll Willpower (or Permanent Rage, whichever is higher) at Difficulty 8 even if they take no levels of damage to do something besides clutch their ears and whimper. A successful WP/Rage roll from a shapeshifter is going to leave you with a very active, and very pissed shapeshifter after you though.

Seburo Arms MT-5

A compact pistol firing 5.7x28mm. Standard issue for SF0 members.

Difficulty: 6 Dmg: 5L Rate: 3 Clip: 12+1 Range: 40

ARES 'Earthshaker' Heavy Revolver

This oversized revolver is loaded with custom .600 rounds. Cumbersome and difficult to use, but with very impressive terminal ballistics. Imported from America!

Difficulty: 8 Dmg: 10L Rate: 1 Clip: 6 Range: 50

Seburo Arms MN-6

Another fine weapon from Seburo Arms. It uses the same 6.7mm caseless as the MN-23 and can accept the 30-round 'short' magazine, but its shorter barrel length gives it less muzzle velocity and range. It is commonly assigned to agents desiring more firepower than the MT-5. Several variants have been built, including one built in to an attache case and one with thermoptic coating.

Difficulty: 6 Dmg: 6L Rate: 5 Clip: 30 Range: 75

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Seburo Arms MN-23

A high-tech assault rifle build almost entirely out of lightweight hyperalloys and impact plastic and chambered for 6.7mm caseless. Includes integral electro-optical sight with wired smartlink, along with external rails for added equipment. The high price tag and limited availability of both the weapon and ammunition have kept it from being adopted by any military units. To-date, its primary customers have been special police squads. The US Special Operations Command has expressed interest and consequently a 'commando' variant including thermoptic coating has been prototyped.

Difficulty: 6 (5 w/ smartlink) Dmg: 7L Rate: 4/FA Clip: 30 or 50 Range: 200

Varis 'Eliminator' High Impact Weapon System

This long-recoil cannon is specifically designed to knock out armored vehicles in an urban environment and was acquired with the emergence of the Boomer menace. Its depleted uranium 20x102mm cartridges are highly effective against anything short of an MBT and its weight limits it to the cyber-augmented soldiers of SF0

Difficulty: 8 (6 vs vehicles) Dmg: 12L (AP) Rate: 1 Clip: 5 Range: 1000

'Akira' Manpack Optical Laser

A bulky, shoulder-fired optical laser using copper-vapor technology, giving it a distinctive golden-yellow color. Not coincidental in any real sense outside of technocratic constructs, the 'Akira' has nonetheless been cleared for use against Class-III reality deviants with proper authorization. While the gun and its battery pack (about the size of two car batteries) is relatively cumbersome, its impact plastic and lightweight alloy construction makes it light for its size.

The 'Akira' uses Dex + Firearms to hit, difficulty 7, max range 2000m. A successful hit inflicts an Arete 5, Forces 3, Prime 2 attack on the target. The beam can be swept to strike multiple targets at additional difficulty.

The powerpack has enough quint for 20 shots, though in the hands of sleeper users, paradox from the vulgar effect manifests as additional quint usage - the hypercapacitors tend to be rather finicky. A botch burns out optical components, rendering the weapon useless without repairs.

Armor

Samurai Powered Exoskeleton
100 pounds of ceramic, kevlar, and hydraulics, generally used only in specialized assault situations due to its bulk, expense, and inconvenience. The powerful armored gloves make fine manipulation difficult at best without experience using the suit, and the use of hydraulics and servomotors instead of the more advanced synthetic musculature of Alanson and Martinez powersuits slow it down. Normally, it is deployed as a heavy weapons platform, carrying an automatic grenade launcher or heavy machine gun to deal with shapeshifting mutants or other targets who require firepower to put down. Its primary vulnerability, however, is the powerpack, which if damaged renders the user immobile.

Hardened Armor at 6d, cannot jump or run. Visor provides 2d armor and can be targeted at a +3.

All dodges and melee maneuvers are made at +1 difficulty due to slow response time.

Replaces user Str/Dex with Strength 6/Dexterity 1, runs out of power after 3 hours.

Called shots to the rear-mounted battery packs (at +3) can render the user immobile. The powerpacks have 4 HLs and are protected by 3d of non-hardened armor but can only be attacked from behind.

Shear-Thickening Armor
Replacing ceramic trauma plates with shear-thickening fluids creates concealable ballistic vests that are very protective and can be worn under most clothing. However the nature of the fluid makes it more vulnerable to edged weapons.

3d/-0 penalty normally, -1 penalty if armor is hit before movement, concealable under properly tailored clothing. Soaks blades at Difficulty 8 v. Difficulty 6.

Anti-Specimen Combat Suit (ASCS)
Cutting-edge materials science and cutting-edge electronics converge to create full body armor that's nearly as smart as the wearer. Experimental mental reinforcement procedures assist in protecting against hemophage/psion abilities to some extent, and an onboard medical computer assists medics in treating and cataloging any wounds as well as administering drugs. Its only disadvantage is that it's expensive and only issued for high-risk assaults.

4d/-1 penalty (does not penalize firearms). Called shots at +2 can target weakpoints such as the neck and joints (soak at 1d) but the user has 100% coverage even across the face.

Integrated tactical optics system (visorless, using cameras in the event of powers based on eye contact).

Onboard medical systems reduce wound penalties by 1 while wearing it, filter atmosphere, and reduce the difficulty of any Medicine rolls to treat the user by 2.

Integrated mental shielding increases the difficulty of mental effects/reduces resistance difficulty by 1.

Noncombat Equipment

Sensor Glasses
Simulates Rank 1 sensory magics at a 1-success level. Most common are Forces 1 (Nightvision), Life 1 (Heartbeat sensor), Mind 1 (Bioelectrical monitoring). Sensor glasses are cheaper and far more discreet than tactical optics, and can even be found in contact form.

Tactical Optics
Tactical Optics come in various forms such as large wraparound shades, futuristic night vision goggles, and so forth. Their primary benefit is the integrated motion vision system (-1 to alertness difficulties to detect a moving target) and its integrated targeting assistance when coupled with a firearm with the proper electronics (-1 to firearms difficulties). Typically tactical optics will have at least one or two sensor glasses options.

Wound Closure Gel
Wound closure gel is basically "tissue glue" with a powerful topical analgesic and disinfectant ability that can hold wounds together, allowing for a wounded operative to maintain combat effectiveness. When used on a person, any Medicine rolls to stabilize a wounded person are reduced by 1 in difficulty, and that person's wound penalties are reduced by 1.

Cybernetics

Overdrive Network
Implants added to critical points in the nervous system read from a primary battle computer in the brainstem bypass the meat-slow nervous system with light-speed reaction, while combat drugs boost physical performance and eliminate pain. The benefits are immense, more than enough to be worth the terrible cost of skeletal and muscular damage that inevitably follow pushing one's body so far beyond its limits.

An agent using an overdrive network gains +1 to all physical attributes (which can go above 5), takes no wound penalties, and reduces all multiple action penalties by 1.

At the end of the scene, the agent takes one unsoakable level of bashing damage from the strain and a cumulative 1B damage (soakable) for every turn it was activated. If the soak roll botches, overdrive network damage becomes lethal instead.

Fixed Response Pattern Software
Occasionally used by agents who require combat expertise and cannot be trained up to spec in sufficient time, Fixed Response Software uses an implanted computer system to override the agent's own mind and use preprogrammed, mechanical moves to engage enemies. Although such software can take a desk jockey and give him the same skill as a trained commando, the uncomfortable sensation of being a puppet in one's own body is more than enough to discourage most to use it.

Response Pattern Software gives an effective rating of 4 in a primarily physical combat skill (Brawl, Melee, Dodge, or Firearms).

However, a botch while using RPS skills is particularly dangerous, as it often causes neural damage or muscle damage from conflicting nerve responses. Botching a roll while using a software-induced skill requires a willpower roll. Failure of this roll takes the software offline and incapacitates the user for one turn, while a botch incapacitates the user for the remainder of the combat due to seizures and deals 3B damage as well.

Other Stuff

Janus Semi-Automated Sentry Gun
7.62mm machine gun mounted on a remote-controlled platform. Can be set to operate via teleoperation, semi-autonomously (user designates targets, fires with a pool of 4d), or fully autonomously. Only has very limited intelligence-typically set up to automatically fire on any target without human-normal body temperature. Personnel with severe fevers should not walk within its firing arc.

Uses the .30 caliber machine gun stats (Technomancer's Toybox p.92), has a Dex + Firearms pool of 4d when operating autonomously.

.30 Caliber MG: Diff 6, Damage 6/12, Rate 21/5, Capacity 100.