Covert Operations Equipment
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RainOfSteel
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I'm interested in what you've made (since I don't have anything specific).
ummmmmm all i really got is this beefed up carbine that i figure would be best in the all around sense spec ops require. that, and my new friend the Smart Fabric, reado on http://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/consgoods/smartfab.html
SO USEFULL!
SO USEFULL!
Well,
I think monitoring, counter-monitoring, tracking, all of the surveillance and counter surveillance gear needs to be accounted for.
I just started a PBEM, I have been shown that the lock government, (solimini,) does not trust me. (I am Varger, and come fro the imperium to boot.)
I am thinking about bugs, computer recordings, that get surreptitiously transmitted in the data flow to the port we arrive at, and how to snoop that out without tripping alarms.
We have not even mentioned any form of detection or monitoring based on meson technology, quantum tunneling, or any other exotic tech that could be developed.
(The imperial Chinese court was renowned for the ability to spy with in the palace, with NO technology involved.) After over 1000 years of Machiavelli style imperial rule, complete with all of the court intrigue, and all of the corporate spying going on, surveillance and counter surveillance should be a high art.
Secured communications using very narrow beam lasers, meson beams, and other ultra secure means are important. Coding and cryptography as well as decryptology, need to be dealt with in some fashion.
Finally exotic new ways of killing, incapacitating with out killing, erasing or altering memories, there is just SO MUCH related to covert ops that no one has even touched on, and I suspect that ANY player character should at least be aware of basic covert ops and gear.
A little long and rambly, I am sorry, but I think I made my point for a whole list of specific gear.
Mr Tek
I think monitoring, counter-monitoring, tracking, all of the surveillance and counter surveillance gear needs to be accounted for.
I just started a PBEM, I have been shown that the lock government, (solimini,) does not trust me. (I am Varger, and come fro the imperium to boot.)
I am thinking about bugs, computer recordings, that get surreptitiously transmitted in the data flow to the port we arrive at, and how to snoop that out without tripping alarms.
We have not even mentioned any form of detection or monitoring based on meson technology, quantum tunneling, or any other exotic tech that could be developed.
(The imperial Chinese court was renowned for the ability to spy with in the palace, with NO technology involved.) After over 1000 years of Machiavelli style imperial rule, complete with all of the court intrigue, and all of the corporate spying going on, surveillance and counter surveillance should be a high art.
Secured communications using very narrow beam lasers, meson beams, and other ultra secure means are important. Coding and cryptography as well as decryptology, need to be dealt with in some fashion.
Finally exotic new ways of killing, incapacitating with out killing, erasing or altering memories, there is just SO MUCH related to covert ops that no one has even touched on, and I suspect that ANY player character should at least be aware of basic covert ops and gear.
A little long and rambly, I am sorry, but I think I made my point for a whole list of specific gear.
Mr Tek
BetterThanLife
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Actually Spec-Ops is more Tactically oriented. Cool compact guns, sniper rifles, night vision gear, shaped explosive charges, Thermite, Lockpicks, breaching charges, handy little mirrors, pinhole cameras, shotgun and/or laser mikes, thermal imagers, camoflague, and neat insertion/extraction vehicles and short range radios. Even cool Scuba gear. All of this is already in Traveller.
What is missing is all the Intelligence gadgets that is used before the Spec Ops boys get involved. I think what you are actually looking for is a Q-catalogue. Covert Action style gear. (Not the same thing.) But even if you include that, much of it is available in Canon, you just have to know where to look. Or more importantly how to apply what is there.
The one thing Hollywood forgets, and because Hollywood forgets it and it is low tech, Congress tends to forget it too, is that the most accurate method of intelligence collection is, was and probably always shall be, HUMINT.
There is always a use for the Mark-1 Eyeball. It is passive, difficult to detect and very sensitive. If you want to know where the hostages are, a guy that was inside is going to be your best source. If you want to know what the bad guys are planning it is easier to ask them than to bug their office.
A modern example is looking for Sadam Hussein. They found him because a prisoner told them where to look. They haven't caught Osama yet either because he is dead or because they haven't found someone that knows his schedule yet. (And that may be because he doesn't know his own schedule.)
(Personally I think he was taken out in Tora Bora but when you use FAEs there isn't a whole lot of evidence left to identify much of anything.)
What is missing is all the Intelligence gadgets that is used before the Spec Ops boys get involved. I think what you are actually looking for is a Q-catalogue. Covert Action style gear. (Not the same thing.) But even if you include that, much of it is available in Canon, you just have to know where to look. Or more importantly how to apply what is there.
The one thing Hollywood forgets, and because Hollywood forgets it and it is low tech, Congress tends to forget it too, is that the most accurate method of intelligence collection is, was and probably always shall be, HUMINT.
There is always a use for the Mark-1 Eyeball. It is passive, difficult to detect and very sensitive. If you want to know where the hostages are, a guy that was inside is going to be your best source. If you want to know what the bad guys are planning it is easier to ask them than to bug their office.
A modern example is looking for Sadam Hussein. They found him because a prisoner told them where to look. They haven't caught Osama yet either because he is dead or because they haven't found someone that knows his schedule yet. (And that may be because he doesn't know his own schedule.)
(Personally I think he was taken out in Tora Bora but when you use FAEs there isn't a whole lot of evidence left to identify much of anything.)
RainOfSteel
SOC-14 1K
</font>[/QUOTE]Spycraft . . . now there's a good place to start from. But of course, by TL-15, the SotA will have moved on a bit.
Chapter 9 : Other Gear of the Spycraft Modern Arms Guide
it's free if nothing else, covers a decent range of material, and has some usage/rules bits
Casey
it's free if nothing else, covers a decent range of material, and has some usage/rules bits
Casey
