Editing Blue Giant:Additional Material (section)

===A.I. Cryptography===

'''Cost:''' - 1 point/Level

'''Relevant Stat:''' - None

'''Type:''' - Mecha

Codes are simple things. Put them into a thirty-first century computer and out pops the answer. It doesn't matter how quantum they are or how many prime numbers are factored in, codes are easy. The only way to hide a message is to keep it on the move. That means having an A.I. computer program remember it as a matrix of constantly shifting mathematical values. If you download the A.I onto an inert medium, it stops calculating and loses the data. If the A.I thinks it is about to be compromised, it commits suicide and you lose the data. The only way to get to the data is if the A.I. tells you the answer and to do that, you have to pass a number of little tests. Each level of this attribute adds one condition that a character must fulfil to receive a code. At best, an astonishingly good hacking skill check might reveal to the PC what the conditions of fulfilment are, roughly, but if the A.I gets wind that someone is hacking it, then it will more than likely wipe the data. An A.I is an intelligent entity in its own right and cannot be copied. It moves from system to system.

Conditions are entirely up to the referee but typical conditions are.
*A.I. must be on a particular computer system, e.g any treaty ranger ships computer, the university library computer, Joe's blue datapad. 
*A.I must recognise the person it is passing info onto, e.g any Imperial Fleet Admiral, Big Joe Kryzygsky, another A.I.
*A.I must be in a particular location, e.g aboard the trading vessel 'The Dirty Humper', orbiting a dead planet, inside a holosimulation of Red Square, circa 2204AD.
*A.I must be activated at a particular time, e.g within the next five minutes, midday local time, two years ago (Oops)
*A.I must see a key, either an object or a password or computer code.
*A.I must only reveal the data to a particular race, gender, tattoo bearer etc.
*Demonstrate knowledge that the A.I is looking for, e.g Why didn't you know that the password was a fake.

*The A.I may also hold fake data which it will reveal in cases of attempted hacking. Fake data costs one level each as well.

Other conditions should also be well defined.



#A.I has one condition to be fulfilled.
#A.I has two conditions to be fulfilled.
#A.I has three conditions to be fulfilled.
#A.I has four conditions to be fulfilled.
#A.I has five conditions to be fulfilled.
#A.I has six conditions to be fulfilled.


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