Satellite Surveillance: Intelligence
3-POINT PULLING STRING
PREREQUISITE: INFLUENCE (INTELLIGENCE OR MILITARY)
These satellites are the highest tech possible and have been available only since the late 1980s or early 1990s. They can focus on tiny details, down to the date on a penny. The satellites use a number of different sensors that simultaneously capture images in black and white, color, infrared, radar, and ultraviolet. This allows analysts to determine shape, density, temperature, movement, and chemical composition.
Since these satellites are reserved only for special operations, their archives are very specific. They still view sites important to the observing agency, but focus on the main sections and persons in those areas. They are used to take photos of ongoing intelligence operations and to confirm results of those missions. During wartime, they pinpoint targets so that the military can make surgical strikes and special ops teams are not caught by surprise. The archives are organized by the subject of the photo; unless the character is researching something of past importance, his subject is not in the archives (Referee's discretion on whether it is “of past importance”). To search through declassified archives requires a Routine Research or Routine Investigation check, classified but no longer active archives impose a single step penalty, and classified images of ongoing importance a two step penalty. Most images are five yards by five yards for high detail and five miles by five miles for broad detail. New photographs can be scheduled with a Standard Admin/Legal check as often as every 10 seconds.
PREREQUISITE: INFLUENCE (INTELLIGENCE OR MILITARY)
These satellites are the highest tech possible and have been available only since the late 1980s or early 1990s. They can focus on tiny details, down to the date on a penny. The satellites use a number of different sensors that simultaneously capture images in black and white, color, infrared, radar, and ultraviolet. This allows analysts to determine shape, density, temperature, movement, and chemical composition.
Since these satellites are reserved only for special operations, their archives are very specific. They still view sites important to the observing agency, but focus on the main sections and persons in those areas. They are used to take photos of ongoing intelligence operations and to confirm results of those missions. During wartime, they pinpoint targets so that the military can make surgical strikes and special ops teams are not caught by surprise. The archives are organized by the subject of the photo; unless the character is researching something of past importance, his subject is not in the archives (Referee's discretion on whether it is “of past importance”). To search through declassified archives requires a Routine Research or Routine Investigation check, classified but no longer active archives impose a single step penalty, and classified images of ongoing importance a two step penalty. Most images are five yards by five yards for high detail and five miles by five miles for broad detail. New photographs can be scheduled with a Standard Admin/Legal check as often as every 10 seconds.
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