BCIT Smartwatch field guide.

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The BCIT Smartwatch is an outgrowth from another project. It has a carbon fibre casing packed with about as much technology as DARPA could cram into it. It is, at its basic, a phone, but also a GPS. It is capable of sending and receiving encrypted messages to BCIT HQ. Its encryption software can also decrypt files with any standard government encryption, a somewhat controversial facility that other agencies would flip their lid if they knew. It can also do a good job on decrypting PGP maybe 85% of the time.

Its GPS system is wired into not only google, but also the combination of airforce satellite and US SOCOM tactical map overplayed one on top of each other. This program comes straight out of the CIA's blackbox program and the IT team receives updates every week from CIA headquarters in Langly. Its used to identify things like minefields and resistance cell pockets. Both things that are not present in the US. However occasionally weird things will pop up on the map that have been missed in the CIA technician scrub. Tactical Team 7 once found a dead drop on a map and it also weirdly contains a half finished map of all the fibre optic cables in the US as well as sub station junction boxes, which are generally nameless. IT department is working on an app to include air traffic control plane flight paths in partnership with the Airforce, but its atleast a year away.

The Watch is waterproof to 200 meters, it looks like it has a hologram interface but its actually just a specialised projector that just makes it seem like that. It can take SD cards and micro SD and other SIM cards. It can quickly duplicate any info on any of these and send it back to base or back it up internally until a signal can be found. It cannot scan anything wirelessly, such as bank cards and key fobs as this is too great a threat to the closed net of the BCIT computers. It is powered by a USB 3.0 cable with a battery life of just 12.5 hours but its battery is computer optimised so you might get more than that. It does actually have a pay function similar to apple pay, with an emergency reserve of a $100 US. Though expect payroll to chase your ass if you ever use it. The payment is registered from a number of shifting front companies but most often the US postal service as an archaic thing called a Money Order.

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Basically this watch can do anything plausible that a modern computer can do. Its just that good. However the GM is the only one that can tell you what it does and does not contain. It could contain some queer map information indeed, left over by the CIA after they missed it in a scrub before releasing the update. The watch is borrowed from another great viral/epidemic game franchise, Tom Clancy's The Division.

Now that i've told you what the Smartwatch is, now let me tell you what it is not. It is not alien nano technology. It does not contain a nuclear power source and cant even make satellite phone calls. Its reception is good, even better with local cell phone towers but can actually go dead inside a canyon or subway.

GM if you need to amend any of this then do so. It can be re-hashed and re-posted in the IC game. I'll be on dischord.
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