Hacking

This rule is provisional, and very very optional.

Hacking is the interfacing with logic, data, and controls to manipulate them. The attempt is:

1D6 * (stage of mathematician) + intelligence

This can be attempted in a combat round, assuming that a being is able to spend at least one die from their dice pool.

The effects are to do things like:

• Gain access to information feeds.
• Send new instructions to a machine.
• Alter election results.

Generally speaking, things are "hackable" to the degree that they are made to resist hacking. So, by extrapolation, most basic systems are created by 1-stage mathematicians - so will tend to have a "hack" rating of 6-9. To make something more secure, hiring a 2-stage mathematician will tend to bump that up to 10-13.

Controls that are built even more crudely - without a mathematician - are simply at the intelligence of the builder.

If something non-sentient is "hacked" by 5 or more, it is "PWNED" - giving the hacker persistent and complete access and control. This is most cameras, communications rigs, door controls, and vending machines.

If something sentient is "hacked" by 10 or more, it is "PWNED". This is AI's, simple robots, and some vehicles.

To PWN something with parallel intelligence (main brain/processor + nanoscopic robots) such as most independent beings and ships, they mush be "hacked" by 20 or more. And they retain the ability to turn reboot themselves to resist the control - though that usually has other dire consequences.