Name: Bloodhound, Scout, Detective's Eye Description: The bloodhound is a small, spherical drone that appears to be a panoramic camera of sorts with multiple interlocking parts capable of moving and extending themselves. It also typically includes a small briefcase in which it is stored and charged, as well as contains tools of equipping and cleaning it, and a set of plain AR glasses. ((Pixel art of a blood hound drone.)) Abilities: - Able to follow simple instructions to survey an environment, processing information it can gather with its instruments in order to highlight them for the user. - It is capable of highlighting scents, as well as performing tracking of an individual to the same ability the hound of the same name or professional tracker would. - It has relatively simple investigative features, such as being able to identify footprints and rig AR shapes that fit them. Conditional Abilities (Optional): - Its database can be expanded upon by the user. For example, the Haven Guard could add their own registries to a bloodhound, giving them the ability to identify citizens or otherwise use information that the guard themselves have access to. This includes the ability to compare a person's face to an online registry, for example. Limitations: - The bloodhound does not have a long battery life, typically operating only for an hour on a single charge. However, the briefcase contains a larger battery, able to recharge it for a cumulative eight hours of use. (It takes about 15 minutes to fully charge). - It is fragile. The drone is not meant to endure much wear and tear. While it can operate fairly well in rainy and windy conditions, a simple strike of even a bare hand can break several external components and put it out of commission. Additionally, if its DE battery is compromised, it will detonate into a small fireball. - The drone is not perfect. It cannot display information that does not exist. I.E., if it were tracking footprints and hit a body of water, it obviously wouldn't be able to follow further without other forms of information such as a scent that carries over the water. The device only operates its best if the user can use their intuition and wit to utilize it well in these situations. Conditional Limitations (Optional): - While the briefcase itself is shielded from EMPs as it has a thin layer of cerulium, the drone itself can be fried by an EMP, necessitating the replacement of its DE battery and repairs to its antigrav module. - To 'smell', the drone must extend an olfactory rod from the front half of its shell. Its appearance is an antenna with thousands of sensitive, fragile 'hairs' that is easily damaged. Between periods of use, one must carefully remove this rod and submerge it in a sterile solution, otherwise performance and accuracy may eventually suffer. - Obviously, access to third party databases or nexus features requires a nexus connection. How does it work: The drone operates through a set of optics and sensory equipment (including a small 'brush' that operates as an olfactory sensor), which collects data and processes it through a database before feeding it to an Augmented Reality (AR) device of a user's choice. By default, glasses are included with the drone for this purpose. It is often used to track scents as its name implies, or other uses in tracking. In some cases, identifying persons or running visible labels and text through the nexus via a built-in nexus browser. Flavor text: Variations of this device have been developed independently by various companies in the fringe, the most notable being Horizon, the bloodhound is distributed as a tracking and investigative tool. Referenced Technologies (Optional): This app references objects from lore: Such as Dense Electron batteries and antigrav thrusters. Attainability: Open. Tags: [Civilian] Category: Tools.
Talked with pink about making some changes and here's a footnote for it: - Simplified the way its nexus works. - Included the fact it has a DE battery. Yes, banging it hard enough or shooting it will make it explode. - Completely gutted its ability to perform simulations or complex investigative tasks, as that was too similar to another tech app. Comparatively, this device is much cheaper and shouldn't have such advanced features. - Instead, it is able to read text and run it through a nex-search automatically for the user. Sorry I was going to get to this as soon as I got home but here we are rip
