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[Ruski]

I think it'll be cool to be able to 'hack' the street sam's smart link and throw off his aim to give the rest of the team a chance to get away from his cover-fire.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[Ingo Monk]

That explains it better, the Matrix is overlaid on top of our reality.. kinda like an overhead transparancy?

But what about systems, hosts, and nodes?  How do they exist now?  Before the Matrix was entirely virtual right?  Sure hosts and nodes were in physical locations, but you could get there from anywhere on the planet.  So now do you need to be close enough to the host to access it wirelessly to hack it?  Or can you still 'jack into' the matrix like before?

[Ruski]

Oh, I bet you can swing yourself allong like tarzan from RF device to RF device... but get a long enough string, and a weak point in the middle could help you end up with dumpshock when you least expect it.

my understanding of the history is that the wired backbone of the matrix was destroyed. so, while you could still in theory create it, it's not as prevelant as it once was.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[Gabriel]

I think it will be MORE prevelent. With the advent of wireless matrix hosting, everyone is potentially conected via portable devices. Think of the cell phone revolution that has taken place as recently as 5 years ago. To put a bit of perspecitve on this, I will give an example. I graduated highschool in 1991. No one had cell phones then accept for wallstreet moguls. And even then, the things were as big as normal hand sets from hard-line phones. With the advent of better telecom systems, everyone ended up with a cell phone in about a decade. Now, just about everyone can access internet, media, or each other at the drop of a Aztechnology-Fashionable-Aluminum-Craniel-Accessory. The wireless tech put it in the hads of Joe Average and created a ubiquitous form of comunication.

That's the way the Wireless Matrix will affect Shadowrun. Now everyone is potentially on the matrix or jacked into the matrix. And if you have the AR overlay (and again they ALWAYS HAVE BUT NO ONE THOUGHT TO FRAGGING EXPLAIN THAT) then you can actually interact with the meat world while being jacked in at a lower level of matrix interaction.

The matrix is no more a plane than it ever was, and it certainly has physical hosts and nodes. It's just that it is so much more accessible now that it appears to be all pervasive.

Gabriel

[ROOTless]

Funny! I meant to type Matrix Adepts.

Even more funny: That's what I read.

[ROOTless]

How many of you have read the Cybergeneration game?

[Gabriel]

Not I. How old is it??

Gabriel

[Retread]

So...


What happens when someone gets the brilliant idea of Hot Mike Jamming the whole network?

[ROOTless]

Not I. How old is it??

Ancient, spin off of Cyberpunk 2020. It had much the sort of virtuality described above. Also, it bombed hard.

[Ruski]

Well, it's possible, but with the range of bands you'd have to hit, you'd need some serious juce... also, it'll make you a pretty easy to track down target... I don't know if i'd want that kind of attention on me.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[Gabriel]

Yeah, the kind that comes in milspec armor with weapons, foci, and spirits to match. OUCH!

Gabriel

[Ruski]

could set up a delayed EM bomb though... that would be handy... set the timer, and walk away, know that you'll have about 5 minutes before they find it and blow the crap out of it... (much less if you are in a corperate compound) give you a little window to do something sneekie.

of course, if they find the bug that's screaming, they'll be looking for you next, so you'd better be able to get done and get out inside the time frame.

-RuskiFace the Pirate

[Retread]

Indeed, but I still don't get the "No hardwired systems" thing... I mean, a computer crash can't destroy millions of miles of fiberoptic cable, maybe the junction boxes but not the cables themselves. The augmented reality thing is just some game concession that collided with all the "guys in the office" ogling their new Wireless Network.

[Fortune]

Not everything is wireless in SR4.

The crash didn't wipe out miles of optic cable. It destroyed the connections and routers, etc., through a combination of magically-enhanced nukes (courtesy of Winternight) and a PMSing Pax on a rampage. Not to mention Deus' small involvement. (I'm not too up on the whole wireless thing yet. I have Sytem Failure, but haven't read it thoroughly)

The WMI (Matrix 2.0) has been in the works in canon for over 6 years (Thanks Transys Neuronet) in books like the SotAs, SoE, SoNA, DotSW, and even more ... well before the latest wireless tech was widely available in real life.

[Gabriel]

My question is this, what was the time lapse between full matrix shutdown and the time when the matrix was restored? How many people were killed in the riots that woudl have taken place? How many people died in plane crashes and train wrecks? How many died in the nuclear strikes? Did Z-O fall out of orbit? Did all my porn get wiped out in my telecom??? Just think about how pervasive the matrix is in SR. It is in EVERYTHING. So when the system drops offline, even on a temporary basis, it literally effects the entire globe. I'm really curious about how this went down.

Gabriel