You wear armor of your own construction. It provides 2 armor and has one built-in weapon of your design (up to 3 harm). Work with your GM on the details. When the suit takes significant damage, roll +Smarts to assess repairs needed.

When you spend time between scenes modifying a weapon, yours or a teammate's, roll +Smarts.

• 10+: The weapon gains one upgrade until the end of the mission: +1 harm / silenced / extended range / nonlethal mode / armor-piercing.
• 7–9: The upgrade works but the weapon has a defect, the GM describes it.

When you analyze an enemy's tech, armor, or powers by observation, roll +Smarts.

• 10+: Identify one weakness. Take +1 ongoing against them and add +1 harm to targeted attacks exploiting that weakness.
• 7–9: You get a partial read. Take +1 forward on your next action against them.

When you know what you're up against, you can build something specifically to counter it. Requires at least one scene of prep time. Roll +Smarts.

• 10+: The countermeasure works exactly as intended once.
• 7–9: It works, but only partially or only once before it fails.

When you build something on the fly from available materials, roll +Smarts.

• 10+: You build it. It works properly for this scene.
• 7–9: You build it but it's fragile, it'll work once before breaking.

You carry a pulse device that disrupts electronics in a 30ft radius. Drones go down, cameras cut out, powered armor locks up, communications drop. Roll +Smarts to control the radius and duration precisely. Has 2 charges. Track:

When you touch a person or object and focus, you leave a mental connection. Roll +Strange.

• 10+: You always know where they are and can sense their emotional state for the rest of the mission.
• 7–9: The connection is one-way and fades after one scene.

When you spend time between scenes upgrading a teammate's gear or building them a new piece of kit, they gain +1 armor or +1 harm to a specific weapon for the next mission. Choose which. No roll required, this is what you do.

Your gear is designed to work together. When you use two or more pieces of your own equipment in the same action, take +1 forward on the roll.

(1/session)

Push your suit or a major piece of equipment to its absolute limit. Roll +Smarts.

• 10+: For this scene, double its effectiveness, double armor value, double harm output, or double functional range.
• 7–9: Double the effectiveness, but the equipment is destroyed after the scene.

When you repair equipment mid-mission, roll +Smarts.

• 10+: Fully restored.
• 7–9: Functional but with a defect, the GM describes it.

Once per mission you can produce a gadget you've been working on, describe it and what it does. It should be roughly equivalent to one Expertise Action in effect. Roll +Smarts to see how well it performs under field conditions. (1/mission)

Your suit has a close-range energy blast. Roll +Smarts.

• 10+: Deal 3 harm and push them back 10ft.
• 7–9: Deal 2 harm.

Your suit has flight capability. Reach any point within a building or several stories high without a roll. For extreme distances or evasive maneuvers in combat, roll +Agility.

Your suit's sensors analyze an enemy. Roll +Smarts.

• 10+: Learn their approximate harm track status, any powers or special abilities, and one weakness.
• 7–9: Learn one of those three.

When your suit's propulsion lets you close distance instantly in combat, roll +Agility.

• 10+: You're in melee range before they can react. Your first attack this engagement deals +2 harm.
• 7–9: You close the distance but the speed costs you, take -1 forward on your first defensive roll.

When you interpose your suit between an ally and incoming harm, roll +Tough.

• 10+: They take no harm. Your suit absorbs it, reduce armor by 1 until repaired.
• 7–9: They take half harm. Your suit still takes the hit.

When you connect your suit's systems to the team's comms, everyone gains your scanner data in real time. For the scene, all teammates can ask one Read the Room question without rolling before they act.

When you contact an enemy's powered armor or tech, roll +Smarts to siphon their power.

• 10+: Their tech powers down for the scene. You restore 1 lost armor.
• 7–9: Their tech is disrupted, they take -1 ongoing on tech-based actions this scene.

(1/mission)

Deploy an experimental weapon system you've been developing. Describe what it does, it should be significantly beyond your standard loadout. Roll +Smarts to see how field conditions affect its performance. On 10+ it works perfectly. On 7–9 it works but has one significant malfunction the GM describes.

### Improvements, At 5 XP, Choose One

• Take a new Artificer move
• Take a move from another playbook
• Add +1 to Smarts (max +3)
• Add +1 to Tough (max +3)
• Add +1 to Agility (max +3)
• Add 1 to your harm track maximum
• Your suit gains a permanent new capability: describe it with the GM
• Your suit's base armor increases to 3

### Advanced Improvements, After 5 Improvements, Choose One

• Mark II: Your suit undergoes a fundamental upgrade. Work with the GM to define one capability that redefines what it can do. This is not an incremental improvement.
• Integrated: The line between you and the suit has blurred. You can interface with technology mentally at short range and sense through the suit even when you are not wearing it.
• Change playbook: You have grown into someone different.
• Retire: You took the suit offline. Tell the table if you ever turned it back on.