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<div style="color:#000000;">The Datasmiths and Lexmachnics of the Ordo Logi are often the most overlooked members of the Machine Cult - their talents lie not with the handling and creation of machines but rather the understanding and manipulation of data, a far more subtle art then that of their brethren - this is aided by their access to restricted programs, known as Data-djinn</div>


===== Martian Device - Data-djinn Lucerna =====
Data-djinn are incredibly rare programs that exist in a digital medium within storage-devices known as Lucerna - these ‘smart’ programs are not bound to physical mediums and when released can travel through the noosphere on whatever tasks they have been programmed for - they are not truly intelligent but their code can change making them dangerous if monitored;</span>

<div style="color:#000000;">You may deploy a Data-djinn into a cogitator or into the noospheric net if one exists (ask a ref) from there it can spread to any connected system at your will;</div>

* <div style="color:#000000;"><span style="background-color:transparent;">After 30s after deploying a Data-djinn you may recall it and </span><span style="background-color:transparent;">'''ask a ref a question about something you are looking for on the system'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;"> it was deployed to, this can be answered with ‘nothing’ if what you are looking for is irrelevant, data-djinn are not smart enough to look for something they are not told to look for - but they should inform you if they locate any ‘protected’ areas of a system.</span></div>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">You may </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''push'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">the Data-djinn to do the following;</span>

* <div style="color:#000000;">You may encourage it to remain within a system you have already placed it into if it does it may;</div>
** <div style="color:#000000;">Probe any ‘Protected’ areas it has protected for a further 30s after you may ask a ref a question as to what it finds within them.</div>
** <div style="color:#000000;">Send it into any systems connected to this one (if they exist) - it will return to you when a ref says it does with whatever information you have asked it to seek (and possibly more)</div>
** <div style="color:#000000;">Make a machine treat you as an Administrator allowing you to ask it to do things (this has no effect on animated machine-minds like automata and servitors).</div>


===== Rites Innoculare =====
Data-djinn can be programmed to act as powerful protective wards against infiltrating software - </span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;">you anoint an individual and their wargear with protective data-djinn;</span>

* <div style="color:#000000;"><span style="background-color:#ffffff;">They may resist up to two calls of </span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;">'''Command Override '''</span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;">in the next combat scene&nbsp;</span></div>

* <div style="color:#000000;"><span style="background-color:#ffffff;">Their systems and wargear cannot infected by any </span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;">'''Scrapcode '''</span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;">effect until they next </span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;">'''Recuperate'''</span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;">.&nbsp;</span></div>

<span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;">You may </span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;">'''push'''</span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;">this to;</span>

* <div style="color:#000000;"><span style="background-color:#ffffff;">Use your data-djinn to perform a techno-exorcism upon a system already infected with </span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;">'''Scrapcode'''</span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;"> in most cases this will take a period of roleplay to purge but in cases of advanced corruption may either be impossible or require coordination with a trained </span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;">'''Exorcist'''</span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;"> if you are not already one.</span></div>


===== Rite of Becalming =====
Known as the Rite Machina Sedatio in high gothic, a standard role that Macroteks and Datasmiths share is in bestilling machines whose animus has become agitated or disrupted - after 5s of roleplay you may calm wargear, or sooth a machine spirit you are interacting with.&nbsp;</span>
*If the machine is an aggressive machine foe played by a member of crew you may instead use the cue '''Command Override! Be Calmed'''


===== Feedback-Curses =====
<div style="color:#000000;">Whenever you fail a power check you suffer the following effect which triggers at an appropriate moment after the return of a Data-djinn program to you;</div>

* <div style="color:#000000;"><span style="background-color:transparent;">'''Your Data-djinn has returned '''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;">to you different for its experiences away from the </span><span style="background-color:transparent;">'''Lucerna '''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;">as you attempt to contain it it goes wild and assaults your systems - you may not make active use of your traits - though still benefit from passive effects such as increased willpower/endurance or effects representing armour or innate toughness that do not require you to make calls or roleplay actions to benefit from - you may still make melee attacks in self defence, but these must be uncalled. This can be cleared with the </span><span style="background-color:transparent;">'''Rite of Becalming'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;"> otherwise it lasts 30s. You may not use your powers until you </span><span style="background-color:transparent;">'''Recuperate'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;">.</span></div>