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SENTINEL SHELL 

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SHELL MODEL: SENTINEL

SHELL SERIES: Rampart

ROLE: Defensive Strategist 

TECH: Defend / Entrap

OVERVIEW: SENTINEL SHELLS are engineered for area and conflict control. They are tuned to sync with various gadgets and devices that extend the SHELL's core functionality, creating an advanced, living arsenal for operational deterrence and defense in contested ZONES.

ABILITIES / TRAITS:  

     • DEFENDER SYSTEM 

     • SNARE MINE 

     • CASTLE DOCTRINE

     • PREY TRACKER 

HISTORY: RUNNERS who inhabit SENTINEL SHELLS tend to be engineers and tinkerers with a soft spot for gadgets and technology. Their underlying SHELL weave and gear set are built around stolen UESC infantry kits to provide base combat functionality for added survivability in support of their device-driven utility.

The first registered appearance of SENTINEL operations was in the Trenchway Holdout beneath Antarctica, in Earth's southernmost hemisphere. A crew of radical research scientists in hijacked UESC SHELLS survived a three-month siege by the UESC Central Security Agency as they ran unsanctioned substrata experiments tied to unregistered energy patterns within the planet's core. The CSA lost 27 agents before collapsing the tunnels and calling it a day. As details leaked across RUNNER backchannels, use of the Trenchway 3's fortification strategies spread. SENTINEL SHELLS became a common, standard tool for research and exploration shortly after.

SHELL SERIES: The GADGE personality series run by most standard SENTINEL SHELLS is labeled as illegal, invasive identity theft in Sol. Programmed from stolen neural models culled from leading mechanical research scientists based at the renowned Intelligent Design Labs in Stockholm, Sweden [Earth], GADGE was compiled and implemented to reinforce intuitive mechanical design and critical thinking in hostile environments. This innate technical, solution-based mental support provides SENTINEL RUNNERS with an added calm and strategic intuition, helping them read and react to the tactical necessities of run.

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SENTINEL TACTICAL ABILITY: SNARE MINE 

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OVERVIEW: The SNARE MINE is a handheld proximity-triggered detonation device placed as needed to act as a countermeasure against enemy threats. When tripped, a SNARE MINE unleashes a series of submunitions into the air causing secondary detonations that immobilize any hostiles caught in the blast.

The SNARE MINE can be placed on most surfaces, allowing the user to set their trap as needed to provide strategic coverage.

OPERATION: 

     • Place 

     • Wait 

     • Immobilize 

     • Destroy 

HISTORY: SNARE MINES are an evolution of larger scale munitions originally developed for mining operations. The delayed release and immobilization tech allowed for safer, cleaner earthworks versus the debris-heavy use of traditional explosives. Standard in many mining and excavation operations, SENTINELS have found the technology invaluable in compact doses tuned for tight spaces as anti-personnel disruptors.

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SENTINEL PRIME ABILITY: DEFENDER SYSTEM 

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OVERVIEW: The DEFENDER SYSTEM is a portable area defense device designed to identify, target, and eliminate incoming explosive ordinance. Once thrown, a DEFENDER SYSTEM will settle into position and remain active until its counter-munitions are spent. RUNNERS within its protective radius are shielded from hostile ordinance as long the DS is active.

OPERATION: 

     • Deploy DEFENDER SYSTEM 

     • Remain close 

     • Watch your enemies waste their ordinance 

     • NOTE: The DEFENDER SYSTEM will not stop bullets

HISTORY: DEFENDER SYSTEMS are military-grade tech kit-based by RUNNERS to expand their effectiveness against a variety of RUNNER-used explosive devices, including fragmentation, chemical, static, heat, shrapnel, and other handheld ordinance. But SENTINELS have gone further in tuning the DS to counter RUNNER aggression. The most current generation of DS are engineered to counter SHELL-specific threats as well [see: SEARCH AND DESTROY, TRACKER DRONES].

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