Nanoswarms and Microswarms: Can you escape from swarms? What if you stumble across a swarm of Disassemblers? Most morphs can easily outrun swarms. So if someone tried to run away, would they be safe or would the swarm be carried with them? Saboteur Nanoswarm: I think this is broken. Every 5 action turns, there is a 50% chance it inflicts a wound (and equivalent damage). The target will be incapacitated once 5 wounds are inflicted. The odds of a Case, a Reaper, or something bigger being taken down by this swarm is the same. I don't think this is right. I think bigger, tougher shells should be harder to disable. Shells with more DUR and armor. It also skips over armor too quickly. What if the shell was wearing a vacsuit or something else that can keep the swarm out? I think it would have to 'disable' the suit first before it can affect the shell inside. What about Swarmaniods? There are *a lot* of moving parts to disable in that kind of shell.

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Robomule Typo: "smart-material straps and webbing to hold almost items". Should this be "hold most items"?

Maybe "almost any items" too, I think it refers to "kind of items" instead of "amount of items " (which your correction might point to).

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Nanoswarms and Microswarms: Can you escape from swarms? What if you stumble across a swarm of Disassemblers? Most morphs can easily outrun swarms. So if someone tried to run away, would they be safe or would the swarm be carried with them?

I would assume that you are inside their "sphere of influence" when you notice there is a swarm around you, and getting out would still carry enough disassemblers to do the assigned damage, remaining inside the swarm would speed the process (suggestion: send a canary ahead, or nano detectors). Nanowarfare is quite deserving of its own chapter too, I'd say :S

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Saboteur Nanoswarm: I think this is broken. Every 5 action turns, there is a 50% chance it inflicts a wound (and equivalent damage). The target will be incapacitated once 5 wounds are inflicted. The odds of a Case, a Reaper, or something bigger being taken down by this swarm is the same. I don't think this is right. I think bigger, tougher shells should be harder to disable. Shells with more DUR and armor. It also skips over armor too quickly. What if the shell was wearing a vacsuit or something else that can keep the swarm out? I think it would have to 'disable' the suit first before it can affect the shell inside.

That's why you carry guardian swarms for. I think nanowarfare is made "too deadly" so the players either take paranoid measures against it, or the GM doesn't use it much. Else, all groups will need to define a "standard mission protocol" that is assumed to be running at all times during an op.

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What about Swarmaniods? There are *a lot* of moving parts to disable in that kind of shell.

Considering how swarmaroids are an abstraction of a distributed body, I'd say that they take wounds the same way other morphs do: those are a lot of pieces, indeed, but also they are small and easy to sabotage, and the amount of surfaces exposed to the attack are much bigger that a single, big morph.

I would love more information on Nanowarfare. Although it is somewhat better with the Nanophages that do not grant a total immunity now so it is not a 0,1 situation I would love to hear about Engineers workspeed.

You can ask TITANs to lend you some of their Creeper swarms. I am sure they will be able to provide capabilities that you require. Compatibility notice: To operate Creeper swarm you have to install Exsurgent Virus v1.67bjl666xkc3dc as your operating system. Please be advised that installing the wrong version may cause the Creeper to treat you as feedstock and/or destroy you with extreme prejudice.

Dear CordialUltimate2. I'm afraid that I have to give this software a 2 star review. I assigned the task of testing this software to a fork of mine. They now claim to feel the color green, have the urge to sit on a nest of eggs, and hear voices. Not long ago, they ran off leaving a rather cryptic message. Something about chainsaws, taking heads, and stealing secrets. Its now been a few hours now, and they don't reply to my messages. I think I'm going to have to track my errand fork down. Also, at no point did it show any ability to control TITAN Creeper nanoswarms. Mind you, my fork didn't seem to try to get it to do anything. This lack of testing is why my review hasn't been dropped to a 1 star yet.

I miss repair spray. Can you guys bring it back? From what I understand, a fixer swarm will wear out over time (in about 5 days) without aid from a nanohive. A repair spray didn't suffer that problem. I also imagined that the repair spray could come in a fridge magnet form, something that could stick to a synthmorph, bot, or object. It could remain attached to the thing it was fixing much like how nanobandages could remain wrapped around a biomorph.

Giving Fixer nanoswarms the nickname of Repair Spray doesn't quite do it for me. I want a synthmorph equivalent of nanobandages. In EP 1, repair spray was 1 price category more expensive than nano bandages, and fixer nanoswarms were 1 price category more expensive than repair spray. Maybe with the changes to the pricing system, there wasn't any place to put repair spray, so they removed it.

Are there language softs? Basically they would be skillsofts that give users the ability to speak other languages.

Minor issue on pages 25-26, the Nanotoxin Necrosis in text does DV 2d6, but in the table does DV 1d6.