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[h2]OPEN SOURCE BLUEPRINTS[/h2] Blueprints for many goods may be found for free online, disseminated by an active open source software movement. The availability of such plans typically depends on the local mesh. In autonomist habitats, a simple Research Test is likely to turn up the open source blueprints you need (applying modifiers for unusual items). In more restricted habitats, open source blueprints may be harder to find, as they will be securely hidden from the prying eyes of the authorities. In this case, the character will need to use their Rep to gain access, bribe a local hacker group, or do something similar. Note that restricted nanofabricators may not accept open source blueprints (see Blueprint Restrictions).

If it's truely been open-sourced, then if you're anywhere without network filtering, you can find the plans with a research test. I would call this a [i]simple[/i] success test: You can't really fail to find what you're looking for, but it might take you some time to sort through all the chaff and obsolete models before you find the one you actually want to nanofabricate. If you're somewhere with a censored mesh network, on the other hand, I'd call finding open-source blueprints a proper success test, and any time you roll to find an open-source blueprint, something else, if only the system monitor, is rolling opposed infosec against you. The hypercorps have declared open season on Open-Source, after all: With a cracked or offworld Desktop CM and unrestricted access to open-source blueprints, someone can start building anything they want! They could go hide in a cave with a box of scraps and start nanofabricating weapons for the Red Faction! (I mean the Barsoomians.) They could go hide in a cave (with a box of scraps,) and print out and construct an industrial nanofabrication suite, one Desktop CM load at a time, assemble it, and start manufacturing synthmorphs for the clanking masses that don't have planned obsolescence built in. They could build a bio-lab and start giving the Rusters gene therapy - for [i]free![/i] The Jovians, the LLA, and Morningstar all pretty much practice mesh censorship in one form or another. If you're searching on the normal mesh in those areas for open-source blueprints [i]someone[/i] is searching for [i]you[/i]. If they find you, that doesn't necessarily mean that the corps are going to be falling on your door like a ton of bricks, unless they found you downloading the blueprints for an open-source industrial nanofabrication unit that can be constructed from a Desktop CM, or a Fenrir synthmorph or something. But it does mean they're likely about to hack the ever-loving hell out of you to find out what else you might be guilty of. I'd call it working as thus, then. If you're looking for open-source blueprints on the open mesh from the PC, Jovian Junta, LLA, Venus, or somewhere controlled by them, you roll Research, as a success test. Blow it, and the great firewall defeats your efforts. Succeed, and you get it. Modifiers should be placed based on the polity in question: The Morningstar Constellation is going to be the most relaxed about this, so you're only going to be at a penalty if you try to find the plans for weapons capable of puncturing a habitat, which will likely be at -15 or -20. They're going to have good AGI hackers, though, so expect an opposing infosec of 70-80. The LLA is afraid of nanofabrication for reasons of TITANs. Their censorship will primarily be interested in sorting out blueprints for nanofabrication. All research tests are at a -10, weapons are at a -15, anything pertaining to nanofabrication is at a -20. Expect AIs with an Infosec in the range of 40 or so and the occasional indenture with an Infosec in the range of 60. The PC is interested primarily in enforcing their monopoly on the sources of production and the IP of their members. Even household sundries will be cracked down upon; expect the penalty to Research tests to start at -15 for anything, and go up to -30 for any technology which is individually empowering, including further nanofabrication, weapons, etcetera. Morphs are considered individually empowering, and expect an additional -5 when attempting to research synthmorphs or parts for synthmorphs or genetic codes/gene therapies/open-source biomorph genetics, and an additional -5 on top of that when you're specifically attempting to research anything which is patented by any member of the PC. So if you're trying to research open-source genetic cracks to let you give Rusters full gene therapy to remove their GRM for good, you're going to be at a -40 penalty. Expect to see AIs with infosec in the range of 40 and indentured Infomorphs with an Infosec in the range of 60... But there's a chance that the indenture will be down with B and overlook anything you do if it looks like you're doing something helpful to the Barsoomian movement and not violent. The Junta is terrified point-blank of anything individually empowering. They control Mesh access so tightly that making normal Research tests is impossible without like, actually hacking into their systems to gain access to the transmitters. On the other hand, because Mesh access [i]is[/i] so tightly controlled, their censorship controls and monitoring are going to be out-of-date when you actually get it: expect only a -15 penalty to research and an AI with an Infosec in the range of 30. Of course, if someone catches you doing this, you'll be shot, your stack will be interrogated repeatedly and then you'll be airlocked. As for the opposed infosec tests: if you succeed and the monitor fails, the monitor has no idea what you were doing or who you were; you managed to successfully mask your requests. If you succeed and the monitor succeeds, you get your blueprints and the monitor knows little more than that the mesh ID you used downloaded illegal blueprints. They'll send some generic IP infringement boilerplate emails and any further attempts by that mesh ID will be at successive -10 penalties, which sounds like a good time to scramble your mesh ID. If you fail the infosec test and they succeed, they know enough to start hacking your mesh inserts/ecto and to send their goon-squads to your current location as well as activating spimes in the area (if there are any,) to get a picture of you. That would be a good time to go into "Get your ass out of Dodge" mode unless you feel like seeing if you really can fight off a small army like an Assassin's Creed protagonist. (Hint: You can't.)