Sanitize Evidence (• • Matter, • • Forces)
When cyborgs and Men in Black learn to manipulate
matter and energy, things get ugly. Changing one form of
matter into another, shaping electricity into solid materials
or blasting through walls and doors with bursts of energy can
be quite vulgar. When no one's watching, however, teams of
agents and cyborgs can do some amazingly subtle things.
Don't think Iteration X is only good at killing things....
When covering up evidence, some investigators wish
they could make incriminating materials just "go away."
Wish granted. Call in the Sanitization Squad. Put up a
boundary around the perimeter and have your suits and
cybercops convert the solid matter (dead bodies, blood stains,
bullet holes and killing grounds) into energy. Soak it all up.
When you absolutely, positively have to make something
disappear overnight, call in a cover-up team.
[Unfortunately, converting so much inanimate matter
into processed energy takes time. Make a Sanitize Evidence
roll for each hour of activity. You can make this effort a group
venture if you want to work faster. Each success obliterates 10
pounds of matter, converting it into energy that can be stored
and carted away. The mundane world need never know. Really
big disasters can be problematic, since a botch will almost
certainly detonate the materials explosively. For this reason,
many containment teams split up and handle problems in small
pieces, avoiding the possibility of a tremendous foul-up.]