Programs
Programs are a special type of Gear that you can load onto your Cyberdeck to alter the way it works. Each Program costs half an Asset point, and don't have an Aspect or Lasting Condition. Instead, each program has an Active (speical) Condition and an effect that it grants you while active. You can only have one program Active at a time, and can swap your active program for another few seconds of work (one turn in a fight scene).
Antivirus
Condition: Active (special)
Effect:
While this program is active, it intercepts incoming malicious code
before it can harm you or your deck. This gives your deck an extra 2
points of the Firewall Condition. But be warned - deactivating this program immediately marks all your Firewall boxes.
Biofeedback
Condition: Active (special)
Effect:
While this incredibly illegal program is active, your attacks mess with the
neural-interface code of other people's devices to scramble their
brains. Whenever you attack a person through the Matrix, they can only
absorb the damage with their physical conditions.
Blackout
Condition: Active (special)
Effect:
While this slightly less murderous version of Biofeedback is active,
you still mess with people's brains, but stop just short of killing
them. People you attack can only absorb the damage with their
physical conditions, but if they're taken out, they fall unconscious for
a while instead of dying.
Crawler
Condition: Active (special)
Effect:
While this program is active, you can set your deck to crawl the Matrix
for mentions of a certain topic, file, or person. That means that
instead of actively searching the Matrix yourself, you can go do other
things at the same time.
Decoy
Condition: Active (special)
Effect:
While this program is active, you can run a decoy icon that pretends to
be you and appears to be somewhere else in the Matrix. You might have
to roll to Sneakily Sway to convince people that it's really you
if they look closely, but from a distance it looks believable and can
provide a good alibi.
Multiprocessing
Condition: Active (special)
Effect:
While this program is active, you can run multiple programs at a time
in separate environments. Choose two other Programs - they count as
Active for as long as this one is. However, spreading yourself out makes
you a larger target - you get -1 on all rolls to defend against attacks or to avoid notice
Misdirect
Condition: Active (special)
Effect:
While this program is active, if something would reveal your physical
location to another user, it reveals another location of your choice
instead. You can change the location this program reveals whenever you
load it up.
Tracker
Condition: Active (special)
Effect:
While this program is active, you can find the physical location of
people in the Matrix. When you Succeed with Style on an attack against a
person in the Matrix, you learn their physical location.
Shredder
Condition: Active (special)
Effect: While this program is active, you can corrupt any traces of files you delete, making it far harder to recover. This gives you +2 to Crack rolls to delete a file, and your result acts as the minimum difficulty for anyone trying to restore it.