<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=243891.msg12144648#msg12144648">Quote from: Kunoichi on 11-03-2016, 06:41:08</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Yes, and probably.  And Kast is using that disassembler swarm to wipe out the rest of the information that we might need on-site, as well.<br/><br/>I suppose that spending a fate point to declare that one of the assortment of weapons that had been piled up on Zhang's desk was an EMP grenade wouldn't help all that much.  It would likely destroy the swarm, but would also have a good chance of wiping all the data, as well.<br/><br/>...Perhaps if I spent a second fate point to say that the computer systems have a shielded hard drive, or something along those lines? ^^;<br/><br/>Edit: Though, I think that your shot caused him to drop the head, so maybe we have a chance to save his stack from the disassembler swarm, instead?<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>An EMP shouldn't wipe out data; EM vulnerability is a quirk of silicon based computers. It's predecessors (mechanical and vacuum tube computers) and successors (optical, chemical) should not be effected.<br/><br/>This technically isn't in the rules, but an EMP grenade is more likely some sort of AoE shock weapon that kills swarms but doesn't damage large scale objects like people. (doing 1 damage to a million things with one hit point vs doing 1 damage to 1 thing with a million hit points, by way of comparison). The term 'EMP' is likely skeuomorph (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph) (like how the 'save' icon is a floppy disk).