Technology

The Technology Knowledge represents a broad acumen with electronics, computer hardware, and devices more elaborate than “machines,” which fall under the Crafts Skill. If it has a processor, a transistor, or an integrated circuit — if it’s electronic rather than electrical — manipulating it uses the Technology Knowledge. This is the wide-ranging Ability used to build one’s own computer, install (or subvert) a security system, repair a mobile phone, or kit-bash a shortwave radio.

• * Student: You can perform simple modifications or repairs.
• •• College: You could make your living in assembly or repair.
• ••• Masters: You can design new technologies from a set of objective requirements.
• •••• Doctorate: For you, it’s not, “Can this be done?” but “How can this be done?”
• ••••• Scholar: A visionary in the field; you shape how people interact with their world through devices.

Possessed by: Engineers, Scientists, Defense Contractors, the Cable Guy

Specialties: Telecom, Computers, Security, Communications, Improvised Solutions, Industrial Espionage