LEO Construction makes any Bioroid ice (like Bumi 1.0) into a “purple Border Control”, and any Bioroid upgrades (like Mercia B4LL4RD) into a “local Bio Vault”.
Design:
As a “Bioroids-matter” ID, LEO is more dynamic than Haas-Bioroid: Stronger Together.
As a repeatable EtR, LEO requires the heavy cost of a rezzed-sacrifice like ZATO City Grid (and unlike Nanisivik Grid or Sisyphus Protocol).
Cards (Upgrade/ICE Bioroids):
- Mercia B4LL4RD: a
2[$] Upgrade, which installs ice clicklessly (to set up another “LEO’ing”), and does so with a triggered-ability (to be sacrificed after already installing one or two ice). - Bumi 1.0: a
3[$] ICE, with an On-Rez (albeit worse than Magnet, and not EtR like Border Control). - Brân 1.0 and Ansel 1.0 (they're good).
See s:bioroid t:upgrade|ice z:standard (sorted by cost)
(Unlike M.I.C., a reprinted Eli 1.0 in LEO would've truly been the “HB–BC”.)
Synergies:
- Harder Servers: like Manegarm Skunkworks and M.I.C..
- Recursion: like Ablative Barrier and over-advanced Project Ingatan.
- Compression: like Mercia.
Notes:
- LEO’s hard-EtR complements Bioroids’ soft-EtR (CF. Barriers’ implicit
↳ End the run unless the Runner spends [click].) - Shred can prevent its EtR (unless they give up a card in hand in addition to the one in play). CF. Light the Fire!, which can blank upgrades like Manegarm Skunkworks, but not identities like LEO.
- This card spoiled the new
Once per turn → …keyword-flag. IMO, it's: clearer than NSG's old templating (… Use this ability only once per turn.), being the first thing you read; and cleaner than the FFG's templating one (Once per turn, …), the extra comma being messy (uncapitalizing the non-boilerplate). Some card games keyword all common conditions (Once per turn: …,Enters: …, and so on).
Flavor:
- IMO, it's that servers in space are harder to breach. While digital hacking should is comparable (the light-delay is still less than a second, unlike the second to the Moon and the minutes to Mars), any physical hacking becomes difficult (like planting listening devices, breaking into employees' offices, etc). IDK why the Octoroids get sacrificed. (LMK what you think.)
- BTW, a Near-Earth Hub or Earth Station should be within a Low-Earth Orbit. But mechanically, LEO’s verticality is completely opposite to NEH’s / ES’s horizontality.
(Elevation era)
that's a cool take!
— D4v1d-Gr43b3r
My take on the flavour is they can quickly boot up a bunch of copies of a Bioroid to block access to their servers, but it costs them the one they copy. And the copies don’t last very long. But they don’t care because they can keep churning them out.
— Ksym777