Official Guide REVISED AIRWATCH OPERATIONAL GUIDE

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// OVERVIEW //
With full control of operations in the field in the hands of Rank Leaders and Transhuman personnel, Scanners have undergone major changes to facilitate a more supportive role within the Combine arsenal. What many colloquially knew as the 'Dispatch AI' of Sector 17 failed its purpose within its Cities and Districts to contain the outbreak of resistance activity and stem the flow of divisive behavior, ultimately leading to its termination as another failed project of the Advisors in the region.

What backups remained of the Mainframe were massively scaled down and cut into mostly passive maintenance routines, running calculations in multiple systems employed by the Combine to allow for more manpower to be processed into the Transhuman Arm to bolster the Military of the area, the AI's capabilities to think and function autonomously shrinking as its authority dwindled, its signature overbearing 'voice' losing almost all weight in the ears of those once under its wing.

Where Sector 17s Dispatch still remains now is in the form of newly upgraded Airwatch Scanners, which have since been overhauled and distributed across the globe into smaller, splintered instances of the Mainframe that carry traces of the bigger being without access to its once limitless databases, speaking to one-another and the Officers they oversee in a limited range to form a somewhat rigid support unit, acting as surveillance and recon drones for Protection Teams and auxiliary soldiers alike.

Airwatch players operate beneath the oversight of those with the Dispatch and Overwatch roles on the roster, being their personal eyes and ears whilst they busy themselves with the management of Civil Protection in regions where the Mainframe still exists and remains active. More information of the hierarchy can be found here.

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// OPERATION //
Upon request from Rank Leaders or Transhuman agents leading patrols or squads into zones of conflict, Scanners if active in the area may attach themselves to a PT and connect to it's designated radio channel for all further communications. Acting as an additional set of eyes, they can be sent ahead to scout and perform short reconnaissance flights in their stead whilst also engaging in smaller, advisory acts such as aiding officers who have lost a field leader in combat to safety or leaving markers and waypoints in the environment for a tactical and positional advantage over less technologically advanced adversaries. Scanners also retain their ability to upload images and snapshots of what they survey and deem of interest to local teams to provide an additional upper hand.

When not performing this function and left without any directives, Scanners act as patrolling cameras of more controlled streets and sub-vectors, passively maintaining a watchful eye over the population to photograph, document and help assemble Officers to places of interest. Scanners may use the TAC frequency to report any discrepancies during this time, as they are completely forbidden from using the '/c' command during any deployment unless granted the 'Dispatch' roster role, who can follow the guidelines of a separate document instead.

Scaled back in terms of decision making despite their foundations of hyper-intelligence, while they retain the voice of the Overwatch Mainframe they wield none of it's authority, unable to directly order or command units nor threaten misbehaviors in a manner one would expect. If an Airwatch player bears witness to any signs of functionary autonomy or behaviours classified as rogue or reckless in nature, access to the CNT channel is authorized to speak to and notify any online Rank-Leaders of your whereabouts and the incident in question so they may take action in your stead.

In the minority of regions are Scanners still severed from the datafile system as they continue to be integrated into each newly reforming Sector, more recently however starting completely afresh with databases being rebuilt from passive surveillance and completely blank registries. As a result, facial recognition is now possible in more developed Districts where its population are far more well documented, allowing for notation on newly committed crimes and offenses to aid in the identification of possibly developing dissidents. Airwatch units can remotely access and view any datafile of a subject they secure a scan or complete photograph of, allowing for facial recognition and pairing to begin but first requiring a /me that is forbidden to be performed through a bind. From there you may apply the BOL status to a person of interest should you need Civil Protection to investigate or if they proceed to flee or resist in any way. In the event of a player not stopping to Roleplay or actively evading your unit, not giving you chance to catch up and approach, common sense and benefit of the doubt should be applied on a case-by-case basis. Purposeful evasion is a crime punishable by death.

Airwatch players may grant passive Sterilized Credit rewards to Civil Protection units infrequently if the server has gone an extended period of time without a Dispatch or Overwatch player being active, aiding them on their behalf especially after a serious assault or when socio-stability has been restored in its aftermath if no higher ranking Overwatch unit is available. If there is instead nothing of note and the atmosphere remains stable for multiple hours, give one out to those contributing to this security. This reward should only ever be 1 SC and documented with the faction leaders in the appropriate discord channel for monitoring using the following command:

/massreward "1" ":: COHESIVE FUNCTION ::" ("PT-#") OR ("*")
Use PT-# (i.e. PT-1, PT-10, PT-50) to reward a select group of interlocked CPs, or * to reward all Officers online.

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// EXPECTATION //
- Airwatch units should only attach themselves to a PT upon request from a Rank Leader or Transhuman character seeking their assistance as a support tool, and should otherwise stick to secure Union controlled areas for no more than passive surveillance. Any excursions into what could be considered contested or restricted territory outside of a PTs existing deployment is strictly forbidden without auths from Faction Leaders and requires a necessary reason, i.e. chasing a fleeing suspect or hunting down an armed insurgent.

- Scanners, if destroyed during a deployment, immediately lose access to their ability to coordinate with their assigned Protection Team and should remove all active waypoints they have placed. Once respawned, that player should immediately flag off and may only become available again after that excursion / conflict has concluded.

- Whilst abundant and certainly expendable within reason, excessive damage to the Airwatch unit should be portrayed appropriately through its speech and communications given the vulnerability of it's internal systems, and unless ordered otherwise by a PT-L for tactical reasons, should always act with an air of self-preservation to prevent the capture of Combine technology, salvage or not.

- Communications from Scanners should still follow standard Dispatcher terminology, code and tone, any deviation from what should be expected of such a unit is frowned upon and in excess will lead to the removal of the privilege to play one. Given the fact these units will sometimes be deployed with combat on the horizon, quick and precise communications should always take precedent over anything verbose.

- Airwatch players without the Dispatch role should always remember they now serve an almost entirely support based role in which they hold zero power and influence over Civil Protection. Whilst advice and recommendations on courses of action may be given when asked based off of ones own knowledge of Operational Guides and Asset Overviews, the word of their assigned PT-L is final and the Scanner may not punish nor reprimand disobeying behaviour.

- Airwatch units are allowed to use the datafile system so long as common sense is applied, whether it be to mark Civilians after committing a notable crime, tagging Insurgents or documenting other foreign agents. To act with any sort of facial recognition capabilities, you must first perform a /me of taking an image of the subject forbidden to be performed by a bind.

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REVISED FOR CITY TWENTY-FOUR AND SECTOR SIX OPERATIONS AS PART OF THE ONGOING FACTION OVERHAUL.

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FORWARD ANY QUESTIONS TO THE FACTION LEADERS BEFORE EVER COMITTING TO SOMETHING YOU ARE UNSURE OF.
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