What This Gear Does[]
Ubiquitous among spacers, explorers, and other professionals in the galaxy, the PED-2l is a personal emergency distress beacon carried in case of accident or is fortune. Around the size of a glow rod and weighing next to nothing, the PED-21 uses a high-powered, long-range transmitter to broad-cast a short, constantly repeating emergency mes-sage across all common search-and-rescue comm frequencies. The PED-21 can be programmed to repeat its message in up to twelve prepro-grammed languages and has a power-pack life of seventy-two stan-dard hours. It can be manually triggered or linked to a monitoring sys-tem, such as those found in survival suits or sealed armor, and set to activate au-tomatically when the wearer's bio signs reach a preprogrammed threshold. The signal broadcast by the PED-21 can be picked up from low orbit on most worlds and from many kilometers away depending on atmospheric conditions, terrain, and a number of other variables.
Anyone searching for an individual with an active PED-2l gains 2 blue dice to any Perception, Computers, or Surveillance checks made in the course of the search.
Models Include[]
- Saladar Systems PED-21 Distress Beacon
Characters Who Use This Gear[]
- Unknown at this time