However, while many of the Endless chose to become electronic consciousnesses, there were equally large numbers who kept to their bodies, gaining immortality instead through DNA manipulation, the use of dust to repair failing organs, cloning, etc. As a result, 'clouds' of Dust could form extremely sophisticated systems.

While individual motes of Dust had very limited computing power, the ability to 'talk' and network was built in. The technology was sufficiently advanced to self-replicate itself and self-assemble. Some used these infinitesimally small machines to help maintain their biological bodies, while others used constructs of these nano-elements - known collectively as 'Dust' - as virtual bodies once they uploaded themselves. Through their mastery of nano-engineering, the Endless created an infrastructure of nanobots and nano-computers to maintain their society. The Endless developed technology that was so advanced that they were able to upload their minds and consciousnesses into computers, thus gaining virtual immortality. However, they added the slower trace to interrogate i believe, browse and check and use that.'Dust' is the creation of a highly advanced race, the Endless, that traversed the galaxies tens of thousands of years before the gameplay begins. you can still get drawbacks but it always suceeds.ДЄLSO DONT USE ENCRYPTION TO SLOW TRACE, IT DOES NOT WORK wording is amiss and it makes me sad. You should almost always use a proxy to hack, if you can, only exception being when hack takes one turn, then it's like done right there and whatever. Here have an example of a semi-confident proxy hack - more proxies more safety in your hacking success vs time spent This can also happen to you when you hack.

blackmail - following this you can force enemy to stop hacking in your direction for 5.

blackout! - originating system of the hack is uninteractible for 3.

On sucessfully tracing someone, one can select: That's about all you can do about it AFAIK. (if you are hacking for enemy system, like backdoor or sanctuary, you can use accelerator on starting node too, to make it extra faster! WHOA!) Use accelerator on enemy systems to make it go faster. Trace starts once the owned node is reached by the hack, so you can for instance hack for 20 turns, then reach the node that starts the trace and then finish your hack in 5 more turns, while the trace has to follow your original path to the source, which buys you time to finish it. If hacking through owned system (not by (only) you) you get traced, trace is faster than hacking, but can be slowed down through pinging the hack behind multiple nodes - using a PROXY. If they are UC then they are mostly useless as UC has tons of bandwith from pop mid to end game and can completely ignore this.ДЄnd there are couple defensives which do specific stuff you'll want to use per situation basis.Tracing something? Place 'backdoor prevention' etc. Other programs mostly interact with bandwith cost of programs, which can serve to fully nerf enemy ability to place any if they are not UC. Honorable mention goes to 'Divert' which enables you to redirect your ongoing hack somewhere else along the way, this can sometimes be beneficial. Is good when hacking enemy and through enemy nodes. As UC endgame, it's pretty basic to have ALL your systems encrypted just to spite people and use up that BW that generates influence for you. It serves as defensive measure against enemy hacking, and can be turned off anytime if you run out of bandwith, so basically 'SPAM THIS!' especially on border nodes. Encrypt makes you slow enemy hacking on the node by 50%, Using ANY defensive program on a node removes backdoors on it. I'll highlight the ones you should use the most, others are mostly situational, but are under no means useless, but are also selfexplanatory. ProgramsRange from 'SPAM THIS!' to 'Meh'.

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