NANO-HUNTER

Nano-hunters are nanoviruses with one specific purpose: to search and destroy other nanites. The nano-hunter nanites can be injected into a living creature to destroy one nano augmentation, colony, or virus already in the subject. 

Before a nano-hunter can be used, it must be programmed to seek out and destroy a specific type of nanite.  Any computer or neural computer with a datajack can perform this task as a full round action.   After nano-hunter is programmed it is injected like other nanoviruses.  In situations where time is of the essence, it’s not uncommon for a nano-hunter to be preprogrammed.  Once a nano-hunter has been programmed it cannot be changed without a Computers skill check (DC 15 + nano-hunter’s level). It can never be reprogrammed after injection.

The maximum nanite level effected by a nano-hunter is the nano-hunter’s level plus four. (i.e. a 1st level nano-hunter can destroy up to a 5th level nanovirus, nanoaugmentor, nanocolony, or nanoweapon).