====== Network Siphon ======
[{{ network_siphon.png|Network Siphon icon}}]

> //The mark of a great agent is the ability to take your enemy's greatest strength and turn it into their weakness.//

This augment is [[:agents:Archive Internationale]]'s starting augment. It generates [[:PWR]] equal to 2 times the [[:alarm level]] each time the alarm level changes. This keeps going past [[:alarm level|alarm level 6]], so it will generate 14 PWR 5 alarm ticks after [[:alarm level|alarm level 6]], and so forth.

====== Strategy ======
If we assume one [[:alarm level]] passes every 4 turns (because it makes the math easy, and it's sort of realistic, assuming an average of one mistake per alarm level), its power output per turn is:

^  Alarm level  ^  Total [[:PWR]] gained ^  Total turns ^  Average efficiency  ^
|  1  |  2  |  4  |  0.5 [[:PWR]]/turn  |
|  2  |  6  |  8  |  0.75 [[:PWR]]/turn  |
|  3  |  12  |  12  |  1 [[:PWR]]/turn  |
|  4  |  20  |  16  |  1.25 [[:PWR]]/turn  |
|  5  |  30  |  20  |  1.5 [[:PWR]]/turn  |
|  6  |  42  |  24  |  1.75 [[:PWR]]/turn  |
|  7*  |  56  |  28  |  2 [[:PWR]]/turn  |

*not a real alarm level, but Network Siphon still works every 5 ticks after alarm level 6

As such, Network Siphon can be strong when you're able to get a lot of utility out of power spent when the [[:alarm level|alarm tracker]] is already very advanced, such as challenge campaigns where the alarm tracker moves at faster-than usual speed, or in an agency making heavy use of an [[:items#econ_chip|econ chip]] (as it motivates staying deep into the alarm tracker, and creates a need for [[:PWR]] since consoles aren't being used for it). However, Network Siphon suffers by comparison to other starting augments that generate [[:PWR]], such as [[:agents:Prism]]'s [[:augments:refraction_chamber| Refraction Chamber]], in most other agencies.