====== Echo ======
[{{ echo.png|Echo icon}}]

**Echo** is a [[:daemons:|daemon]] which [[:rebooting#recapturing|reboots and recaptures]] a random hacked [[:mainframe device]]. The recaptured device will [[:rebooting|reboot]] for 1 turn, and then return to the enemy's control with 1 [[:firewall]].

Echo can target most hacked devices, but some devices --- [[:mainframe devices:Augment Grafters]], [[:mainframe devices:Augment Drills]], all [[:drones]], [[:guards:Barrier Guards]] and [[:guards:OMNI Protectors]], and the [[:mainframe devices:Security Hub]] and [[:mainframe devices:Mainframe Lock]] --- are specifically exempt. If Echo has no valid targets, then it has no effect.

===== Strategy =====

Echo is a relatively weak daemon; if it recaptures an important device like a [[:mainframe devices:Security Camera]] in a room you need to go through, then all you need to do is hack that device again. On the other hand, Echo often recaptures a device you don't need to hack:

  * Echo sometimes recaptures a [[:mainframe devices:Security Camera]] or [[:mainframe devices:Sound Bug]] in a room you don't need to go through or return to, or a [[:mainframe devices:Power Supply]] connected to something you don't need to get past again.
  * If it recaptures a [[:mainframe devices:Corporate Safe]] or similar, then you can still loot the device while it is rebooting.
  * If it recaptures a [[:mainframe devices:Database]] then you typically don't need to hack it again to get the same information; either the information remains revealed, or you can remember it.

When Echo is triggered by hacking a device, that device itself may be the one recaptured by Echo.