====== Prototype Chip ======
[{{ prototype_chip.png|Prototype Chip icon}}]

> //This bleeding-edge device is a stolen classified prototype.//

The **Prototype Chip** is a special [[:item]] which can be found only in [[:missions:Security Dispatch]] missions. It can be charged at [[:Consoles]] to store [[:PWR]], which can then be used to manually break [[:firewalls]] on [[:mainframe devices:]]. The Prototype Chip can be sold for 350 [[:credits]].

The Prototype Chip has no cooldown, and no [[:skill]] level requirement to use.
===== Charging =====

The Prototype Chip initially stores 0 PWR, out of a maximum capacity of 10 PWR. To charge the Prototype Chip, the agent carrying it must be adjacent to an unused [[:Console]]. The amount of PWR charged is equal to the Console's base PWR plus any bonus from the agent's [[:skills#Hacking]] skill.

[[Accelerator Chips]] cannot be used to increase the PWR charged from a Console.
===== Breaking firewalls =====

Once charged, the Prototype chip can be used like a [[:items:Buster Chip]] to manually break [[:firewalls]], at a cost of 1 PWR per firewall. To do this, the agent carrying it must be adjacent to the [[:mainframe device]] you want to hack. The Prototype Chip will either break all firewalls on the device, or otherwise use all of its stored PWR to break that number of firewalls. The player cannot control the exact number of firewalls broken.

Note that the Prototype Chip's tooltip text says it //"breaks X firewalls"// where X is the amount of PWR stored, which may be misleading if the device's firewalls are lower than X.