====== Router ======
[{{ router.png?300|A Router.}}]
[{{ router_hacked.png?200|A Router which has been hacked.}}]
[{{ router_looted.png?200|A Router which has been looted and permanently disabled.}}]

**Routers** are a [[:security measure]] which appear in some [[:corporations:FTM]] facilities at [[:mission difficulty]] 2 and higher. While a Router is active, it adds 1\ [[:firewall]] to a random [[:mainframe device]] at the start of each turn, except the first turn of the mission.

Routers are [[:mainframe devices:]] which can be hacked, or disabled temporarily by [[:rebooting]] them. A hacked or rebooting Router can be looted to acquire a [[:items:Valuable Tech]] item, after which the Router becomes permanently disabled. They also provide [[:cover#soft cover]], allowing agents to hide on adjacent tiles.

If there is a Router (or multiple Routers) in the facility, then [[:agents:Central]] will make an announcement about it on the second turn of the mission, and the player will be notified each time a firewall is added to a device.

Routers are found in the [[:Contingency Plan]] DLC.
===== Strategy =====

Routers can be more or less of a problem depending on your [[:loadout]] and strategy.

If you are routinely short of [[:PWR]] for hacking, then you will normally want to hack Routers as a priority, since doing this lowers the cost of hacking other devices. This makes [[:strategy:exploration]] more important, and in some cases it may worth saving PWR to hack the Router by not hacking some optional devices before the Router is discovered.

Routers are less of a problem when you have plenty of PWR to hack, when you can use [[:items:EMP Packs]] or [[:agents:Dr. Xu]]'s [[:augments:Subdermal Tools]] to disable devices without hacking their firewalls, or otherwise when there are many devices you don't need to hack. Routers are also less of a problem when you have higher-tier [[:items:Buster Chips]] than would normally be required for the firewalls in the mission, or the program [[:programs:Oracle]] which hacks [[Security Cameras]] regardless of their firewall level.