Modded MkI portrait

Modded MkI guards are armed guards who occur in Plastech missions, at mission difficulty 2 and higher. While active, they recapture nearby hacked mainframe devices; while knocked out, they inhabit the mainframe by installing a daemon on an unhacked device.

While a Modded MkI is active, at the start of each enemy turn he recaptures a random hacked mainframe device within a radius of 6 tiles, measured by Euclidean distance from the Modded MkI's location. When a device is recaptured, it reboots for 1 turn, and then has 1 firewall.

Some devices — Augment Grafters, Augment Drills, all drones, and OMNI Protectors — are specifically exempt from being recaptured by a Modded MkI. If multiple devices are valid targets within range at the start of an enemy turn, a random one is recaptured; if there are no valid targets within range, then the Hacker ability has no effect on that turn.

While a Modded MkI is knocked out, he inhabits the mainframe by installing a random daemon on a random mainframe device. When that device is hacked, the daemon's effect is triggered, and then the Cyber Consciousness ability installs another random daemon on a different device.

The Cyber Consciousness ability cannot install a daemon on a device which is currently controlled by the agency, or a device which already has a daemon installed; however, it can target a device which is rebooting, an inactive Security Camera, or a Corporate Safe or other device that has been looted without being hacked. If there are no valid targets, then the Cyber Consciousness ability has no effect.

If the program Hunter is used to remove a Cyber Consciousness daemon, then it also deals lethal damage to the Modded MkI.