Frame LCOS

Frame LCOS (Lead Computing Optical Sight) hardware is typically employed by riggers who find themselves in combat situations where fast and/or erratic movement is a factor (such as air combat). The system permits the user to predict a "vehicle's" path or course of travel by using current heading, rate of turn, speed, and other directional information. Firing solutions can then be developed that make targeting much easier and accurate.

This system also works for objects/people (other than vehicles) traveling at high rates of speed; in fact, this system functions well in any situation where there is a desire to eliminate movement modifiers from a combat situation.

To use the Frame LCOS system, the user must possess a functioning smartlink (I or II) and be using a weapon with smartlink hardware. The system functions in game terms according to the following rules:

Determine the handling rating of the vehicle being targeted. If the target is an individual, use the handling of the vehicle they are in. If they are without a vehicle, assume a handling rating of 3.
Make a pre-combat test (firearms, gunnery, or whatever combat skill is being employed to hit the target) against a target number of 8 minus the calculated handling rating of the target.
Each success in the pre-combat test reduces the moving target modifier (pg 108, SRII) by 2, down to a minimum modifier of zero, for the actual combat test.
The reduced modifier (if it still exists) is applied to the actual combat test instead of the full movement modifier that would be assessed without Frame LCOS.

The Frame LCOS system has no real appearance other than a set of two headware chips. It should be noted that the Frame LCOS system only works for direct fire weapons, such as guns and rockets. It does not function with any weapon that has its own inherent intelligence rating ("smart weapons.") In order for indirect fire weapons (e.g., minigrenades) to be used with the Frame LCOS system, the user must also possess a Trajectory Computer of any level.

`Type`	`Essence Cost`	`Availability`	`Cost`	`Street Index`
`Cyberware`	`0.3`	`8 / 7 days`	`22,000Y`	`1.75`

[Ah, another case of history coming back into the limelight. Lead computing optical sights have been a common feature in air combat fighters for decades now. Before VCRs, air combat was quite a bit different. "Smart" weapons often had a good chance of hitting their targets, but guns were a different story. LCOS was created to give the average gunner a semi-realistic chance of hitting their target. After all, throw two air-superiority fighters together at slightly sub-sonic speeds, and you can see where the game of "pin the lead on the enemy pilot" would be chancy, at best, with a minigun or other high-cyclic conventional weapon.]

Eightball

[Alright, I'll ask -- why the frag should your average "driver" give a rat's hoop about this one? I ain't no combat pilot, and I don't see how the extra chips'll do me much good.]

Tonka

[Come on, Tonka -- what would you pay to have your sights trained on that pain-in-the-hoop fragger as he zigs left, zags right, and then pulls a move you never thought of: but wait a minute, you didn't have to think of it -- your Frame LCOS system saw it coming a mile away? This system makes "dodging" an exercise in futility!]

Zealot

[Yeah, omae, I's got one of these, it's a bang boom job, ain't nothin' shakin' the lock, like you put 'em in the sights and think about it and he's there, yeah it's there, jus' pull the trigger and you got yourself a show and all yeah ...]

Boomhauer