SPIE - Special Procedures Insertion/Extraction
Up and Out By Rope
Special Procedures, Insertion/Extraction - Known as SPIE - has become standard procedure for extracting special-ops troops from any spot that precludes a landing - the side of a mountain, a boat, even a treetop. It requires a web harness similar to that of a parachute's. It can be worn into action or carried in a rucksack. In a pinch, a harness can be fashioned of rope. SPIE is a single-rope technique. This prevents the men from colliding with each other and frees their hands to fire weapons at antagonists on the ground. Moreover, an unconscious team member can be hooked up to a SPIE line and snatched to safety. SPIE can be used for both insertion and extraction, but it is mainly used for the latter. Lifting a team using SPIE, the pilot of the aircraft must be careful not to fly forward until he has raised his charges well above any obstacles on the ground. A clip at the top of the harness snaps into a ring spliced into the rope, which may have as many as eight rings, set at intervals of about 6 feet (1.8 meters). Image |
Cost: 50 Availability: 1 Game Effect: -2 Dexterity when attached to SPIE rope. Otherwise no effect. Capsule: A generic harness. Nothing special about them, available on nearly every planet and reasonably cheap. The harness allows your to hook up to the SPIE rope and be extracted. Very similar in appeareance to a parachute's harness, the SPIE harness has a carabiner spliced into it. The carabiner is made of durasteel, sometimes anodized black to prevent it from reflecting light like a mirror in combat. The carabiner is attached to the harness right between the shoulder blades, at the base of the neck. In an emergency, a harness can be made out of rope with minimal skill.
The SPIE Rope Type: Special Rope Cost: 200 Availability: 2 Capsule: Besides having the rings spliced into it, this rope isn't very hard to find. It usually comes in 80-100 foot lengths (25-30 meters) but shorter and longer versions are nearly as common. 80 feet is the standard length used in most operations, anything longer than 100 feet is too long, and anything shorter than 80 feet is unsafe for both the extractor and the extractee. The SPIE rope can carry up to eight people. Its maximum weight limit is around 2500 pounds (1.1 Metric tons)
The Delivery Vehicle (DV) Substitute your favorite vehicle here, it must be able to hover in mid air and have an attachment point for the SPIE rope. |