Tactical Scanner - Role Playing enhancer [4 prims] Version 1

Tactical Scanner (for Role Play)
[only 4 prims]

This is a superb Role Playing device. It's a communications scanner that broadcasts messages in chat selected at random from a notecard database. It can give an added depth and richness to your Role Play and even send you off in new and unexpected RP directions. You can add, alter or remove messages and even have notecard libraries of your own custom ones. The scanner works well when using specific Role Playing data such as that of St*r Wars or St*r Trek.. Just edit the internal notecard to use your own phrases and messages.

The message alerts can be set to be broadcast only if there is an avatar in the vicinity to hear them.

The device has scrolling tech plasma screens and you can see the pulsing internal mechanisms of the scanner while it is working.

Features include:
- Broadcasts random message alerts, warnings, status reports, etc.
- Customisable. You can add, edit, remove messages.
- Can incorporate the names of nearby avatars.
- Set minimum and maximum elapsed minutes between Alerts.
- Animated textures, lights, scrolling text display, pulsing internal graphics.
- Turn device on/off on touch.

Here are some examples.

- "ATTENTION: Detectors are picking up an SOS from one of our bases!"
- "Space Freighter reported as missing is attempting to land."
- "WARNING: Incoming craft has requested emergency quarantine facilities. They are no longer responding to our signals."

If you use <name> in your text, the scanner will replace it with the name of a nearby avatar, when it's broadcast.

- "Be advised - an arrest warrant has been issued for <name>."
- "Paging <name>. Please report to the Medical Bay at once."

The Unit can be turned on or off by simply touching it, which will put it to sleep and extinguish all the lights.