Trailing Device

Hi folx,

Well, with the advent of the ascension of a new list administrator and 
such, I suddenly remembered I still had something lyin around here for 
you folx. Feedback on this lil thingy is welcome, as always, even though 
it's already been through an extensive testing phase involving two 
members of this list. Enjoy,

			- the Falcon
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Trailing Device
Cost: 20,000 gp
Another best-seller of the Arcane, the trailing device allows a ship to track 
down another vessel with a better chance of actually intercepting it than 
normal. It works only in conjunction with _antennae_of_triangulation_.
At any time during an encounter in wildspace the trailing device can be tuned 
in on any object of 10 tons or more within 20 hexes (10,000 yards). As long 
as the object being trailed doesn't enter the phlogiston, the device will 
point in the correct direction, regardless of the distance between the two 
bodies (and thus greatly exceeding the initial range of 24 hexes), and the 
trailing ship will have only a 5% chance of erring in its direction of 
pursuit (check once every 24 hours).
A trailing device looks much like a large crystal ball. However, when the 
device is activated, by holding it in both hands and selecting one of the 
ships on the tactical map, a black, floating arrow appears in the ball and 
point in the right direction. The device needs only to be held for 
activation; it will continue to operate until either the trailed ship or the 
device enters the phlogiston, or the device is being tuned in on another 
ship. In order to function properly, both the device and the ship it is 
trailing must be fully located on the Prime Material Plane; use in any other 
environments other than Wildspace or the Phlogiston will give random and 
unpredictable results. Note that a crystal spheres shell blocks any 
trailing attempts; so the trailing device and the object it is trailing 
must be either both in the Phlogiston or both in Wildspace, for the 
device to function. The trailing device can track only one ship at a 
time, and each and every trailing device needs a seperate set of 
_antennae_of_triangulation_ to function properly.