Black ICE

A Black ICE is the type of Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics (ICE) that exists to operate within a NET Architecture. They are planted in the NET Architecture as security, but a Netrunner can also bring their own Black ICE into the program using a Cyberdeck.
==Overview==
Black ICE are installed within a NET Architecture as a security measure against it being hacked by an enemy Netrunner. Black ICE are designed to chase down the Netrunner and their Programs throughout the NET Architecture after detecting them. If a Black ICE is attacked enough, it becomes "derezzed" (inactive, but not destroyed). A Black ICE can also be evaded by Sliding to another level of the Architecture, in which case the Black ICE will resume waiting in that spot.
A Cyberdeck can store Black ICE and insert them into a NET Architecture to combat other Black ICE. It can be assigned to patrol for enemy Black ICE or activated to directly combat one. A Black ICE Program takes up 2 Program Slots in a Cyberdeck.
According to Lyle Thompson during Never Fade Away, Alt Cunningham helped develop a black ICE for ITS.
==Classifications==
* Anti-Personnel Black ICE - Deadly single-minded Programs that hunt down and kill Netrunners.
* Anti-Program Black ICE - Deadly single-minded Programs that hunt down and kill enemy Black ICE.
* Demon - Intelligent Systems that operate Control Nodes to defend their NET Architecture or a physical space by targeting the Netrunner and their party in Meatspace. These are too big to be stored in Cyberdecks.
==References==
Category:Programs
Category:Black ICE