Slicing

Description: 

Specialties: Naian communications, Surfacer communications, scramblers, etc.
 * Slicing is the skill best concerned with any kind of programming or datastream manipulation, including communications and various internal processing.
 * The Naian concept of the datastream is literally just that - a kind of programming ocean of numbers and symbols, that is as rewarding and hazardous in many ways as exploring the world-ocean itself.
 * That the Oceanborn had any skill at all with such concepts came as a rude shock to the SCI, who thought of them as only capable of using 'archaeotech' which they could work, after a fashion, but not understand.
 * In fact, it is the SCI that has often proven incapable of understanding Naian technology, and the Naians who have a gift for figuring out (and usually discarding) Surface Tech.
 * There were many Surfacers who originally thought of the Naians as a highly regressed society - both for their lack of spaceflight and the primal spiritualism of their society and beliefs. In fact, those who have researched Oceanborn society most closely believe that Naian society is at least as advanced as that of the UC, having simply diverged owing to different priorities.
 * A common tactic during the Surfacer Wars, and which is still practiced today, is for a Naian to swim up to an SCI sensor buoy from underneath and slice into it, so as to make it send a false distress signal. Possibly either luring SCI forces into a trap, or distracting them from another attack.
 * Slicing is an Advanced skill. Those without specific training are unable to use it.