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==Overview==
===Abilities===
In the most basal of the forms of discordance, a person exhibits a trait of disrupting all mechanical devices that attempt to track its position. [[Auspex]], [[Augur|augur array]]s and imaging [[cogitator]]s fail to notice and display the position of a discordant, even in their most nascent form. Depending on a quality of the device, it either shows an empty space where the person should be, or simply fails at its workings and displays static or an area of interference. No machine supported targetting system is able to get a lock on a discordant, and anyone possessing visory augmentation will fail to see them, as well as those with auditory ones will fail to hear them. [[Medicae]] cogitators and machine units will not be able to diagnose or treat them, and any attempt at implanting [[bionic]]s or any other machinery will end in a so-called "Sysop Failure", that can potentially be lethal to the discordant.{{Fn|1}}
The more disruptive and catastrophic to machinery part of their ability, nicknamed '''Discordia''', is activated by a sudden trauma to a dormant discordant, remaining from this moment on as a constant aura disabling the surrounding machines. Depending on the machine's complexity, they can freeze, break down, alter their functions in surprising fashion, or simply explode. Paradoxically, the more complex machinery the more susceptible is it to this effect, the exceptional ones, like a [[Land Raider]], [[manufactorum]] cogitators or advanced battle [[servitor]]s will be immediately affected in the most destructive fashion, while less complex and more widely available like simple bionics, [[lasgun]]s or [[chainsword]]s will be only slightly impaired. The power is said to be silencing the Machine Spirits of the technology, possibly even putting them down indefinitely. While it is known to explode aggressive forms of machinery on a range of few meters, it is only due to a moment of distress to the discordant, and most of the time it barely extends further than beyond the reaching distance, often requiring a direct skin contact. It often ends also affecting implants and technology of the people around them, which is to detriment of their allies{{Fn|1}}
