Shut Down

When you Shut Down, your mech powers completely off and enters a rest state. It’s always risky to do in the field, but it’s sometimes necessary to prevent a catastrophic systems overload or an NHP cascading.

You can Shut Down your mech as a quick action. Your mech takes the Shut Down status, with these effects:

• all heat is cleared, as is Exposed
• any cascading NHPs return to a normal state
• any statuses or conditions affecting the mech caused by tech actions, such as Lock On, immediately end
• the mech gains Immunity to all tech actions and attacks, including any from allied characters
• the mech is Stunned indefinitely. Nothing can prevent this condition, and it remains until the mech ceases to be Shut Down.

The only way to remove the Shut Down status is to Boot Up the mech