Black ICE

A Black ICE are the type of ICE that exists to operate within an Architecture. They are planted in the Architecture as security, but a Netrunner can also bring their own Black ICE into the program using a Cyberdeck.

Overview
Black ICE are planted within an Architecture as a security measure against it being hacked into by an enemy Netrunner. Black ICE are designed to chase down the Netrunner and their Programs throughout the 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 an Architecture to combat other Black ICE. It can be assigned to patrol for enemy Black ICE or activated to directly combat one.

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 Architecture or a physical space by targeting the Netrunner and their party in Meatspace. These are too big to be stored in Cyberdecks.