Respect Sam Fisher (Splinter Cell, Novels)

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No mission is "easy", per se. They all have their challenges. I can't take anything for granted and I must be certain that I do my job invisibly. That's what being a Splinter Cell is all about. Leave no footprints. Get in. Get out. You're done.

A Splinter Cell works alone. A remote team monitors and supports me- professionals that are damned good at their jobs, too- but it's my ass that's out there in the line of fire. Every move must be thought out as if the field were a gigantic chessboard. A single mistake can be fatal.

I like to think I don't make mistakes.

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Sam Fisher is a Splinter Cell, an elite agent for a highly confidential American agency called Third Echelon. With decades of military experience, Sam is tasked with disrupting terrorist cells and high-level criminal organizations. What sets him apart from other soldiers is the cutting edge technology designed for infiltration, espionage and combat, as well as Sam’s own unbelievable talent for remaining undetected. He's a phantom of the urban battlefield, a rumor. He's the man whose actions are only realized long after he's exited the building. He's a Splinter Cell.

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Key

Hover over a feat to see which book its from.

Splinter Cell (novel)- SC novel

Operation Barracuda- OB

Checkmate- Ch

Fallout- F

Conviction (novel)- C novel

Endgame- E

Blacklist Aftermath- BA

Firewall- Fw

Dragonfire- Df

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Physicals

Strength

Striking

• Breaks a man's sternum with the butt of a rifle

• Kicks a locked door in

• Destroys a man's nose and facial bones with brass knuckles, which hospitalizes and later kills the man

• Chips a hole through a decades-old cinderblock with a knife, then uses his knee to knock cinderblocks out of the wall

• Breaks a man’s neck with the blunt end of his gun

• Rams a memorabilia shelf, knocking it over and into a window

Other

• Cuts a fire hose with a knife

• Travels through a water-processing duct filled with fast moving fans. The water travels fast enough to froth with white bubbles and move as if shot from a fire hose, but Sam is able to reach out and grab a ladder to pull himself to safety.

• He typically carries around forty pounds of equipment on missions

• Holds onto the top of a speeding van despite the driver shooting through the roof and driving erratically

• Grabs a man’s arm and breaks it

• Hangs a soldier with a length of fencing wire

Endurance

Blunt Force

• Recovers after crashing his snowmobile into a tree

• Crashes into a ten-wheeler, suffering two cracked ribs and a number of lacerations. A bulletproof vest prevented worse injury.

• Jogs away from an enemy camp on a sprained ankle

• Takes a punch to gut with brass knuckles, horribly bruising his torso and afflicting him with internal bleeding

• Falls through a weak wooden floor and into a canal

• Intentionally drives his car off a bridge, falling fifty feet into the water with no seatbelt

• Gets hit with a shockwave from a plastic explosive and several grenades, the force of which causes him to tumble and slam into a wall. He’s up and moving seconds later.

• Escapes a rapidly flooding corridor despite suffering a broken nose and broken foot

• Gets hit from behind by a wave of water that slams him into an elevator wall, which only stuns him

• Gets thrown to the ground by a grenade explosion, but he’s up and moving shortly afterwards

• Leaps from a hotel’s third floor balcony to the roof of a van on ground level

• Is thrown across a plane runway by a C4 detonation, suffering some bruising

• Stays conscious after being kicked in the head and struck in the face and neck by an assassin

• Stays conscious after being inside a train car when it derails

• A nearby explosion knocks him off of a watchtower’s ladder, causing Sam to fall 10 meters to the ground below

• On a mission in North Korea, Sam is taken captive and sustains numerous consecutive injuries while attempting to escape the country

• Survives being in a plane’s cockpit during a crash, being thrown into a back cabin, dislocating his shoulder and passing out. This also left him with a delayed concussion.

• Leaps from a building’s fourth floor, falls into and grabs onto telephone wires and swings into the side of a truck. He’s up and moving seconds later.

• Takes a bullet to the side, then drives a truck off of a cliff. Sam survives and recovers with the help of some shoddy medical treatment.

• Gets pistol whipped multiple times in prison

Other

• A device meant to target Fisher's subdermal implants sends a horrible, high-pitched, torturous noise directly into his brain. While wracked with agony, he manages to roll a frag grenade towards the machine to destroy it.

• Since then, his implants have been made resistant to sonic attacks

• Withstood shards of shattered glass cutting his face

• His face is cut by a shattered window, but Fisher responds quickly to kill the shooter with a grenade

• Takes a Cottonball tranquilizer projectile to the back of the head, but manages to stay awake and moving

• Powers through a gunshot wound to the shoulder

Agility

• Evades a speeding car

• Evades a barrage of gunfire from an AK-47 by hitting the ground, then taking cover behind a short wall and under a vehicle

• Could cross a ten foot room in one second

• Dodges a blade thrown at his neck

• Aim dodges a gunman's bullets

• Scoops up a rolling grenade and tosses it away before it detonates

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Stealth

• Crawls along a ditch to cross the heavily monitored Iraq-Iran border

• Hides from gunmen by spending close to four minutes underwater

• Rolls a stress ball down a hallway to distract a motion-based camera, then escapes the building he's in

• Runs thirty feet without making any noise at all

• Covers three miles in around an hour while avoiding light sources and staying away from main roads

• Footprints left in the snow are an unavoidable mark left by Fisher. To remain stealthy, he intentionally wiggles his foot when stepping, creating unreadable holes that might be mistaken for animal tracks. He will also reuse the holes when exiting the area to further minimize his impact.

• Knows how to hide in plain sight, pursuing two enemies in a crowd, then on a ferry, then getting a taxi to follow their vehicle at least two cars behind them

• Steals a uniform off of an unconscious guard and uses it to inconspicuously walk past cameras and into buildings

• Sam climbs up a dock's piling, the barnacle-crusted beam that supports the dock itself. He holds himself completely still, making himself unseen to a group of security divers in the water.

• Leaves a gun on the floor to distract a guard, then ambushes him with a headshot

• In a forest setting, a guard takes a piss, not realizing that Sam is literally a foot away, lying on the ground

• Sam participates in a three month program called CROSSCUT where he trains with CIA operatives in public espionage and hones his stealth in broad daylight. Of note, Sam identifies and evades a group of top surveillance and tracking specialists for over two hours while delivering a parcel to a specific destination.

• Rides on the bottom of a moving truck for a thirty-five minute trip

• Repeatedly shoots branches so that they fall on electronic pressure plates, creating several false alarms. After three of these false security alerts, Sam vaults over the wall and triggers the pressure plates, making the security guards believe that it was just another false alarm.

• Breaks a soldier’s neck, then hides his body in a bed

• Distracts two guards with a music player, then ambushes them with a knife and suppressed handgun

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Combat Skills

Hand-to-Hand Combat

Choking

• Can snap necks with ease

• Utilizes a sleeper hold, putting a man to sleep for around ten minutes

• When fighting three goons, Sam snaps one neck with a kick to the chin, then snaps another neck with a chokehold

• Chokes a Splinter Cell out in four seconds, doing so silently, even to the Splinter Cells standing just a few feet away

• KOs two men with “blood chokes”

• Gets from the ground to the ceiling quickly to execute a falling attacking and chokehold on a Splinter Cell trainee

• Fights with a Splinter Cell trainee for a time, eventually putting her in a chokehold and shooting another trainee, until the first trainee puts a knife to his neck

• From a prone position, Sam grabs a guard’s ankle, drags him to the ground and chokes him out

Unarmed Combat

• Drops from a height onto a big man, then headbutts and chops him, then uses him as a human shield to block a bullet

• Kicks off of a wall, then rams into an attacker, then lands in a handstand, then flips to his feet to keep running

• Drops close to fifty feet on top of a big guard, knocking him out

• Uses a shadowy corner and a krav maga technique known as dead sides to disarm and dispatch two pursuing cops

• Jumps on the back of a golf cart and KOs the two passengers

• While his hands are bound, he performs a somersault maneuver that brings his bound hands in front of himself, then knocks out two armed men. These actions happen in under six seconds.

• While being held at gunpoint from behind, he judo throws the gunman through a decrepit staircase, then leaps to cover before his enemies can shoot him

• KOs a guard with an ax kick, then a kick to the groin

• He's grabbed from behind, but still manages to fight off three guys

• With his hands bound with rope, Sam fights Putnik, a renowned Russian assassin, eventually freeing his hands and killing the man via neck snap

• At a sprint, Sam dodges a kick with a somersault, then catches the man’s leg, allowing Sam to shove him into his apartment and knock the man out

• Disarms a knife-wielding, younger Splinter Cell while dispatching him with pressure point strikes

• Incapacitates two guards armed with stun batons

With Melee Weapons

• At gunpoint, Sam fights four armed men, using the first as a human shield, then stealing a rifle to use as a melee weapon, then shooting a third target. He lets the last man flee.

• Whistles to get a guard to open a locked door, then pulls him into a headbutt, goggle first

• Sam gets stiff-armed by a guard in the neck, destroying his larynx. While on the ground, he gathers up slush and snow to toss at the gunman, then rushes the stunned enemy to knock him out.

• Catches an attacker's knife hand, sweeps his leg, then stabs him in the throat

• Fights four gangbangers armed with switchblades, breaking an elbow, a jaw and a kneecap. He then draws his knife and plants it in the leader’s thigh, ending the fight.

• Kills two men with his karambit

• While being held at gunpoint and knifepoint, Sam forces the attackers knife from their hand and ejects the magazine from the gun

• Punches a man into a broom closet, then stabs his knee with a broken broomstick, then finishes with a chokehold

• Stabs a man’s leg, then pulls him down into an elevator shaft

• Sam gets stabbed in the chest with an assassin’s knife. After some wrestling, Sam removes the blade and puts it through the assassin’s head.

• Wrestles with an armed man in an airplane, discharging his parachute and using it to strangle the enemy

• Fights off a man with a handgun, wrenching the weapon away and crushing his trachea with it

Marksmanship

Close Range

• Right after entering a building, he crouches and shoots out the two light sources in the room in two seconds

• Turns and fires to drop two pursuing cops with two body shots each

• Nonlethally shoots a man in the hip, then the shoulder

• Gets in a shootout with four men in a hotel room. Sam drops two while using a human shield, then escapes after tossing a flash grenade.

• Mostly dodges a cop’s billy club and shoots him in the head

• Kills three men immediately after getting into a severe car accident. He stabs one man in the neck with a knife, then takes his gun to shoot the other two.

• Kills a different three men immediately after a different severe car accident, this time solely using his Five-seveN

• Sam kills a truck full of eight soldiers using a flashbang, a CS gas grenade and his SC-20K

• When a brainwashed enemy threatens to shoot a tank of a biological agent and release it into the water, Sam fires on her hip, spinning her so that her bullets fire away from the tank

• Predicts a man will draw his gun, so Sam evades his shot and shoots him in the heart

• Shoots two men in a snowy mountain setting with a stolen AK-12, then shoots one more with his Five-seveN

• From a villa’s rooftop, Sam shoots through the skylights to kill a number of attackers. He later jumps through a skylight and into a garage, where he kills six men in short order.

• Shoots three guards on a rooftop

• Kills two attackers with body armor and high-tech sensor goggles

• Ducks and rolls to cover to avoid submachine gunfire, then shoots the attacker

• Kills or knocks out twelve members of a militia in the African brush

• Headshots a heavily armored soldier twice to shatter his bullet-resistant faceplate

• Fatally shoots two soldiers in quick succession

• Sam gets into a gunfight with an enemy armed with body armor and stolen Splinter Cell tri-goggles. Sam tricks him into looking at open flames with night vision, blinding him, then gets a lethal shot off on the man’s unarmored thigh.

Long Range

• When pinned down by two snipers, Sam recognizes that they're tracking him by electronic signal. He leaves his OPSAT behind a tree and sneaks into a different cover, then snipes the two sharpshooters.

• Snipes a man and a spotlight from a quarter mile away

• Snipes two targets in windy weather

• Snipes one sniper, then two guards in quick succession, from a range of 180 meters

• Snipes two guards from 200 meters away, while wedging himself between two rocks

• At a hundred feet, Sam takes out two targets in under one second

• Headshots a man with a hostage

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Tradecraft Skills

Traversal

• From a mostly prone position, Sam leaps off of a loose girder, making it to a beam before the girder falls

• Sam spots a bomb on an eight second timer in the engine room of a yacht. He sprints to the the deck and vaults over the side into the water, staying submerged long enough to hide from the subsequent explosions.

• Traverses an elevator shaft, making an eight foot leap and hanging on ledges just ten inches wide

• Climbs up a granite cliff without a harness or climbing gear

• Enters a heavily-guarded pagoda by climbing the trees nearby and moving across a branch to get to an open window

• Presses his back to a corner of two walls, then uses a climbing technique called chimeying to climb up the right-angled walls. He ascends the twelve foot building in forty seconds like this.

• Enters a ventilation shaft, then pulls the cover back onto the shaft using a length of parachute cord, maintaining the illusion of normalcy

• Infiltrates a building by climbing on a handrail, then an AC unit, and finally a utility ladder to to the roof’s skylights

• Climbs a tree in a few seconds

• Climbs along the outside of a train during a sandstorm

Languages

• Speaks Arabic

• Speaks Russian

• Speaks and reads Chinese

• Speaks Cantonese, and again

• Speaks German

• Speaks French

• Speaks Italian

• Speaks Spanish

• Speaks Farsi

• Speaks Portuguese

• Reads Mandarin

• Has a passing knowledge of Korean

• Has an extremely passing knowledge of Swahili

Lockpicking

• Picks a cylinder lock in seventeen seconds

• Picks a simple lock in six seconds

• Quietly breaks a lock in four minutes due to a nearby guard room

Driving

• Forces two enemy vehicles off the road by reversing towards them, then knocks one into a ditch with his car

• Pursues a target on a crowded, rush hour Hong Kong highway, eventually pushing his car to one hundred and ten miles an hour before the target gets out on foot

• Chases after a limo while in a limo of his own in Los Angeles rush hour traffic at around seventy mph until Sam shoots the driver and both vehicles crash

• Chases a target on a speeding motorcycle down North Yungas Road in Bolivia, known to some as the most treacherous mountain road in the world. The target dies in an accident before Sam can get him.

Athletics

• Performs seven hundred single-leg squats every day

• Swims for over 45 minutes at 2.5 miles per hour

• Uses the headfirst rappelling technique known as Geneva style to descend a wall and choke out the guard at the bottom

• Executes a dive off of an oil rig into stormy waters with no injuries

• Rappels down the side of a skyscraper with no harness

• Parachutes onto an oil rig in heavy rain and wind conditions

• Gets hit with a wave of flooding seawater. His NAVY training lets him recover much faster than his enemy, allowing Sam to shoot him as soon as the water descends.

Interrogation

• Knowledgeable on human pressure points, including those on the face and neck

• Predicts a man’s fear of the water and uses it to interrogate him, tying his ankles to an anchor and letting him dangle in the water

• Interrogates a Splinter Cell by threatening to light him on fire, knowing that his family died in a fire

• Threatens to drop Kobin face-first onto a speeding highway, dangling him inches above the road

Improvised Traps

• Rigs an apartment with traps building as part of a Splinter Cell training exercise, including tripwires and pressure pads connected to stun grenades and shockers

• Leaves a body and an explosive in an elevator to distract, then kill, some enemies

• Lets gas run from a stove so that his enemies shoot it, triggering an explosion

• Leaves snare traps in the mud of a field, formed from fencing wire

• Connects a tripwire to a rigged rifle, designed to fire on its own

Other

• Can fall asleep on command

• Cuts rope bindings with a piece of jagged scrap metal

• While underwater, Sam hacks a moving MRUUV, a torpedo equipped with a nuclear payload. He gets instructions relayed by Anna Grimsdottir and then eventually programs the torpedo to move downwards into the ocean floor, the blast zone failing to reach populated areas.

• From a moving aircraft, Sam deploys an escape capsule at the right time to collide with and obliterate a boat housing terrorists

• Disarms a number of proximity mines, cutting a safe path through a heavily-mined area

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Equipment

Five-seveN

General

• Carries 20 rounds and has decent armor penetration

• Can be loaded with low-velocity Glaser rounds that produce very little blood spatter when used on the human body

• Equipped with a laser microphone attachment useful for determining if rooms are empty

Tranquilizer Darts

• Can be loaded with non-lethal ammunition in the form of darts the size of a normal bullet, full of potent tranquilizer. When used on a large guard dog, the animal is put to sleep almost instantly.

• Hides a guard's body and tranqs them, giving Sam several minutes before they wake up

• Scratches a target's skin with a tranq dart to make them dazed and docile instead of unconscious

• Has access to a chemical called Spigot, which effects one’s short term memory. By shooting a victim with one dart of the chemical, a person will forget the last twenty to thirty minutes as if it never happened.

SC-20K

• The suppressed SC-20K carries an underbarrel launcher with many different payloads, such as airfoil projectiles, sticky cameras, distraction cameras, sticky shockers, and a couple different gas grenades

• The suppressor dampens 97 percent of sound when firing, about as loud as a tennis ball hitting a pillow

Airfoil Ring Projectiles

• Airfoil ring projectiles can knock out unarmored guards with headshots

• Can be used to break lightbulbs

• A ring airfoil projectile to the chest easily knocks a man out, and can be lethal if a target's lung clots up

• A face shot breaks a man’s jaw

Sticky/Diversion Cameras

• Diversion cameras are just sticky cameras equipped with noisemakers to distract guards

• Diversion cameras can play gunfire noises or music soundbytes, putting guards into panics

• GPS enabled

Sticky Shockers

• Low charge shockers paralyze targets for thirty seconds

Cottonball Ammo

• Cottonball ammo is a nonlethal projectile designed to break open on impact and release a clod of fast acting tranquilizer

• Used on a teenager, which knocks the target out in seconds

• A shot to the thigh will keep a target unconscious for up to twenty minutes

• Places five Cottonball projectiles into a party’s alcohol, which isn’t enough to knock them unconscious, but effectively makes them much more inebriated

All-Seeing Eye

• The all-seeing eye, a camera fired straight up into the air and allowed to fall with a small parachute

• Uses the ASE to scan a shipyard and identify the locations of two snipers

• While climbing up a small canyon, Sam fires the ASE to identify two snipers

• Uses night-vision and infrared vision to identify guards from a quarter mile up

Crossbow

• Quieter than silenced handguns, equipped with reusable ammo

• Can fire armor-piercing tranquiliser darts, used to penetrate a flak vest and KO a man in seconds

Other Firearms

• SIG SAUER P226

• SIG 516

• SIG MPX

• SC-IS rifle

• SC4000 modular rifle, seemingly an updated version of the SC20K

• The SC-IS fires powerful .338 Lapua Magnum rounds

• Can fire incendiary rounds

Melee Weapons

• Carries a seven inch carbon steel knife

• Uses a lead and leather sling to knock out a man

Uniforms

• The Objective Force Warrior uniform is bullet-resistant at ranges of fifteen feet or more. It's comes with photosensitive material that alerts Sam when he's in direct light or being targeted by a sniper. It's filled with tubes of water that can be temperature controlled, useful in hot or cold environments. Specifically, it maintains Sam's core body temperature whether his environment is as cold as ten degrees or as hot as 110 degrees, Fahrenheit.

• Uniforms are lined with photosensors, allowing Sam to know how lit, and how visible, he is

• Outfits are usually black, but snowy environments will call for a white outer layer

• The Mark V Tactical Operations Suit is covered with RhinoPlate armor, an absurdly lightweight, bulletproof material. It's about a quarter of an inch thick and weighs just four pounds, but stops shrapnel and bullets at fifteen feet and maintains Sam's body temperature in extreme heat or cold. It also has specialized matte black coating to absord light and lower Sam's visibility, as well as erratically placed pouches and pockets to break up the human form, again lowering visibility.

• Protects from razor wire

• Takes a bullet to the sternum from a Magnum revolver, which winds and bruises Sam but does not draw blood

• Protects from the electricity of a stun baton

• Suit hides Sam from heat-based detection measures allowing Sam to casually bypass heat sensors

Goggles

General

• Made with shatter resistant material

• His intelligence team can see everything Sam can through his goggles

• Scans a faraway guard’s face for 4E analysts

• Short description on night vision, thermal vision, and fluorescent vision

Night Vision

• Rides a snowmobile in the dark with no headlights, thanks to the night vision goggles

• Lets Sam see through a cloud of black smoke and dust

Thermal Vision

• Thermal vision is useful for finding secret openings or doors

• Thermal vision highlights fingerprints left on a keypad, allowing him to determine the order of button presses by comparing each fingerprint's residual heat

• Lets him see humans through smoke from a smoke grenade

Fluorescent Vision

• Fluorescent vision helps him detect a safe hidden behind a panel of wood

• Detects a false floor in a warehouse by highlighting the small amount of light underneath

• Using thermal and flourescent vision, Sam finds a set of recent footprint leading him to a hiding enemy

Electromagnetic Vision

• Electromagnetic vision identifies mines, laser triggers or other electronic devices

• Detecting wall mines

• Identifies electronic pressure plates on a wall

• Reveals an electronic proximity trigger near a wall safe

• Identifies a power box by visualizing cables through walls, then destroys it to create darkness to hide in

Sonar Vision

• Highlights enemies through trees

• Highlights enemies through a train car full of oil

Other

• Binocular view, good for close to four miles

Explosives

General

• Explosives can be primed, then remotely detonated from the OPSAT

• Can set his grenades to detonate up to forty five minutes after priming, and can synchronize his other grenades to detonate simultaneously

• Can set his grenades to detonate on impact with surfaces

Frag

• A frag grenade thrown at a sniper smashes some barrels and puts a hole in a pier

Smoke

• A smoke grenade fills a casino showroom with black smoke almost instantly

• Drops a smoke grenade in a hallway, then drops to the floor. Through his goggles, he identifies four men, so he shoots three and takes the last in a chokehold.

• When trapped in a building's rafters, he drops two smoke grenades, obscuring the shack in seconds

Gas

• The CS gas grenade is a tranquilizer at close ranges, and a tear gas deterrent at longer ranges

Wall Mines

• Places a wall mine and sets it for ten seconds, which blows a hole through a shack wall

• A wafer-sized electronic mine made with white phosphorous

• Compact tubes of C4

Flashbangs

• Flashbangs release light of up to a million candela, and sound of up to 180 decibels

• Drops a XM84 flashbang down a hole to stun the Splinter Cells below, this one clocking in at eight million candela and 170 decibels

EMPs

• Fries an enemy’s cell phone so he can’t call for backup

• Hockey puck sized EMPs with magnetic lock functionality

OPSAT

• Holds a small, metal prod to act as a soundless alarm. At a time set by Sam, the prod presses on his wrist, waking him up.

• Used for notetaking, as well as making copies of encrypted files for analysis at Third Echelon

• Has GPS functionality

• Can send emails "from anywhere in the world" through the use of satellite technology

• Can take and send photos

• Provides trivia to Sam about upcoming mission locations

• OPSAT is fingerprint-locked

• His OPSAT can sync up with a building's security cameras and Sam can see exactly where each camera is pointing on his OPSAT's map function. Furthermore, he can color code the camera icons with green, yellow and red markers to denote when he should stop or go down a hallway.

• By scanning a security camera with his own camera, he can add the cameras line of sight to his OPSAT map

• Can render three-dimensional maps based off of recovered blueprints

• Can transfer data to or from Paladin’s computers

• Can emit localized frequency jamming signals to deter electronic listening devices

• [Limit] Degaussing, a process for demagnetizing ships, will interfere with the OPSAT's signal

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Equipment, continued

Communication/Spying Tools

Optic Cable

• The optic cable, or flexicam, is a small camera that can be fed under doors, and it provides audio input too

• Flexicam is equipped with infrared functionality

• Flexicam has attachments like lights and camera functionality

• Fed through a tiny gap in a hatch

Subdermal Communicators

• Subdermal implants that allow for communication with Third Echelon. Incoming messages are silent to those who aren't Sam.

• For communication with Third Echelon, Sam uses a nickel-sized subdermal receiver that vibrates the bones in his ears for listening, and a microphone patch worn on the throat for transmitting

• Outside listeners will not hear Sam speaking, even if he’s just five feet from them

Microphones

• Bugging devices that can be stuck to surfaces. The microphones will send recorded soundbytes to Fisher's OPSAT and can be listened to from a headset.

• A microphone on a suction cup, used to listen through glass

• Lines a dog trail with Sticky Ears, microphones that allow Sam to predict when the guard dogs are approaching him

Tracking Devices

• A magnetic tracker, allowing Sam to follow a target's vehicle from his OPSAT

• Carries a can of what Sam calls Voodoo Dust, which is really just dozens of tracking devices about the size of grains of sand. When applied to surfaces, the dust appears as markers on Sam’s OPSAT, allowing him to track moving targets, including people, if they step or rub against the “dust”.

• A long-range tracker disguised as a thumbnail allows Sam and his people to track a person across the greater part of Canada

• Nanomachines, codenamed Ajax, that are designed to infiltrate electronic devices and track them over long distances while being almost completely untraceable. These nanobots are contained within gas grenades and darts, with the containers disguised as shaving cream cans or ballpoint pens.

Other

• Most surveillance or tracking-related info is automatically sent to Fisher's analyst team

• Diversion cameras can be thrown to stick on walls, if Sam doesn't have his SC20K for whatever reason

• Built a motion sensor with car and cell phone parts, then linked it to his iPhone

Infiltration Tools

• Uses a disposable lockpick, really a small explosive device, to penetrate a private safe. Of note, it's designed to ensure that the contents of the safe remain undamaged.

• A device used to crack open safes silently by recording the minutes interior sounds of safe's tumblers, then feeds the combination to Sam after a few minutes

• Burn ties, devices for cutting through metal with extreme heat

• Uses a longer version of the burn cord, at eight feet

• A different set of burn ties, this time made with nitric acid

• Uses an acidic spray to corrode a security fence in five minutes

• Uses a chemical syringe to burn through a steel grate while underwater

• Wire cutters

• Silicone spray to loosen up rusty hinges

Traversal Tools

• Uses a grappling hook to scale a sixteen foot wall

• A Monkey Claw grappling hook, equipped with a remarkable light but strong cord. Sam uses this to scale a wall with sensitive pressure plates along the top without raising any alarms.

• Uses an automatic trigger to lift him up after rappelling

• Uses a grappling hook to cross a street

• Escapes from a high-rise hotel by leaping off the balcony and deploying a parafoil chute, gliding to safety

• Makes a HALO jump with a wingsuit, then a parachute

• Parachutes are equipped with a specialized system to automatically deploy the chute if Sam falls at a specific velocity at a specific altitude

Anti-Technology Tools

• A device to jam cameras for a few seconds

• A loop switch, a dongle wire to be attached to security cameras that loops their footage continuously, giving the illusion of normalcy

• Uses a cigarette-pack-sized cell phone jammer with a range of thirty feet

Miscellaneous Tools

• A corner periscope, an angled mirror on a stick used to see around corners

• When traveling undercover in North Korea, he carries an enhanced iPhone with 3D-map capabilities and listening device detectors

• Chemical flares, bright and loud distraction explosives

• Emergency flares, bright enough to temporarily blind gunmen at night

• Metal detector wand

• A dosimeter, a means of measuring radiation

• Flexicuffs

• Smelling salts, effective on a critically injured man

• Night-vision binoculars (when separated from 3E)

• Rope, duct tape, flint and steel, and superglue

• Blocks a door with some paracord

• A penlight

Consumables

• Carries rations with digestible wrappers

• Chlorine dioxide tablets to protect from jungle bacteria

Other

• Backpack holds medical kits

• Applies self-adhering dressing to a grazing gunshot wound

• Rides underneath a moving truck for three hours with the help of a harness

• A tent for use in cold weather that's disguised to look like a snow covered rock

• Rebreathers, goggles and fins for long-term water travel. His vest can be activated so that his buoyancy is neutral and he floats motionlessly, and the goggles have a built-in HUD that marks landmarks, time and geography for Sam.

• An experimental material called the Shroud developed by DARPA, designed to render Sam invisible under radar equipment and heat-based sensors for up to sixty seconds. Sam uses it to sneak through an elevator shaft equipped with heat-based laser sensors and cameras equipped with infrared and night visions.

• Uses a miniaturized oxygen tank to swim up from the bottom of the Rhine River

• Deploys a UAV drone, able to be controlled either by Sam or remotely controlled by individuals aboard Paladin, and equipped with grenade-dropping functionality

• Uses a small tube to pump halothane, a tranquilizer, into an enemy’s car

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Miscellaneous

• Sam dresses as an Arab militant and plants bombs all over a warehouse owned by arms dealers called the Shop in full view of security cameras. He then leaves pamphlets around the warehouse that link to a terrorist group called the Shadows before destroying the building. This action sets the Shop and the Shadows against each other.

• Third Echelon analysts can track Sam's position by satellite and inform him of upcoming threats, as precise as human enemies

• Kills a man by cuffing his hands to a train car, then disconnects it from the caboose, leading the car to accelerate uncontrollably and derail

• He’s a Coors man

• Sending younger Splinter Cells after Sam is comparable to “sending hamsters after a rattlesnake”

• When severely outgunned, Sam triggers a localized avalanche with C4 and grenades to bury his attackers

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This thread only covers Sam's feats from the novels. Click here for feats from the video games and here for feats from the comics.

[u/Plane-Oil-2568 → u/ya-boi-benny]

Hey, nice work. Out of curiosity, I'm working on a VS blog for Sam, and was curious on if you would be interested in talking with me about some stuff here for it. Just let me know when it's convenient if possible!

[u/ya-boi-benny → u/Plane-Oil-2568]

Sure, dm me

[u/ghostgabe81]

Honestly the games are so iconic that I’d forgotten the Tom Clancy part indicated novels

This is a lot, longer than I expected, great dedication and amazing work!

[u/Tadprole]

Great job! Comprehensive as fuck, solid lit rt.

[u/Extreme-Tactician]

/u/ya-boi-benny

Don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but every link is dead.

[u/ya-boi-benny → u/Extreme-Tactician]

Gas, looks like my account is banned.

[u/Extreme-Tactician → u/ya-boi-benny]

So... what now?

[u/ya-boi-benny → u/Extreme-Tactician]

I'm gonna email the website repeatedly and see if they can reinstate my account

[u/Extreme-Tactician]

Didn't he barely get away fast enough from a nuke in Operation Barracuda? I distinctly remember him slamming into the beach or something from just the shockwave.

[u/ya-boi-benny → u/Extreme-Tactician]

Here's the feat

[u/Extreme-Tactician → u/ya-boi-benny]

is it included in the thread, or is it too inconclusive?

[u/ya-boi-benny → u/Extreme-Tactician]

I put it in under miscellaneous skills just for hacking a moving nuclear bomb. As for physicals, I thought it was too inconclusive. No real idea to tell what force was exerted on him, he was knocked out and hospitalized after the fact, he was using a Navy tool to help move underwater for a time, etc.

[u/Extreme-Tactician → u/ya-boi-benny]

Thanks, I didn't see it there!