The Banshee remains docile until the Operator's flashlight illuminates it. Illumination triggers a two-second signal cascade followed by an eight-second high-speed pursuit. The protocol is to keep the beam off its body, and if it is disturbed, to break line of sight during the cascade and stay behind cover until the pursuit ends.
In the perimeter
Operatives of the armed response found that gunfire in front of a Banshee counts as light. Disturbed, it cascades, throws a resonance pulse and pursues.
Not related to
The Banshee is not related to the Mourner. Their similar silhouettes are a projection artifact produced when T-Link attempts to render elongated external anatomy.
See also
Records cited
- LP-MAN-1993-S7, section 3, EXT-06
- Critical Response field manual, ENTITIES