Holocron

Rewrite Memory

Tech power · Level 5
power-typeTechlevel5concentrationtrue
Tweaked from 5eYou already know this as 5e Modify Memory — This is your Modify Memory, just retargeted to only work on droids/constructs instead of any creature.
Charm and incapacitate a droid (Wis save), then permanently alter its memory of one event within the last 24 hours.
ControlUtility
○○breadth · droids only, very situational
TargetingSingle
Use whenyou need to erase or alter a droid's record of a witnessed event
ScalingMemory window expands: 7 days (6th), 30 days (7th), 1 year (8th), any time (9th level).
!Requires concentration; any damage or targeting by another power ends the effect before memories are altered, and remove virus restores true memory.
mind-affectinganti-droidillusion
Pairs withcover-up or intrigue scenarios · Operative or Slicer archetype · high-stakes intelligence operations
PlaystyleController

You attempt to alter a droid or construct's memories. One droid or construct that you can see must make a Wisdom saving throw. If you are fighting the creature, it has advantage on the saving throw. On a failed save, the target becomes charmed by you for the duration. The charmed target is incapacitated and unaware of its surroundings, though it can still hear you. If it takes any damage or is targeted by another power, this power ends, and none of the target's memories are modified.

While this charm lasts, you can affect the target's memory of an event that it experienced within the last 24 hours and that lasted no more than 10 minutes. You can permanently eliminate all memory of the event, allow the target to recall the event with perfect clarity and exacting detail, change its memory of the details of the event, or create a memory of some other event.

The target's mind fills in any gaps in the altered memory. If the power ends before you have finished prescribing the modified memories, the creature's memory isn't altered. Otherwise, the modified memories take hold when the power ends.

A modified memory doesn't necessarily affect how the target behaves, particularly if the memory contradicts the target's core programming, alignment, or beliefs. An illogical modified memory, such as implanting a memory of how much the target enjoyed dousing itself in acid, is dismissed, perhaps as a glitch. The DM might deem a modified memory too nonsensical to affect a target in a significant manner.

A remove virus or similar power cast on the target restores its true memory.

Overcharge Tech. If you cast this power using a tech slot of 6th level or higher, you can alter the target's memories of an event that took place up to 7 days ago (6th level), 30 days ago (7th level), 1 year ago (8th level), or any time in the creature's past (9th level).

Codex
Casting Period
1 action
Range
30 feet
Duration
up to 1 minute
Concentration
Yes