| BPN Identification Numbers |
| What do those pesky numbers mean? |
| For years, operatives have wanted to know just what all that gibberish means at the bottom of their assigned BPNs. Well, now they can find out. |
| Let's say that a squad was issued a yellow (retrieval) BPN from the Department of Acquisitions for SCL 10 operatives to gather items from 12599 Andrews Street in Suburbia 3, sector 6. Now looking at this information, we can put together a possible BPN code, which would probably look something like this: "So how did that number come from the given information?" you may ask. Well, it's quite simple really. We'll break it down into a formula: ddd = 3 letter department code #### = assigned 4 digit number (random) LL = 2 letter location code ss ss = 2 digit level number and 2 digit sector cc = BPN color code SCL = SCL required Now of course to translate this step-by-step: 3 letter department code is usually the first three letters of the department, or the department initials if it were something like the Firearms Regulatory Service (FRS). Assigned 4 digit number is pretty much a random number assigned by the issuing department to help them keep track of their individual records involving BPNs. The exception would be if this particular BPN has been assigned to another squad and, for whatever reason (i.e. death or dismemberment), the BPN was not completed. In such case, the 4 digit number would be followed by a letter designation, representing the number of times the BPN has been issued. If the above BPN had been failed twice, the number would read '5528b' because '5528' was the first attempt and '5528a' was the second. On an opinionary note, don't take a BPN above a 'c'. You -know- something's wrong... 2 letter location code is the portion of Mort where the assignment will take place, such as Uptown (UT), Downtown (DT), Lower Downtown (LD), Mort Central (MC), etc. The only exception to this being a 2 letter code is if the BPN occurs in one of the cannibal sectors, which would be labeled as CS1, CS2, etc. 2 digit level and 2 digit sector are rather simple. Level 5, sector 13 would be '0513'. This only gets wierd if the BPN has been assigned in the really -low- sections of lower downtown (like level 100+). In this case, the code would read '0000' because those levels have not been mapped effectively, not to mention the fact that the geography changes almost daily. BPN color code is rather straightforward. It's a two letter breakdown of the color: blue (BU), white (WT), yellow (YL), green (GN), red (RD), grey (GY), jade (JD), black (BK), silver (SV). Why no code for platinum, you ask? Simple. Mr. Slayer don't need no stinkin' codes. SCL required is easy. Two digits. 10, 09, 08, etc. |
| ACQ/5528-SB0306/YL10 |
| ddd / #### - LL ss ss / cc SCL |