Does "Incapacitated" = well, incapacitated?

Sorry if this has been brought up and discussed to death before...I did a search on the threads and couldn't find anything specifically dealing with it.

If there is a thread dealing with it, could someone point me there?

I'm trying to figure out if I've missed something in either the Trek or LOTR rules.

When a character gets down to "Incapacitated", are they incapacitated? I realise there's the -9 penalty to actions, but logic suggests this is the penalty if they somehow manage to regain consciousness and act.

I'm assuming there's a rule somewhere I've missed which basically makes the character lose consciousness when they hit "Incapacitated" - if I'm wrong, and there is no such rule, has anyone tested a good house rule for it?

Thanks in advance.

Good question. I was curious about this myself.

I always interpreted it such that the character does fall unconscious straight away once they hit Incapacitated. I consider it a good safety net for preventing a character from ending up in a situation in which they fight until they are thoroughly dead because the player/character won't surrender :) As far as waking up goes, a hypospray of stimulant would do the trick in the near term, allowing a character to walk (or more likely crawl) on his/her own or with a little bit of support.

I would suppose there may be a situation where in Incapacitated character must wake up on his/her own, though I would hope it would be rare. What I'd do in that case is roll the duration for the Heavy Stun effect and use that as the duration of unconsciousness.

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