Create a new subrule of the rule “Bot Loadouts” entitled “Secret Loadouts” as follows:

If an Operator’s Readiness is Ready, and their Bot has no Systems, then that Operator’s Bot is considered to have a Secret Loadout. A Secret Loadout is an ordered list of Systems that matches a subset of the Systems in that Operator’s Spare Parts Bin, and which must obey the same rules as if that list of Systems were the ones applied to the Operator’s Bot; a Secret Loadout defaults to an empty list. While an Operator’s Readiness is Ready, that Operator may change their Bot’s Secret Loadout at any time by privately informing the Announcer of this.

When the Announcer has been informed of a Secret Loadout by a given Operator, they may—immediately prior to changing that Operator’s Readiness to Staging—perform an atomic action called Kitting Out as follows:
* Removing the set of Systems matching the Operator’s Secret Loadout from that Operator’s Spare Parts Bin
* Setting the Systems of the Operator’s Bot to match their Secret Loadout, in the specified order, with the same Conditions they had while in the Spare Parts Bin

Reword the item in the rule “Bouts” that reads “When an Operator’s Readiness is Ready and they are named in an Announcement Post then the Announcer should set their Readiness to Staging” to read:

When an Operator’s Readiness is Ready and they are named in an Announcement Post then the Announcer should set their Readiness to Staging, after Kitting Out that Operator if they have a Secret Loadout