Cerebral Auxiliary Drives
Used by GuardCorps commandos and other highly trained operatives, a Cerebral Auxiliary Drive is a neural implant that uses integrated synaptic circuitry to automate some of the user’s cognitive and physical systems, enhancing their speed, reaction times, and precision beyond anything achievable by physical or mental conditioning.
The Drive itself is a durable, wafer-like case containing a dense, multilayered bio-computer designed to extend the brain’s capacity for receiving and processing sensory stimuli, as well as offload certain functions related to muscle memory, subconscious reactions, and extreme physical precision. These capabilities make users uniquely suited to chaotic or highly sensitive operations, such as long-range counter-sniper missions, close-quarters combat, and insertion into extreme “hot” zones.
The installation of a Cerebral Auxiliary Drive must be accompanied by a specialization datachip that regulates the interchange between the Drive and the user’s brain, or else risk overloading the user’s synaptic links and causing symptoms like seizures, fainting, migraines, or even psychosis.
Drives must be carefully tuned to the physiology and battlefield role of the user to function correctly. For example, a Drive may be calibrated to perform the correct breathing technique for long-range sniper shots, while a frontline soldier may benefit from a Drive that automatically performs the procedure for clearing jams from certain types of rifle. Due to these automatic, pre-programmed behaviors, users have been called “mnemonic soldiers” or, more colloquially, “hard-drive heroes” by other GuardCorps personnel.
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