Mind/Machine Interface

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Mind/Machine Interface
Mind-Machine Interface.png
“The integration of man and machine”
Requires Doctrine: Air Power, Neural Grafting
Leads to Biomachinery, Digital Sentience, Graviton Theory
Enables
Chassis Copter
Ability Drop Pods
Secret Project The Cyborg Factory, The Cloudbase Academy
Specialist Thinker
Council proposal Unite Behind Me As Supreme Leader
Bonuses
Improves Probe Team morale
AI priority
Conquer: 4, Discover: 0, Build: 2, Explore: 2
The Warrior’s bland acronym, MMI, obscures the true horror of

this monstrosity. Its inventors promise a new era of genius, but
meanwhile unscrupulous power brokers use its forcible installation
to violate the sanctity of unwilling human minds. They are
creating their own private army of demons.

—Commissioner Pravin Lal,
“Report on Human Rights”

Research into Neural Grafting demonstrated that direct communications between the brain and a digital counterpart are theoretically possible. This Mind/Machine Interface, requested by leaders implementing Doctrine: Air Power for a new generation of aircraft, bridges the gap between the mechanical and the biological.