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communication nets. Other principal functions include neuroiconic displays,
imprinting data directly into the brain; enhanced memory capacity; control over
implants; and physiological and medical monitoring. Neural nanonics also receive
entertainment shows in the form of sensevises, and can play sensenviron memories
immersing the recipient in a total artificial environment that has video, audio, tactile
and olfactory components, allowing complete immersion in fantasy worlds. The most
popular flek recordings are mood fantasy albums produced by artists such as
Jezzibella, which can also be used through direct optical interfaces, although these
lack the full impact of a direct sensevise. Inevitably there is always a big market for
bluesense fleks everywhere in the Confederation.

This technology is extremely prevalent, with something like 75тАУ80 percent of
Confederation Adamist adults on developed planets fitted with neural nanonics. They
are implanted only when the brain has stopped growing, i.e. at sixteen to eighteen
years old. For anyone involved in up-to-date aspects of modern society they are
essential: fewer and fewer technological systems are being built with manual
interfaces, and professions such as medicine or starship crewing cannot be conducted
without them.

The distaff side of neural nanonics is sequestration nanonics, which can be used to
infiltrate a personтАЩs cortex and puppet the entire body. These systems are highly
illegal, and on most worlds their possession or use entails high penalties.

Government Intelligence agencies and the police forces of more authoritarian planets
also use debrief nanonics, which can probe the brainтАЩs memory centers, extracting
information directly.

Edenists do not use neural nanonics.

Medical nanonics come in packages of varying sophistication, which can be used for
anything from patching up wounds in the field to complex deep-penetration
operations. They consist of microfilaments with various functions, capable of treating
individual cells. These include adding or extracting chemicals and proteins, filtering
blood, knitting cells together (along a wound), and destroying and withdrawing
malignant growths. Whereas first-aid packages can be operated by almost anyone
with access to a controlling processor, the more complicated uses have to be
supervised by qualified medical personnel. Medical packages are not autonomous.
 Cosmoniks
These are industrial asteroid personnel whose bodies have atrophied due to extensive
periods spent in zero-gee (тАЬAstrophiedтАЭ is the old Adamist joke). Their numbers are
now in decline, as the modified genes which provide resistance to this condition are
slowly spread throughout the human gene pool.

Biomechanical systems are used to supplement decaying muscle, bone, and organ
tissue. Older cosmoniks (for whom the deteriorating condition is most advanced) have
replaced their digestive tract and/or lungs with either artificial tissue or biomechanical
organs to replenish the nutrients and oxygen in their blood supply. Skin is usually
exchanged for a hard, dark, polymer layer resembling thick leather, enabling them to
step directly into a vacuum or radiation environment without any other preparation or
protection, though hard exoskeleton-type casing can also be used. Many have