Corporate Shogun
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: A base processing unit for future neural products to connect to.
- Image Source: Artist Credit
- Canon Link: Not Applicable
- Permissions: Not Applicable
- Primary Source: Not Applicable
- Manufacturer: Fukashi Electric
- Affiliation: NAKAIOMA & Subsidiaries
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: NeuroProcessor 1.0
- Modularity: Yes, it is intended to allow neuralware products to function.
- Production: Minor
- Material:
- Nanotechnology
- Duro-Plastic Motherboard
- Polycarbonate Insert Slots
- Classification: Neural/Nervous System
- Size: Average
- Weight: Average
- Port installed at the top of the user's spine allows easy access to the NPU for later additions, upgrades, replacements or removal.
- Able to connect to all Fukashi-brand cybernetics by default.
- Vast amount of memory space, allowing CoProcessors to load some of their memory onto it for smoother running.
- Slot Space: With five CoProcessor slots available, the NeuroProcessor 1.0 can accommodate a noteworthy number of additional processors, giving the user a good amount of options for which CoProcessors they wish to use and combine the effects of, their 'loadout' in a sense, or at least that's what Fukashi advertising calls it. For those still unsure and only keen on one or two addons, it gives them plenty of room to expand in the future.
- Electronic Protection: Guarded by military-grade NDD EMP disruption protection, the Nakaioma NeuroProcessor can give a reliable guarantee that it won't just shut down and leave the user hanging in the middle of an engagement. In the unlikely event that a strong enough weapon does knock it out of commission, it will pose no lethal danger to the user, as emergency protocols allow it to safely shut down. The most the user will feel is an 'about to be sick' sensation from the internal whiplash.
- No Network: Unable to connect to anything beyond its own internal processes and the CoProcessors/other cybernetics which are manually connected to it via the user's nervous system, this protects the NeuroProcessor from being spliced into and compromised as it literally cannot be connected to. However this also means that it has no digital compatibility and as such any changes, replacements or other tampering will have to be done manually at a physical Fukashi location. An inconvenient requirement to say the least.
- Single Purpose: Not designed to enact any functions itself, the Nakaioma NeuroProcessor is solely dedicated to being the central processing unit for future CoProcessors and other neural-related cybernetics or body modifications. Buying and installing this product by itself is essentially meaningless as it does nothing without any CoProcessors installed into it.
The Nakaioma NeuroProcessor is a small processing unit which comes in the form of a chip. Developed by Fukashi Electric with assistance from Nakaioma Medical, the NeuroProcessor works by connecting to the top of the customer's spine during an implantation surgery at a specialized Fukashi facility. Once it has been embedded, the nanobots built into microscopic ports at the side of the chip will emerge and spread throughout the customer's spinal column, slowly connecting their nervous system to the NeuroProcessor in a process which takes around a week to complete. During this week customers are advised to remain at home and not to stress their body too much, as it may make the process longer or otherwise impair the nanobots.
After the customer's nervous system has been connected to the NeuroProcessor, a confirmation which requires them to return to their Fukashi doctors after a week has passed to ensure that the process has worked. The customer is now able to purchase any number of Fukashi or even compatible third party CoProcessors, the name given to the smaller processors which can be fitted into the primary Nakaioma NeuroProcessor and which have been designed to give commands to the NeuroProcessor once they have been installed, these commands differ based on the CoProcessor(s), and can range from quickening the customer's reflexes to ensuring they cannot feel pain to simply improving any other cybernetics or bionics the customer already has installed and which are compatible. During the initial implantation of the Nakaioma NeuroProcessor, the Fukashi surgeons install a miniscule entry point in the customer's upper back to allow easy access to the NeuroProcessor for future operations. As such implanting CoProcessors can take as little as an hour to do, and they will immediately begin to work.
Considered by many to be one of Fukashi's prides and joys, the product is fiercely guarded by the corporation and its parent, GalactiCom, working on behalf of Nakaioma, the grandparent corporation which as part of the deal for their large amounts of funding for this project, ordered the Nakaioma name to be attached. A strictly followed, finely worded and detailed legal process is required if one is looking to receive permission to begin developing a CoProcessor, making sure that Fukashi has the final say in the matter and a tiny portion of the profits for every CoProcessor which is developed by a third party for their product. Although this has worked well in the corporate world, like always the black market has begun making its own knock-off, janky and unauthorized CoProcessors, something which Fukashi has lobbied planetary governments to crack down on. In the name of public safety of course.
