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Ascension: Rinse and Repeat

I adapted to the equipment with disturbing ease. Suddenly it was natural to have an extra hand to hold a magazine during a quick reload, or to aim a tactical light in darkness. And when I wasn’t operating them separately, I could lift huge loads, jump huge distances, run without any real effort at all.

The military hardware implanted in my brain decreased my reaction time, improved my hand-eye co-ordination and heightened my spatial awareness. I was given crash courses in hostile entry, orbital insertion, asymmetric warfare.

The team – and Hart – were impressed. It was never stated, but the schedule was accelerated, then accelerated again. The data they pulled off the diagnostics on my implant excited them. We progressed from full visualisation to mock-ups to semi-visualised, unstructured exercises with high degrees of decision making and tactical analysis afterwards. Often it was quite difficult to tell what was real and what was only visualisation.

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