Lorica-N Cockpit
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The Lorica-N Cockpit standard is an existing standard governing the use of neurological interfaces between Lorica pilots and the vehicle control system, adopted by the Solar Lorica Working Group and its precursor organizations into the Lorica standard following the revelation of Project Opus. The standard solved two issues facing the Western Sphere Hegemony Court of Military Law at the time of its first creation:
- Creating a clear definition of these "biocomputationally controlled" Lorica, and;
- Thereby providing a clear line in the sand at which weapon designs could be made illegal to produce.
The Lorica-N cockpit essentially came in two types:
- Lorica-N/A, which involved integration of a pilot's central nervous system to the command and control computing hardware, possibly supplemented by traditional fly-by-wire interfaces, and;
- Lorica-N/B, which was the same as class A but involved the use of a "biological computer" intermediary between the pilot and the suit to handle pre- and post-processing.
Lorica-N designs of both types are considered highly illegal to manufacture, though provision existed under the law for existing hardware to be maintained - in part because of famous cases like the Ghost Company where pilots were considered medically at risk if removed from their suits, a law which the Adjudication Joint Fleet strictly enforces. The ban on Lorica-N design and construction was put in place due to the unethical origins of the technology and the unethical considerations involved in their large-scale deployment; there was a concern that, if widely adopted by military forces, militaries would begin forcing invasive neurosurgical procedures on their pilots. Further, incidents like the Sack of Beijing demonstrated that the Type B design is actually perilous, with a risk of loss of good judgment on the part of the pilot of a Lorica-N/B suit, up to and including loss of control of the vehicle.
By the 22nd Century, some pirate Lorica groups were known to have adopted or repurposed the technology. While there is some performance improvement seen in initial training times, overall performance in combat has been found to be roughly equivalent between veteran pilots of traditional and Lorica-N suits. Further, due to the changes in vehicle control implemented under Lorica-N, traditional piloting skills are not necessarily 1:1 transferrable, rendering the benefit effectively negligible for veteran pilots.