Sup? Name’s Alicia Lopez, Neuron officer. You might know Neuron as the police force dedicated to preserving peace and stability here onboard the Ark. But something that a lot of people don’t know about me is that I’m not just any officer: I command a Legion.

Don’t know what that is? I don’t blame you. See, Director Calvert likes to keep concepts like that on a strictly need-to-know basis. All you need to know is that the aberrations that drove humanity aboard this Ark are just the attack dogs of chimeras, dangerous extradimensional entities that want nothing more than our destruction. But Neuron has managed to control and chain a small set of chimeras. Transforming and armoring them, the resulting creatures are known as Legions.

But Officer Lopez! I can already hear you saying. Isn’t that dangerous? Hell yeah it is, twerp. That’s why only the best of the best here in Neuron are allowed to command Legions. Currently, there’s three of us. Me, my partner Jin, and our boss, Max Howard. We three control our Legions through technological ‘chains’ to take on aberrations and chimeras.

I won’t lie, it’s hard going. The chains actually form a sort of mental link between you and the creature. You feel what they feel, both mentally and physically; the exact level fluctuates, and it can get pretty overwhelming at times. An ideal user of the Legion—Calvert’s much-sought-after ‘Legionis’—would be in perfect sync with their Legion at all times, constantly processing the tactile and mental feedback from the creatures and commanding it almost as an extension of their own body. Me, Jin, and Max, though? We’re not on that level. We’re working hard to try to get more and more synchronization between our Legions and ourselves.

And don’t tell this to Max or the Director, but I think I’ve stumbled on a brand new way.

My way is top-secret—nobody knows about it but me. It’s super experimental, and I’m not gonna lie, maybe even a little bit deviant. But synchronization is the goal, and I figure what works, works.