The decision to initiate full neural overdrive was not made lightly. In the cold and exact textbooks of the Vanguard Imperial Medical Academy, synchronizing three high-tier beasts at the same time at maximum bandwidth was classified as a Category-Red neuro-trauma hazard, strictly banned for cadets below White-gold rank.
The human brain was an organic computer evolved to process the sense inputs of a single bipedal body. A tamer forced their time lobes to accommodate the same-time moving mass of a two-ton chelonian. Then, the Mach-2 wind-cutting spatial vector of a raptor, and the hungry, multi-spectrum shadow-tracking data of an apex dire-hound, the resulting brain pressure was total.
The human body was never designed to house the ancient souls of ancient hunting beasts.
In the standard curricula of the Vanguard Academy, tamer cadets were taught to maintain a strict ‘emotional firewall’ between their mind and their tightened companions. A safe, stable neural link operated at no more than twenty-five to thirty percent bandwidth. Just enough to transmit basic aimed commands, status alerts, and primitive sense warnings. Pushing past fifty percent was reserved for life-or-death emergencies and lasted only for seconds. Pushing past eighty percent was considered medical madness, resulting in permanent personality fragmentation, hungry ego drift, and permanent neuro-blood-vessel rupture.
