[Inside The Mech]

Michael tips his head forward to show the woman the sockets implanted into his skull, "These have jacks that hook directly into my head. Let's me control the whole thing with my mind as if it was my own body. It's a bit odd to get used to, and not a lot of people are good at it, but I'm not bad, myself."

"What we have in here is the manual stuff - my cockpit has an emergency generator so that I can disengage from it, but everything in here is for if my neural network isn't interfacing properly. The manual override on that wall there lets me control it with my hands, though that's slow and crude, really."