Bacchus and James now flanked the operating table, their faces obscured to Sanako by the bright, cold light shining from above. Don't take this personal, but we will have to strap you down to minimize movement during the operation. Bacchus explained while he started to fasten the straps on her left side. James quietly mirrored the procedure on the opposite side.
During the remaining first day Sanako was injected with nanites in multiple places of her body with needles slightly larger than ones used for blood transfusions. The places she was injected included both of the arteries on her neck, the veins in her elbow joint, below her left breast (closest to her heart) between her toes, as well as multiple other places where visible and non-visible veins ran through her body. After the first few hours Nate took over for Bacchus, as this task required not much more than a steady hand. As the first day was coming to an end, Sanakos body was showing first signs of rejection to the nanites. Finally James made a small vertical incision at the top of her neck, placing the main receiver for the nanites right on her brainstem.
The second day consisted mostly of James and Bacchus adjusting the locations of the nanites. The sensation of small machines moving around Sanakos bloodstream was not a pleasant one, as her body kept fighting what it assumed to be unwanted foreign objects. More and more nanites made their way to her brain and she could feel the wireless connection to the Canaan network growing stronger. It was like there were additional neural connections forming to an extension of her own mind, that allowed her to take in and store much more information than humanly possible.
On the third day James made some finer adjustments to the enzymes and hormones Sanakos brain was emitting and making controlling them more accessible to the brain itself. While Sanako instinctively tried to release large doses of adrenaline to break free from the operating table at first, those primal urges were blocked until Sanako was able to controll them conciously. Step by step she got used to all the new sensations and abilities and naturally learned how to use them, like when she slowly gained control over her motor functions when she was a child.
As the fourth day dawned Nikki joined James to start work on Sanakos fingers, while James moved on to her eyes. On every finger Nikki made three vertical incisions right down to her bone, quickly moving on to make more incisions along her arms, slowly working her way up to her brainstem. All of the sinews and a large part of the nervous system were removed and replaced with long strings, the consisted of plastic, some sort of metal, as well as fibers capable of data transmission. As soon as the artificial nervous system was connected, all of the pain she felt in her arms and hands from the incisions suddenly ceased. Her eyes widened in surprise, which James - who was currently working on said eyes - replied to with a smile.
James had started the modification of her eyes by cutting open her eyeballs, fully removing the lenses and replacing them with cybernetic ones. He then proceeded to remove the eyeballs, one after another, from her eyesockets in order to access her optical nerves. String after string he replaced the nerves with optic fibers and fibers capable of data transmission and proceeded to route then through her eyeball, to connect them to the new lenses.
At dawn of the fifth day, James finally loosened the straps around Sanakos wrists and ankles, which allowed her to sit up for the first time in days. James continued to pack up most of the material, while Sanako was slowly recovering from the surreal experience. As James was finished putting all of the equipment back in storage he returned to the operating table and stood before Sanako. I hope you're not feeling too disheveled. I will now connect your brain fully to the Canaan network. Try to sit upright, focus on my face or something else around here as to not loose balance and don't forget to breathe.
Suddenly Sanakos brain was flooded with a tsunami of information that almost made her loose conciousness. As she was currently looking at James who stood in front of her, a second flood of information came, carrying all of the saved information about Captain James El Harady. As she looked around the room it was as if the whole ship has become transparent and through the walls Sanako could see all of the different modules the Arcadia consisted of. Closing her eyes, the flood of information suddenly stopped. After a few moments she understood that this was a direct reaction of her conciousness that tried shielding itself from all the noise and information and she understood that she was still fully in control of her brain. So, how does it feel? Different than you expected? James inquired.
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