What is an I-chip?

I is for information. It is the nano device all active Cy agents receive when they complete training. It is injected into their bloodstream along with a virus containing the 'installation' codes.

What is it made out of?

All of Cy's chips are made of molecular codes, containing DNA programs that create the chips out of the surrounding cerebral material.

What part of the brain does the chip end up in?

The I-chip is not a single blob of machinery in the brain; it is a series of ports and conenctions branching throughout the prefrontal cortext, collecting impulses, altering them, and remapping them to be sent out as information.

How is it installed?

The nano device is just a collection of moecules and DNA wrapped up in a vector (virus). Once the nano device raeches the brain, the installation codes in the virus act invade the cells of the blank tissue of the brain, inserting their information into the nucleus. The cells begin to act according to the new DNA programs. The programs manipulates the agent's neurons to rewire themselves into information ports to gather information from the surrounding neurons, while program grows the neural connections necessary to connect the ports. The structure, since it is made of the surrounding organic material, is constantly changing as cells grown old or sick and are replaced by new cells. The old nano ports decay and are absorbed into the agent's system. So the entire system is always changing.

Is there a center to the system, where all the connections come together?

Not in so many words. In order to function, the system is like a circle, or speaking in three dimential terms, a sphere, with everthing attached to everything else in one way or another.

How does the I-chip communicate by satellite?

The brain naturally emits frequencies or brain waves. A cellular device, similar to those found in cell phones, is installed either on the inner side of the Agent's chest plate or else in the skull, just behind the ear.