User:XW3 AR3 L3GION/Neural Communication Interface

The Neural Communication Interface or NCI is a neural lace allowing the users to understand spoken and written alien language. It is considered standard for soldiers and civilians living among or near aliens and an essential piece of hardware for diplomats, merchants and others who deal directly with alien species. In a medical study conducted by General Cybernetics found that per month over 100 million citizens living on Sanctuary were having neural lace implanted, making the NCI one of the most requested implants in history.

Technical Information
The Neural Communication Interface is neural lace that can either be added to an existing implant or come as a stand-alone implant. The Neural Lace connects to the brain of the user and has a databank of over 17 trillion words and over 250 main languages including 2930 sub-languages, such as variations among a species standard language. In the brain, the NCI is directly linked to the Parietal, Temporal and Occipital lobes although the set up differs from species to species the result is the same. The NCI is constantly working especially in multi-species areas and translates written and spoken alien words and phrases within 0.0023 miliseconds.

However, the NCI is not perfect it will only take into account and translate actual words but slang and swear words are not considered in the databank and so the words are left untranslated. Also due to the complexities of the human language, the NCI had to use basic Latin to fill in the gaps therefore the term 'Human' and 'Earth' will actually appear as 'Terran' and 'Terra' respectively. This inconsistency only occurs amongst non-human species.

Impact on Society
The Neural Communication Interface effectively allowed many species to converse instantly, allowing negotiations and trade to flow instantly instead of having to rely on organic translators which takes much more time and money. It also brought many species closer together, so instead of unknowing strange monsters that lived next door, there was just another voice next door that you could respond to and it would talk back.

It was considered insulting if a species language was not on the NCI and the neural lace is updated several times each year as the Federal Republic admits new species each year. The K'Tin'Ga's language, for example, has only recently been added to the NCI due to their increased military activity and small amount of emigration to out-lying Federal Republic colonies.