The ExoShell Corps is an elite group of men and women in the Systems Alliance. They under go a high risk operation to install implants, undergo genetherapy and other augmentations to their bodies so they they can become super soldiers and directly interface with computer systems and their ExoShells. Canidates for this transformation must be sound of mind and physically superior in order to have a chance at surviving the process. The operation has a low success rate, 88% die or become disabled during or from complications afterward.