The 'AUG-440' Neura-Phage is a fully neuralinked Mech that connects directly to a Pilot's nervous system. This allows for direct one-to-one control of the Mech as though it was their own body, making pilot and machine as one. Developed at the end of the Second Corpo War by Ascension PLC, the Neura-Phage mech was purchased by numerous other corpos and deployed as the last lines of defence in their home arcos. The reasoning behind this deployment was that any Pilot who would wire themselves directly to their Mechs were significantly devoted to their corpo. In practice, many often had little choice in the matter with many corpos recruiting Neura-Phage Pilots from terminally wounded veterans or Pilots who would otherwise be captured and killed by enemy forces.