Puretide Engram Neurochip

A Puretide Engram Neurochip is a Tau Battlesuit signature Support System available only to Battlesuit pilots of the rank Shas’vre or higher. Consisting of a bio-chip that has been surgically implanted into the brain of a Fire Caste Tau Commander, a bearer with a Puretide Engram Neurochip can then access much of the wisdom of Commander Puretide himself; able to draw upon a great reservoir of tactical acumen when needed. Puretide Engram Neurochips were developed from prototype versions knows as Swords of Puretide, and are a result of a project that originated form the Tau’s unwillingness to lose Commander Puretide’s tactical and strategic brilliance when he succumbed to old age; as he was undoubtedly the most gifted Tau Commander of all time. Upon his death, his mind was scanned and his accumulated memories committed to a massive hologram program on his birth world of Dal'yth. Slivers of his genius were then copied and crafted into bio-chips that would one day become Puretide Engram Neurochips.