Alaya-Vijnana System

The Alaya-Vijnana System (アラヤシキシステム Araya Shiki Shisutemu) is an organic interface system that was developed during the Calamity War as a way to maximize the abilities of mobile suits by granting their pilots acute spatial awareness.

Etymology
Ālayavijñāna (आलयविज्ञान) is a Sanskrit term meaning “storehouse consciousness. It refers to the subliminal mental processes that occur effortlessly.

Overview
The Alaya-Vijnana system consists of two parts: a connection port installed in the mobile weapon and nano-machines implanted into the pilot’s spine at a young age to let implant fuse with their nervous system as they grow older, but can be done on mutilated young adults as in the case of Ein Dalton. The implant surgery is dangerous, and can have lethal side effects. If the nano-machines do not fuse correctly with the intended host, that person can become paralyzed from the damage to their spine. If successful, a pilot can choose to have the surgery multiple times in order to increase the interface's effectiveness. After the implantation, the person has a protrusion on the back for physical connection to the Alaya-Vijnana interface in the mobile suit’s cockpit.

The Alaya-Vijnana System creates a pseudo-brain lobe in the pilot's body using nano-machines, and this allows the pilot's brain to directly process mobile suit data fed through the physical connection. As the pseudo-brain lobe also governs spatial awareness so the pilot's spatial awareness is enhanced. The more implants a person has, the higher their information transfer rate through the system. The system also allows the pilot (even uneducated ones) to operate the mobile suit for combat without requiring instructions or reading a manual of any sort. If any pilot's brain receives too much data feedback from a vehicle or mobile weapon at one time their cerebral nerves are damaged and they bleed profusely from their nose.