Read Cracked Dagger, Book One of Allies and Adversaries Page 26

Cerebral Management System: abbreviated to CMS, slang ‘ceemas.’ Created a few hundred cas after the integration of the cast-net into the populous, it underwent many revisions and enhancements. Its main purpose was to control automatic and routine functions performed by the body. First created to monitor walking, freeing the user to concentrate on the cast-net, it soon was engineered to control eating and excretion. It could take over simple tasks like cleaning or even cooking, when real food was still plentiful on Novan. Many philosophers of that time commented on the final disassociation of the mind from the body, one’s essence existing in a technological falsehood. Terrorists who sought to disrupt the lives of the average Novan targeted the CMS system almost as frequently as they targeted the cast-net.