Neural Overrun Cascade Disorder

Neural Overrun Cascade Disorder (NOCD) is a catastrophic failure state observed in Vey’Zari individuals subjected to extreme levels of cybernetic integration, particularly those with multi-system replacements across neural, muscular, sensory, and circulatory networks. NOCD represents a total collapse of identity regulation, cognitive boundary recognition, and threat-discrimination logic. Most cases occur in fully-augmented operatives who exceed recommended mod-cap thresholds or skip routine neural recalibrations. The condition is marked by an aggressive cascade through synthetic neural circuits, leading to unfiltered pain feedback loops, permanent suppression of self-awareness, and uncontrolled survival reflex dominance.   In active phases, affected individuals lose all capacity to distinguish friend from foe. Allies, handlers, medical staff—everyone is perceived as a threat. Speech collapses into growls, high-frequency stuttering, or total silence. Victims exhibit near-limitless aggression, self-mutilation tolerance, and heightened resistance to restraint or sedatives due to broken feedback inhibition. Combat efficiency spikes temporarily as all conscious inhibitors dissolve, but coordination deteriorates rapidly. Internal systems often overheat or tear from overdrive strain. Survival rate post-onset is under 8%, and euthanization is the standard syndicate protocol once signs of NOCD progression are confirmed.   The condition is irreversible. No known subject has recovered. All known cases end in death—either at the hands of a kill-switch team or the subject’s own failed systems.