- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
It also, I would imagine, work much the same way the foot-ball is for the President. It holds all of the ships high-end weapon systems safety release codes (MAC gun, nukes, etc). The benefit of having all of the codes in his implant is that Cortana could just access them when ever the captain gave the order to fire and unlock the weapons so that the person at the fire-control station could, well, fire what ever weapon the captain ordered.
It would be even better if the captian didn't know these codes. So the only way a ship could fire its main weapons. is for the captian to order in, while on the ship.