Gordani was not visible, seated out of sight in a black plastic cocoon at the farthest point forward of the tight cabin, barely five meters from Chase. Called a rigger tank and just slightly larger than a coffin, the cocoon completely isolated him from the rest of the vehicle. It was sound-dampened to prevent distraction, and in it Gordani sat suspended on a bed of body-temperature gel-cushions that gave him the sensation of floating. He was rigged into the vehicle like Blanchard, but he was almost exclusively concerned with steering the Rapier's Touch . The sensor feeds he received cybemetically were his only eyes and ears to the outside world. For all intents and purposes, he was the T-bird while rigged into the vehicle's systems. The sensors told him what was around him, the internal systems fed him continual updates of its condition, and the vehicle's control systems responded instantly to his thoughts. It was only that level of control that allowed the vehicle to fly at nearly six hundred kilometers an hour only a meter or so off the ground.