'''Certain Rank A Agents are selected to be accompanied by Marionettes. These are essentially mindless clones of the Agent in question, grown around their cybernetics and controlled by the Agent as extensions of their own body. They lack any ability to think, instead possessing only motor and sensory cortices and the usual on-board computers in order to interpret and carry out the signals coming from the Agent's own brain. They supply the Agent with all their sensory information as well. The result is a great increase in the Agent's capability, but there is a risk that a Marionette could be attacked by Machina and not disconnected from the Agent's mind quickly enough, causing her to experience any pain or sexual assault that the Marionette might be subjected to.'''