Strength and Speed
Strength and speed can both be greatly augmented in the Matrix.
Enhancement of both attributes relies not on the muscles, but the power of the
mind to remain aware that the impulses sent by the Matrix to your brain are
not real. Resistance operatives are trained in many different styles of
martial arts, and taught to combine these skills with the flexibility of the
Matrix, resulting in blinding fast fighters with amazing acrobatic agility.
Manifestation in the Matrix
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As stated before, the Matrix simulates reality by representing programming
in visual and sensory manners. Because of this, various programs designed for
specific tasks by the Resistance or the AI have manifested themselves as
physical objects. For example, the Resistance trace program used to find the
real world position of one being freed from the Matrix manifests itself as a
red pill, that becomes activated upon swallowing. Manifestations such as this
make freeing the mind easier as they stimulate the senses while performing
their function.
Glitches/Deja Vu
The Matrix program, despite its intricacy, is far from perfection.
Occasionally there are small 'pings', "glitches in the Matrix", that manifest
in all sorts of odd phenomena. Deja vu is one such phenomena, when one sees
something occur twice in the exact same manner. It is subjective to every case
whether this is actually a program glitch or the mind temporarily seeing
through its virtual prison, but in any case it occurs when the AI
alters the Matrix in some way. Another such occurance is sudden location
change, when one finds themself in another place and cannot recall how they
arrived there. The AI does this to those who come close to discovering their
true predicament. In these occurances the person is usually returned to their
home in bed, the experiences the AI doesn't want you to have appear to have
only been a dream or nightmare.
Connection and Disconnection to the Matrix-->
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Almost the entire human race is jacked into the Matrix, "software"
connected to the "network" by cerebral jacks that send and receive signals to
and from central processing units through hardwires. In order to be freed from
the Matrix one's charging tank must be located in real life and your cerebral
jack must be unplugged. Afterward access is more difficult. The Resistance
gains unnauthorized access to the Matrix by using their own brand of cerebral
wire that connects to their cerebral jacks, and by broadcasting a pirate
signal, that accesses one of those many hardlines connected to the core. Once
inside operatives can only exit by getting a hold of a hardline within the
Matrix, the Comm Operator outside then sends a signal through that line, and
return to the real world. Hardlines manifest themselves within the Matrix as
telephones and cellular communication, allowing denizens to communicate long
distance with each other further maintaining the masquerade of reality.
Sentient
Agents
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Agents are the AI enforcers within the Matrix, keeping possible
recruitment targets of the Resistance under surveillance and pursuing
Resistance operatives for elimination. They can be anyone, anywhere, able to
take control of any software hardwired to the Matrix. How long this control
over a human lasts is not known, or if it is in fact finite for that matter.
Loading Time/Ping
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The Matrix network is sometimes bogged down by certain unlikely occurances
of immense proportion, these occurances taking longer to process
mathematically due to their unlikely hood, and 'ping' occurs, a small delay in
the functions of the Matrix. For example, during Morpheus' rescue by Neo and Trinity a
helicopter they were using to escape malfunctioned and veered into an office
building, colliding through the glass of the building. However the glass did
not break on impact, its destruction was delayed by this ping, rippling like
water impacted with a pebble for a moment before shattering. A moment later
the helicopter exploded.
Reinsertion Into The Matrix
There have been documented occurrances of Resistance operatives betraying
their cause to return to the false reality offered by the Matrix, the most
recent of these rare cases being the renegade operative Cypher. For this to be
accomplished the traitor must contact a representative of the AI within the
Matrix and strike some sort of bargain, a trade. If successful their body is
located and returned the pods, where their memories are extracted through
their cerebral jack and those of a new life are loaded. If the bargain is very
valuable to the AI it is possible that the traitor could have their choice of
life circumstances, occupation and such. 
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