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Memristors, with their memory-dependent nonlinear characteristics, provide a promising approach to regulate neuronal activities, yet systematic studies on attractor offset behaviors remain scarce. In this study, we propose a fully memristive electromagnetic radiation neural network by incorporating three distinct memristors as external electromagnetic stimuli into an HNN. The parameters of the memristors were tuned to modulate chaotic oscillations, while variations in initial conditions were employed to explore multistability through bifurcation and basin stability analyses. The results demonstrate that the system enables large-scale amplitude control of chaotic signals via memristor parameter adjustments, allowing arbitrary scaling of attractor amplitudes. Various offset behaviors emerge, including parameter-driven symmetric double-scroll relocations in phase space and initial-condition-induced offset boosting that leads to extreme multistability. These dynamics were experimentally validated using an STM32-based electronic circuit, confirming precise amplitude and offset control. Furthermore, a multi-channel pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) was implemented, leveraging the initial-boosted offset to enhance security entropy. 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