"I dont need to tell you that we need someone looking at healing minds out here in space, the greatest volume of individuals.. alone.. aboard star ships in infinite black space SHOULD technically hold the most vast populations of psychopaths predominant in the human population. Some of us have an affinity and ability to be fine..alone in space... but the working man... hopeful for better pay and better prospects cannot always be prepared for the stresses it brings."
Jim shifted his position in his chair.
"Also.. many factions.. lawful and unlawful.. and even just the populations of spacer culture dont have many professionals out here. Now i Admit ive used my knowledge to soothe egos and form bonds.. thats a survival tactic.. But most importantly. While I perpose Captaining a Zoner registered Cruiser for this initiative. The deeper truth is beyond being a mobile therapy center. ... Though I wont be shrugging off that part of the Estiums mission."
he seemed to take care in wording he next few thoughts.
"Ive been in space for almost 35 years. My Earliest years was an assistant for a small division in a corporation that was contracted by house government to study and refine the process of indoctrinating pacifist tenancies into prison populations. ... The method of this however was a.. well... little more then ancient torture techniques involving brainwashing and mind control."
Again he took time.
"I was barely 25 years old. practicing my clinical skills on an array of subjects who came from..the worst luck .. to.. the most sadistic.. and somewhere down the line I got involved with something called resonance casting. ... basically its a form of graviton fields that play on your inner ears like ..sub sonic tapping that can induce sleep or theta wave states of consciousness. and while this device was no more dangerous then a 4 credit meditation CD... it did have visual effects in 90% of the prisoners. Too big of an impact to ignore and basically I was the only one who could operate it to do so."
He looked at at doc for a moment. wanting to get to the point with relevant information intact..
" The reports get to my supervisors and the next thing I know im sent to an LSF building in New York somewhere. Seemed like Pittsburgh.. This time.. using the device to indoctrinate LPI employees into loyalty... Which was the single scariest thing I ever witnessed because.. the employees or suspects though of doing anything wrong would have.. literally emotional breakdowns int he test environment.
The breakdowns were telling but the graviton field cause it in 90% of subjects.. again from criminal moles to secretary's who stole pens... Again long story short. A new generator comes along... its smaller.. more discreet.
My assignment was to...as a temporary asset of an lsf operative.. was to compel a section chief to turn himself in..
I kept pulsing the guy.. from across the street into his apartment to "persuade" him to call himself in.. this went on for a good 12 hours.. then my operative tells me.. "Try and get him to put a gun in his mouth." .. I though he was joking.. ..
He wasn't. It was.. modifying to see how.. doing the right thing.. versus.. kill yourself interacted in this device. The tone.. was like a mournful.. terrible song.. and while i was distracted I saw the section chief gun in hand ready to do it.
I quit.. right there. .. Lsf.. and my Bosses where livid. Since well supposedly I was the only one who could get the device to perform."
If he had his drink he finished it right there.
"I was destitute after that. Couldn't even get a wire to Leeds for my uncle. I even changed my named from Smith back to Mckenna.. took awhile to realize LSF didn't care so here I am with two ID's and.. spaceflight experience.. In one of the largest scrap fields... in the sector..
Junker life was dirty.. but it was honest. Until I ran out of money from time to time.. Id get fast cash running contraband to malta in these.. horribly put together freighters.. Took me forever to afford a mule. But it was in this time.. That I met the Slavers guild..
And.. they had a piece of discarded equipment. That looked... familiar to me. Me? I used it once and I was hired.. and was..compelled to create technology of brainwashing and indoctrination. The money was too good to pass up at the time.. not to mention..back then the slavers had.. a bigger reach then junkers and rouges at that time. So keep from being cattle yourself.. you became useful.
I succeeded in the first generation of mind wipe chambers for.. god know what use. I never saw the generators again. They where like coffins... The central part or.. crux of this technology though is the graviton field. Since my...invention.. the technology's gotten away from me.. until now.. I got one after a junker said he came across a blown apart base.. In Inverness with a strange coffin. Ive spent the last 5 years looking at what they did to the persuadertron technology."
*he took out a small finely and personally fashined moduel*
"This disruptor can remove all the programming levels these mind wipe chambers have done in 30 years... I have reason to know that the guild. in its current state of disarray is producing more and more wiped slaves because they eat the least and do the most. And full fill the most expensive demand for slaves.. Mind control is an ugly business.. One my.. own half brother.. has suffered.. Ive spent a long time putting him back together."
he put the disruptor down
"Removing the layers of indoctrination is hazardous because whats left after such a formatting is.. ..pain.. and.. confusion.. violence..acting out.. The only environment I found that soothes this was deep space... something about the void soothes them.. Also.. theta wave recordings of... Solomon Khara singing.
And thus my.. design specifications.. for therapy chambers and barracks for doctors on board a corvo cruiser.. Is my proposition... to earn my way.. back from walking so far into hell as an ignorant and opportunistic young man.
If she can be built here or under a team of men and women you trust.. is what I need. My name? can only invite corruption in to the project.
After the ships been sailing.. and special IFF and ID's are available.. I can bring her to out of the way places like peurto rico and humbolt for the families there... as one of my fleet ships...
but for right now? Id like to captain her as a Zoner ship with your blessing and in concert with Med.Force.Ones. operations."
