--- Julia wrote: >
Unco-operative people can be conditioned, but that conditioning can be broken. It's also probably difficult and expensive, if they're still keeping a staff of Shrinkers. Perhaps the project group developing the limiters were not overly pleased about the development of Pylene-50 - their funding was cut after that... --
The problems are all problems of social control - coercion, brainwashing and drugging all being available to the Federation and fairly widespread in their use. Pylene-50 was introduced as a method of military conquest despite shortages of troops, chemical warfare in effect. The technology used in Limiter implants would be to knock out (in Gan's case) or concievably to enhance certain brain functions. In which case there might be a good case for maintaining research into the subject despite it's limited application.
Mind you, with the collapse and subsequent re-emergence of the Federation I would imagine that everything would be subordinated to the pacification programme, so the Limiter department's budget is far from secure....
Stephen.
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