The Neural-Locker Sequenator
What is the Neural-Locker Sequenator?
The Procedure
Use in Therapy and Treatment of Brain Disease/Injury
Dangerous and Controversial Uses
Summary
The Neural-Locker Sequenator (NLS) is a neuro-electronic interface designed for precise, selective targeting and modulation of neural pathways. This allows for the high-fidelity encoding and retrieval of specific mnemonic constructs and/or behavioural engrams. It has several applications, primarily, it can help in slowing or temporarily halting the onset or progression of degenerative cognitive diseases or injuries. Another primary application is the consolidation and subsequent observation/recording of memory substrates. A third application involves the transient induction of specific behavioural patterns. However, these effects are all temporary and necessitate iterative sessions for sustained efficacy.
Despite its capabilities, the NLS remains a subject of considerable ethical debate within the Delta Space, leading to its highly restricted implementation. Furthermore, the prohibitive developmental and maintenance costs significantly impede its widespread adoption.
The NLS apparatus comprises two principal components: a cranial interface and a central processing unit. The cranial interface consists of a multi-nodal helmet, where each node is connected via a complex array of multi-gauge neuro-conductive filaments. These filaments interface with a distributed network of sub-systems. The central processing unit, the operational core, is a networked series of computational units responsible for real-time neuro-physiological monitoring, directional control, and data acquisition from the cranial interface. Power is supplied by a dedicated, room-sized energy manifold, featuring multiple synchronized generators and advanced cryo-cooling systems, providing the necessary energy and thermal management for the entire NLS infrastructure.
Despite its complex and physically substantial architecture, requiring a multidisciplinary team of expert operators and neuro-scientists, the NLS achieves remarkable neuro-cognitive manipulation. However, the inherent complexity of the process and the frequent misappropriation of its applications for contentious purposes often overshadow its potential therapeutic and restorative benefits.
The initial phase of the procedure involves comprehensive diagnostic imaging and physiological assessments. These lengthy sessions, encompassing detailed brain scans and physical evaluations, are crucial for establishing a precise patient profile and ensuring the safety and efficacy of the intervention. In certain urgent or specific scenarios, this preliminary phase may be expedited or modified based on clinical necessity, though expedition can come be significant increase in danger and discomfort for the patient.
Upon completion of the pre-procedural assessments, the patient is securely positioned and a specialized neuro-interface helmet is carefully fitted. This stabilization is critical for patient safety, as the procedure can induce significant physiological responses. Following helmet application, a series of calibration tests are performed to confirm the accuracy of the patient's neurological profile and optimize the brain scan data.
Next, the targeted neuro-modulation phase begins. Utilizing advanced neuro-imaging and mapping techniques, the medical team precisely identifies the neural region designated for treatment. They then meticulously navigate to and isolate the specific neural pathway or cluster of pathways intended for modification. Subsequently, the neuro-interface helmet is activated, delivering a precisely modulated electrical current to the targeted brain region. This controlled neurostimulation induces a temporary, localized paralysis of the specified neural pathway.
If the procedure is executed with precision, the patient typically experiences minimal discomfort. The targeted neural pathway is then temporarily inactivated for a duration ranging from three to six months, with the exact period dependent on individual neurological response to the intervention.
The Neural-Locker Sequenator, when correctly calibrated, offers clients profound relief. When properly deployed, it can precisely target degenerative neural pathways, effectively locking them in place and arresting their advancement. This preempts the onset or continuation of a spectrum of degenerative cognitive malfunctions and/or transformations, regardless of whether their case is a genetic predisposition or interstellar travel-related trauma.
While unequivocally not a cure, this innovative application significantly extends the window during which a patient can pursue alternative treatments. In the direst of circumstances, it grants invaluable additional time for individuals to adequately conclude their affairs before their brain injury or disease claims their life or their capacity to meaningfully comprehend or interact with their surroundings.
Nevertheless, the procedure remains prohibitively expensive, rendering multiple sessions inaccessible to the vast majority of people. Consequently, many who have been fortunate enough to undergo this treatment, available in only a few medical facilities, receive only a single session. A minuscule fraction — less than one per cent — have managed to finance consecutive applications. Rumours persist within the elite stratospheres regarding those who have leveraged this procedure to staunch the tide of cognitive decay.
The Imperial Council of Planets, in a characteristic display of their dominion, has twisted this potent technology to serve their corrupt agendas. Rather than dedicating the NLS to healing and therapy, they have perverted its use in criminal adjudications, wherein an accused's memories are forcibly extracted and replayed for the scrutiny of judge and jury, ostensibly to establish guilt or innocence. Oftentimes the former.
This process is frequently executed impromptu, bereft of the extensive diagnostic imaging and profiling that render the procedure targeted and safe. Instead, Imperial engineers are instructed to simply affix the nodular helmet and invasively plumb the victim's cerebrum until the requisite evidence for conviction is unearthed.
When utilized in this manner, the procedure inflicts extreme pain, and victims frequently manifest peculiar tics or a blunted emotional spectrum in its aftermath.
Partially owing to these inherent dangers, and the flagrant intrusion into individuals' memories, this practice for use in legal proceedings is banned across the majority of Territorial Governances. Yet, the Imperials stubbornly persist in their application, heedless of the widespread derision from the remainder of the Delta Space. Apprehensions, of course, linger regarding potential Imperial tampering and falsifications, enabling the fabrication of manipulated evidence to incarcerate those deemed problematic.
The Neural-Locker Sequenator (NLS) is a device that connects to the brain to precisely target and “freeze” certain neural pathways. It's mainly used to slow or temporarily stop brain-degenerating diseases, induce specific behaviours, or to capture and record memories.
Its effects are temporary, so repeated sessions are often required, though most cannot afford to do so as the procedure is prohibitively expensive. Ethical concerns are rampant as well as the Imperials have used the NLS to forcibly remove and replay memories for convictions. They are also rumours that the Imperials are using the device to create mission-driven soldiers with modified behaviours that are more malleable to their causes.
The Imperials, and subsequently their allies in the Ka’yar Colonial Governance, have been accused of using the NLS to create brainwashed soldiers. These soldiers, who are forcibly drafted into various sessions using the technology, are reprogrammed into more favourable behaviours. Creating soldiers that are more likely to listen to commands without arguing, or in some cases, even using an experimental feature of the NLS that allows for implantation of memories or covert instructions that are activated upon trigger.
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