Intergalactic Summit

Fawkes Dynamics Surveillance and Security Firm is pleased to announce that we have completed construction of our Black Dalphine facility and we are now accepting prisoners. Black Dalphine was designed with the latest specifications of a super max facility from technology from around the cluster. We are using the latest in Amarrian "Mind Warden" technology to help rehabilitate our prisoners in order to make them productive members of society.

While not all details of Black Dalphine can be disclosed for security reasons, what can be disclosed is that the facility is housed deep within a Dead Space pocket which itself houses a nebula that renders both navigation, shields and armor modules inert and the nebula itself is caustic to ships hulls that can only be navigated via telemetry from the facility itself making rescue or escape attempts fatal.

We are currently accepting detainees from capsuleer corporations under the following guidelines. One the prisoner must not be an Empyrean as pursuant to CONOCORD regulations which dictate that only CONCORD may regulate imprisonment, transport and punishment of Empyreans. Two the prisoner in question must have been legally convicted in a sovereign nations courts to be eligible to be rehabilitated at Black Dalphine and finally upon completion of the prisoners term, the host corporation must be willing to take the rehabilitated person back. The reason for this final caveat is that in order for a prisoner to be rehabilitated fully, they must have an opportunity available to them upon release or they will relapse.

Funding for Black Dalphine is provided by several humanitarian organizations against the brutal treatment of prisoners, capital punishment and interested parties wishing to partake in progressive rehabilitation programs of prisoners. Fawkes Dynamics Surveillance and Securities [Traded as FOXDY on the open net] is an LLC based in Jita and a provider of security and surveillance for many none capsuleer concerns.

A noble effort.

Do you accept prisoners of war for holding? Can your Mind Wardens socially engineer such personnel away from fighting? Or persuade them to switch sides?

I cuncure, I would like to know more as well.

At the time I was preparing to take the photo, my daughter Layla ran up to me to show me a picture she had drawn. The CONCORD agent taking the photo snapped the picture and said he was on a schedule and I would simply have to make do.



We do accept prisoners of war, however we are not willing to use the Mind Warden technology in the manner you are asking about and I will answer they "why" in my reply to Mr Momaki and Syagrius.



Mind Warden technology was developed by the Amarr due too their stance on Capital Punishment. A prisoner is placed in a stasis tube much akin to those which hold our capsuleer clones until they are activated. Much like those tubes, the Mind Warden stasis tubes have neurological links that can send information into the mind of the occupant. In the case of Empyreans this information is the accumulation of a life, or several lives, worth of information in the matter of moments.

Where Mind Warden tubes and Capsuleer tubes differ is that on one end of the Mind Warden tube a trained psychologist may "jack in" and enter the mind of the prisoner. This Mind Warden may then, over the course of time, and neurological stimulus, work to correct the behavior that has gotten the prisoner to this point in their life. The Neurological stimulus in question varies from patient to patient, but as an example we will use a rapist murderer.

In this sort of case we have Mind Wardens doing their work, but we will also have the patient live through carefully constructed neuro-flashbacks of this event happening to themselves. The patient will feel a proximation of what their victims felt. The hopelessness, the violation, the rage and the pain. We further bolster this treatment with flooding the patients mind with images that we know will arouse the apatite we mean to curb, and when their mind acts in the affirmative of wanting to behave badly, we issue a pain response. When the patient acts in the negative towards their urges we offer a euphoric stimulus, thus rewarding good behavior and punishing the bad.

Mr Blix asked if we could engineer programs to shy away from the acts that they were incarcerated for and the answer is yes. He then asked if we could engineer them to flip sides, again the answer is yes but this is not only a violation of what we have taken upon ourselves to do, but also its effects do not last.

What I mean by this is that we can, again target the cognitive responses with pain and euphoric stimulus to "train" the patients mind. However such a deep penetration into the mind not only requires massive amounts of time but also constant reinforcement after the patients release. So for example if you were to deliver a Minmatar freedom fighter to us and we were inclined to make him flip sides we could do this. However he would not be a good "double agent" as being around his people again, with out reinforcement of his implanted new way of thinking would quickly deteriorate the new patterns and the old would emerge once more.



The nebula in question is within the dead space pocket itself, not an altogether rare event seeing as if you remember back to your early days of pod piloting you were more then likely sent into such a pocket and tasked with using your burners to reach a destination before your ship exploded from the effects of the nebula. Also not all the phenomena listed is natural, we do have several installations which many pod pilots refer to as "**** stars" within the pocket. Piloting in a straight line in the pocket from say the entrance to the facility is not the issue, the issue is the constant churning of the radioactive eddies within the pocket and the inability to have your ships sensors guide you through the currents safely whilst said systems are jammed by our "**** stars".

Please feel free to contact me via neocom mail if you feel so inclined sir.

As you said, you are no expert, No one who has ever under went this method of treatment in our care has become a vegetable that we did not intend on doing that to. The only method more effective at correcting, or changing behaviors is Sansha's True Slave implants.

I suppose brainwashers in the end will get along with each other.

All prisons with a corrective focus brainwash their inmates. You would just rather they do this inefficiently, believing this to be more humane.

It isn't.

It depends what value and definition you put behind "brainwashing".

One can use technology and mind altering methods to forcefully change the subject perception on a certain matter.

One can use mere rhetorics without physically altering the mind of the subject or putting the subject in certain favorable conditions.

Of course, one is often more efficient than the other, indeed.

I'm absolutely familiar with the concept of a "dickstar" - I've run several in the past. They're capable of disabling targetting systems and disrupting warp and sublight propulsion, but they have absolutely no ability whatsoever to "jam" modules. The closest they'd come to such a thing would be an energy neutralising array, which still doesn't shut down a ship's modules directly - and your original claim was that the deadspace pocket



So you've now backpedalled on what precisely causes the disruption. Incidentally, CONCORD starbase safety features prevent capsuleers from anchoring starbases outside the orbit of a moon, or from anchoring them too close together (and CONCORD's definition of "too close together" is synonymous with "in orbit of the same moon") so this explanation doesn't really hold water. Incidentally, the toxic cloud environments found in certain deadspace pockets are easily survivable in a correctly-fitted battlecruiser, let alone a strategic cruiser or a battleship.

I've spent seven years as a capsuleer. I know scams and lies when I see them.