Intergalactic Summit

I did not mean anything of that sort and was not especially criticizing the ethical side of that technology.

You almost sound like yourself have an issue with me, though. Have I genuinely done something wrong ?

I most certainly shall be making inquiries, at the whole thing smells suspiciously of something Sansha Kuvakei would use. In fact, the technology sounds disturbingly similar to capsuleer reports of technology employed by Sansha's Nation and it's various subsidiaries as well. Considering our history with Sansha, the idea of using their technology and/or methods is simply... unacceptable.

I know that many will find it hard to understand this from an Amarrian point of view, but I find the whole "Mind Warden" concept high unethical. Normally hardened criminals are enslaved, this is true, and yes the most violent & hopeless of them become candidates for what little remains of vitoc industry. The question of "free will" may seem paradoxical when it comes to the subject of slave behavior, but I shall attempt to explain it the best I can.

It is not only the destination but also the journey that matters. It is not enough that the convict turned slave renounce their evil ways and come to change them. It is not a question of punishment so much as self-realization & introspection. Years of service slowly strips away the malformed personality and evolves it into a better one. The time involved is a critical factor: Things quickly done can be quickly undone, as Kraven Fawkes himself has already pointed out. Slave convict conditioning, or more appropriately rehabilitation, is not a direct assault on the mind or the subject's will. Rather it is a conditioning that forces the guilty party to spend every day in contemplation of their actions, analyzing it themselves over time, and gives them a sense of hope in that they may become free again if they can prove their souls to be truly reformed & saved.

So it is not that we break their will. Instead we create conditions where the convict slave ultimately breaks their own will. Their own desire to truly become a better person & redeem themselves is what drowns out the sinful person that they were. It is only then that they are considered for being freed, for such a reformed person no longer needs an external master - for they have learned to master themselves. The mark of the truly conditioned slave, or more precisely, the truly reformed ex-slave convict, is that they feel gratitude towards their former masters for saving them from their own sinfully destructive (and self-destructive) paths. Genuine remorse for their past actions & a true desire to rise above them is not something that can be achieved through brute force methods.

Only a properly disciplined mind can see the reality of what it is has done. It requires an conscious act of self-destruction, and an effort of the will. We do not destroy the will of the convict slave as long as he resists us. As long as he resists us he cannot be saved. Instead we instill him with our Faith. We purify his soul. Only when there is nothing left but regret for his sins and a love of God can he be considered redeemed. His bonds are thus broken when nothing remains of the sinful person that he once was. The end product of our effort is not a villainous convict slave but rather a good & loyal citizen of the Empire.

This, I believe, is also not something that can be easily achieved through any sort of technology, no matter how advanced it may seem. Nor can it be induced through drugs (hence the falling use of vitoc over the decades, as it ultimately defeats any hope of redemption) or "simulated experience." I know skeptics will roll their eyes at what I'm about to say, but when it comes to issues of the soul then the soul will, in the end, find a way to see through simulations, no matter how elaborate they may be.

Having spent my entire life in the Kingdom I'm quite well aware of their, and the Empire's capabilities with regards to this technology.

I'm asking him if their version is available.

Just promise that you will not go and connect this system to any self-mobile drone platforms.

Quite right.

It's been said before, but it bears repeating: There are no prisons in Sansha's Nation. While the ambitions of this project seem commendable, the modus operandi is - to the best of my knowledge - different from what you would find at a Nation facility.

Thank you for your inquiry ma'am and I will try and keep my response from becoming long winded.

Once treatment has been provided and the prisoner has been released, the Mind Warden method has been proven to have about a 97% and change success rate in Amarr, where it has failed is cases where the patient has a lack of opportunity, fails in with old crowds or simply society will not let them be anything but what they were. In one case an Amarrian man, who had done murder to children on a rather large scale over the course of years, was successfully treated by Mind Wardens. However as you can imagine, the public was not "cured" of what this man had done. When it became known what this man had done, he was ostracized, bullied, beaten and in once case tortured by his community. These events broke the work of the Wardens and, sadly, the man reverted to old form and seventeen more children died. I mention this case as it will help in answering your first question.

Our privacy policy in regards to patient/prisoner sessions, assessments, neuro pathing and so on is strictly confidential for many reason. Firstly and most paramount, we need to protect the work done by the Wardens when we provide the patient (after the Wardens have completed their work we refer to our detainees as patients rather the prisoners) with a new identity and in some cases facial reconstruction. Secondly the Warden technology is a closely, and jealously kept crown jewel of the Amarr Empire, and as such our agreement with the Empire forbids such records falling into anyone's hands that does not have a CONCORD warrant. Even other nations such as my State must go through the proper channels to gain access to these records.

Our policy concerning prisoner rosters and client organizations are as strict as the patients medical record in that they are closed save by order of CONCORD. Right now my staff is working with Amarrian Mind Wardens, under their watchful ministrations and this will be the case for the next three years. However one day the training wheels will come off and at that point the Ministry of Corrections in Amarr has already signed off on the fact that even the Amarr, who so graciously have licensed this gift to us, will need to follow the same legal avenues as all other nations in garnering this information. Client corporations will know who they sent us, the details of their crimes and their contract with us, but this information will not be available to others without the proper warrant.

Before responding to this inqury I did have a sit down with my Amarrian liason in regards to your third question and I must admit that there was some "hmming" and "huhing" on this one. She explained to me that Reborn pose a series of questions that she has never encountered with this process. Reborn have the accumulation of several generations within them and whilst these generations are dormant in the person, and the individual is an individual, we would need to take considerable time and proceed more delicately then we would with a normal person. The mind, the way that we act to situations, is a series of building blocks that guide us through our life.

In the case of a Reborn, there are considerably more blocks to sift through and the question my liason was stumped on was "is this the action we wish to correct the result of the individuals life experience, or the accumulation of life experiences from the reborn process." She explained to me that if the action to be corrected was that of the individual, and individual who was bullied all their life, marginalized and so on, this would be fairly straight forward. However if the bad actions were the result of on memory personas experience, combined with another and another made manifest in the individual, this would pose serious problems as you would be in effect treating several patients and trying to align all of them. My final answer on this would be that we would be willing to attempt a reborn correction, however if we discover that it is a process that we cannot successfully achieve, with consistant success, then we would leave such matters to more orthodox legal systems.

Forgive me if the answers on this final question seem vague. I myself am not one of our Mind Warden's and I am not even very apt at psychology as a whole. I have hired the best staff available and I leave this arena of my business to those smarter then me in this arena.