Doc: 1407325c

Loc: Blue Sun Vault 2115 b45216 a528 r89566 p12

Descrp: Response to Inquiry – Process Breakdown – Status Report

Process # 1: In it’s simplest term, to read minds. To gain access to memories, both remembered and forgotten. To hear thoughts before they become spoken words. To infiltrate that most private of havens: the human mind.

Process # 2: In it’s simplest term, to manipulate minds. To take those stolen memories and make them more real than the current reality. To confuse thoughts and contort what the brain believes to be real. To make the senses believe in what is not really there.

Process # 3: In it’s simplest term, to destroy minds. To combine both previous processes to rape and ravish minds to the point where all mental activity ceases. To kill without any chance of resuscitation.

Number of Students to achieve Process # 1 with the use of a Mental Device: 42

Number of Students to achieve Process # 2 with the use of a Mental Device: 29

Number of Students to achieve Process # 3 with the use of a Mental Device: 11

Number of Students to achieve Process # 1 without the use of a Mental Device: 5

Number of Students to achieve Process # 2 without the use of a Mental Device: 2

Number of Students to achieve Process # 3 without the use of a Mental Device: 1

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Shadow

Volk returned to Serenity’s cargo bay, where Ketter waited, the other man’s expression making it obvious that the result of Ketter’s search had been as fruitful as Volk’s.

“The Tams are not here,” Volk stated.

Ketter’s face contorted with annoyance. “This is not the way things are supposed to work. River Tam is proving to be more trouble than we originally expected.”

Volk nodded in agreement. He looked around the dirty cargo bay, and for a moment he had to fight off an urge to escape to someplace cleaner. All this time searching for the Experiment, and instead of boarding the Exitor with River Tam in tow, he found himself once again with a failed plan. How was it that they had bee