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Organisations
2 entries tagged Organisations, 2 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Imperial Conditioning: the pyretic conscience of the Suk doctors and Twisted Mentat: the human computer built without a conscience.
- Imperial Conditioning: the pyretic conscience of the Suk doctorsImperial Conditioning was the psychotherapeutic technique developed by the Suk Medical School that made its graduates incapable of taking a human life or even of harbouring the intention. Marked by a diamond tattoo and a silver hair ring, conditioned doctors were trusted with the persons of emperors, until Piter de Vries proved the inhibition could be burned out of a man alive.
- Twisted Mentat: the human computer built without a conscienceTwisted Mentats were human computers produced on Tleilax rather than trained by the legitimate schools, their body structure, emotional nature and psychological make-up altered to a buyer's order. Stripped of the ethical framework that bound ordinary Mentats, they could hypothesise and strategise without restraint, and the most infamous of them, Piter de Vries, served Baron Vladimir Harkonnen.