Protocols of Sector Black: Subject X234: First Session

Protocol: First Session Subject X234

Present members:

Dr. Habachi: psychological supervision

Dr. Munsch: physician, neurologist

Dr. Huch: physicist

Ahmed, Peter: Technicians

Dr. Grau: Overall supervision Head of Sector Black.

Location: The Retreat/Sector Black/NeuroLab

Date of session: xx.xx.xxxx

Start of session: 1300

End of session: 1330

Position of Subject: Hands and legs are restrained. She wears an experimental collar to immobilise her neck.

Special arrangements: Urethral catheter. Chemical paralysis of the peristalsis. The experimental neural interface Stimulus II was put on her shaved head. Sensors for monitoring the standard parameters were linked to her body.

Appendix 1: recording of the session.

Appendix 2: table with data and measurements.

Details of the experiment:

The Subject is obstinate from the beginning. Doesn't respond properly. A first weak stimulus (five seconds) of the Thalamus, the cerebral cortex and the limbic system produce a strong acoustic reaction. No cramping. Slightly elevated pulse and blood pressure.

A second, more powerful stimulus (five seconds) provokes a stronger reaction with light cramping and involuntary urination. Heartrate and blood pressure selevated.

Still uncooperative, she is exposed to a longer (eight seconds), slightly stronger stimulus. Reaction seems weaker, probably because the Subject is exhausted, but still uncooperative. Heartrate and blood pressure normal.

Input Dr. Habachi: subject reaches pleading stage.

Following a suggestion by Dr. Habachi, stimulus number four is a short, strong jolt to all regions of the brain mentioned above. As predicted, this does the trick, and the Subject seems cooperative.

As the Subject shows an immediate relapse to her old behaviour, Dr. Habachi orders a strong stimulus (5 Seconds) to all regions of the brain believed to be relevant to pain.

This does not evoke the intended reaction. On the contrary. The Subject is more uncooperative than ever.

The next stimulus is more complex. Over ten seconds, first the Thalamus, then the Cerebral Cortex and finally the regions of the limbic System determining the intensity of pain perception are stimulated.

As two more strong stimuli (each eight seconds) do not show any change in attitude, the Subject is exposed to a pulsed stimulus that alternately fires up all relevant regions of the brain until she loses consciousness.

This risky course of action is deemed necessary as it combines a maximum impulse towards a more subservient attitude of the Subject with enormous benefits for the project. As the Subject in her current state is not useful for the retreat in any other way, it seems prudent to make her available to the lab as our first human experimental subject.

Before administering pain, the Subject was exposed to an acoustic stimulus (a humming sound). Similarly, any verbal input from the staff was accompanied by a clicking sound. It is strongly recommended to apply the same methodological approach in future sessions to counteract the Subject’s ability to get used to and thus become more immune to the pain. She will link the humming sound with pain and the clicking with human speech. Over time, the humming sound might provoke an interesting response without any additional stimulus. When the connection of humming and pain is firmly ingrained into her mind, we will of course, break it and find new combinations that will make her significantly more ****.

Besides the fact that there is no other use for the Subject at the moment, it has to be considered that the long phase of tests and experiments ahead of us needs a resilient Subject like X234 that does not break prematurely and provides us with strong, unfiltered responses for a long time.