- Luke Keegan while under the influence of a modified psychic dampener.(src)
Neural inhibitors[1][2][3] are implants that were used by the Confederate Ghost Program to control their ghost agents. They are also known as neuro-adjusters (some of which also suppress or reshape a disloyal ghost's memory and render them susceptible to orders)[4] or psychic dampeners which weakens their powers[5] (by extension, this includes making it easier for ghosts to screen out the thoughts of other individuals).[6] The implants can be fatal[7] and their method of operation is very similar to neural resocialization,[4] but "much worse".[8] Its implantation leaves scarred tissue.[4]
The location of neural inhibitors can be tracked by some officers, both Confederate[8] and Dominion.[9]
The drawback to psychic dampeners is that they can be surgically removed[4] or in rare cases, malfunction.[10] Upon the defection of Sarah Kerrigan, psychic dampeners were abandoned by the Confederacy in favor of the more effective memory wipe technique.[11] However, previously-implanted ghosts (such as Devon Starke) usually did not have their dampeners removed.[3] Ghosts who retained them that became spectres under Project Shadow Blade had their inhibitors removed in order to avoid detection.[9]
The Dominion utilizes both the mind wipe technique and neural inhibitors.[6]
Variants
The Church's modified neural inhibitor
By 2503 the Terran Dominion had developed a specialized variant, the psi-inhibitor, to limit protoss psionic abilities.[12]
Modified neural inhibitor technology continues to be used by the Church of Besainted Pelagius to enforce obedience among its disciples, the technology taken from a ghost sent to terminate the movement.[13]
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