Well, Ghost sure isn't going to argue with that. The question gets a bitter laugh, a little helpless.
"What didn't happen? It was a recreation of the worst 48 hours of Morgan's life in perfect-memory-perfect detail, directly designed to trigger sense memories to make it seem like more than just wearing a VR headset. And it all starts Your memory is full of holes. I'm sorry, but it's permanent and You're not going to like what I have to say next."
He's quoting Morgan, but it's hard to tell, since there's no telltale shift in accent, much less in actual voice. Ghost takes a deep breath and continues.
"So the main secret research was centered around something called neuromods, which - well, you can probably figure out the purpose from the name. Used alien matter to artificially construct neural structures, gives people skills in a ten minute injection process instead of years of learning thanks to advanced brain imaging. 'Removing' them was a neural reset to when they were installed - memories included. Short version is that Morgan used himself as a guinea pig for alien psychic power mods and lost the whole three years he'd been in space as a result."
That's not the worst part, but, there's a lot of fucked up there already, so Ghost is going to take a break there and eat this sandwich, mentally watching for the reaction even if he's not looking at Soldat directly.
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"What didn't happen? It was a recreation of the worst 48 hours of Morgan's life in perfect-memory-perfect detail, directly designed to trigger sense memories to make it seem like more than just wearing a VR headset. And it all starts Your memory is full of holes. I'm sorry, but it's permanent and You're not going to like what I have to say next."
He's quoting Morgan, but it's hard to tell, since there's no telltale shift in accent, much less in actual voice. Ghost takes a deep breath and continues.
"So the main secret research was centered around something called neuromods, which - well, you can probably figure out the purpose from the name. Used alien matter to artificially construct neural structures, gives people skills in a ten minute injection process instead of years of learning thanks to advanced brain imaging. 'Removing' them was a neural reset to when they were installed - memories included. Short version is that Morgan used himself as a guinea pig for alien psychic power mods and lost the whole three years he'd been in space as a result."
That's not the worst part, but, there's a lot of fucked up there already, so Ghost is going to take a break there and eat this sandwich, mentally watching for the reaction even if he's not looking at Soldat directly.