Entechment

Entechment

Process
The entechment chair was used to restrain a subject before the first phases of entechment. Pliable bands would secure the forelimbs, neck, and knees, but only for balance. The subject's nervous system would be deionized at the shoulders to prevent struggling. A slender intravenous tube would drip pale blue magnetizing solution into each of the subject's carotid arteries while tiny servopumps hummed. It only takes a few mils of magsol to attune the tiny, fluctuatiing electromagnetic fields of human brain waves to the Ssi-ruuvi entechment apparatus.

A broad, glowing white metal catchment arc would be swung down to cover the subject from mid-chest to nose. As the subject's pupils dilated the magsol-drugged brain would lose control. The catchment arc switch would be thrown and the arc would boom out a sympathetic vibration. Brain energy would leap to an electromagnet perfectly attuned to the magsol. The energy would then be transferred into a resevoir coil for the mechanism it will then begin to power.

The Ssi-ruuk maintained that the transfer of incorporeal energy was painless and that the subjects only thought they felt pain, but every subject would scream. Through the Force a ripple of indescribable anguish could be felt. By the time the body screamed, all of the subject's energies had jumped to the catchment arc. The screaming body was already dead.

The entechment chair would be sprayed down, biological byproducts flushed harmlessly through drains in the center of the seat. A switch would be activated and the chair would warm itself dry, ready to repeat the process.

Result
Before entechment, prisoners were noisy and dangerous. Afterward, their life energies powered droids of Ssi-ruuvi choosing.

Life energy, like any other, can be stored in the right kind of battery. Brain wavelength electrical energy, which accompanied life energy into the droid charges would eventually set up destructive harmonics causing the droid's vital control circuits to "die" of fatal psychosis.

Reasoning
Human energies lasted longer than any other species in entechment, whether slaved to shipboard circuits or motivating battle droids.

The results of entechment on the subject were expressed as liberating. Now inside a battle droid the subject would be able to see at additional wavelengths in all directions. It would never again need oxygen or temperature control, nourishment or sleep. It would be free from the awkward necessity of will, of ever making its own decisions. The new housing would respond to all Ssi-ruuvi orders. It would exhibit perfect obedience.

The subject's body would be disposed of through a deck chute at the culmination of entechment.