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:''This page is about the Ur-Quan torture device. For information on the Ilwrath use of the word "Excruciator", see [[Excruciator (Ilwrath)]] | :''This page is about the Ur-Quan torture device. For information on the Ilwrath use of the word "Excruciator", see [[Excruciator (Ilwrath)]] | ||
| − | An '''Excruciator''' is a device created during the [[Ur-Quan Slave Revolt]], devised by the [[Ur-Quan]] as a shield against [[Dnyarri]] mind control and essential to the success of their war effort. | + | An '''Excruciator''' is a device created during the [[Ur-Quan#Slave Revolt|Ur-Quan Slave Revolt]], devised by the [[Ur-Quan]] as a shield against [[Dnyarri]] mind control and essential to the success of their war effort. |
The operating principle is based on the fact that while a Dnyarri is manipulating a slave the Dnyarri, to some extent, shares the slave's sensations. Intense physical pain experienced by a slave can cause the Dnyarri enough stress and discomfort to cause it to involuntarily lose its psychic control. | The operating principle is based on the fact that while a Dnyarri is manipulating a slave the Dnyarri, to some extent, shares the slave's sensations. Intense physical pain experienced by a slave can cause the Dnyarri enough stress and discomfort to cause it to involuntarily lose its psychic control. | ||
| − | After [[Kzer-Za (Character)|Kzer-Za]] announced this fact to the Ur-Quan population, Ur-Quan slaves began finding ways to break through their masters' control | + | After [[Kzer-Za (Character)|Kzer-Za]] announced this fact to the Ur-Quan population, Ur-Quan slaves began finding ways to break through their masters' control by inflicting injuries upon themselves to weaken the Dnyarri's grip. As time went on the stubborn Ur-Quan slaves developed ever more advanced and painful means for doing so, until finally enough freed space and resources had been captured from the Dnyarri that Ur-Quan rebels were able to design and mass-produce devices that could be implanted in the brain, causing immense amounts of pain but no damage to the body. A well-calibrated Excruciator could keep the pain level just low enough for the determined, psychologically strong Ur-Quan to maintain a basic level of functioning while still making the task of maintaining control intensely difficult for a Dnyarri, particularly as the Dnyarri had at this point grown soft and complacent after generations of holding power. |
With an increasing number of Ur-Quan shielded by the Excruciators, the overly stretched Dnyarri forces were unable to maintain their control and were quickly slaughtered. The bittersweet irony of using almost constant self-torture to defeat their enemies was one of the major factors that marred the collective Ur-Quan psyche after the war and led to the development of the [[Path of Now and Forever]] and [[Eternal Doctrine]]. | With an increasing number of Ur-Quan shielded by the Excruciators, the overly stretched Dnyarri forces were unable to maintain their control and were quickly slaughtered. The bittersweet irony of using almost constant self-torture to defeat their enemies was one of the major factors that marred the collective Ur-Quan psyche after the war and led to the development of the [[Path of Now and Forever]] and [[Eternal Doctrine]]. | ||
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| Ur-Quan Topics |
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| Species |
| Ur-Quan Kzer-Za • Kohr-Ah |
| History |
| Sentient Milieu Slave Revolt Slave War The Words Doctrinal Conflict Second Doctrinal War |
| Personalities |
| Kzer-Za • Kohr-Ah |
| Philosophies |
| Path of Now and Forever Ur-Quan Hierarchy • Battle Thrall • Fallow Slave • Oath of Fealty Doctrinal Conflict |
| Ships |
| Dreadnought • Marauder • Sa-Matra |
| Science |
| Excruciator • Slave Shield • Talking Pet |
- This page is about the Ur-Quan torture device. For information on the Ilwrath use of the word "Excruciator", see Excruciator (Ilwrath)
An Excruciator is a device created during the Ur-Quan Slave Revolt, devised by the Ur-Quan as a shield against Dnyarri mind control and essential to the success of their war effort.
The operating principle is based on the fact that while a Dnyarri is manipulating a slave the Dnyarri, to some extent, shares the slave's sensations. Intense physical pain experienced by a slave can cause the Dnyarri enough stress and discomfort to cause it to involuntarily lose its psychic control.
After Kzer-Za announced this fact to the Ur-Quan population, Ur-Quan slaves began finding ways to break through their masters' control by inflicting injuries upon themselves to weaken the Dnyarri's grip. As time went on the stubborn Ur-Quan slaves developed ever more advanced and painful means for doing so, until finally enough freed space and resources had been captured from the Dnyarri that Ur-Quan rebels were able to design and mass-produce devices that could be implanted in the brain, causing immense amounts of pain but no damage to the body. A well-calibrated Excruciator could keep the pain level just low enough for the determined, psychologically strong Ur-Quan to maintain a basic level of functioning while still making the task of maintaining control intensely difficult for a Dnyarri, particularly as the Dnyarri had at this point grown soft and complacent after generations of holding power.
With an increasing number of Ur-Quan shielded by the Excruciators, the overly stretched Dnyarri forces were unable to maintain their control and were quickly slaughtered. The bittersweet irony of using almost constant self-torture to defeat their enemies was one of the major factors that marred the collective Ur-Quan psyche after the war and led to the development of the Path of Now and Forever and Eternal Doctrine.