"It's so simple, all we have to do is implant a dissociative cognitive suggestion!"
Day 1:
We received approval for human subjects! Up until now it's
been mostly guess work. Did the Muttamoks really undergo topographical
cranial emulation or was it something to do with their uncanny, almost
supernatural ability to know what the next test was? The Muttamoks were
an ideal test subject for my methodology but now we must adapt to
humans. The cerebral inhibitor will need to be reworked otherwise the
transcription process will be exceedingly damaging.
Day 147:
Our first test subjects are in. We have collected 20 tie
fighter pilots, aces all of them. Five prisoners will be assigned to
each and we will see the results. The pilots think they're here for a
routine health scan... they must never know.
Day 148:
A complete disaster. Well, not complete. Five of the
subjects survived, those assigned to Tie Pilot 1138. The pilots will be
returned to their stations and we will begin to test the prisoners for
their new abilities.
Day 153:
We lost the second prisoner today. Same way as the
first. He was in the simulator failing at piloting a simple escort
mission when all of a sudden an electrical charge overloaded the
machine. System diagnostics were all negative, and I'm assured the
equipment could not have caused the surge. Someone will pay for this. We
only have three more subjects left.
Day 167:
To avoid any possibility of electrosensitivity (ridiculous,
I know, but we still can't find the source of the surges), research
subject Delta was put in a fully insulating room. He was being tested
for flight mechanics and surprisingly he could recite all the elements
of an ion engine. As he continued to detail the particle ejection
mechanism he began to get agitated. He began to recite events from what
I can only surmise were the pilot's past as if they had happened to him.
He had fully developed a connection with the pilot! The experiment
worked! Unfortunately, that is when the cameras cut out. A data pad was
found embedded into subject Delta skull causing irreversible brain
damage. Only subject Echo remains now.
Day 183:
It worked! No electrical surges, no freak earthquakes, no
crazed attendants, subject Echo has assumed the persona of the tie
pilot. He has gained his skills, his abilities, even his memories. There
is no vestige of his past left over. Simulator tests confirm extreme
aptitude for flight. We must study him, we must determine the conditions
to reproduce this transfer. Imagine a million tie pilots all with
extreme aptitude leaving the academy. All glory to the empire!
Day 195:
Interviewer: Do you know who you are?
Subject Echo: Lt. Maarek Stele
I: What do you do?
E: I'm a tie pilot, isn't that why I'm here?
I: Do you remember your past?
E: What kind of question is that, of course I rememb... Wait a second, what's going on here?
I: Can you tell me about your past?
E: Why am I dressed in these clothes? What am I doing here? Who are you?
I: It's okay subject Echo. Try to...
E: Get me out of here, what did you do to me, what is going on???
I: Calm down subject Echo. Stop that. What are you doing with that? Drop that right n...
Day 204:
Any suggestion of subject Echo's past will cause him to
relapse. Violent rages, epileptic fits... Call it superstition but it
almost seems like the flickering lights are part of his condition too.
We must make sure there is no reminder of the experiment, no indication
that his past may be another's.
Day 341:
Maarek Stele, Maarek Stele! I curse that name a thousand
times! He was a tie pilot, he was supposed to die. But no, now he's a
hero of the empire with his face on a thousand screens, on a thousand
recruitment posters. Subject Echo was on a training flight when he
picked up a news cast transmission. He went berserk and rammed into the
accompanying shuttle! If we cannot prove his worth as an asset our
funding will be cut, our project will be terminated! Damnation!
Day 345:
It's so simple, all we have to do is implant a dissociative
cognitive suggestion! Subject Echo will hear and speak and see the name
Maarek Stele instead of his own! To him, Maarek Stele won't even
register as an obscure legend.
Day 357:
Interviewer: Who are you?
Subject Echo: Lt. Karn von Richthofen
I: What do you do?
E: I'm a tie pilot, isn't that why I'm here?
I: Do you know the name Maarek Stele?
E: Maarek Stele was a human individual who served as a TIE fighter pilot within the Galactic Empire. Stele flew a TIE Advanced and at one point was in a docking procedure from a hangar bay.
Day 450: Operation wings of wax was a failure. Stele's name is too prevalent for the general population. Echo's wing mates began to question his past and compare it to Stele. Echo snapped. We had to sanitize the entire squad, or what was left of them anyway.
Day 527:
This is perfect! There was an incident on Scarif. Whole
platoons need to be reintegrated into service. We'll implant the same
suggestion into his squad mates; they will neither hear nor comprehend
of the hero Maarek Stele. To them subject Echo will be the only Maarek
Stele and when they speak his name it will come out Karn von Richthofen.
Now to find a suitable squad. We need one that's low profile, possibly
feared by the general population to reduce the possibility of
contamination. A death trooper squad might work...
Day (a few weeks after the death star explosion):
I've been given
orders from above: I'm to transfer the laboratory to a secure location
on Coruscant and expect a high value target for the experiments. They
emphasised that all security precautions should be taken as the target
is highly dangerous. This is all very unusual along with... They want me
to transfer the target in Carbon freeze? Just my luck, they probably
want me to work on some Moff's pet or something. These orders do come
from the highest levels though, something must be happening. The Krayt's
Mercy is going to rendezvous with us in a week to complete the transfer.
I better get to it.
Day (a few weeks ago):
Apparently there may be a few delays with the
new subject. It's hard to parse the sponsor's intentions, but I'm told
that due to the volatile situation they want to stress test subject
echo. I am told to observe and report only, not interfere. They plan to
put subject Echo through his paces and make sure he remains stable.