Lit Had we ever seen somebody deprogammed?

We had not seen that many mind control stories, had we seen anyone deprogramed/reprogramed/brought back to normality?

How widespread is mind control?

I assume it's not hat widespread because i only remember Jorin Sol going manchu on the Rebellion.

What techniques are used to ache\ive a manchurian candidate?

Why had we not seen any of that since the Barlow rebellion run?

 

Jaden Korr in riptide.

Lusankya prisoners in X-Wing series.

And obviously Jedi temporarily control/persuade people's minds all the time.

 

Yeah, i forgot about X-wing.

 

Guri. Massad Thrumble reprogrammed her to forget her time in Black Sun.

 

Yeah, but she was a robot.

 

Doesn't really make her less of a person. HRD or not, she's functionally human. It's not quite mind control since I don't think there's indication but it's a fitting comparison since she's being mentally reprogrammed and Savan does attempt to use a key word to trigger some type of latent mental conditioning.

Yuuzhan Vong slaves implanted by yorik-kul fall somewhere into the category here as well. They receive mental orders from yammosk and dhuryam. Eventually, the lose independent thoughts.

Cipher 9 is probably the most recent example I can think of. They're given mental condition shortly after dealing with Darth Jadus because the Dark Council actually fears what they are potentially capable of. It takes a mixture of dimalium-6 and sheer willpower for them to override their keyword and reset the program.

 

err, what?

she's a droid

 

Without derailing the thread into a droid sentience/droid right's matter: "Guri was an HRD...and unique. She could eat, drink, and perform all the more personal functions of a woman without anybody the wiser."

The thread didn't say "Have we seen any humans/humanoids/etc.." It was "have we seen somebody". Being a droid doesn't make her not somebody, particularly if she's sufficiently advanced. That said, I wouldn't place her in the same category as, to use an example from the same book, Wes' sabotaged R2 unit.

As for more types of mental coercion, C'baoth alters General Covell's mind but that was complicated by ysalamiri and the severance caused the brain damage that killed him. He does use mental control to make Pellaeon order Luuke's creation and then returned him to normal and made him forget. Not such where that lies on the apparently invisible scale of acceptable examples.

 

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The Lusankya prisoners weren't deprogrammed. Isard kept them in the facilty because she couldn't brainwash them.

 

Droids are designed to be programmed . . . they're droids. They have machine "brains" that act according to programs. Of course programming a droid is completely different to programming a human lol

The difference?

 

"Deprogramming" would be reversing a brainwashing. The prisoners on Lusankya couldn't be brainwashed to start, so they couldn't be deprogrammed either, because they were never "programmed."

 

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