<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;"><span style="color: #FF0000"> Raphael Leithausser </span></span></div><br/><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #FF0000"> 'Geek' </span></div><br/><br/><div style="text-align: center;"><a class="postlink" href="http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o793/Galvin_Fugazi/734f27ef-4950-4414-8d5e-a6e5aee4eaff_zpsf8ae4622.jpg">[ img ]</a></div><br/><br/><div style="text-align: justify;">Raphael watched all the signals go crazy. It was exactly as he had expected and feared it. Those damn idiots playing god. He was furious. As soon as he had everything recorded what he needed he let go of the device in his hand and pulled Freya on his lap, comforting her by pulling her against his chest and stroking her neck. He just hoped that he may be able to reverse the effects of what they had done. Not technically, that was the easier part. They had probably changed this young woman far beyond repair. But he hoped not. He hoped that he may have enough power to turn her into what she may have been, if they had let her live her life.<br/><br/>Looking at Tammy he mouthed to her that she should fetch TT and Karra. He could explain all now. Tammy quickly disappeared while Geek rocked the poor young woman in his arms. She really had no chance. He looked up, when Tom spoke up.<br/><br/><span style="color: #80BF00">"Geek, Tammy says you know why the Princess is one time like this and one time like she had been earlier?" </span><br/><br/>Geek nodded. He could see that the Professor and Gleywine had come too. He gave Freya a kiss on her forehead and helped her a little up, letting her rest on his lap and leaned against his chest, his hand massaging her neck. <br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"Yeah, the jigsaw pieces fell into the right places. Tammy had it a little wrong, but no offense meant, nobody could have seen what those bastards did. I got on the right track, when I wondered why it did start after she woke up after the x-ray and not before. Ok, before we start, I want to introduce you to the proper Princess Freya, the one she had originally been, before someone turned her into the bitch we have met first. Does anybody remember the 'T-Fighter' project in the Fifties? Probably not, I stumbled over it when I hacked some army computer. They had planned to create the perfect soldier, by controlling essential brain actions. It failed sensationally, as the human brain is a far more complex thing than some computer and they forgot about it. Now, someone tried the same with Freya here." </span><br/><br/>Geek could see that he had the attention of everybody including Freya.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"Freya, let me guess. One of your parents, our both of them, were very disappointed that you cared about others, that you were not all time cruel and that you were sometimes vulnerable, frightened, looking for love? They wanted you to be cruel and unforgiven, but you could never be cruel enough for them. Right?" </span><br/><br/>When Freya nodded and whispered 'my mother' he stroked her hair tenderly.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"Yeah thought so. I remembered what the Major had said earlier, when Gleywine explained the structure of Getalia. That it were only a handful nobles to control millions. If you would be King and Queen and let me guess again, Freya, the Queen is more important than the king in your society, and you had a daughter to follow you on the throne and you knew that your system requires to be cruel and hard to keep your people in line - would you like to see your daughter being soft and vulnerable? No, you would not. And so did her mother. She wanted Freya to be hard and cruel, unforgiving. But you can bend a human mind only as far as it wants to be bend. The Queen realised that and she was frustrated. I am pretty sure that she hates Freya. Had nearly given up on her and then that hunting accident happened and Freya ended in coma." </span><br/><br/>Geek could see that some people started to understand what would come next. The Major spoke it out.<br/><br/><span style="color: #80BF00">"They decided to control her brain? Oh, those bastards..." </span><br/><br/>Geek nodded and asked Tammy to show the picture of the brain x-ray again.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"They implanted two sorts of devices in her brain. One to modulate brain waves and one to give feedback. Kind of self-controlling. But they weren't sure if they created a zombie with that, so they added a fail-safe with the killer at her heart to kill Freya if necessary, but to be able to keep her alive for testing they integrated a pace maker. But now, how did they know when to activate the control, when to modulate her brain into cruelty? There comes the transmitter into action. Tammy you remembered that you said they control neuronal and emotional impulses? I wondered at that time, why they controlled emotional impulses. All important actions follow neuronal impulses. But of course if you want to remove her vulnerability, you needed the emotional signals. Let me show you something..." </span><br/><br/>Geek turned his computer, so that everybody could see the record.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"That here are the signals when Freya told a happy memory. And now she tells how her mother beat her for being too soft. These her are the transmitter signals for the emotional signals. You see how they start to get quicker. Now look at this signal over there. This is a signal I took at the cockpit window. It is incoming, not outgoing. After ten seconds the signal starts to react, gets sharper and with more amplitude. And now look at the brainwaves. They change. Something tries to correct how Freya feels, I would say, tries to make her hard and cruel. But now look at this signal. It is one of the small devices in her brain, one sitting roughly at that place where you whipped her, Tammy. I would say, Freya has a little swelling there and it has relocated the device a little. Just a little,but that is enough to weaken the reaction. The control system realises it and puts more power into the device, as you see. Up to the point where the device activates a pain center close by. The pain you can see here in the transmitter signal again and the incoming signal drops to zero as reaction. All devices stop their work and the brain waves return to normal. Without Tammy's hit and the far weaker incoming signal because of the lining in the hull of the passenger room, we would have probably never noticed it. But I guess that some high stimuli may override that system too. It are tiny devices and the brain is complicated, as I said. So Freya may be from time to time her usual self, but mostly she is a cruel, radio-controlled bitch with no memory of it, when she is her usual self. I guess her mother was not really happy that the surgery did not work 100%."</span><br/><br/>Tom asked to play the record again and it all held up. It was indeed a try to control Freya's behaviour.<br/><br/><span style="color: #80BF00">"Why the transmitter and the incoming signal. Why not include all in the brain?" </span><br/><br/>Geek grinned and padded Freya's head.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"Because little Freya is a complicated person and they needed time to work on and change the modus operandi of her brain. There is some computer somewhere at Ovia doing the dirty work. And if we destroy that one, Freya can be who she is in real." </span></div>