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From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Prison in Shadowrun - Cyberia
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 11:44:07 +0100
Adam J said on 18:06/ 9 Dec 97...

> Upon imprisoment, you're given a simsense chip that makes you *think*
> you've been in prison for X number of years, when really you've only been
> in for a few days, depending on how long the simsense lasts.. then, you're
> released. So you feel like you've been in prison 10 years, or 25, but you
> haven't actually aged, or cost the goverment or corp the several hundred
> thousand it would have normally cost.

That's in the Lone Star sourcebook. Ah, finally, I found it. Page 78, the
last comment in the left-hand column begins talking about this method of
"locking" people up. Something similar was also used in a DS9 episode,
BTW.

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