![]() In the Nato Powers the Neurohelmet became less invasive and completely free of the need to use drugs, but it provided less input to the mechs function. At this point, development of the technology branched. ![]() When the prototype plans where stolen by Soviet spies, they also stole a prototype neurohelmet. Along with small, controlled doses of drugs developed from 'Hermes' allowed the pilot to mentally focus enough to transmit his thoughts to the mech, allowing the ungainly machines to piggyback on a humans natural sense of balance and skim down the onboard computing power needed to acceptable levels. A prototype system was developed that relied on implanting test pilots with a small collection of electrodes in the base of the neck, that linked to the first 'neurohelmet'. Requesting (and receiving) access to the rest of the MKUltra files, he was at first horrified at some of the things he uncovered, but 'Hermes', 'Janus' and 'Golem' provided, in combination, the exact means of getting past the significant problems the first battlemechs faced in terms of balance. Looking for a method to control these armored machines, one of the engineers working on the team remembered the successful experiments at Menlo Park. These three projects may not have amounted to anything of historical significance without the development of the Mackie and the Wasp. The results where not deemed useful to the US Navy or the Airforce and where abandoned (though Dr Donald Cameron's work would continue, leaving a trail of mentally crippled and broken victims.) The 'Hermes' project would be folded back into the main body of research for MKUltra. A selection of drugs, designed to heighten and alter perception, was tested on test pilots operating out of China Lake. This project was codenamed 'Janus'.įinally, the infamous psychiatrist Donald Ewen Cameron's work in Canada on erasing human memory and 'reprogramming' subjects resulted in a sub-project, which was folded directly back in MKUltra without his knowledge. However, a simple lattice like 'helmet' was developed that could read electrical impulses directly from the human brain. ![]() After several subjects where left drooling vegetables, and two fatalities, this project was shuttered. The goal was to discover the neurological impulses behind the human ability to lie, and develop a machine that could be implanted in someone to either stop them lying or would alert someone monitoring the subject to the lie. In return, invasive brain surgery was conducted by doctors. Prisoners who volunteered would have significant portions of their sentences commuted. This particular sub-project, codenamed 'Golem' was in fact an attempt to develop a way for a human to control a computer system remotely, something various parts of the CIA where deeply interested in at the time.Ī similar project, conducted at a now-unknown prison somewhere in Connecticut, was much more invasive. While the limbs where primitive and clunky, the basic premise was sound: veteran soldiers where able to 'retrain' their brains to control the limbs remotely through nerve impulses. One, developed at Menlo Park veterans hospital, was an attempt at nerve interface to allow wounded veterans to control replacement limbs. Three particular projects where developed that led, indirectly or directly to the creation of the Battlemech Neurohelmet. ![]() Farmed out to pharmaceutical companies and universities across the two nations, and comprised of a staggering 152 sub-projects, MKultra would eventually be shuttered in 1973, after 20 years of work. Looking at the effects of drugs, torture, and other external factors on human behavior. Looking at a wide variety of interlinked subjects, it worked across nearly 80 facilities in the USA and Canada ranging from hospitals to prisons. MKUltra was a CIA led program, initially coordinated with the US armies Chemical Corps. The Neurohelmet: the Final Child of MKULTRA ![]()
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