Board Thread:Fiction Universe Discussion/@comment-5080468-20170728193412/@comment-5496489-20170803012228

Well generally its all just used one enemies in order to obtain information in wartime, psy-ripping as it's called is messy and often drives the victim utterly mad. Not good if you want to reeducate someone.

Torturing your own is just not a good idea in Stellaria because all Stellarians are linked by empathy. This means any pain or pleasure you inflict on someone else reflects itself back onto you. So lets say you decide to you burn someone alive, then you will feel like your burning with them. On the flip side if you give someone a chocolate bar you get to experience the same joy they get from eating said chocolate.

The true master of the SOS is a bitch named karma.

As for said "fate worse then death", it's called Twisting. Basically you take the enemy leadership and genetically and cybernetically alter them into a monster that's forced to prey on their own. Though i don't think the SOS and MDF would get along, especially since the SOS is on good terms with the Vogrik Directorate and Talven Empire.