Fiction:Realm of Absolution

The Realm of Absolution (Dracid: Valius ol Reditonan) is an inquisition-held interstellar space station (one of the first) somewhere within the borders of the. Its main function is as a prison for those the inquisition considers heretics or zealots. The empire considers it unreachable unless a vessel has been given authorisation either by the High Inquisitor herself or one of the station's comanding personnel.

History
Originally the station was an experiment into the construction and operation of an installation within interstellar space. The project was a failure due to the astronomical costs of keeping the station's location and position in check due to the lack of an anchor point. The Inquisition of Drakon agreed to run the station under the agreement they use it as they saw fit.

Realising the strategic significance of having an installation that could not be located by star they quickly refurbished it as a prison to counter the rising number of religious prisoners held within the catacombs of their monasteries. Infrastructure and security measures were established to make sure as few as possible knew of the station's location. Soon after the inquisition established a division known as the Purgatory Guard (Dracoid Puratos Agicanum) to hold responsability for gathering, transporting and securing those condemned to the station.

Operation
the Purgatory Guard are given full autonomy to maintain the station and care for inmates as they see fit. The station is also known for experiments on those psionically or elemntally gifted to better understand their nature and improve the inquisition's ability to contain them.

Prisoner confinement
The station holds prisoners in two seperate ways: The first is traditional cell blocks within the facility. The cells are designed for the purpose of leaving the inmate alone with their thoughts to contemplate just why the inquisition wanted them and what they could do if given a second chance. To prevent psychological breakdown from isolation guards provide inmates with appropriate reading material and, on occasion, electronic entertainment such as television programmes and films.

The second method - and the majority method of incarceration - is to put inmates under neural suspension. Using brainwave inhibitors this method minimises both space and rescources to maximise how many inmates can be held. Neurosleep as it is nicknamed effectively inhibits the brain to the point where any psycic potential is rendered moot as the brain devotes all it can to the most basic functioning, making escape from containment impossible. The drawback is that the inmate does not experience the passage of time and so anyone who is considered for neurosleep has been deemed beyond rehabilitation and doomed to spend eternity comatose until their bodies waste to nothing.

Another method has been the use of stasis fields. So far this has been highly experimental but under orders of the High Inquisitor research and funding has increased dramatically since the battle of Crepusculum in ID.216342. Unlike neurosleep the theory holds that the entity inside the field is isolated from the timestream, completely unable to use any form of essence-based abilities within the general timestream. To the outside the entity is completely frozen. While ideal the technology is extremely unreliable at present and very energy-consuming but could potentially improve the containment of demons and ascended/descended beings to the point where the inquisition can suspend them and leave them for eternity.