Autopilot
Autopilot noun - A navigational device that automatically keeps ships or planes or spacecraft on a steady course.
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Device
Device noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.
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The torturer's electronic device ("the autopilot") turns you into an Empty Shell, with your whole personality wiped out.
- It is perfectly possible for the autopilot to do ALMOST the entire flight, except for one minor detail: Traveling too close to a massive body while in hyperspace will destroy the ship, and a mass sensor, the only system capable to detecting such a hazard while in hyperspace, is a psionic device.
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Robotic Torture Device: The autopilot, used by the biographer's team.
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