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 ====== Neurogel ===== ====== Neurogel =====
  
-Neurogel is a fluid used as a brain-computer interface and preservation medium by missionaries of the [[:bright_way|Bright Way]] during interstellar voyages. Yinrih are incapable of losing consciousness without dying, making anesthetic technologies for preserving crew during slower-than-light interstellar travel such as hypersleep unusable.+Neurogel is a fluid used as a brain-computer interface and preservation medium by missionaries of the [[lore:bright_way|Bright Way]] during interstellar voyages. Yinrih are incapable of losing consciousness without dying, making anesthetic technologies for preserving crew during slower-than-light interstellar travel such as hypersleep unusable.
  
  
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 The addictive nature of neurogel makes it an object of abuse by so-called //gel-heads//. The addictive nature of neurogel makes it an object of abuse by so-called //gel-heads//.
  
 +The manufacturing process for neurogel was for a very long time known only to the missionaries, who jealously guarded it even from the rest of the Claravian hierarchy. Especially during the age of decadence, the missionaries feared the hierarchy would find a way to monetize it like they did the other discoveries of the research monasteries. Batches would occasionally find their way into the paws of gelhead parlor owners and other unscrupulous characters, but the secret to making more stayed hidden until the War of Dissolution.
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 +After the Partisans expelled the missionaries from the outer belt, they seized the equipment and documentation needed to manufacture neurogel and began producing it themselves to use in oubliettes and for the mini mechs used by Immortals. The Allied Worlds has alleged that they also aid the smuggling of neurogel across Focus to fuel a growing substance abuse crisis.
  
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