In honor of spoopy season, here's a shower thought I had regarding Firefly's current situation. I've established that neurogel acts as a bridge between a brain and a computer system. So far I've only explored how that looks from the suspended person's perspective, basically the Matrix. But if you recall the original draft of the Matrix explained the reason why the humans were in there was so their brains could serve as natural neural networks for the machines, not the stated purpose in the film that humans were a power source. I've also stated that AGI is impossible in the Lonely Galaxy. But thanks to neurogel we can take the A out of AGI and just have GI. What if, by accident or design, either Firefly's or the Partisan government's, Firefly's brain ends up integrated so tightly into the Capital Complex's network that he becomes a non-artificial general intelligence.
Further, what if, after discovering this, the Partisan government, instead of using oubliettes as a simulated Hell, uses them to subject prisoners to the same fate? To reiterate, suspension is not brain uploading. A person's mind/soul/consciousness is very much still bound to their body. All suspension does is provide alternative input/output.