Killed to Uphold the Masquerade: Again, a tactic used primarily by lower-tech and lower-ethics organizations, ones which can’t manage or don’t bother with amnesic drugs, memory redaction, a geas, simple memetic discrediting, or if all else fails, a trip to a perfectly nice, perfectly comfortable luxury space resort that no-one ever leaves.
memory redaction
Trope-a-Day: Resignations Not Accepted
Resignations Not Accepted: Averted – in a manner of speaking – for the Fifth Directorate. You can resign any time you like; but the conditions of employment with the Fifth are that to resign, you get to have your memories of everything you ever did for them redacted and replaced with a plausible alternative life story (that happens to explain everything that you are on record as doing that couldn’t be otherwise… elided.).
Trope-a-Day: Laser-Guided Amnesia
Laser-Guided Amnesia: Memory redaction. Exists as a technology specifically to let people forget (a) traumatic memories, (b) merely unpleasant memories (“let’s agree that this argument never happened, love”), and (c) memories which one is contractually obligated not to have (i.e., a very effective non-disclosure agreement – although the separation between narrative and procedural memory usually does let you keep the skills you acquired on the job).
Trope-a-Day: Fake Memories
Fake Memories: Again, something else that can be done with the dark side of sophotechnology (see also: Mind Rape, And I Must Scream, etc.). Also sometimes done with a more benevolent end in mind; redacting trauma, consensually removing security-sensitive memories, that sort of thing.
Falling In Love Again
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(Warning: Hedonitechnology, ICC, recommends the appointment of a legal proxy AI to ensure that all joint and several obligations continue to be met during the period of active redaction, and accepts no responsibility for decisions made by any involved party under the influence of ReLimerance technology. You, and only you, are responsible for yourself.)