Micro Bugs

Micro bugs are tiny implants that serve as a both a delivery system and a voice-activated control chip. Micro bugs come in several flavors:

Control Chips

Realizing The Order couldn't have its army of super soldiers rebelling or turning against them, Mother Superior tasked Doctor Amy Madison with the design and development of a mechanism to control the superhumans they would create via Orgone Infusion.

Inhibitor Chips

Dr. Madison's design concepts for the Inhibitor chip would have made superhuman subjects more obedient to designated authority should they get out of hand. In her blueprint concepts, she designed utilitarian variance into the inhibitor chips to provide even more control by negating superhuman powers, increasing compliance, or instantaneously inducing a comatose-like sleep in the subject, depending on the chip implanted.

(Un)Known Weaknesses

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Design Flaw: Dr. Madison did not anticipate the need to protect the senstive electronics of the micro bug from severe electrical shock. Therefore, exposure to high voltage damages the micro bugs because they are not electrically shielded much beyond a safe voltage that would otherwise kill an ordinary human being.

Utility

Once in place, the micro bug makes the subject highly susceptible to suggestion. Depending on the variant, it may also immobilize the individual and/or render them unconscious.

Manufacturing

Doctor Amy Madison painstakingly created and programmed the first micro bugs in her workroom laboratories at the Rangeley Reactor Core facility in Rangeley, ME. After Dr. Madison defected from The Order, Victor Kraze had someone else pick up and develop her research.

Inventor(s)

Doctor Amy Madison

Access & Availability

The micro bug has tiny legs similar to an insect that allow it to crawl into a human being via the ear canal, burrow through the tympanic membrane, and follow the otic nerve to the subject’s brain stem. There, it attaches itself to the cerebral cortex via a small anchor. The process is painful to the conscious person.

Discovery

Doctor Amy Madison drew inspiration from the Ceti eels scene from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.