The Conscionauts

Vampire the Requiem - Covenant - Carthians

Possibly a splinter off The Night Doctors, the Conscionauts focus on the mental aspects of the vampire curse, rather than the physical. Neither as secretive nor as feared as The Night Doctors, the Conscionauts move openly within Kindred society, propagating their ideas and exchanging their theories and data with other Carthians and even open-minded researchers from other covenants.
Position: The key to the mysteries of the Kindred state are in the mind, not the body. While the power of the Disciplines blurs the line between mind and matter, mind is clearly dominant and directive. Furthermore, old psychiatric modalities do not apply to the Beast/Man consciousness of the Kindred. New studies are needed.

Public Agenda

Unlike The Night Doctors, from whom the Conscionauts (possibly) sprang, the Conscionauts can identify themselves openly and perform their experiments with far fewer terminal results (though, you know, shit happens). Many Conscionauts do resemble their possible progenitors in their cavalier attitude toward ethics, especially as regards the question of unwilling or unknowing test subjects. (Indeed, if the Beast truly is the separate entity it sometimes seems, there can be no question of obtaining its consent for experiments.) Many Conscionauts were psychologists or psychologists in life, and retain a penchant for short facial hair and comforting fuzzy sweaters. Just as many were in therapy or in recovery programs. Telling the former doctors and former patients apart can be very difficult — indeed, there are some Conscionauts who’ve been both.
Mission: Perform psychiatric experiments to model and predict the behavior of the Beast, as well as tests on the limitations and therapeutic potential of mind-altering Disciplines such as Dominate, Nightmare and Majesty.

Type

Political, Activist

Ruling Organization

The Carthian Movement

Parent Organization

The Carthian Movement