Embrace of Pain

The Embrace of Pain was an organic, rack-like restraint used to torture prisoners. A victim was kept upside down in restraint bands, and tortured while the creature would read the electrochemical outputs of the victim's nerve impulses and evaluate their brain chemistry. The resultant data was used to keep the pain at constant and optimum levels. The device had a number of different methods for inducing pain, including stretching of ligaments and joints, acid, electric shocks, sharp devices, needles, thorns, and injected biotoxins. In at least one case, the victim was stripped naked, and all of his hairs pulled out. When the victim was at the brink of dying, the Embrace would tend to the prisoner's body by lowering them to the floor and letting them sleep for a time, while tending wounds and injecting the prisoner with enough water and nutrients to keep them alive. The Yuuzhan Vong did not consider it torture, and some Yuuzhan Vong, such as the members of Domain Shai, used the Embrace of Pain as a form of meditation.

The device could induce so much pain that it was capable of turning even the most noble Jedi to the dark side of the Force.

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