Domestication Unit MKII

The Domestication Unit MKII, or DU2, is the successor to the Domestication unit utilized by the Enclave and has been modified for use on human subjects.
==Background==
Following the destruction of Raven Rock and their defeat at the Jefferson Purifier, the Enclave was suffering a severe lack of personnel properly wage war against the Lyons' Brotherhood of Steel. Enclave scientists began their work on a modified version of the Domestication Unit to remedy this. Initially intended for use on Deathclaws, these newer models, dubbed Domestication Unit MKII, were designed to control an implanted subject by lobotomizing the individual and surgically implanting the Domestication Unit MKII with bone-anchors in the skull. Due to the unsightly and morale decreasing visage of subjects implanted with a DU2, the subjects were rebranded as "Enclave Enhanced Conscripts" and were required to wear an Advanced Power Armor helmet to obscure their appearance, with concealment explained as a product of the "enhancement process". The DU2 would then produce agitating sounds directly into the ears of the Conscript to increase their aggression. Enclave members deployed were be issued specialized ID cards to carry on their person that would emit a pacifying sound that would have the Conscript avoid harming or attacking the holders. If Conscripts became out of line, a shock device was equipped to the DU2 as well for corrective punishment. 
===Limitations and Setbacks===
Collection of candidates was limited to those collected from Enclave Checkpoints or hiring, then double-crossing, mercenaries, as attempting to confront and pacify a hostile and well-trained subject may lead to loss of existing personnel or the candidate. Of subjects taken from checkpoints, the vast majority were untrained and malnourished, leading to poorer performance.
Enclave Conscripts must be within range of an Enclave communications tower for the DU2 to take effect, meaning that conscripts were almost exclusively utilized in perimeter defence and other guard positions, not reducing the number of Enclave Soldiers killed during forward operations.
Conscripts would also undergo rapid brain deterioration if under the agitating effect of a DU2 for a prolonged time, with many lasting less than 14 days before entering permeant ferality or experiencing brain death.
Should a subject receive sufficient damage to the head, damaging the DU2, the unit could become inoperable and have the subject revert to an uncontrolled feral state attacking indiscriminately or dying instantly.
Due to the invention of the control scrambler by Scribe Vallincourt, Lyons' Brotherhood of Steel possessed a signal override for Domestication Units, which would alter the signals so that members of the Enclave would be identified as hostiles and those in possession of control scramblers would be identified as allies.
Upon the death of a Conscript, recovery attempts would be needed to collect the DU2 for future use, which would take time and training to complete due to the unit being skull-anchored. Alternatively, a field cephalectomy could be performed and the collected cranium transported to a trained individual to retrieve the unit.
Category:Enclave technology