Neural resocialization

Neural resocialization is a process used to treat criminals suffering from mental disorders. The process usually, if not always, involves sentencing the criminals into the military. A number of mercenaries, such as Marcus Wright, have also undergone the experience as a result of having committed brutal crimes.

Doctors program the resocialization to find and remove certain memories from the brain, and is very painful. The process can "suppress" emotionally charged memories, covering them with "chocolate-coated" memories. The process uses cybernetics, which have become less obvious over time. This can drastically change the victim's personality.

Neurally resocialized individuals always follow orders from their higher ranking officers, but the process can leave them vulnerable to taking orders from non-military personnel. This susceptibility to orders increases when the person is under the effects of stims. Neurally resocialized soldiers can shift loyalties if their commanders do so as well. Resocialized characters' minds are "fuzzy" when sensed by a telepath.

Neural resocialization is not restricted to enlisted personnel; Lieutenant Emily Swallow of Alpha Squadron had undergone the process. Notably, a number of obvious candidates have not undergone the process, such as Major Esmerelda Ndoci.

Terrans believe the process is foolproof, but the Protoss mystic Zamara knows better.