YMMV / Look to Windward

• Paranoia Fuel: The brain implants allowing the Chelgrians to erase and gradually restore their agents' memories, with them only knowing their task just as they're about to complete it. The consequence of this is that anyone could be a sleeper agent terrorist or assassin, and even they don't know it. If this was deployed in a civilisation less advanced and/or Crazy-Prepared than the Culture, it would be a sure-fire recipe for mass panic and suspicion.

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