A couple of years back I remember hearing that someone, possibly DARPA, had (or has) a drug entering human trials that basically blocked fatigue. It went into the brain and said no, you're not tired, everything is fine. It wasn't a stim. It didn't lead to shaky hands or jittery tempers, or anything like that, it just switched that part of you off. It lasted quite some time and did not involve a caffiene-style crash afterwards because it's not a stim. I think it was some kind of neuro-chemical blocker. The implications were that troops on the battlefield could go for days without sleep and suffer none of the effects of sleep deprivation. Suggested civillian uses included giving them to truckers to prevent accidents, or using them as a performance enhancing drug to eliminate that inconvenient period of sleep that your corporate masters would rather not have to let you go home for.
I saw it on several different outlets for bleeding-edge tech news online and then poof. It was gone. I havn't seen any mention of it since. Which makes me wonder if maybe it wasn't supposed to be public knowledge in the first place.
I think health dispensers would make a lovely repository for your suit to refill on this stuff.
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Date: 2008-05-02 11:24 pm (UTC)I saw it on several different outlets for bleeding-edge tech news online and then poof. It was gone. I havn't seen any mention of it since. Which makes me wonder if maybe it wasn't supposed to be public knowledge in the first place.
I think health dispensers would make a lovely repository for your suit to refill on this stuff.