Implant Memory

Effect

Touch a target. Plant a false memory in their mind. The memory must be plausible given the target’s life experience. It feels completely real — the target cannot distinguish it from genuine memory without external evidence. The memory includes appropriate emotional weight and physical sensations.

Duration: Permanent until removed.

Resist

ECHO + Focus vs. your Channeling Sum. On success, the memory feels “dream-like” and suspicious.

Steps

+1 month of conviction durability per Step — at higher Steps, the memory resists contradictory evidence longer (the target rationalizes contradictions instead of doubting the memory).

Special

Removal: A Bastion Soul’s Grounding (R2) or higher dispels a fresh Implant Memory while it’s still active. Another Mindweaver can strip it surgically. Or the target may confront undeniable contradictory evidence and shatter the implant on their own — sometimes traumatically.

This is the constructive counterpart to Memory Hole. Where Memory Hole erases, Implant Memory creates. Both are considered among the most serious violations of mental sovereignty on the Frontier.