Cortical Psychic Patch

The cortical psychic patch is an ingenious method of memory extraction fabricated by Shockwave. It is used for mind reading, to find valuable information hidden. Cortical psychic patches can be failed, and the results may be catastrophic if the neural net of the Autobot or, in no case existing, the Decepticon, has not been neutralized. It is not possible to extract a memory or information that does not exist, which is another way of failing the psychic path, and potentially killing the victim if the method is performed too vigorously in an attempt to unravel enough information. Any kind of information can be interpreted and utilized by the cortical psychic path. The only user of the cortical psychic path to date has been Shockwave, and his known victims include Arcee (successful) and Wheeljack (failed). Others are sure to have been interrogated as such, as Arcee's was not Shockwave's first usage of the cortical psychic path. It is unknown if the entry of Smokescreen's and Starscream's minds by Megatron was a cortical psychic path, as the procedure is dauntingly similar.