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Daennika wrote:

On torture the worst one I heard of was the Japanese would impale you on bamboo shoots tie you down and leave you, with the bamboo growing up to an inch a day inside you. Not very nice

Really? the worst I heard is the one (I can't remember what its called) where they hang you until your almost dead, cut you down, give you a few minutes to recover, then slice open your stomach, pull out your guts, and while they're still attached to you, chuck em in a fire and make you watch them burn...

yeowch.

And believe it or not, I heard about this when I was in 3rd grade...lol, from my mom.

Death certainly is not the intended result to obtain information and you don't want to make that person lose their mind from the pain either. There are recent studies on the actual effect that pain has on a subject, whether the information given is real at all...

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=1322866

Buuuuuuut coming back to the topic, the type of interrogation used by Mando's should be specific to whoever's leading it. If I would have to write a "torture scene" where a Mandalorian is supposed to be the good guy showing his/her ugly side it would have to be either:
a. kinda drawn out and boring, a long conversation that eventually tricks the subjects into telling the information
b. a pre-arranged blackmail/setup
c. a "good cop, bad cop" thing to get on the subject's nerves




d. five minutes of Bardan Jusik staring motionless

Well, if you're really interested in the topic, then I'd recommend to have a look at this: KUBARK (pdf)

It's a CIA manual on coersive questioning, and as far as I remember, it's quite educational. At least, it was written by the professionals.

Uh, sorry, it's practically the same thing which is described in the previous link.

Again Daennika its all depends on the plot you are planning on but a Mando in my mind would choose the most efficient and pragmatic way, a long drawn out interrogation with preplanned traps to trip the suspect up just wouldn’t be there style. And the good cop bad cop is a bit lame who has never heard of it.

Take the interrogation in triple zero with Vau it’s pretty much left unsaid but what I took from it was Vau said “tell me what you know and I’ll kill you quick if you don’t I’ll kill you very painfully and very slowing”.

One situation I have heard of and it’s pretty funny (I know you shouldn’t laugh but it is funny) after the usual run of the mill treatment not working a suspect was taken hooded onto a helicopter and it lifted off, the suspect being ruffed about in the back of the helicopter was aloud to have his hood slip of so he could see how high up he was so rehooded with the helo slowly lowering the questioning begins again if the right answer is not given the suspect is to be thrown out as the terror mounts the helicopters landing gear a foot of the ground even if the suspect has spilt his guts they throw him out to fall a few feet. So you can imagine the mental anguish the suspect is under so the next time he’s taken up again will it be a long aarrrrggghhhh or a short aarrrrggghhhh.

It sure is funny. As for laughing at such things being immoral - well, we here are fans of a violent, pragmatic and cruel people, and I don't think anyone expects us to be overly moral.

According to my limited knowledge on interrogations, the scheme is usually like this: don't let the object sleep, apply lesser, but wearing pain, never stop asking questions. Or, if you choose to act on the spot, I mean, on the exact spot you caught your unlucky guy and if he's not really tough, you can try to scare him into speaking by shouting at him, threatening to kill him and so on (it works only if the person is in shock). It's a pity I dropped my knife-fighting lessons, the guy who taught me knew a lot about the actual procedures.

The article made me laugh a lot. Noble and 'hero'? What do they think we are, anyway? Jetii?

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As for laughing at such things being immoral - well, we here are fans of a violent, pragmatic and cruel people, and I don't think anyone expects us to be overly moral.

I nearly spit my drink reading the helicopter torture method. Don't feel guilty for laughing- funny is funny.

As for me, if I were trying to get information from a stubborn mark, I'd opt more for psychological torture, although actual harm would always be on the table. I'd also hint at them being released for being talkative, whether I had any intention to do so or not. He'd lie to save his own shebs, so why not lie to make him talk?

As far as morals go- scruples are nice, but don't let them handicap you.