Dana wrote...
But in TWB, Blake is a high-caste respectable citizen and has to be told to avoid food and drink, so he is given suppressants. Were civilians but not the military given suppressants? Or only rank and file soldiers but not officers or not senior officers?
It's not made entirely clear exactly what effect the supressants are supposed to have. I mean people presumable have to be able to work so it can't affect there thinking that much so maybe it's not too much a problem in that respect but certainly laid back dopey soldiers aren't going to be that much use. Maybe the military used a different set of drugs altogether designed to err 'improve moral'
And does the Pylene-50 pacification program show that a) after the Andromedan War, the ordinary suppressants could no longer be administered? b) the Pylene-50 was just supposed to be topped up? c) TPTB forgot about the earlier reference to suppressants?
With certain types of drugs it's possible to build up a tolerance/resistance to over time, maybe Pylene-50 was just the next round of suppressant type drugs.