[ Right, what could be weirder than Norse gods showing up? Not much.

Still, dreamshare is a pretty wild concept. ]

The tech induces lucid dreaming. And it can be a shared dreamspace. So, in the early iterations, it was build a training landscape, plop soldiers down in the dream, and let them kill each other. You know, shock it out of their system that way, so when they hit the real thing, it wasn't a crisis.

[ It's been a while since he's talked about any of this, so he takes a hasty swallow of drink, blinking back the burn of it. ]

That didn't really go as intended, so they axed the program. And the tech eventually made it out to university research, then to the black market.