Pacification Field

The pacification field is an emitter device developed by Big MT for use on the lobotomites created at the facility.

Background
The field eliminates the possibility of aggression and hostility in all lobotomites, specifically targeting the cybernetics installed in the vacuous skull cavity of lobotomites. Any lobotomite subjected to the field is completely pacified.

Characteristics
The pacification field is a passive emitter that only activates in the presence of a lobotomite, such as the Courier, enters its bounds. The pacification field is a safety protocol meant to keep the Think Tank of Big MT safe from their lobotomite creations which may act violently.

As the pacification field targets the cybernetics implanted in the empty skulls of lobotomites, the pacification field has no effect on a normal human. This was a problem the Think Tank became aware of after Ulysses, Christine Royce, and Elijah entered Big MT and left disrupting several experiments in their wake. The Think Tank was unprepared for combat and was unable to properly defend themselves against unpacifiable humans, which left two of the Think Tank injured. The incident had them recalibrate the pacification field as well as prepare their "branial beams" for any such instance occurring again.

Gameplay
As the Courier is essentially a lobotomite at the beginning of Old World Blues, they are under the direct influence of the field when they are in the presence of the Think Tank until their brain is implanted back.

While in the pacification field, the Courier cannot:
 * Attack, either through free aim or in VATS.
 * Crouch which eliminates the possibility of planting items.