The scientists of the Empire of Ishtar were tasked with a means of insuring the survival in stasis of certain high value personel. The result was a process of dehydration that reduces a subject to a jar of white powder that can be reconstituted simply by pouring it out onto the floor. Whether it was a flaw of the technology (perhaps explaining why its use was so rare) or a symptom of decades of physical decay, those restored from dehydration do not last long--long enough to perhaps answer a few questions or complete a specific complex task. The results once the subject's reanimation has expired are unpleasant.
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