The XS machine

Here you see the XS machine, Pr Wright's greatest achievement to date.
Its shape may look strange, but it is highly ergonomic and patients can spend hours in it without feeling uncomfortable. When the patient is installed, the larger part lowers down to totally enclose her. This way, the X-waves are evenly distributed throughout the body of the subject. The various hoses you notice are needed to relay the power cables to the most essential areas with a minimal loss of energy.
You can notice a big, roughly squared, articulated part at the top of the opened machine. This part is positioned over the head of the patient during a session. It houses various connections for virtual reality displays, which are used to further enhance the psychological effect of X-stimulation.
All in all, this machine is much more ergonomic than the original device invented by the infamous "Le Concierge".
There is always a member of the medical staff who attends the sessions in case something strange would happen. Most of the time it is one of the nursybs, but in some cases Natacha stays with her charge. In exceptional cases, Prof Wright himself directs the session.

The XS machine has two variants for the time being.

The first one is highly experimental and has yet to be fully tested. It is called the Multi-XS. It consists of several XS machines grouped and synchronised. This configuration allows for group therapy.
The intended purpose of the Multi-XS is for restoring good relationships between several people. Just as the XS machine can restore harmony in one own's psyche, multi XS should be capable of restoring harmony within a group. This is a much needed treatment since superheroines very often belong to groups. At times, personal relationships within these groups may become strained, which can be a menace to the team's continued existence, even if no one in the group is suffering from a mental illness. The multi XS, in such cases, should be able to resynchronise the X-biorythms of the team members thus making them overcome their problems.
Multi-XS is also, in theory, capable of diagnosing the Doppleganger Syndrome (this disease has been described by the scientists of the Chainsman Institute) or differentiating between someone and her clone. It is inevitable these days, given the progress of genetics, that the occurrence of an heroine confronted to her clone will get ever more frequent. Testing who is who will become increasingly difficult. With the multi-XS, you could tell the difference by using what Prof Simon calls the X² test (Chi-square test). It involves fine diagnostics of one's aura through prolonged X-stimulation. You would need the subject and her clone to be installed on the machine, and also a person who is very close to the original subject. The distorsions between cases and reference would allow for a diagnostic to be made.
All these indications are still conjectural and the Multi-XS machine is still experimental.

By contrast the second variant is used routinely in La Conciergerie. It is a scaled down version of the XS machine that is called Light XS. Light XS looks like an armoured bikini and is actually worn by the patient. It produces X-stimuli and X-waves exactly like the XS machine, which stimulates the basic chakra points. It may not have enough power to deliver the incredible amount of stimulation offered by its bigger counterpart, but it is more than capable of provoking strong reactions as well as powerful and frequent releases in any female patient. It has an operational capability of 2 weeks at full power use.
It cannot be used to conduct a full treatment because it lacks all the sophisticated recording and analysis capacities of the XS machine, but it has it is quite sophisticated nonetheless, due to its several dials (one on the lower part, two n the upper part) which are used to regulate precisely the amount of stimulation delivered to each chakra point.

It is used as a secondary therapy when Prof Wright thinks that a particular patient needs prolonged low level X-stimulation rather than the higher levels. Since it can be worn, her X-biorythms can be stimulated night and day for long periods of time.
The second use of Light XS is for transport. Patients having to wait a long time in the corridors before or after their sessions receive a continuous basal stimulation so that they are better prepared for their treatment.

There is also an unofficial use for Light XS. Since wearing it is unanimously recorded as a pleasant experience, it is sometimes used by U 89, our Discipline Manager, to reward some of her students.
Judith, our security officer, has sometimes used it in this way.
Prof Wright has turned a blind eye on this, but he has reminded them that XS technology could be easily used to torture people depending on who it was applied to and what levels were delivered. He has made it clear that none of this would be tolerated in his Clinique.
It seems his warning has been heard since no one has ever complained about XS technology misuse.

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