Neuropeptide Augmentation, Acceleration, and Acclimation (N3A) is a safe and common procedure for mech pilots that has some disconcerting side effects. As an experienced officer, it's your job to adjust rookies to the mechanization procedure and reassure them this is normal.
Obviously the medical procedures, conducted by anonymous medical personnel often in an assembly line procedure in the medical barracks is disconcerting. Recall your own alienation and shock at the procedure, mention the pain of repeated needle injections to build empathy.
If you fail at this procedure, you can worsen a sense of paranoia amongst recruits which contributes to the high washout rate before hitting the Lifetime Mechanization Limit or LML of the program. They must understand this is normal, their new feelings, and you understand them.
At this point in the presentation stand close to one or more of the recruits, more than you normally would in military procedure. Put your hand on a shoulder and recall the first night asleep after N3A in the sleep chair, the vivid dreams, use a curse word to emphasize it.
If you were one of the 8% of aphantasic personnel pre or post-procedure turn to Appendix 1.A of this document for a list of vivid nightmares to practice on and repeat. Mix with details from your own life or you can worsen the sense of paranoia.
The important thing to remember about the N3A post-procedure briefing is to reassure rookies that the procedure is not nefarious, unusual, or atypical. That all pilots go through it, it is not only for their own benefit but for their safety and comfort through the program.
