Por que a estação só tem armas não letais?

No livro, Dresden explica que

“We modified our science team to remove ethical restraints.”

Half a dozen clues clicked into place in Holden’s head.

“Sociopaths,” he said. “You turned them into sociopaths.”

“High-functioning sociopaths,” Dresden said with a nod. He seemed pleased to explain it. “And extremely curious ones. As long as we kept them supplied with interesting problems to solve and unlimited resources, they remained quite content.”

“And a big security team armed with riot control rounds for when they aren’t,” Fred said.

“Yes, there are occasional issues,” Dresden said.

_{Leviathan Wakes, Chapter Forty-One: Holden}

No episódio seguinte do programa de TV ( "Static" ) é revelado que, como no livro, uma operação foi realizada sobre os cientistas - incluindo o cientista sobrevivente, Paolo Cortázar - para remover o seu empatia para que pudessem realizar suas pesquisas. Embora o programa de TV não forneça uma explicação explícita como o livro, presumivelmente o uso de cartelas de gel não letais foi pela mesma razão que no livro (para acabar com tumultos ocasionais de cientistas malucos). O problema não foi que alguns cientistas não estavam dispostos a trabalhar voluntariamente.

Um pouco sobre a visão sobre o tema do The Vital Abyss , a novela de James Corey

Everyone in research had undergone the treatment, which admittedly posed some problems. Singh in computational biology held forth on her theory of the protomolecule as a Guzman-style quantum computer one night over dinner, and when Kibushi used the information without citing her, she snuck into the showers at the gymnasium and beat him to death with a ceramic workbench cap. After that, security kept a closer eye on us all, but they also switched to nonlethal weapons. Singh, while formally reprimanded by Dresden, kept her status on her team. It only tended to confirm what we all already knew: Morality as we had known it no longer applied to us.