As a way to make her talk, Meero orders an ISB worker to use an audio torture device on Bix that continuously plays the dying screams of children over and over through a pair of headphones. The screams come from an Imperial genocide that took place on the planet Dizon Frey, with the native Dizonites being culled by the Empire during colonization efforts and the construction of a refueling center.

"The massacre of the Dizonites was broadcast and recorded as proof of mission," the ISB worker says. "They make a sound as they die — a sort of choral, agonized pleading. It's quite unlike anything anyone has ever heard before." According to the worker, a trio of communications officers monitoring the broadcast were later found in various states of emotional distress. He tells Bix: "We've taken the recordings and modified them slightly. Layering, adjusting. And we found a section of what we believe are primarily children, which has its own particular effect."