Background: Crius' foremost designer and wholesaler of cryogenic, electrostatic and neuroinfluential medical equipment, notably the range of superior quality NOWAKE suspended animation pods, a product so successful it is now in it's 32nd year of production. Shernikov Medical Equipment has recently been accused by the New Crius Examiner to be expanding into the military arena, adapting its neuroaffector and cathode projector technologies into non-lethal weaponry's, for sale to the Tri-System's less progressive regimes. However, given that journal's propensity for sensationalism and hyperbole, such information can be considered at best dubious.