A reformant was a person on planet Betrisius III who had been convicted of a crime, and implanted with a neural mediator, which altered their mental processes and controlled their behavior during their mandated period of rehabilitation. In the decades leading up to the mid 24th century, the authorities on Betrisius, specifically the Ministry of Reformation of the Lisqual province government, began to erode the rights of their reformants, forcing them into military service (as soldiers known as Morhenza), and arbitrarily extending their sentences in order to keep them as laborers.