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Touching is the hard part. Their sentience though doesn't seem to be to high level (they still follow orders and stuff). Then again I'm not the GM.
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Well when someone knows how you were created and knows all the secrets then yeah they'll be able to control you. But the sentience of the scarab gets stronger as time goes on and develops a resistance to Reach Tech. Or so I've read.