Great White Games/Pinnacle Entertainment Group

[chadhale]

Again I wanted to share a few of my concept ideas with you all and see what you think about it. The reasoning, "even the very wise can not see all ends"- or While I am face first into a tree; what do you all think of the forest?
I am including a chapter for PSIONICS rules in REVOLUTIONS for the purpose of role playing in other FICTIONAL futures depicted by science fiction. all of this information is optional.

SCIENCE is not at it's end. Lord Kelvin had no idea how wrong he was. Indeed, "There is no illusion more dangerous than the belief that the progress of science is predictable", Professor Freeman Dyson.

What could be discovered in the next 100 years? I do not know. Before Newton "gravity" was taken for granted, and today the wave projector is putting the very stars into our reach. So, what could the future hold?

[chadhale]

Okay, Holographic theory is out.
What about this concept?

Psychic capacity may exist in us all,
but just as one person may have a "talent" for the piano...
and many others not have the same talent.
it is the same with psi.

How did Psi become part of us?
Evolution, is adaption to the environment via;
long stretches of slight changes or
Brief spans of RADICAL change!
The changes utilize the existing laws of the ENVIRONMENT.
In essence, Psi capacity may be a mutation on par with human consciousness. Akin to the radical departure of fish in the sea to reptiles on land.

only that this adaptation has hit on something in physics; the non-local phenomena found by Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky.

So, Psi phenomena does exist, we do not understand it- but nature does.
After all, in 2013 we are still teaching robots to walk,
Something evolution has done over a billion or two years ago...

While telepathy and clairvoyance seem to be particularly common,
Lifeshaping (healing, hysterical strength, superhuman feats, etc.) and
Psychokinesis (telekinesis, pyrokinesis, etc) are much more rare.
Classified Pk research found that energy had to be consumed.
What psychics were missing then was...

Power.

[chadhale]

enter the enemy
or more accurately, the N.M.E.
The Nuclear metabolic enzyme.
Discovered in genetically engineered bacteria that can survive extreme radiation,
a biological machine like mitochondria that UTILIZED radiation to produce energy, rather than chemical energy (i.e. FOOD).
biological harnessing of nuclear energy!

Bio-tech firms, Universities, and classified agencies, Applied the N.M.E.
to Psi-active subjects and the results where astounding!

Psychics who could barely move a grain of sand (a subject of much ridicule and suspected of fraud) could suddenly affect a mass of much greater size, and for far longer.

Doubt of psychic power was crushed.

[chadhale]

With this "background story" for psi,
we can readily imagine EDGES and hindrances based on it,
and explain why not EVERYONE is psionic.
We can also use this "biological power" from the N.M.E. as an explanation for why bioroids, cyborgs, and robots do not have Psi capacity.

1. the evolutionary adaptation resulting in Psi is way beyond the capabilities of our science.
2. the N.M.E. produces energy for biological systems.
3. cybernetic implants are not perfect connections of digital computer to analog nerves. The error ridden signals have an impact on the cyborg's brain and thus the cyborg's mind.
4. We don't know what makes a person psychic, genetic engineering may have made super-humans by making ten thousand or so changes.
We do not know what the interaction between all the genes may be. Thus, Bioroids, can be barred from psi capacity.
5. Just as in human intellect (I.Q.) we have rare extremes of the bell curve, psi-active persons are like other forms of prodigy...
Not everyone has an I.Q. of 200, 150 or even 100.
A player who invests as many traits (attributes, edges, skills) as possible in "Psionics" could be viewed as being a psi-equivalent of marlyn vos savant intellect.