Psychotronics

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Psychotronics is term for the study and understanding of the preturnatural phenomena around the variety of seemingly mental-controlled powers. Users are known by a variety of names and subnames, while Psion is the most common personalized terms do slip into usage, from Esper, Mentalist and Clairvoyant to Psychonaut, Async, Seer, or Remote Viewer. The Kemzali, often considered the premier Psions, use the term Kemsaa, or "Dreamer" as their preferred term.

Functionality

Psychotronics are often considered by laymen to be a form of mental power with little limitations, remote control of objects, people or mental manipulations that seem to come from nowhere. The truth is far more limited. Energy, even psionic, is not a zero-sum-game and causes severe strain on the user equal to the force exhibited.

Law of Exchange

The fundamental rule of psychotronics is there is an equal exchange of energy. There are is no free energy gained from psionic manipulation and in most physical-interaction cases, the energy expended is often greater than if musculature, designed at a fundamental level to turn biological resources into power, was used. As such, while a psion could psychically pick up a ball next to them, levitate it, and throw it at 40-60 miles an hour, it would apply a similar force it would to the musculature of the individual. Transferred throughout the nervous-system of the individual and generating an amount of psychic heat equal to to energy applied. Similarly, if energy is projected by someone with a psionic force, the energy is consumed. Similarly, if energy is expelled, the energy is burned from the users own body.

Physical Limiters

Due to this fundamental law, psychotronic applications are limited in both range, effect, and power. While a psion is capable, in theory, of exhibiting immense force and effecting energy in an incredible way, energy must be expended, and stress must be applied to the body. If a ray of electrical energy is expelled, an human could never expel the potency of a lightning bolt at 1-4 billion joules. As the human body has about a million joules of energy within it. But the effect of a non-lethal electrical discharge could be produced, such as a cattleprod or a taser. Though the expenditure of energy increases dramatically as range increases as energy is wasted through travel. Simply put, any psychotronic application of a force, direct or indirect expends a great deal of stress on the body, burns through its energy reserves, and strains the mind and body and is limited by the body's own capacity to deal with these stressors.

Mental Limiters

While all psychotronic phenomena causes great mental strain, a greater strain is applied to purely mental arts such as precognition, telempathy, psychonautics, telepathy and hypercognition. Less clear is the application of the Law of Exchange on this mental strain. The simplest is the rapid burning through glucose reserves at an exponential rate compared to a brain not engaged in psychic activity. But the greater limiting factor is what is called simply Clarity. Commonly referred to as clarity. Clarity is the capacity for the Psion to trust their own perception, reality and place. The more one reaches out, consciously or unconsciously, the less clear your own identity, place, or even perception is. To a point where there is no capacity to consciously utilize or understand the Psychotronic abilities you possess, or even your own self.

Psychotronic Destruction

The end result of violating these limits is clear for a physical, an overstressed individual could burn too many calories to live, dying of starvation as they boil their brain--and body, alive, or who burned through their bodies glucose reserves and suffered brain death. For the mental, recovery is possible, but often results in a total loss of self. Subjects who've experienced mental psychotronic destruction is varied. Some become unable to manifest a true willpower, adhering to whatever reality is communicated to them at the time. Others lose all semblance of their former personality. More commonly, they completely lose the ability to distinguish reality and fiction. In all cases, destruction is considered a form of death that requires considerable medical aid to return the individual, if it is possible, to restore to functionality.

Methodologies an Origins

For most species, Psychotronic application is not natural, it requires a biological and technological adaptation and significant training.