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  TABLE OF CONTENTS
  
  Welcome to the world of Noetics - a Science that has been in existence for a 
  mere twenty years, but that has and still helps to solve the mysteries and provide 
  answers to the Great Questions of the Universe! Despite the tragic loss of knowl-
  edge that was the unavoidable result of the fall of the quantakinetic Chitra Bhanu, 
  Aeon and the Orders have made remarkable progress in this new field - for the 
  betterment of all humanity.
  As I’m sure you know, the study of Noetics was spearheaded by the proxies 
  Sarah Bhurano and Mathieu Zwiendler. Their early findings helped to explain the 
  natural phenomenon that is Psionic Evolution - which greatly helped the citizens of 
  this world to accept the Orders as their protectors. Aeon was involved in much of 
  this early research and, still to this day, assists with and co-ordinates much of the 
  leading Noetic Science work.
  Naturally, when the Orders revealed themselves, a flood of new questions were 
  asked relating to the subquantum universe and to its interaction with life as we 
  know it. The most obvious and most common of these questions was simply, “What 
  is the difference between Psions and aberrants?” In our fear we wanted to know 
  if Humanity’s new defenders would turn on us like the aberrants had. Would these 
  unique individuals fall prey to the same destructive madness? As we learned more 
  we came to realize the true nature of Psi, and that Psions themselves are not sus-
  ceptible to the Taint Sickness that afflicts the aberrants. Over time that knowledge 
  has become established fact. What is not commonly known is how Psi truly func-
  tions - where it fits into the grand science of all things - and perhaps most impor-
  tantly, how Psions are able to influence this strange ‘building block of life’.
  In this document you will learn about the quintessential differences between 
  Psi and Taint, and exactly how the Psions manipulate the very world around us. 
  The Aeon Trinity has developed this report in order to help prepare you for the 
  situations you will encounter in the field; whether it is perfecting your usage of 
  your Psionic Aptitudes, dealing with an aberrant threat, or even discovering a new 
  property of Psi itself. 
  I hope that you will read this document carefully and review it in the future as 
  you carry on your service to Humanity and to the Trinity. Over time we may unlock 
  all the secrets of the universe, until then treasure what has been presented to you.
  GREETINGS COLLEAGUE -
  Ad Astra
  Neville Archer
  Director, Neptune Division
  Æeon Trinity
  Hope  -  Sacrifice - Unity 
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  THEORETICAL
  
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  Dear student – it falls to me to write the intro-
  duction to this introductory book for my dear friend 
  and colleague. How does one write the introduc-
  tion to an introductory book to a subject that has 
  really only just been introduced? QUITE EASILY 
  REALLY! I will simply tell you everything that you 
  really need to know about Noetics, but were too 
  afraid to ask! I shall leave the ‘boring’ equations 
  for those esteemed authors who are being paid for 
  their intelligence rather than their pedigree.
  As you (hopefully) already know, Noetic Sci-
  ence came into being (proper) in 2106 with the 
  discovery of the psion particle. Hopefully you will 
  also have realized that the name ‘psion particle’ is 
  a bit misleading. ‘Psion particle’ is merely another 
  name for subquantum particle; just as our for-
  bears found particles within apparently indivisible 
  ‘atoms’ so too might it be with psion particles. 
  There could be hundreds of types of subquantum 
  particle – we just don’t know and will likely never 
  know in our lifetimes despite the ‘almost intuitive’ 
  leaps that we have made in recent years. What we 
  are now pretty sure of is that subquan-
  tum particles definitely exist. I’m sure 
  that you will all get a mark or two out 
  of that statement! Take solace in that, because 
  the rest of Noetic Science is, unfortunately, not 
  quite so straightforward. 
  Noetic Science incorporates the study of 
  Quantum and Subquantum Physics, Psychol-
  ogy and, strangely enough, a certain amount 
  of Spiritualism and Philosophy. You might ask, 
  as I did, “Why incorporate Spiritualism and 
  Philosophy in a Science… Psychology is bad 
  enough!” Well, for one thing it is tradition 
  – the founder of Noetic Science, S.K. Bhurano 
  was all of these things. Bhurano’s insight 
  was pure Philosophy; her understanding was 
  born of years of the practice of Psychology, 
  whilst her knowledge of Physics was merely 
  a requirement of necessity. The lesson here is 
  this – in Noetics you may learn the facts, but 
  to go further you need to follow your instincts. 
  Instincts are literally the most important tools 
  that Noeticists have. We, as Psions, are in tune 
  with the noetic medium – if we focus and follow 
  our instincts we will find the answers that we’re 
  looking for!
  Now – here’s the annoying bit. Noetics 
  is not comprised of one theory – rather it is 
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  comprised of many. Fortunately the 
  application of these theories has proven 
  to be somewhat complementary even 
  though the reasoning behind them might seem 
  to be at odds. The reason for this is twofold. 
  Firstly, since the science is comprised of many 
  elements, each researcher brings his or her 
  particular background bias to the theoretical 
  table. Secondly, but no less importantly, each 
  brain and personality is unique. Psions share 
  an understanding of the medium, but they do 
  not necessarily relate that understanding in the 
  same way. Consequently, the study of Noetics 
  can be somewhat subjective in its reasoning 
  – if not in its results.
  In the following chapters you will be led 
  on an epic journey. You will learn the Bricks 
  and Mortar Model of the Psi Universe that is 
  currently accepted (for the most part). Let me 
  explain this to you in a nutshell before one of 
  my esteemed colleagues confuses you with 
  numbers. The Bricks and Mortar model holds 
  that Psi is the invisible mortar of the universe. 
  Psion particles surround each quantum particle 
  of each ‘object’ and guide and control both its 
  form and properties. Yes, yes - conventional 
  physics says that intermolecular forces do 
  those things. What I am telling you is that Psi 
  is part of that intermolecular force. At the very 
  least Psi is there – and Psi knows what is going 
  on. It was by manipulating this intermolecu-
  lar Psi that the quantakinetics could affect the 
  properties of these particles. Naturally, nuclear 
  forces are amongst the strongest things known 
  to us and require a lot of Psi to influence, but 
  yet it could be done! Basically, this model says 
  that the Rules for the way Everything does and 
  can behave are written in Psi.
  A more recent model that you should 
  already be aware of at some level, being 
  Psions, is the Living Universe model of Psi. 
  This theory holds that all Psi is shared by and 
  recycled by life. The theory posits that there is 
  a finite amount of Psi Energy within the Uni-
  verse, which, like all energy and matter cannot 
  be created or destroyed within a closed system 
  - only cycled through various states. Liv-
  ing Universe holds that ambient Psi is largely 
  disordered. Only living things can recycle Psi 
  from a disordered state to an ordered one. The 
  reasons for this theory are obvious – we know 
  for certain that living things are surrounded by 
  renewing psion fields far stronger than any 
  non-living object, and that the only technol-
  ogy capable of channeling Psi energy is living 
  technology. We know that when something is 
  created – however mundane – that a certain 
  amount of psionic energy flows into it – even 
  if the object is merely a wrench or a spoon. 
  If we’re watching and we’re focused we can 
  feel this. Some theorists believe that this means 
  that on some level the wrench or spoon is alive 
  whereas the formless metal that was com-
  prised of was not – or at least much less alive. 
  Perhaps they are right? Perhaps not. What is 
  important is that there is a slight, but detect-
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  >> Triton Archive <<
  Subject: Last week’s tests
  From: S. Bhurano, Chitra Bhanu
  To: Matthieu Zwiedler, 
  AEsculapian Order
  Importance: High
  Encryption: DSE
  Transmission type: textfile
  Date: 11.28.10 12.6.2106
  Good evening Matthieu.
  I was reviewing the results of the 
  tests that we ran last week, and came 
  across some interesting findings. On 
  a hunch I cross referenced the break-
  down pattern with the micro-cellular 
  degradation scheme that we were 
  looking at two weeks ago, and it 
  just came to me that the quarks are 
  reacting to some even more funda-
  mental particles - SUBquantum par-
  ticles! I double checked the settings 
  on the Biosensor and they appear to 
  be in line with our other tests! See for 
  yourself 
   >>>Attached File: Test Batch 
  CBAE21064FZ<<<.  
  I believe that we may finally be 
  onto something, Matthieu.  Please 
  go over the prints and see what you 
  make of it.
  Regards
  SKB 
  
  ORGOTEK LABS
  Trevor Knowles, PhD
  Head of Research - 
  Orgosoft Farms
  able, increase in ambient psi field strength 
  in areas that contain more (obviously) living 
  things, and that Psi energy is imbued into 
  things when they are created - usually by 
  the creator; and that Psi energy is shared 
  between objects - flowing most strongly 
  from higher to lower life.
  The Memory Model postulates that Psi 
  retains certain qualities of the area that 
  generates it… or possibly that it encourages 
  the area within it to possess certain char-
  acteristics. Extreme examples of this can be 
  found in any city. Walk into any old church 
  or temple. Feel that? What is that exactly? 
  Reverence? Now walk into a graveyard. 
  How do you feel? Solitude? Where does 
  that feeling come from? Do our conventional 
  senses link this sight to some society estab-
  lished meme? We have tested this thoroughly 
  on sites of demolished churches in France 
  – and have found that Psions in particular 
  could still sense the overwhelming Memory 
  of an area – without any visual cues. Is much 
  of the supernatural rooted in the subquantum 
  universe? Read on!
  The last of the major theories is the 
  Synchronicity Model. This model holds that 
  psions act like particles and like waves (there 
  is always one you see). Since waves are 
  essentially endless, they are everywhere. If 
  something exists on one part of a wave – it 
  will exist along the entire wave sooner or 
  later, unless it is interfered with. Have you 
  ever thought of someone right before they 
  popped up on your OpNet hololink? If you 
  have then this model will tell you why! And 
  that’s not all – the zany folks who came up 
  with the model also suggest that those same 
  nice psion waves travel forward and back-
  ward in time too… so looking at the right part 
  of the waveform is like looking into a crystal 
  ball. Now you know how ISRA does it!
  What about the rest? Well – there is 
  some biology and there will be more when 
  more of the genome project is restored. Yes 
  – I can hear you rubbing your hands in glee 
  already! There is an in depth analysis of the 
  way different aptitudes work – and (as Prexy 
  Cassel might say) why Electrokinesis is the 
  best! Seriously though, each aptitude works 
  in similar ways - either exerting a force on a 
  specific noetic template – creating, reinforc-
  ing, altering, weakening, or destroying – or 
  translating matter into and out of the noetic 
  medium. For example: a Psychokinetic 
  might summon a flame into his hand. How 
  does it work? Well, if you’ve ever seen it 
  done you’d know that it gets cold nearby – the 
  Psychokinetic gathers nearby ‘free’ quantum 
  energy into the noetic template that he has creat-
  ed. The Psychokinetic does not create the energy. 
  He does not create matter. What he does is write 
  a basic rule for the way nearby energy and mat-
  ter should behave. The stuff of the universe has 
  no choice but to follow this rule. At some level all 
  effects can be understood in this way. Given this, 
  we are thoroughly investigating the limitations of 
  why Psions are triggered with true ability in only 
  one aptitude.
  Well, you’ve read enough for one sitting. That 
  should have given you a taste of the food for 
  thought that comes with this science – so have a nice 
  hot beverage to go with it, and come back for the 
  numbers. Trust me; this subject is worth the pain!
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  My studies of the PSI phenomenon have 
  revealed that neither thermodynamics nor 
  quantum physics will have to be rewritten to 
  account for the Psionic abilities exhibited by 
  members of the Psi Orders.  Although each of 
  these Orders effectively produces something 
  from an apparent nothing, we were previ-
  ously unaware of the psion particles perme-
  ating all of creation.  With the insight that 
  like all other particles, psion particles have 
  properties like position, energy and possibly 
  more, there is a new universe of possibili-
  ties available.  What is more – Psi interaction 
  with other forms of energy seems to follow 
  established norms – in that it takes propor-
  tionally more psionic ‘work’ to produce pro-
  portionally larger effects.  It seems possible 
  to move matter and energy into a wholly 
  psionic state, but doing so incurs a loss of 
  energy in the transfer.  A psionic ‘heat’ if you 
  will.  So whilst the Chitra Bhanu find it possi-
  ble to absorb potential energy and to recoup 
  some Psionic energy from this, it does appear 
  to incur a prohibitive cost.  The reverse is not 
  true – nearly all the Orders are capable of 
  generating energy from PSI, and the Chitra 
  Bhanu are capable of generating mass from 
  Psi - Quantum interaction.  
  Æsculapians and Norça are also capable 
  of generating mass from Psi, so long as it is 
  attached to a physical body.  Close exami-
  nation of this action has determined that 
  this mass is the result of hyperactive physical 
  processes – or super growth.  Although this 
  growth does seem bounded by the Psionic 
  capacity of its initiator, it obviously increases 
  the real mass of the target.  Close examina-
  tion of the noetic field surrounding the source 
  and often the target of this ‘created mass’ 
  has in every case shown a strength decrease 
  repeatedly in proportion to the actual mass 
  created.  Æsculapian patients – and the rexes 
  themselves almost always suffer incredible 
  hunger pangs after the application of Iotro-
  sis – further emphasizing the link between 
  Scientists of all stripes have generally 
  accepted the laws of Thermodynamics since 
  their formation by Lord Kelvin, Carnot, and 
  Clausius in the mid Nineteenth Century.
  The first law of Thermodynamics says that 
  the total quantity of energy in the universe 
  remains constant. This is the principle of the 
  conservation of energy. The second law of 
  thermodynamics states that the quality of this 
  energy is degraded irreversibly. This is the 
  principle of the degradation of energy.
  The first principle establishes the equiva-
  lence of the different forms of energy (radi-
  ant, chemical, physical, electrical, and ther-
  mal), the possibility of transformation from 
  one form to another and the laws that govern 
  these transformations. This first principle con-
  siders heat and energy as two magnitudes of 
  the same physical nature.
  The second principle is based on the fact 
  that physical, chemical, and electrical energy 
  can be completely changed into heat, but the 
  reverse (heat into physical energy, for exam-
  ple) cannot be fully accomplished without 
  outside help or without an inevitable loss of 
  energy in the form of irretrievable heat. This 
  does not mean that the energy is destroyed; 
  it means that it becomes unavailable for 
  producing work. Heat is energy; it is kinetic 
  energy that results from the movement of 
  molecules in a gas or the vibration of atoms 
  in a solid. In the form of heat this energy is 
  reduced to a state of maximum disorder in 
  which each individual movement is neutral-
  ized by statistical laws.
  Similarly the law of conservation of mat-
  ter states that in any normal chemical reac-
  tion, matter is neither created nor destroyed 
  – only its form is changed.
  Together these laws form the Laws of 
  Conservation of mass and energy. Laws that 
  Psions seem to flout daily… or do they?
  The Physics of PSI - 2108
  Dr Charles Watson PhD
  Chitra Bhanu Institute
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  physical energy and mass and noetic energy 
  and mass.
  Teleporting also supports the idea of a 
  wholly psionic state of matter and energy.  The 
  mass of the teleporter exists at one point and 
  then exists nowhere – and then exists some-
  where wholly different.  I believe that the 
  teleporter translates his or mass wholly into 
  a psionic state where he or she may freely 
  alter the physical co-ordinates before trans-
  lating out again.  Again, this back and forth 
  movement of mass proves to be incredibly 
  expensive, requiring far more psionic work 
  than most other Psi applications. An alterna-
  tive explanation for this phenomenon involves 
  a time flux – whereby the teleporter is cast 
  adrift in time whilst he or she adjusts physi-
  cal location.  However, experimentation with 
  Teleporters has proven that they can be pulled 
  out of the Psi dimension in mid jump, albeit 
  only by Bolade Atwan herself, which tends 
  to indicate that they still exist at the time of 
  translation.
  Together these phenomena can be taken to 
  strongly suggest that Psi energy does follow 
  existing rules of physics and indeed that Psi 
  should be added to the list of equivalent forms 
  of energy, however, there is obviously a whole 
  new dimension for physicists to explore; a 
  dimension where form, energy and location, 
  possibly even time itself are malleable.  
  I for one look forward its exploration. 
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  >> CONFIDENTIAL <<
  Subject: The Heisler Woman
  From: Neville Archer, Director, 
  Neptune Division, Æon Trinity
  To: Maria Pappagallos, Director, 
  Triton Division, Æon Trinity
  Encryption: DSE
  Transmission type: textfile
  Date: 14:17:29 5.1.2123
  This interview >>>attached 
  holofile<<< was appropriated by 
  Proteus operatives acting on their 
  initiative. Any copies that may exist 
  must not be broadcast under any 
  circumstances.  What do we know 
  about the Heisler woman that will 
  gag her?  Consider cleanup yours and 
  William’s top priority.
  Next – we need to know exactly 
  where she gets her information.  I 
  want to know who leaked that 
  document by morning.  I’ll warm up 
  the coals.
  Neville Archer
  Director, Neptune Division
  Æon Trinity
  Hope - Sacrifice - Unity 
  
  PT: Dr Goossen, your early 
  dedication to working with 
  Taint victims suggests that you 
  might have a personal reason 
  for your interest in Noetics?
  AG: Yes Ms. Heisler, I 
  do.  My father was a Noetic 
  Science pioneer.  They called it 
  ‘psychotronics’ back then and 
  it wasn’t exactly a credible 
  profession to be in when he 
  started.  His work involved 
  formulating theory to account 
  for true healing by faith 
  healers and such practices 
  as Reiki.  Unfortunately he 
  extended this testing to include 
  Taint diseases.  He died from 
  complications related to ‘D’ 
  in 2106 – three days before 
  Sydney.
  PT: My condolences 
  Doctor.  And please – call me 
  Cori.
  AG: Thank you.
  PT: If you don’t mind 
  my asking, why didn’t you 
  go straight into the field of 
  Noetics?  Surely it was fully 
  recognized by the time of the 
  Noetic Conference of 2109?
  AG: Two reasons, 
  Cori.  Firstly I felt the need to 
  make some sort of contribution 
  towards those who suffered 
  the terrible way my father 
  had suffered; and secondly 
  I wasn’t latent before the 
  Esperenza. 
  It’s very difficult for non-
  psionically active humans 
  to truly study Noetics.  You 
  can’t… feel… the results 
  of your experiments.  You 
  are effectively working 
  blindfolded.  That isn’t really 
  a very safe thing to do.
  PT: So you were one 
  of those ‘spontaneous 
  latents’?  Can you tell our 
  viewers how that happened 
  exactly?
  AG: At the time I was in 
  the Vatican, working at St 
  Jude’s.  I had been feeling 
  terrible all that day when 
  suddenly I had an epiphany.  I 
  knew that something truly 
  horrible had happened 
  to the world, but I felt 
  wonderful.  I’m still working 
  through the guilt I have over 
  that with my therapist – but 
  I digress.  I flew to Basel the 
  next day, tested positive, 
  and began my training as 
  an Æsculapian.  Of course, 
  we are still working on 
  the theory of spontaneous 
  latency - but it seems to boil 
  down to having a certain 
  genetic predisposition, and, 
  or (depending on the power 
  of the wave) being in the 
  path of a Psi disturbance 
  having particularly energetic 
  properties.  Much like atomic 
  fission where an atomic 
  nucleus is impacted with 
  excited particles until the 
  nucleus actually breaks apart; 
  if a psionic template, such as 
  we all possess, is bombarded 
  by subquantum particles with 
  sufficient energy it can be 
  reconfigured; the larger and 
  the more energetic the psionic 
  disturbance, the more likely 
  that it will happen.  Of course 
  – it’s more likely to cause 
  ill effects than it is to cause 
  latency.  Fortunately natural 
  selection has not yet put all its 
  eggs in one basket… 
  PT: You’re saying that 
  we’re not all evolving into 
  Psions, as the Æon Trinity 
  would have us believe?
  AG: No, I’m saying that 
  the potential is there, but 
  future events will decide 
  whether or not genetic latency 
  will become a competitive 
  advantage.
  PT: That seems to be a 
  positively controversial view, 
  Quantum Misconceptions
  - Cori Heisler with Dr Adriaan Goossen,
  The Painful Truth © 2123 MMI
  >>> file begins <<<
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  My guest today, Dr Adriaan Goossen, is an Æsculapian and a renowned Noeticist – a 
  leader in his field.   After graduating in the top two percent of his class at Rotterdam’s 
  prestigious Erasmus Medical School in 2109 he proceeded to dedicate his life to helping those 
  in need.  He spent the next five years specifically treating and studying cases of Taint ailments 
  across Europe.  It wasn’t until after the fateful events of 2114 that he tested positive for Latency 
  and became a Vitakinetic.  He has recently returned from an Æon Trinity sponsored sabbatical 
  on board the Leviathan Jump Ship, ‘Juno’.
  
  Doctor.  Your new limited 
  release academic paper, ‘The 
  Misconceptions of Taint and 
  Quantum Energy’ also makes 
  some startling statements
  AG: Ah…Where did...?
  PT: But - even more 
  surprising – it would seem 
  necessary for you to have 
  worked with actual Aberrants 
  to have made some of the 
  conclusions that you have done 
  in the paper?
  AG: I’m afraid I can’t talk 
  about that.
  PT: And can you talk about 
  your recent time on board the 
  Leviathan ‘Juno’?  That was 
  where you spent your time 
  researching this last paper 
  of yours wasn’t it?  Where 
  exactly did you go?
  AG: …I really can’t talk 
  about that.  I’m very sorry.
  PT: Come now, 
  Doctor!  You do claim that Taint 
  is not what gives Aberrants 
  their power?
  AG: …Yes, I suppose 
  I do.  What we call ‘Taint’ 
  is not a thing – that’s a 
  misconception.  Taint is not 
  a particle or a form of 
  energy.  Taint is a lack of Psi 
  – a disturbance or a hole - a 
  low pressure in the Noetic 
  medium, if you will.  Taint 
  is the result of the use of 
  Quantum energies that Novas 
  command.
  PT: Novas?
  AG: …You see psion 
  particles are attracted to 
  Quantum energy particles 
  – atomic forces.  They attract 
  and balance or bond with 
  each other like the positive 
  nucleus and negative 
  electrons of an atom.  Psion 
  energy is the energy of 
  life.  The Mazarin-Rashoud 
  node is just a way that 
  life has found to tap into 
  molecular energy - just as life 
  has found a way to tap into 
  every other kind of energy 
  available.
  PT: So Aberrants are 
  natural?
  AG: Well… from a certain 
  perspective, yes...
  PT: …And in your paper 
  you conclude that Taint 
  Eruptions can be decreased or 
  prevented by being in areas 
  of ‘Psi pooling’.  What does 
  that mean?
  AG: …Yes.  You see 
  – life, especially sentient life, 
  is surrounded by a stronger 
  Noetic field than non-living 
  things.  Psionically active 
  individuals in particular are 
  surrounded by many many 
  more psion particles than 
  other human beings.  These 
  particles are shed wherever 
  we go – like skin cells I 
  suppose; so ambient psionic 
  field strength increases 
  markedly in areas which 
  psionically active individuals 
  frequent - especially when 
  they use their gifts.
  PT: Like Order bases?
  AG: Well - particularly 
  Order bases, but my 
  conclusions have led me 
  to believe that the whole 
  of Earth-Lunar space has 
  increased fractionally in its 
  Noetic field strength.  That 
  is why we have far fewer 
  aberrant eruptions now and 
  more Taint disease victims.
  PT: So you’re saying that 
  Psions cause Taint Diseases?
  AG: …Ah – it looks like 
  someone has arrived to collect 
  me…
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  Subject: Lifespan Report as requested
  From: Neves Salazar
  To: Daniel Keos
  Encryption: DDP-9X
  Transmission type: holofile
  Date: 18:10:24 06.04.2121
  another fifteen to twenty years to this 
  total, whilst Æsculapians can possibly add 
  upwards of sixty.  Those activated in the cor-
  rect age window can add a further twenty 
  percent.  Note:  We have no conclusive find-
  ings one way or another about Æsculapians 
  activated in the optimum age window.  It is 
  possible that they will live forever.  We will 
  run tests again in five years.
  Final Note: I have gained access to the 
  Legion database on the physiological and 
  psychological effects of backlash.  It seems 
  that backlash stresses can decrease expected 
  lifespan slightly, but also proves that the 
  effects can be largely overcome through 
  extended periods of meditation.  It seems 
  they are developing meditation drills for 
  exactly that reason.  Perhaps ‘the General’ 
  can be made to share? 
  Neves
  Tio, 
  the 
  tests 
  for 
  this 
  year 
  are 
  complete.  We have now a large enough 
  sample over enough time that we can seal 
  the experiment for five more years.  I attach 
  our finding summary.
  - - -
  We 
  have 
  statistically 
  proven 
  that 
  Psions have an extended natural life 
  expectancy.  How extended depends on three 
  factors over and above the general health of 
  the Psion at pre-operant stage.
  - Ability.  Strong latents who become 
  strong Psions, and even weaker latents that 
  advance quickly appear to age even slower 
  than those Psions who progress their abilities 
  slowly.
  - Age at which the Psion is activated.  Late 
  teens to early twenties seem the ideal point to 
  minimize age effect.  We call this the slow 
  positive growth stage.
  - Aptitude.  Of all the orders, our control 
  and self-awareness seem to protect us most 
  from age, except for the Europeans who 
  show the least effect.  We were able to detect 
  no age related difference in the Noetic fields 
  of eight of the eleven remaining that we 
  selected ten years ago.
  All indications point to a basic 
  minimum Psion natural lifespan 
  of normal (104) plus twenty-five 
  years.  Our calculations lead us 
  to believe that this extra could 
  be as much as doubled by 
  strong aptitude and aware-
  ness 
  progression. 
   Further, 
  Norça can expect to add 
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  Supplemental Report
  Bioware Overload
  - Lt. Colonel John Killian, 
  First Legion
  Alright, ya ladies listen up! And every-
  one who’s been in combat a time or two 
  better pay attention also. I’m damn sick of 
  the docs breathing down my neck because 
  you sorry excuses for soldiers get greedy 
  with the bioware and end up in their ER’s. 
  The bare basics, we all know that format-
  ted bioware sets up a symbiotic relation-
  ship with the host Psion and the bioware 
  takes a bit of Psi off the user to sustain 
  itself. Get too much of it on you and it’s 
  gonna start to suck you dry - Overload; 
  we’ve all heard the term. It’s not something 
  to be taken lightly, no macho B.S. when it 
  comes to this stuff, yeh? Even the ‘gifted’ 
  can only take so much.   
  Let me explain overload, just in case 
  any of you assholes slept through that 
  part of training. All humans need Psi to 
  live, and while us ‘gifted’ have more of it 
  -we need it even more. When we don’t 
  have enough we start to break down, 
  we become weak, in our minds and 
  our bodies. It starts with feeling light 
  headed, maybe sick to the stomach, and 
  before we know it - if we keep piling the 
  shit on - we’re on our backs scream-
  ing about pink poodles and imaginary 
  aberrants. Y’see, your mind starts to pull 
  more Psi away from your body to keep 
  itself going; your body starts going into 
  massive shock or seizures. Anyone who’s 
  been wounded and experienced extreme 
  blood loss can relate to the feeling. 
  Sometimes, the mind goes before 
  the body and that’s the worst.  Most 
  Psions that go into overload don’t get 
  dangerous, but those that do usually end 
  up killing themselves or others. You’ve 
  heard the story about Private Richards, 
  and how he went crazy and killed most 
  of his squad before he was stopped. That 
  was overload; the S.O.B. was wearing 
  over half a dozen ‘apps. Luckily for 
  you maggots, overload has never been 
  known to be fatal in and of itself, but I 
  wouldn’t put it past some of you to figure 
  out a way to do it.
  Always keep your head and think 
  about how many ‘apps you’re using. 
  If you think you might be getting close 
  to overload, even in the heat of battle 
  then for the love of God, get rid of some 
  of them. In theory, being near a big 
  ass aberrant would be enough to send 
  someone walking the line into overload. 
  Last thing we need is a useless soldier, 
  or worse - a liability to the platoon. If 
  you soldiers can keep yourselves safe, 
  HQ won’t pile on more regulations and 
  bureaucracy.
  So, keep me out of paperwork 
  here.  If you see Joe Knobhead loading 
  up his fourteenth bioweapon, do every-
  one a favor and kick him in the head 
  to distract him before you take all that 
  hardware off him. 
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  The idea of a noetic template 
  is fundamental to our study of 
  Noetics.  But, “What is it?” I see 
  you asking.  The idea is seldom 
  well explained.  
  Basically a noetic template 
  is DNA extended into the PSI 
  dimension.  It is also more than 
  that.  Not everything has DNA, 
  but everything has a noetic 
  template.  The noetic template is 
  UNIVERSAL DNA if you like.  By 
  the Bricks and Mortar model, the 
  noetic template determines not 
  only what something can do, but 
  also what it is. 
   Many Psions claim that the 
  noetic template extends around 
  the body some small distance in 
  a sort of aura.  It is this noetic 
  aura that bioapps tap into to 
  allow us to use them. 
  By: Prof. Elaine Madison
  Noetics 101
  Triton Division, Æon Trinity
  Science Presentation: 
  Noetic Templates
  >> Triton Archive <<
  PSI
  
  Psi-Comm 2: Transmission Log 08.04.2122
  Subject: Backlash
  Importance: Low
  Encryption: PC/DSE
  Transmission type: textstream
  From: Randall Dellinger
  Date: 04:19:18 - 08.04.22 
  Oh man, even I felt that one…Two episodes of backlash in one day… those poor ISRAns… 
  Strange, least the first one wasn’t as bad.  Any idea what caused either of them?
  >>> SYSTEM NOTE:
  GENERAL Æon BROADCAST:  
  Transmission Setting: Importance is now PRIORITY <<<
  From: Hardin Pennyfeather
  Date: 06:43:19 - 08.04.22 
  This is an Urgent transmission from Neptune Division. The Leviathan jump ship, Chicago, 
  was in orbit around Luna until 04:17 when it disappeared. The entire crew compliment (with the 
  exception of a Proteus security team and several engineers) were grounded for the duration of the 
  repair work being carried out when the ship was reported missing.  
  Although no aberrant presences were detected, the possibility of sabotage or attack has not 
  been ruled out.  So far the incident has been shielded from the authorities, but I don’t need to tell 
  you people that we need answers and fast.
  >>> SYSTEM NOTE: 
  Transmission Setting: Importance is
  now LOW <<<
  >>> SYSTEM NOTE: 
  GENERAL TRITON: S&F BROADCAST:  Transmission Setting: 
  Importance is now HIGH <<<
  >>> SYSTEM NOTE: 
  Transmission Setting: Importance is 
  now LOW <<<
  From: Wolf Jensen
  Date: 06:41:12 - 08.04.22
  Who knows, didn’t feel a first one. I was sleeping like a normal person, you should try it. 
  From: Randall Dellinger
  Date: 06:41:18 - 08.04.22 
  Very funny.
  From: Randall Dellinger
  Date: 06:43:37 - 08.04.22
  Could someone please tell me how the hell that happened? A Jump ship disappeared? How? 
  Do we have any reports of anyone around there? Where the hell is the pilot?  I mean those 
  things are 1200 meters long, one just doesn’t disappear... Could this thing have been hijacked? 
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  >>> SYSTEM NOTE: 
  Channel closed by Wolf Jensen <<<
  From: Wolf Jensen
  Date: 07:21: 01 – 08.04.22
  Fine.  Just clear the channel – I’ve gotta talk to the director right now.
  From: Randall Dellinger
  Date: 07:20:42 - 08.04.22
  Yeah… I don’t think so… I’m not biting this time amigo.
  From: Wolf Jensen
  Date: 07:20:34 – 08.04.22
  No… looks like the Qin technician stayed behind.  She’s claiming that Chicago 
  told her to get off, right before it jumped on its own, no pilot!
  From: Wolf Jensen
  Date: 07:19:44 – 08.04.22
  Jesus!  Chicago’s Tessers were being modified by a Qin biotechnician!
  From: Wolf Jensen
  Date: 06:44:17 – 08.04.22
  Yeh, I’m sure that’s exactly what she needs right now.  I gotta check something.
  From: Randall Dellinger
  Date: 07:20:10 - 08.04.22
  Holy shit!  The little slugs have finally turned on us!
  From: Randall Dellinger
  Date: 06:44:10 - 08.04.22
  I’m going to blow some smoke up Nala’s you know what and find out what the 
  hell is going on today.
  From: Wolf Jensen
  Date: 06:43:59 – 08.04.22
  Well if it jumped from orbit that would explain the second backlash… but it should 
  have been truly massive! And what about the first one… Was it a distraction so someone 
  could steal a jump ship, and if so why wait almost six hours? It was too loud to be Upeo 
  and too quiet to be the ship under its own power.  What’s left?
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  from a combination of trial and error, and the 
  Proxies’ speculation.
  Although we have come a long way in 
  the creation of new bioapps, there has been 
  little success in creating new templates based 
  on the Prometheus chambers themselves, or 
  in growing replacement parts for when wear 
  and tear eventually sets in. This is primarily 
  due to the unusual design of the chambers 
  themselves. 
  As you are, no doubt, aware most biotech 
  is based on a faunal or a floral template - that 
  is they are based on animal or plant genetic 
  models.  The chambers on the other hand 
  have characteristics that suggest that they are 
  based on a strange combination of both of 
  these templates! The tanks don’t generate a 
  particularly strong noetic signature and seem 
  to draw much of the psi energy they require 
  from the environment.  This, and the fact that 
  they seem to require little actual maintenance 
  in and of themselves (as opposed to the 
  psions going through the process - who tend 
  to require many, many specialized techs) is a 
  very floral quality.  The chambers also con-
  tain distinct organs that maintain processes 
  usually only found in faunal biotech. To find 
  such a close merging of different templates in 
  The Prometheus chambers are indis-
  putably far more sophisticated than any 
  biotech matrices created by humans, 
  and bear very little resemblance to the 
  relatively primitive biotech of the alien 
  Chromatics.  Even Qin biotech - far more 
  advanced ours - takes a very differ-
  ent approach to that used to create the 
  chambers.  In truth, much of our technical 
  knowledge about the chambers comes 
  Subject: Prometheus Chambers
  From: Aeon Trinity, Neptune Division
  To: Epsilon Level Operatives
  Transmission type: textfile
  Encryption: DSE
  Date: 09:14:10 01.03.2121
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  PLASMAL BIOTECH
  BIO GEL
  LEGIONS PROMETHEUS CHAMBER
  10.000 x 1 SCALE
  GRIP SPIKES
  DNA FOR
  GRAFTING
  USED TO
  PERFORM
  GRAFT
  Subject: Captain Tolliver
  From: Captain James Coover
  To: Field Marshal Jabe
  Encryption: DSE
  Transmission type: textfile
  Date: 17:20:24 06.09.2122
  Something is wrong here. 
  We 
  were 
  guaranteed 
  full 
  access 
  to 
  the 
  Prometheus 
  chamber and all the accom-
  panying research, but Captain 
  Tolliver seems to be finding 
  excuse after excuse to try to 
  stall us. Yesterday I saw her 
  screaming at one of her techs 
  for spilling coffee! I swear that 
  she would have hit the man 
  if she hadn’t spotted us in 
  the doorway. Captain Tolliver 
  seems to be under a great deal 
  more stress than she is letting 
  on and our presence seems to 
  be aggravating the situation; 
  from the way she treats us, 
  you would think that we were 
  suspected aberrants! I recom-
  mend a full psych evaluation 
  and her reassignment to a dif-
  ferent post.
  >> Triton Archive <<
  
  what is essentially one large bioapp is unheard 
  of - especially considering that there is yet 
  another type of biotech at work, which I will 
  deal with shortly.
  Although the Prometheus tanks are obvi-
  ously designed to work with and around the 
  human DNA, they also contain traces of a far 
  more complex DNA. What this genetic mate-
  rial is and where it came from is not known 
  and defies analysis; it does have highly ener-
  getic properties - and appears to 
  maintain a certain percentage of 
  its mass in an assimilated psionic 
  state.   The most likely source candidate 
  of this unknown and apparently psioni-
  cally advanced material is the mysterious 
  “benefactors” of the proxies.  Of course, 
  confirming this with the proxies them-
  selves is an exercise in futility.
  The Prometheus effect itself is still very 
  mysterious. The actual physical process 
  of becoming a psion is well documented 
  by both the media and the psi orders 
  themselves. The latent Psion enters the 
  chamber and is immersed in biogel.  The 
  subject then enters a fugue state while 
  nano-organisms infuse his or her body, 
  altering the subject’s noetic template to 
  enable it to withstand the stresses of psi 
  use, and often improving the new psion’s 
  health and physical and or mental poten-
  tial along the way. 
  While this explanation is technically 
  accurate, it doesn’t even begin to cover 
  the complexities that govern the change 
  from latent to psion. The nano-organisms 
  described above are actually yet more 
  types of biotechnology called bacterial 
  and plasmal bioapps. 
  The very existence of plasmal and 
  bacterial bioapps is classified and not 
  widely known, partly due to the fears 
  of their potential as biological weapons 
  and partly due to the fact that this type 
  of biotech is not well understood and dif-
  ficult to contain.  Early research accidents 
  involving these forms of nanoapps led to 
  Aeon asking all Orders to freeze such 
  research until such time as it could be 
  conducted safely.  Several Orgotek com-
  plexes on Luna are quarantine zones due 
  to rampant nano-organisms.  Aeon does 
  not want that sort of accident occurring 
  on Earth.
  Theoretically, plasmal and bacte-
  rial bioapps work in much the same way 
  as conventional biotech but on a much 
  smaller scale - channeling psi energy 
  very literally at the bacterial level.  It is 
  these bioapps that complete much of the 
  actual Prometheus effect.  It is theorized 
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  Subject: Tragic News
  From: Captain Kate Tolliver
  To: Field Marshal Jabe
  Encryption: DSE
  Transmission type: textfile
  Date: 11:14:35 07.09.2122
  Again my regrets. 
  Cpt. Kate Tolliver 
  It is with enormous regret that I must 
  report that Captain James Coover and 
  two of his staff were killed in a tragic 
  accident early this morning. A security lift 
  bring Captain Coover and his staff down 
  to the Prometheus facility malfunctioned, 
  lost power and crashed to the bottom of 
  the lift shaft. Although all three officers 
  were psychokinetic psions their powers 
  were sadly not able to prevent this trag-
  edy. All three died at the scene before 
  medical aid could be administered. 
  A full investigation has been launched 
  to find the causes of this accident and 
  preliminary evidence seems to indicate 
  a catastrophic failure in the computer 
  system, affecting the backup systems as 
  well. We appreciate that that it may be 
  a while before a suitable replacement is 
  found to replace Captain Coover and we 
  will forward his report so far to your 
  office forthwith.
  >> Triton Archive <<
  
  by some Legion techs that the rest of the 
  chamber is largely a production and mainte-
  nance facility for these nano-organisms.
  The most plausible theory of how the 
  tanks work is that the plasmal bioapps some-
  how graft pieces of the unknown DNA into the 
  subject’s genome, and it is this genetic altera-
  tion that allows the development of psionic 
  aptitudes. This is a theory that has common 
  support but cannot be conclusively proven one 
  way or another since we have not yet been 
  able to find the suspected genetic alterations 
  in the psions leaving the chambers. Of course, 
  this is hardly surprising given the slow work 
  of re-mapping the human genome; we simply 
  haven’t yet got enough of a basis for compar-
  ison. This theory also goes towards explaining 
  why the proxies are so adamant that so called 
  “double dipping” experiments should never 
  be attempted again. If an already triggered 
  Psion enters a Prometheus chamber, the plas-
  mal bioapps apparently try to graft genetic 
  material to already altered DNA - putting so 
  much stress on the Psion’s noetic template that 
  it destabilizes and actually begins to unravel 
  - leading to a messy and painful death in all 
  of the attempting volunteers.  A speculative 
  worst case scenario might involve mutation 
  on an aberrant-like scale - possibly even 
  damage to the Prometheus chamber.
  On a related note, the question of why 
  each chamber triggers only a single aptitude 
  is one that remains unanswered despite our 
  best efforts. It is clear that each chamber trig-
  gers its Psions in a subtly different way, lead-
  ing to different aptitudes, but whether this is a 
  natural limitation of the Prometheus effect or 
  whether it was deliberately engineered by the 
  benefactors to be this way is not known. The 
  creators of the Prometheus tanks are clearly 
  far more knowledgeable about the construc-
  tion of biotechnology and the psi in general 
  than we are at present, and it may be that 
  humanity is not yet genetically advanced 
  enough to able to handle more than one apti-
  tude - despite increasing rumors of ‘naturally 
  evolved’ psions.
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  >>>report ends<<<
  *&%$$*(&%>>ase do not be alarmed director.  Psi Nippon wishes you only well.  This was the 
  safest method of contacting you.  We have infiltrated Yokohama Research.  They r studying psi 
  gene sequence.  especially from the Cassel and Bue Li visits.  I leave in PgN file for you.  ONI
  alert SysAd Security Breach
  >>>alert sent<<<
  disinfect PgN
  >>>scanning file: PgN<<<
  >>>file: PgN clean<<<
  open PgN
  >>>translation filter NIHONJIN-ENGLISH applied<<<
  >>>file begins<<<
  >>Text Lost<< since that time we’ve been mapping the psionic genome, and differences >>Text 
  Lost<< DNA of Cassel and Bue Li  to allow them access to Noetic medium with the strength 
  >>Text Lost<< able to locate the exact sequence. The sequence itself is truly alien, to say the 
  least. We have so far been unable to completely decipher it, with the exception that it is based 
  on ninety-six of >>Text Lost<< thirty-two. The official report is attached. >>File Not Found<< I 
  know I don’t need to tell you >>Text Lost<<possibilities are truly astounding. We may yet find 
  the proof for your theory but we really need to be able to see psion level particles >>Text Lost<< 
  how to remove whatever barriers there may be. >>Text Lost<< results in six months time.
  Ishimaru Akio
  Subject: Answers
  From: Neville Archer, Director Neptune Division, Aeon Trinity
  To: Maria Pappagallos, William Renton
  Priority: Urgent
  Encryption: DSE
  Transmission type: holofile
  Date: 12:21:34 12.18.2122
  It sounds like Nippon has the whole genome project.  If they have that they may still have 
  everything.  
  I want your best teams on this one.  
  >>>file: PgN<<<
  >>>sig<<<
  Ad Astra
  Neville Archer
  Director, Neptune Division
  Æeon Trinity
  Hope  -  Sacrifice - Unity 
  >>>file ends<<<
  send email
  >>>email sent<<< 
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  So you want to know what backlash is, 
  yeh? Let me tell you it isn’t pretty. Psi exists 
  in all things, yes just like you learned in basic 
  Noetics; all of life is caused by and causes Psi. 
  It is like this great spiritual force that permeates 
  through the entire universe and affects all liv-
  ing things. Now I know what you are thinking; 
  don’t tell me all that mumbo jumbo stuff, tell me 
  the important information; and I will. You see 
  there are two types of backlash. The first exists 
  when there isn’t enough ambient Psi for one to 
  properly function, this is referred to as Hypop-
  sionic Backlash (sometimes called Hypopsionic 
  deprivation); the other being the opposite and 
  is referred to as Hyperpsionic Backlash. Symp-
  tomatically the two are very similar, although 
  Hypopsionic symptoms have a gradual onset, 
  whilst Hyperpsionic symptoms are immediate.
  Before we go any further you have to 
  understand what we believe in the Legion - 
  that all living things interact with ambient Psi. 
  Life takes in weak, unordered Psi, and gives it 
  shape and identity before releasing it back into 
  the area. This is how Psi gains memes and how 
  areas gain ‘feels’. This ‘ordered’ Psi is effective 
  energy whereas unordered ambient Psi is not.
  As Psions progress with their training, they 
  grow in strength in several ways. First they 
  become more attuned (and more attuned is 
  right – even blanks are aware at some level) to 
  the Noetic flow of the universe and so are more 
  sensitive to Psi movement and thus become 
  vulnerable to backlash. Secondly they become 
  more able to process the ambient Psi in the 
  surrounding area. Finally they become more 
  aware of the fact that they ARE processing the 
  Psi in the surround area and eventually gain 
  more control over this. 
  Allow me to explain further: any living 
  body, and a psionically active body in par-
  ticular will naturally attempt to process ambient 
  Psi, and requires a certain level of it to operate, 
  much like humans needing a certain level of 
  oxygen to function well. The strength of a Psion 
  determines how much he or she will require for 
  everyday existence. For example, the proxies 
  will use a higher amount of Psi than all of us 
  underlings. However, truly powerful Psions 
  become like divers or mountaineers; their bod-
  ies have become so adept at processing Psi that 
  they can effectively hold their Psionic breath 
  past the point when Joe Hologram would have 
  snuffed it. Normally this is a double-edged 
  sword; I’m sure that many of you have heard 
  the stories of the troopers who come out of the 
  tank bursting with Psi strength, yet are laid out 
  completely by even minor incidents of back-
  lash. You may also find yourselves wondering 
  why the proxies are still alive after the Esper-
  anza disaster! 
  Just as those powerful Psions will find 
  themselves processing less Psi in a Psi Low 
  area, the Proxies seem to be able to cognitively 
  close themselves down almost to the level of a 
  blank. They literally stop all Psi interaction with 
  their auras. So, much like an experienced diver 
  can often times survive on little to no oxygen 
  OR on oxygen rich mixtures for when they 
  go really deep, a truly, truly potent Psion can 
  survive in either Psi rich, or Psi depleted areas. 
  The question you have to ask yourself though, 
  before you end up deader than a Frenchman in 
  New Paris, is exactly how good are you? You 
  just have to know your limits – and that knowl-
  edge comes with a lot of pain, yeh.
  Just so you know it when – not if – it hits 
  you, I’ll run through the symptoms of back-
  lash now. Imagine someone very large has 
  grabbed hold of your head and is shaking 
  you by it, smacking you into every wall in the 
  place. That’s what Hyperpsionic backlash feels 
  like. Hypopsionic is the same, only the person 
  shaking you is smaller, but they keep going 
  and going and going. With and immediately 
  following the pain come nausea and vertigo, 
  but you should also be aware that there have 
  been recorded cases of psychoses. Yes, believe 
  it. Some Psions just can’t take all that at once. 
  You have to keep an eye on your buddies after 
  backlash… Oh, yeh, while you’re keeping an 
  eye on them, try to make sure you’re not par-
  anoid. What happens, the eggheads theorize, 
  goes as follows - when you are out in the field 
  and there is a sudden spike in the level of Psi 
  your brain reacts similarly to a sudden spike in 
  certain chemical levels in your body. It attempts 
  Excerpt: When it all goes to Hell 
  A brief overview of Psionic Backlash and Deprivation
  by Lt. Jonathan Harper, 3rd Legion Vitakinetic 
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  The effects of psi dysfunction as we nor-
  mally understand it have been widely docu-
  mented, but there are still a great many ques-
  tions that remain unanswered. Dysfunction is 
  brought about by the over specialization in 
  one particular mode of a psionic aptitude 
  at the exclusion of the other two. The effects 
  of dysfunction vary widely but it can cause 
  severe psychological and social problems in 
  those afflicted. The reason why psi is actually 
  separated into logical aptitudes is not known 
  and certainly seems to go against what noetic 
  researchers have theorized about the way in 
  which the subquantum universe operates. Is 
  the structure of psionics naturally this way? Is 
  it a structure imposed by our own minds and 
  Order training regimens?  Or did the bene-
  factors artificially segregate psi as some kind 
  of control measure?
  Interestingly, we have been able to theo-
  rize much more about the nature of psi from 
  the way in which alien races manipulate psi 
  energy. The most obvious example is the psi 
  potential of Chromatics. All of the Chromatics 
  have demonstrated incredible photokinetic 
  powers, surpassing most human elecrokinet-
  ics, but there have been no confirmed obser-
  vations of them ever using either of the other 
  two modes of the electrokinesis aptitude. Of 
  those Chromatics that possess this level of 
  skill, none have been known to exhibit any of 
  the symptoms of photokinetic dysfunction. In 
  fact, noetic scans of captive Chromatics and 
  the scans taken during the recent invasion 
  of Chrome Prime have shown that the noetic 
  templates of these aliens are remarkably 
  stable and balanced. Although there is little 
  empirical evidence, it is generally agreed that 
  Chromatics do not suffer from the effects of 
  dysfunction, or at least not in the same way. 
  Subject: Psi Dysfunction
  From: Aeon Trinity, Neptune Division
  To: Epsilon Level Operatives
  Encryption: DSE
  Transmission type: textfile
  Date: 10:00 11.02.2119
  to purge the system. The nausea is the result 
  of the purging. The vertigo is brain’s transla-
  tion of the imbalance of Psi. So, you see, on an 
  unconscious level our bodies and minds have 
  always understood Psi, it’s just our conscious 
  selves that are finally waking up to it.
  Now that I have told you about Psi and 
  about the types of backlash you are prob-
  ably wondering how it happens. How is it 
  that we have areas of increased or decreased 
  Psi? Doesn’t nature balance it all out? Well the 
  answer to this is yes; to an extent. You see the 
  universe is constantly attempting to reach an 
  energy equilibrium where the level of ordered 
  Psi is equal everywhere, but each living thing 
  is a whirlpool – sucking in unordered energy 
  and releasing ordered energy so Psi is con-
  stantly flow and flux. 
  Both Psions and Abberants have the ability 
  to affect Psi levels -either directly or indirectly; 
  respectively. I am not absolutely certain how it 
  works but the “taint” that is used by Abber-
  rants “pushes” the Psi that is naturally in an 
  area out of the way or makes it hard to use 
  and this results in decreasing Psi levels. It takes 
  a lot of aberrants or some scarily powerful 
  aberrants to actually drop Psi levels suffi-
  ciently to cause Hypopsionic deprivation – but 
  it’s always a danger, especially for teams that 
  operate in such areas for long periods. 
  When Psions use their abilities they draw 
  on ‘Ordered Psi’ and leave disordered energy 
  behind. This decreases the actual level of Psi 
  only when Psi is translated into other forms of 
  energy (and generally only very slightly even 
  then). What Psions do find though is that they 
  are able to regain Psi energy much faster in 
  areas of strongly ordered Psi Energy - which 
  stands to reason since their bodies need to do 
  less energy processing to get the Psi into a 
  usable state.
  Also since all living things contain Psi, 
  and because the “Psi-reserves” within them 
  is largely released on their deaths, there is a 
  jump in the level of Psi in an area when there 
  are deaths. When many, many people die (i.e. 
  Esperanza) the amount of Psi released into the 
  area is so immense that it can often result in 
  truly horrific levels of backlash. 
  That answer your questions? Good. 
  A look at Psionic 
  Dysfunction
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  The most likely reason for this is that the 
  entire Chromatic physiology is designed 
  for the production, manipulation and detec-
  tion of light. This allows their alien physiol-
  ogy to easily compensate for any of the usual 
  effects of photokinetic dysfunction. 
  Like the Chromatics, all the Qin popula-
  tion possess psi abilities to a certain degree, 
  although very few develop these powers 
  to any great strength as we would reckon 
  it.  The strongest Qin have a psi potential 
  that would only be considered average 
  in a human telepath. Although they 
  seem only to possess powers of the 
  telepathy aptitude, they lack the 
  psionic potential to reach the point 
  at which they would become 
  dysfunctional.
  We have considerable 
  data on the symptoms, 
  side effects and treatment 
  of psi dysfunctions, but we 
  lack much information on the 
  possible long-term effects 
  that it may have on the 
  psion, even after the 
  dysfunction has been 
  corrected. An illustra-
  tion of this is of a young 
  pregnant electrokinetic 
  who was successfully 
  treated for electromanip-
  ulation dysfunction in 2108, 
  who later gave birth to a healthy 
  baby son. However, as the child 
  grew older he exhibited a number 
  of unusual behavioral characteristics 
  that seemed to indicate electromanipulation 
  dysfunction, even though he was not a psion 
  himself. These symptoms grew stronger as he 
  grew older and so far have resisted every 
  vitakinetic attempt to correct them.
  As an aside, an interesting and controver-
  sial theory that has been circulating recently 
  is the possibility of aptitude dysfunction. The 
  theory states that if a psion becomes extremely 
  powerful in every mode of his or her aptitude, 
  there is a possibility of developing a condition 
  that seems to have dysfunction-like effects. 
  Consider the Proxies for a moment. Each is 
  supremely skilled in their respective aptitudes 
  and yet each has a different and somewhat 
  extreme personality quirk which could be 
  seen as negative.  Cassel is energetic and 
  attention seeking, del Fuego is charismatic, 
  but authoritarian, Herzog is enigmatic and 
  contemplative, Bue Li is secretive and myste-
  rious and so on. Similarly, psions who reach a 
  certain level of psionic power tend to become 
  more eccentric and often egocentric, display-
  ing many of the traits that characterize the 
  Proxies themselves. Those who have met the 
  Proxies have reported that each often displays 
  unconscious and casual manifestations of their 
  powers, and the force of their personalities is 
  greatly enhanced by the sheer power of the 
  their noetic auras. These traits 
  are generally attributed to the 
  pressures of their work and 
  to their various characters, 
  but what if these traits are 
  the work of something 
  more 
  fundamental? 
  The 
  most 
  critical 
  question is whether 
  or not these extremes 
  of behavior will become 
  more pronounced as time 
  goes on and make history 
  repeat itself. Consider the 
  revelation of the circum-
  stances leading up to the 
  exodus of the Upeo and 
  the Esperanza disaster. 
  These were avoidable 
  incidents 
  that 
  could 
  have been prevented 
  if the Proxies hadn’t 
  been bickering between 
  themselves and allowed 
  their differences to escalate 
  into open conflict. There is no suggestion that 
  the Proxies and other powerful psions are in 
  any way comparable to the aberrants of the 
  previous century, but some of the parallels 
  cannot be entirely overlooked.
  If this type of dysfunction is indeed the 
  case, treating it becomes far more prob-
  lematic. Balancing aptitude dysfunction by 
  developing a second aptitude isn’t possible 
  since a second exposure to the Prometheus 
  effect will kill a psion. The development of 
  multiple auxiliary modes could be a partial 
  answer but it might not be sufficient, and 
  none of the Proxies have ever demonstrated 
  any ability or even inclination to learn auxil-
  iary modes.
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  Interviews with returned Upeo have been able to shed a certain amount 
  of light on the possible cause of the so-called “Psionic dead zone” at Nyoto 
  Kukumbatia space port, the former base for the teleporting Order. After the 
  Upeo disappearance reports came in from investigating Psions that the base was 
  effectively psionically dead. 
  Reports from returning Upeo state that Proxy Atwan activated an extremely 
  powerful teleportation effect which resulted in a tremendous Psionic shock-wave. 
  She seems to have teleported away even the ambient Psi and left the entire area 
  devoid of almost all activity on a subquantum level. The reason she did this is not 
  known, but several of us have the suspicion that she effectively hid her traces - 
  no Psi was left behind imprinted with her destination. If this is what she did, we’re 
  all very curious to know who she thinks is capable of reading such signature Psi. 
  This seems to be the only area in human space that has this negative Psi zone. 
  Or, at least it was - Psi levels in the area have gradually returned to normal - 
  although it took almost two years.
  Generally, the situation about Order bases is very different. Generally, the 
  level of Psi energy here is very high. A side effect of this seems to be that people 
  living in these areas enjoy very good health and lower levels of stress. Athletes 
  in particular seem to be able to train very quickly. We believe that because 
  the number of Psions in the area is so high, the Psi flows that much stronger 
  and energises all the templates in the area. This seems to have no measur-
  able effect on the tensile or compressive strength of non-living objects, but has 
  been statistically proven to improve human endurance, and even demeanor. 
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  The rate of subject C’s noetic template 
  degradation seems consistent with that 
  experienced by neutrals post mortem.  Since 
  C was terminated before its M-R node was 
  able to reinitialize, Quantum radiation 
  appears minimal and rapid decomposition 
  or degradation is not in effect.  Our best 
  estimate of the strength of the template at 
  death appears to be equivalent to that of 
  an eighty to ninety year old baseline.  
  [NOTE: You asked for anything we had 
  – so I’ll put down what we think. We cannot 
  be held accountable for the results of trials 
  based on these conclusions as we have not 
  been able to test them in any sort of rigor-
  ous way.  From any sane scientific context 
  much of the below is little more than guess-
  work.]
  Given C’s youthful appearance and 
  known aberrant lifespan, we are currently 
  speculating that all aberrants undergo 
  a process whereby their Noetic tem-
  plate is partially ‘replaced’ by a ‘solidi-
  fied’ Quantum/Noetic Energy field.  The 
  Quantum energy within an erupting aber-
  rant expands into an aura about it.  That 
  aura encompasses and bonds with the 
  aberrant’s own noetic template as well as 
  nearby psion particles.  Because quantum 
  particles are incredibly attractive over very 
  short distances, the psion particles within 
  the aura are not released or recycled over 
  time as would be the case with a normal 
  or a psion.  Rather, these psion particles 
  interlock permanently with the quantum 
  particles forming an incredibly tough shell 
  about the aberrant.  
  For a metaphor, imagine the ‘psionic 
  template’ is a mould and modelling metal 
  is quantum energy.  With aberrants the 
  modelling metal is so hot that it melts part 
  or all of the mould and incorporates mould 
  material into the final figure.  The shape 
  that is produced looks a lot like the mould, 
  or perhaps it burnt right through here and 
  there and came out misshapen, but the 
  important part is that the metal is now 
  mixed with mould material and that mix-
  ture is stronger than the metal on its own.  
  The 
  initial 
  eruption 
  process 
  is 
  violent.  Like a supernova the quantum 
  energy within the aberrant expands out-
  ward grabbing hold of as much noetic 
  energy as it can, then it contracts back 
  tightly about the aberrant under the weight 
  of its own attractive gravity.  This initial 
  eruption is very important as the psion 
  particle energy in the area can have a 
  meme or a biosphere energy associated 
  with it – as per the Memory Model of Psi 
  energy – which can dramatically alter 
  the properties of the new template of the 
  aberrant.  See Triton Archive >>>AS/
  P/C2043/Herophilus/Eruption<<< 
  and 
  >>>AT/T/C2122/Herophilus/Eruption<<<. 
  As an aberrant gains more power, 
  the energy within it increases causing its 
  quantum aura to expand slowly and draw 
  in more Psi from the environment – but only 
  from a relatively short distance away.  Now, 
  if the number of psion particles in the 
  environment is low then the aura doesn’t 
  expand as much as it does when the Psi 
  particle count is high.  Instead the quan-
  tum particles within the aura start to share 
  their hold on psion particles.  This means 
  that the aura is reconfigured rather than 
  reinforced.  Reconfiguration of this kind 
  leads to ‘aberrations’ since the quantum/
  noetic template is being changed.  The 
  chance of this reconfiguration seems to be 
  much higher when the internal quantum 
  forces increase suddenly.  Gradual strength 
  increase seems to almost always result in 
  gradual aura expansion, which in turn 
  always seems to find sufficient free Psi to 
  incorporate.
  Normally (when the aberrant isn’t 
  increasing in power quickly) the innermost 
  part of an aberrant’s aura/template is quite 
  static, but excess quantum energy within 
  the aberrant gradually works its way out 
  through the aura – making the outer edge 
  of the aura psi attraction positive.  This out-
  er edge zone of the quantum/noetic aura 
  sheds ‘loose’ quantum particles that go 
  Clearance: Theta
  File: AT/T/C2123/Herophilus/QuantumTemplate
  Research Project: Herophilus
  Additional Keywords: Aberrant Noetic Template, Quantum Template, Subject C
  Format: Research Summary/Speculation
  Project Findings Dated: 5.3.2123
  Researchers: >>>classified<<< 
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  TAINT
  
  on to pollute the environment as ‘Taint’.  This outer 
  zone is larger in aberrants that already have auras 
  that are sharing psion particles.  Consequently 
  these aberrants are more ‘Tainted’ than others.
  The aberrant Noetic template cannot be detect-
  ed by psionic means because it is fully bonded with 
  Quantum energy – further, unbonded psi energy in 
  the area is slowly attracted to the aberrant, causing 
  the energy to be heavy and unresponsive to Oper-
  ant Psion use.  Psi particles do not cycle through 
  aberrant auras to create the normal life ripple 
  that Psions detect with attunement, rather the slow 
  attraction of nearby ‘heavy’ Psi and the release of 
  excess quantum energy causes a hole in Psion per-
  ception.
  What we have seen time and again in battle-
  field reports is that Operant Psions are able to 
  harm aberrants with their abilities even though 
  the aberrants resist what would normally be far 
  more powerful attack vectors.  What seems to be 
  happening is that the force with which the psion 
  particles are being driven into the aberrant is suf-
  ficient to displace some of the psi energy within the 
  aberrant’s own aura – causing a brief weakness as 
  old particles are replaced with new.
  Our 
  E. 
  research 
  does 
  support 
  these 
  suppositions.  We’re guessing that the Novas there 
  were saved by the fact that they brought 
  their own baselines with them.  Those 
  baselines helped to ‘recycle’ ambient Psi 
  - making the strength level of Psi in the area that 
  much higher.  That, and the fact that they picked 
  a particularly vigorous planet to settle makes 
  them less likely to be ‘tainted’ than aberrants 
  living on more desolate worlds. Interestingly 
  the Edenites’ method of dealing with Taint dis-
  ease seems to involve quantum forces attracting 
  quantum particles – rather than our approach of 
  using noetic template reinforcement to draw off 
  the uncontrolled Quantum Energies.
  To conclude: we find that Psi is indeed a 
  quantum force limiter, but not for reasons of 
  repulsion as previously believed.  Rather, the 
  two particle types bond with and compensate for 
  each other. Consequently psi and quantum abili-
  ties leech off each other and so are less effective 
  or require more expenditure of energy to function 
  in the other’s presence.  Whilst aberrants seem 
  particularly vulnerable to Psi based abilities, the 
  reverse does not appear to be true, but given the 
  relative scales of power this is of little consolation 
  to most Psions.
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  Trinity Field Report: Noetic Science
  
  Science Presentation: Psi Low Zones
  By: Prof. Elaine Madison - Noetics 101
  Triton Division, Æon Trinity
  Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen. 
  Tonight I will be discussing with you the 
  concepts and the theories involved in Psi Low 
  zones, also called Taint Zones.
  Humanity has come to know, at some 
  cost, that the powers the aberrants wield 
  are based around the fundamental atomic 
  forces.  As you might expect, the 
  manipulation of atomic forces 
  gives rise to radiation, which 
  we call Quantum or ‘Taint’ 
  Radiation.  This type of 
  radiation has unusual 
  characteristics – often 
  even some sort of 
  bizarre reflection of 
  the aberrant that 
  generated it. In 
  essence 
  though, 
  Taint is radiation, 
  and 
  radiation 
  is a fairly well 
  understood phe-
  nomena. Under-
  standing 
  radia-
  tion has allowed 
  us 
  to 
  create 
  modified Geiger 
  counters called 
  Aberscopes 
  to 
  detect 
  aberrants and 
  tainted areas. 
  Psions can also 
  use their abilities 
  to similarly detect 
  aberrants 
  and 
  tainted areas.  This 
  is possible because 
  PSI is a limiting factor 
  for quantum forces.  It is 
  PSI that limits and degrades 
  quantum attraction and repulsion by ‘stick-
  ing to’ active quantum particles.  Because 
  these ‘active’ quantum particles hold onto the 
  surrounding PSI, Psions experience a hole in 
  the flow of the ‘Noetic River’, as Otha Herzog 
  might put it.
  In 2123, every primary school child is 
  taught the dangers of atomic energy in Basic 
  Science and from the history of China’s Ulti-
  matum Weapons.  Everyone here should 
  know that the human body is designed to 
  withstand and repair a certain amount of 
  radiation damage. The background radia-
  tion that permeates through Earth’s 
  magnetosphere necessitates this 
  ability.  The human body is 
  not designed to handle 
  large 
  amounts 
  of 
  radiation of any 
  kind, 
  however. 
  After 
  a 
  point 
  the body can-
  not repair the 
  cellular dam-
  age 
  that 
  it 
  inflicts.  Cer-
  tain 
  of 
  the 
  body’s systems 
  are 
  particularly 
  sensitive 
  and 
  generally 
  first 
  to fail; the white 
  blood cells and 
  marrow 
  tissue 
  being the pri-
  mary 
  concern 
  here.  With the 
  white blood cells 
  dying, the immune 
  system 
  fails 
  fast 
  and 
  the 
  rest 
  of 
  the body rapidly 
  falls to secondary 
  infection. 
   Recent 
  genetic work also sug-
  gests 
  that 
  certain 
  genetic 
  sequences are more susceptible to radiation 
  damage than others.  These sequences have 
  certain ‘weak genes’ that are easily dam-
  aged and propagate in damaged form.  This 
  is what we believe is the cause of Aberrant 
  Syndrome.
  To recap what you should already know, 
  high levels of radiation result in radia-
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  first will both neutralize some of the 
  taint in the area so that weaker fol-
  low up techniques have more chance of suc-
  cess AND will also do the most damage to 
  the aberrant – giving the highest probability 
  of success.  Also, don’t forget that en masse 
  Psi effects will permeate an area with strong 
  enough ambient Psi that aberrant abilities 
  start behaving erratically. The coin does have 
  two sides.
  What agents might forget in the classroom 
  is that humans are not the only things affect-
  ed by Taint.  Whilst the Quantum radiation is 
  strong in an area, it can affect the noetic tem-
  plates of all kinds of life – damaging anything 
  growing and living there.  Plant life has been 
  known to mutate defensively – even incor-
  porating the quantum energy that damaged 
  it.  This Tainted biosphere phenomenon is a 
  major problem which hinders cleanup efforts 
  – often a whole area needs to be cleansed 
  of damaged life before restoration proper 
  can occur.  Additionally, tracking aberrants 
  through tainted biospheres is far more dif-
  ficult for our Proteus teams.
  Our studies have further led us to believe 
  that even once ambient Quantum Radiation 
  in an area is completely neutralized; Psi in its 
  ‘bonded’ form becomes an obstacle because 
  it hinders further Psi from easily entering the 
  area.  This means that even after the taint 
  disease risk is gone, people living in these 
  areas of diffuse Psi concentration tend to suf-
  fer ill health.  This phenomenon does seem 
  to fade slowly over several years, particu-
  larly when there is increases Psi usage in the 
  area.  Currently a Norça project utilizing flo-
  ral bioapps seems to be having some success 
  in combating the problem.
  All right, that is all for today.
  I have prepared holos from my recent 
  sabbatical into the LAST Zone where efforts 
  to decrease the effect of the Taint are greatest 
  - and also from my time in Shattered France 
  where the people living on the borders of the 
  Rayonnaire areas of Quantum Radiation make 
  ideal study subjects for this topic.  I suggest 
  you view them at your earliest convenience. 
  tion poisoning.  Early symptoms of radiation 
  poisoning include nausea and fatigue, often 
  followed by headaches, shortness of breath, 
  hair loss, anaemia, dry coughs, sub dermal 
  bleeding and haemorrhages.  These sec-
  ondary symptoms often take some time to 
  come into effect, depending on the radiation 
  dosage.  Anything from years, down to weeks 
  or even days is possible.  With Taint Radiation, 
  even fairly strong doses usually take years 
  and longer to take full effect.  Unfortunately 
  the full effect does tend to occur even with 
  treatment. 
   Additionally 
  People 
  suffering 
  from radiation poisoning are upwards of 
  four times as likely to have offspring that are 
  malformed.  Those are just the basic symptoms 
  of radiation damage.  I’m sure many of you 
  have some knowledge of the various Taint ill-
  nesses.   Those maladies are the result of the 
  unique properties in certain of the taint radia-
  tions.  
  Some of you may have heard that Psions 
  have proven to be somewhat resistant to 
  radiation.  This is true.  Remember that radia-
  tion damages more than just DNA.  Because it 
  reacts to PSI, radiation can damage the noetic 
  template, so naturally Psions and Latents who 
  have noetic auras that contain more PSI and 
  that ‘recycle’ ambient PSI in a self-reparative 
  way are somewhat resistant.
  Now, let us apply this knowledge to what 
  you, as agents, might find in the field.
  When facing even a relatively weak Aber-
  rant, or when you find yourself in an area of 
  particularly high Quantam Radiation bear in 
  mind that the Psi that you might utilize (should 
  you be Psions) will very quickly bond with 
  ambient quanta particles and thus become 
  ‘heavy’ and unresponsive – essentially neu-
  tralized. Consequently, weak psionic effects 
  will behave erratically.  More powerful effects 
  draw Psi from a wider area, which tends to 
  dilute the negative effects of Quantum pollution. 
  The downside of course is that these effects 
  also draw more heavily on a Psion’s own 
  reserves and can leave a Psion drained and 
  vulnerable.  
  Our experienced field teams generally 
  suggest that should you ever find yourself in 
  a situation where you are facing an aberrant, 
  using your most powerful Psionic techniques 
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  Let me first thank you all for the invitation, 
  and might I say that I’m particularly looking 
  forward to the ball later.  
  [(laughter)]
  Seriously though, the mere fact that I’m 
  here proves that Oxford heartily deserves its 
  reputation for going out of its way to acquire 
  holistic viewpoints on important subjects.  We 
  at Port-au-Prince have the third largest taint 
  disease treatment facilities in human space – 
  after Basel and Luna.  Our advantage is that 
  whilst the two larger taint treatment depart-
  ments possess no less excellent doctors, they 
  refuse to accept more traditional and holistic 
  methods of treatment.  We believe it is for 
  that reason alone that our success rate is 
  almost five percent higher than Basel’s.
  Of course, I’m here to talk about Taint 
  Diseases rather than our treatment regimens 
  and statistics, although I will touch on the 
  former briefly and hopefully more so during 
  your question session.
  There are currently several recorded 
  varieties of taint disease, and each of these 
  can manifest variant symptoms.  Can anyone 
  here tell me what defines a taint disease?  
  Yes, the young lady at the back.
  Student: Taint diseases are caused by 
  exposure to Taint (also called Quantum Radi-
  ation) and are characterised by a psionically 
  detectable Taint Register.  Taint diseases are 
  not infectious, but are resistant to Vitakinetic 
  healing.
  Someone 
  has 
  been 
  doing 
  her 
  homework!  Yes, correct!  
  Taint energy, like all radiation, does 
  more cellular damage the longer the victim 
  is exposed.  Taint is particularly danger-
  ous because it has a biological effectiveness 
  factor of four.  That is four times higher than 
  X-Rays or Beta Rays.  That means that every 
  Gray of Taint a person absorbs equates to 
  FOUR Sieverts of cellular damage!
  Before I go too much further let me tell you 
  a bit about the Aberrant Syndrome itself.  Al-
  though A.S. can’t be defined as a taint disease 
  because people who have never been touched 
  by Taint Radiation do suffer from it, the risk of 
  A.S. does seem to increases fairly significantly 
  if you have suffered  Taint exposure.   A.S. is 
  the result of what you might call a ‘slow 
  eruption’.  The victim of A.S. is developing a 
  Mazarin-Rashoud node at a far slower pace 
  than was normal for the aberrants of the 
  previous century.  The side effect of the slow-
  ness of this eruption is that the poor victim’s 
  body is wracked by small bursts of  Quantum 
  Radiation from within itself - resulting in 
  severe noetic template degradation and cel-
  lular damage.  We believe that fully erupted 
  aberrants have some means to compensate 
  for this template degradation – not so with 
  these poor souls.
  With template degradation virtually any 
  prognosis is possible, but the usual course is 
  headaches followed by a shortness of breath 
  and fatigue and then, if the node has still not 
  manifested fully, by the wasting of the hard 
  and then soft muscle tissue and the formation 
  of Taint Cancers in all the major organs.  The 
  whole course of  A.S. takes place over a 
  period of between one week and three 
  months.  Occasionally victims of A.S. erupt 
  fully - exhibiting superhuman strength and 
  or full quantum abilities and our security per-
  sonnel are forced to intervene.  They do this 
  reluctantly – but for now Aberrant Syndrome 
  is truly a no win situation.  Because of this, 
  many patients opt for Euthanasia, often sign-
  3 March 2122. 
  Oxford Special Guest Speaker: Dr Rona Moshay, 
  Director of Port-Au-Prince Clinic, Haiti 
  - presenting todays lecture:
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  ing Living Wills – giving us their 
  blessing to study their aberrant 
  bodies.  This is not required since the UN 
  passed Resolution 47-3 in 2109 which 
  gives Æsculapians and the Æon Trinity 
  the right to study aberrant corpses for the 
  purposes of finding methods of defend-
  ing against them.  We, at Port-au-Prince 
  do like to get that signature.  It allows 
  the victim a chance to fight back and to 
  make a willing contribution, and eases our 
  conscience somewhat about the work that 
  we have to do.  Should you want to sign 
  a Will you can do so any time.  Just send 
  your agent to our OpNet site with your 
  particulars and your SID.
  Currently we have only been able to 
  delay the effects of aberrant syndrome.  It 
  responds slowly to Iotrosic and Menta-
  sic techniques, but our most promising 
  results seem to occur when we combine 
  these with hypnosis, psychotherapy and 
  traditional vodoun medicine.  Obviously 
  the conscious mind is a great factor when 
  it is utterly determined not to become an 
  aberrant…
  The taint diseases proper – Wexler’s, D, 
  GCS, CBD, Trifal and the rest have a defi-
  nitely taint register, but are not the result of 
  the formation of an M-R node.  You should 
  know that Total Allergy Syndrome, No 
  Touch and Ant Farm Syndrome, although 
  often blamed on aberrants, are not clas-
  sified as a taint related because they don’t 
  have a taint register.  Those diseases are 
  caused by various factors often pres-
  ent in Arcology life.  We can’t blame the 
  aberrants for everything, but there is 
  plenty that we can lay at their door.
  D is by far the most common of the taint 
  diseases.  The ‘D’ is often thought to stand 
  for Decay, but I’m sure the young lady at 
  the back can tell you that in actual fact it 
  is a shortened and more pronounceable 
  abbreviation for the name of its discoverer, 
  the Dutch Noeticist Dr Johan Dijkstra.  D 
  is the most common of these diseases 
  because it takes a very small dose of Taint 
  to take effect.  This particular Taint seems 
  to somehow target particularly susceptible 
  sequences of redundant genes, which are 
  common, but hardly ubiquitous.  Cells 
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  Radiation is the result of elemen-
  tal decay and as such is measured in 
  elemental decays per second.  One 
  becquerel (abbreviation Bq) is equal 
  to one decay per second.  Absorbed 
  dose is measured in grays (abbre-
  viation Gy). One gray corresponds to 
  one joule of radiation energy depos-
  ited in one kilogram of matter. A dose 
  of 3 to 5 Gy will kill fifty percent of 
  people exposed in one to two months. 
  This is a large unit and the milligray 
  (mGy), which is one thousandth of a 
  gray, is more commonly used.  When 
  radiation interacts with living tis-
  sue the effect it has varies with the 
  type of radiation.  To allow for this, 
  the dose in grays is multiplied by 
  an effectiveness factor and the new 
  units are called sieverts (abbreviation 
  Sv) and the dose is called the effec-
  tive biological dose.  When radiation 
  is absorbed in the body it causes 
  chemical reactions to occur which 
  can alter the normal functions of the 
  body.  At high doses (above 1 sievert) 
  this can result in massive cell death, 
  organ damage and possibly death 
  to the individual. At low doses (less 
  than 50 mSv which is almost always 
  the case with Taint radiation) the situ-
  ation is more complex, with certain 
  gene containing cell types being more 
  resistant or susceptible than others.
  >> Triton Archive <<
  UNITS OF RADIATION 
  
  with this altered coding multiply and attack 
  surrounding tissue.  I’m sure you’ve all seen 
  the D Victim’s Fund Appeal on the OpNet 
  – you’ve seen the slow decay it causes.  D 
  takes between one and three years to kill its 
  victim.  The only vaguely positive thing with D 
  is that the nerve endings are one of the first 
  things to atrophy, leaving the victim free from 
  most pain during the ugly end stages of the 
  disease.  Loss of tactile sensation and hear-
  ing accompanied by a prickling on the skin 
  are early warning signs of D affliction.  To 
  date, twelve cases of D have been completely 
  cured, or more precisely, held at bay through 
  Vitakinesis and traditional (and of course 
  non-traditional) medicine.  These cases have 
  all been caught very early and have required 
  continuous Iotrosic treatment over a period 
  of years.  We predict that these ‘lucky’ vic-
  tims will finally be free of their treatment 
  regimen about ten to twelve years after its 
  inception.  We’re currently designing the 
  matrices for a nanoapp that will alter the 
  gene sequence that D seems to target to act 
  as a type of vaccination.  Of course, we can’t 
  go beyond the drawing board until we con-
  vince the UN to allow us to resume the testing 
  of Plasmal BioApps.
  Wexler’s disease - named for Doctor 
  Frederick Roger Wexler, once a member of 
  this esteemed university I believe, is prob-
  ably the worst of the bunch.  The problem 
  with Wexler’s is that it always starts out 
  extremely subtle.  There are no symptoms 
  for years and when they finally do occur, the 
  symptoms are often misdiagnosed.  This isn’t 
  surprising since the symptoms are a result of 
  slow changes in the brain’s chemistry that 
  can result in mood swings, erratic behaviour, 
  schizophrenia or paranoia.  Those symptoms 
  could be the result of many things!  Two to 
  three years after the mental aspects set in, the 
  disease moves to the rest of the body.  There 
  is no mistaking a Wexler’s sufferer for any-
  thing else at that point onward.    Affected 
  organs behave erratically causing all kinds of 
  symptoms and a great deal of pain.  Finally, 
  the body’s ability to process fluids is affected, 
  the blood vessels become somewhat porous 
  and infection sets in under the epidermis 
  tissue.  The body swells and body fluids seep 
  through the pores.  Sufferers of this disease 
  opt for Euthanasia in almost every case.  Not 
  one has been cured.  The only fortunate part 
  of Wexler’s disease is that so far it is not very 
  common, although the number of victims 
  seems to be increasing – no doubt as a result 
  of the aberrant’s return.
  We’re currently still guessing at how Trifal 
  comes about.  We do know that it is a state in 
  which the white blood cells become hyper-
  energetic – attacking more and more types 
  of cell.  Over a period of between two to six 
  months the blood vessel walls begin to break 
  down causing the now caustic blood to seep 
  into surrounding tissue, whilst the marrow 
  tissue expands, breaking open the skeleton 
  from within – eventually resulting in a hor-
  ribly disfigured death.  At Port-au-Prince we 
  have had two of the five cases worldwide in 
  which Trifal was successfully cured.   Cures in 
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  Subject: Relocation
  From: Hans Beitz
  To: Malachi Ross
  Encryption: SPE
  Transmission type: textfile
  Date: 16:24:32  09.24.2119
  Doctor Ross, your request 
  for transfer to the Beaulac Clinic 
  on Luna has been approved. I 
  am sure that you will find that 
  Olympus can offer you many 
  new outlets for your research. 
  You will be working under Dr. 
  Jerzy Grabowski. You will be 
  fully briefed by Dr. Marr in 
  regards to what your assign-
  ment will be by once you reach 
  Luna.
  >> CONFIDENTAL <<
  
  >>> file ends <<<
  structure.  The reconfiguration often results in 
  vastly more muscle tissue and a hyperactive 
  adrenal gland – leading to vastly increased 
  strength as well as severe irritability and 
  an initial susceptibility to suggestion as the 
  brain chemistry re-organizes.  GCS is the 
  result of contact, injection, or consumption 
  of items tainted by certain aberrants.  The 
  prognosis in the case of early detection 
  – 24 hours or less is very good.  The Iotrosis 
  anti-toxin mode can neutralize the retrovirus 
  completely.  Between 24 and 48 hours, a full 
  recovery is still possible – especially in the 
  case of Psions who are somewhat resistant to 
  the disease.  Beyond 48 hours mutations and 
  personality loss appear permanent – although 
  we are working on our own psi-based ret-
  rovirus to reverse this.  Early symptoms to 
  look out for are spasms and dizzy spells in 
  otherwise healthy subjects.  GCS has one 
  other unique characteristic.  Whilst Psions are 
  almost completely immune to the other dis-
  eases, Psions who are injected with or who 
  inject GCS tend to suffer and die rather than 
  transforming into sub aberrants.
  Our challenge as physicians, Psion and 
  Normal alike, is to step up and face the hor-
  ror of these challenges.  Humanity depends 
  on each of us to be strong and to find it within 
  ourselves to overcome these diseases.  With 
  your help I fervently believe that we shall!
  All right.  Thank you.  I will now take 
  questions from the audience.
  (applause)
  these cases were attributed to successive trans-
  fusions as well as the constant use of the art of 
  Reiki – which we believe slowly strengthens a 
  noetic pattern – together with Iotrosis, which, 
  of course, does much the same thing in more 
  forceful doses.  The warning signs for Trifal 
  are bloodshot eyes and cuts that won’t heal, 
  together with chest pains and loss of feeling 
  in the extremities.  Trifal has so far only been 
  recorded in people who have been affected by 
  relatively strong doses of Taint Radiation.
  CBD, Compound Breakdown Disorder is a 
  degenerative disease that strikes at both the 
  immune system and one of the lungs, kidneys 
  or central nervous system.  Whichever organ it 
  targets first, CBD gradually (normally over six 
  to eight months) infects all of these systems – 
  usually resulting in a slow, painful death – nor-
  mally quite some time after the loss of cognitive 
  processes.  For that reason CBD is truly difficult 
  to deal with.  How do you tell a sufferer that 
  they will very likely die slowly, after they have 
  lost everything that makes them who and what 
  they are?  Untreated sufferers of CBD gener-
  ally die from immune deficiency complica-
  tions before losing cognitive function – which 
  in many cases is preferable to the treatment 
  option.  The most utterly difficult thing about 
  CBD is that occasionally – with about one in 
  thirty sufferers – treatment results in the dis-
  ease going into partial or total remission – the 
  immune system recovers, although the affected 
  organs usually do not.  Obviously the symp-
  toms of CBD vary from case to case depending 
  on which organ it attacks but the symptoms 
  are always accompanied by the effects of the 
  weakened immune system – so colds, ‘flu and 
  so on can become complications.
  GCS or Genemorphic Compression Syn-
  drome, is thankfully very rare.  It seems to 
  be the result of an engineered retrovirus that 
  compresses the chromosomes resulting in some 
  of the most bizarre mutations this side of full 
  aberrancy.  The reconfigured genetic structure 
  has a faint taint register – indicating that this 
  bit of - terrorism - is definitely the work of 
  an aberrant.  The symptoms are large-scale 
  mutation of the flesh, blood and even skeletal 
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  the point of view that the M-R Node is a very new genetic development and would 
  go into shock should >>>data lost<<< regenerate.  On top of which the node is both 
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  >>>data lost<<< half of those have the cajones for it.
  AG 
  Subject: It worked!
  From: Adria >>>data lost<<<
  To: >>>data lost<<< go 
  Encryption: DSE
  Transmission type: textfile
  Date: 15:20:32 12.29.2122
  Trinity Field Report: Noetic Science
  THE FUTURE
  
  I regret to inform you that we have 
  not yet located the alleged proto-
  psion Tamarika K.  Although we have 
  been in the operational area for one 
  week beyond the mission’s kill date, 
  I believe that we are making definite 
  progress and request that more time 
  and resources be dedicated to this 
  project.
  Yesterday we found a scavenger 
  group that seems to have recently 
  converted to the new faith of T.K.  Ap-
  parently she passed through the region 
  less than a week ago.  Importantly - 
  several of the scavengers actually saw 
  her performing tasks requiring both a 
  fair degree of vitakinesis as well as 
  telekinesis.  Jr Lieutenant Kumalo, our 
  telepath, confirms the sighting - See 
  attached scan file.  Lt Kumalo also 
  seems to think that the scavengers 
  have been stirred up in their fervor by 
  powerful but extremely subtle Empa-
  thy effects.  The locals certainly seem 
  to think that she is some sort of holy 
  figure.  
  In the vision-scan she is clearly 
  preaching of the coming of ‘One far 
  greater than she’ and backing it up 
  with the healing of the sick.  Given 
  the state of France, and the willing-
  ness of the locals to accept any speck 
  of hope that they are offered, the 
  comparison to the holy prophets can-
  not be avoided.  Still, personally, the 
  only thing that I can think of that is 
  more powerful than a Psion skilled in 
  more than one aptitude is an aberrant.
  Please advise.
  Classification: 6th Tier
  Importance: Priority
  Mission Officer: Kapteeni 
  Malin Andersson, 6th Legion
  Chain Commander: Ms. Mossalo
  Encryption: DSE
  Operation: Tamarika K. Psion Hunt
  Theatre: Europe|Southern 
  France|Near Toulouse
  Date: 03.01.2103
  >>>Attached File: JrLieutenantK
  umalo.3rdLegion.Scanfile<<< 
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  Thank you, Brother, your suggested meditation technique did indeed save my 
  life.  Thanks to you I was able to withstand the pain of the directed backlash.  I am both sad in 
  my heart that the rogues are no more, and grateful – even glad - that few others must suffer 
  the pain that I have suffered.
  I have removed the dark cloth… for now.
  ---
  - Triton Report:  Attached message appears to be real.  Most likely generator would be 
  an Al Alif clairsentient.  Best guess: a rogue Chitra Bhanu has/had developed the capacity to 
  create focused backlash by violent manipulation of the medium.  This means that the quan-
  takinetics have the ability to work on a much wider meta-plane of psi manipulation than we 
  previously believed.
  - Suggested course:  In light of recent events, Omega level Athena team backed by a 
  Noeticist should be assigned to investigate immediately.  The mentioned meditation techniques 
  could also be useful in upcoming negotiations. 
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  >> CONFIDENTIAL <<
  Its going to be close this 
  time around.
  I need to visit the 
  prophet.  She’s waiting for me.
  Prepare the most likely 
  candidates.  Just in case. 
  Subject: Re: All changes are 
  in place
  From: Max
  To: Whitley
  Encryption: RPH/X9
  Date: 00.00.12 21.3.2123 
  Subject: All changes are in place
  From: Whitley
  To: Max
  Encryption: RPH/X9
  Date: 00.00.12 21.3.2123 
  >> CONFIDENTIAL <<
  How long before psi forms 
  start emerging?
  Is there enough time?
  
  the end of an era
  With the Roaring 20’s behind us, and the desperation of the Depression fresh 
  in the minds of people everywhere, the nations of the world draw into the 
  chaos of another Great War.  Now is the time for new heroes to emerge.  Now 
  is the time for sleeping giants to wake.  Now is the time for the Greatest 
  Generation to be born, but first it must survive it’s…
  trial by fire
  Adventure! Trial by Fire: an expansion and world update for the wildly 
  successful Adventure! Role-playing game.  This book will take you to the last 
  days of the Pulp Era and walk you through the weirder side of World War II.
  - 
  General Information on the world of the 1940’s
  - 
  Updates on Individuals and organizations
  - 
  New Super Science and Gadgetry
  - 
  New Heroes and Villains
  - 
  The Birth of a New Foe in the Form of an Old Friend
  - 
  Merits and Flaws
  - 
  New Knacks
  
  The Chitra Bhanu
  Those rare psions gifted with the 
  most remarkable of abilities
  The ability to control the very 
  fabric of the universe
  They seemed to be the most 
  powerful, shining beacons of 
  defense for humanity
  Until they themselves fell to the 
  Aberrants dark pursuits
  . . . or did they?
  http://www.chill.uk.net/eon
  
  Noetic Science
  A fanfic sourcebook for the Trinity RPG
  http://www.chill.uk.net/eon
  Scientific Advancement
  Untold Potential
  In the 22nd Century humanity has discovered the very 
  building blocks of life - Psi and Quanta. Armed with 
  the ability to tap into these forces the Orders bravely 
  stand in defense of Earth. But how does it all work? With 
  centuries of scientific leadership to draw upon, the Æon 
  Trinity, in conjunction with the Orders, delves deep into 
  the subquantum universe to understand how life itself is 
  created, and perhaps develop new tools along the way.
  Trinity Field Report: Noetic Science is the seventh subject 
  briefing from the Æon Trinity for its operatives and 
  associates. It provides a summary of the young field of 
  Noetics and brings to light recent discoveries and the latest 
  advances. Additionally, this dossier includes information 
  relating to bioware function, and current theories on taint 
  and aberrancy. 
  Subject: Noetic Science
  From: Æon Trinity, Neptune Division
  To: All Æon operatives
  Transmission type: textfile
  Encr yption: DSE
  
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