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- Telepathy is the ability to share thoughts and emotions. Telepaths also occasionally have prophetic dreams, and a few exhibits heightened reflexes as a result of their telepathy. Telepaths are some of the most controversial beings in the Sector. Some nations revile them, hunting and slaying them; other nations virtually worship them; others again tend to ignore their presence, allowing them to live among them as they would any other being. Some societies are almost exclusively composed of telepaths.
- A telepath is an individual possessing the capability to use their minds for communication of messages or thoughts directly from their mind to another via telepathy. Generally, the thoughts are received and processed by the brain in a manner similar to ordinary sensory input, so in essence a telepath "speaks" and "hears" perceptually. However, the ordinary vocal and auditory mechanisms are not employed. Throughout the world, telepaths have endured discrimination due them possessing telepathic abilities. Despite these factors, the telepath community continues to make strides in the modern world, simultaneously achieving in academia, science, politics, and business.
- While rare, it is known for some races to naturally develop telepathic abilities; however, due to the processes of evolution through natural selection, any species that does so cannot then go on to develop a sentient intelligence. The reason behind this is that the emergence of intelligence in species is, under usual circumstances, the result of a race that has become adept at generalized abilities, rather than specializing. They make up for a lack of natural strength, speed or in-built weaponry like that of a predator with a tendency towards curiosity and tool use, which they pass on to their descendants who become better tool users and so on. As a result of this adaptability, further biological evolution is mostly around the use of tools. By this point the race would be actively altering
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| - While rare, it is known for some races to naturally develop telepathic abilities; however, due to the processes of evolution through natural selection, any species that does so cannot then go on to develop a sentient intelligence. The reason behind this is that the emergence of intelligence in species is, under usual circumstances, the result of a race that has become adept at generalized abilities, rather than specializing. They make up for a lack of natural strength, speed or in-built weaponry like that of a predator with a tendency towards curiosity and tool use, which they pass on to their descendants who become better tool users and so on. As a result of this adaptability, further biological evolution is mostly around the use of tools. By this point the race would be actively altering their environment to suit them; pounding and cooking food they couldn't normally chew or digest, building weapons to hunt, kill and defend themselves from animals that are naturally stronger, faster and far more dangerous than they. When a creature naturally develops telepathic abilities through natural selection or mutation it cannot then become sentient as a natural telepath has no need to develop generalized tool use. If a predator can be telepathically sensed then convinced by its would-be prey that it is not there, then there is no need to develop weapons, and if prey can also be sensed and convinced to come to the predator then there's no need to develop hunting skills. In the same way that predators evolve teeth, claws and venom as in-built tools for direct action and thereby commit themselves to a specialization, natural telepaths also become committed to specialization and can never achieve sentience. There have however been two known exceptions. The first being a type of bacteria discovered on an uncharted planet. A natural telepath, the microscopic lifeform had all the classic traits of individual neurons and had colonized deep in the planet’s upper crust, evolving with the other native lifeforms. Over the course of millions of years the planet-wide colony infected the other native forms, creating a symbiotic life cycle and taking root in their own neural relays until it eventually reached a kind of critical mass until all the lifeforms were controlled and answerable to the greater biomass. While on their own, no individual creature was sentient, the combined thoughts of every plant, insect and animal linked in a "telesymbiosis" with the bacteria brought about a hive consciousness. The whole planet effectively became a unified organism; flowers telling insects when to pollinate them, wounded animals alerting carrion eaters so the meat isn't wasted and so on. Eventually however, alien races arrived on the planet and, not suspecting what they were walking into began colonizing the planet, cutting down forests, killing animals for food and otherwise disrupting the order that had existed for millennia. The bacteria responded the way any large organism responds to a foreign infection, by becoming stronger and imposing its telesymbiosis on the aliens. Making them lost in telepathic illusion and eventually starving to death. This cycle kept up until 2262 when Lyta Alexander and G'Kar arrived on the world, tracking the course of an abandoned Psi Corps mothership. Eventually seeing through the illusion, Alexander, with her enhanced abilities was able to overload the bacteria's neural links, effectively crippling the hive mind. Another exception would seem to be in the form of races such as the First Ones and the extra-dimensional "Thirdspace Aliens". However in the case of the First Ones there is no way of knowing the extent of their telepathy or if it came to them naturally at all and in the case of the Thirdspace Aliens, so little is known about either them or the dimension they are from that it is impossible to tell how, if at all any known laws of biology or evolution could apply.
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- Telepathy is the ability to share thoughts and emotions. Telepaths also occasionally have prophetic dreams, and a few exhibits heightened reflexes as a result of their telepathy. Telepaths are some of the most controversial beings in the Sector. Some nations revile them, hunting and slaying them; other nations virtually worship them; others again tend to ignore their presence, allowing them to live among them as they would any other being. Some societies are almost exclusively composed of telepaths.
- A telepath is an individual possessing the capability to use their minds for communication of messages or thoughts directly from their mind to another via telepathy. Generally, the thoughts are received and processed by the brain in a manner similar to ordinary sensory input, so in essence a telepath "speaks" and "hears" perceptually. However, the ordinary vocal and auditory mechanisms are not employed. Throughout the world, telepaths have endured discrimination due them possessing telepathic abilities. Despite these factors, the telepath community continues to make strides in the modern world, simultaneously achieving in academia, science, politics, and business.
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