Psi Skills Construct?
Wed, 08/27/2008 - 16:39
It occurs to me, while writing on another subject, that constructs that one creates are limited in what it can do, regarding energy/attack/defense, based on what the creator of the construct can or cannot do.
Has there been any previous effort to create a psionic construct, which served as a "features/abilities core"? Ie, different psions, with different abilities, creates a general purpose core, which contains a simple copy of their ability to do xyz. This core is then integrated into a psionic community core.
With each additional core added and fused with the whole, the object becomes more complex and more dense. However, constructs built from copies of this core, or are linked to this core, would likewise also have access to a massive array of abilities. Not just those of the original psions who contributed, but the various derivatives of those abilities.
Similarly, psions can tap into the construct, or the construct can be used to enhance psions ( ala overlays and transmutations ), allowing them to have access to said abilties and fusion abilities.
I think such a construct would be an awsome thing to contribute to, as well as have access to.
One might even create speacialized versions:
Healing specific ability cores.
Attack/Defense specific ability cores.
Sensing/Scanning specific ability cores.
etc.
Another variant would be to have a central construct, which is configured in a restricted manner. Only certain psions can add or augment the construct. Only certain abilities and functions are available to certain psions. Access to the construct is via smaller linked constructs, which contains the allowed subset of abilities, imprinted onto it from the central construct. These portable cores are then either worn or embedded into a psion's energy network, or linked with the appropriately compatible energy centers.
This portable core could be embedded into a pendant or crystal, programmed to integrate with the wearer over a period of days or weeks, to grow with the wearer, eventually becoming one with the wearer, making the physical pendant unnecessary.
I'm thinking a living portable construct core, that hatches when worn by the intended recipient. It begins to grow by feeding off psionic energy concentrated into the pendant/crystal that it was embedded into. As it grows, it will tendril into and fuses with the wearer's energy network, basically growing into the psion, enfusing the psion with the abilities allowed it from the core. Should the wearer remove the pendant or stop wearing it, the construct is programmed to disentangle itself from the psion and return to the pendant/crystal. Naturally, beyond the pre-determined period, say 3 days, removing the pendant doesn't matter, as the construct would then already be established inside of the psion.
Seems like a good way to "gift" abilities, or for clans/houses/groups to communally share abilities, ensuring that all in the group have access to the same base/core powers and abilities.
Just a thought. 
In brightest day, in blackest night,
No evil shall escape my sight
Let those who worship evil's might,
Beware my power...Green Lanterns Light
awesome idea, if u make 1, make sure 2 send me 1. scanning 1 plz lol
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oh, i don't have that ability, just throwing it out there
In brightest day, in blackest night,
No evil shall escape my sight
Let those who worship evil's might,
Beware my power...Green Lanterns Light
i kno, thats y i said "if" you make 1
If youre going 2 join a cult, don't drink the red koolaid, the blue kind is better:P
usually when someone says if you make one in response to me suggesting it, the person usually assumes that i am going to immediately make one which im not nor do i plan on making one anytime soon for that matter
In brightest day, in blackest night,
No evil shall escape my sight
Let those who worship evil's might,
Beware my power...Green Lanterns Light
i wasn't completly serius with the post anyway
edit:
i wasn't actually expecting you to make me one anyways. i didn't even give you any info on sending it to me
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Possible? Maybe, but there's some problems.
Constructs decay, even if you get it an energy supply, it will eventually develop some quirks in the code so to speak, given enough time. How long it takes for this really depends on the complexity of the construct and the skill and focus of it's creator.
Primarily the possibility of natural or "assisted" (people tamper with other people's things) corruption is why I don't consider using constructs that integrate too much into the body. If my shield decays a bit it's really just a matter of refreshing the programming, and maybe replacing it outright if it's too far gone. When things are tied into the body, there's always the problem of it causing some problems in the event of decay. The more complex and more integrated the construct is, the bigger damage you can wreck.
Additionally, you're also making too light of the idea of doing this kind of thing. It wouldn't be just as easy as bottling the essence of a certain ability. It'd have to be a well designed construct to interact in preprogrammed ways to assist the person. Now this could still work I guess, but to be really workable it'd have to be fairly complex programming so the construct knows how to do this and that. And in the end of course, the person wouldn't permanently learn much, they'd just be supplying the energy for the construct to work.
It's an interesting idea I haven't heard posed before, but I feel uneasy about trying it out.
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i fully understand your concern. i was just throwing it out there for speculation
In brightest day, in blackest night,
No evil shall escape my sight
Let those who worship evil's might,
Beware my power...Green Lanterns Light
hey i was just on psion guild and somone already made something like this, here's the link http://psionguild.com/forums/showthread.php?s=9a082aebff34b2aea9f2c23689...
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yup, iknow, just posting it somewhere else other than there and psionic dojo
and they didn't make it, she just suggested it.
In brightest day, in blackest night,
No evil shall escape my sight
Let those who worship evil's might,
Beware my power...Green Lanterns Light
The idea itself sounds interesting but something about it bothers me. I think that with something this complex you would have to take into account the possibility of the creator's personality being taken in by the construct as well as the Abilities of the creator. In effect it could be used to overwrite another personality. Another factor is the possibility of corruption as innerfire said. If corrupted this has the potential to become as much a Cancer as anything else. I'm not against this idea but i would definitely be careful before i attempted anything like either as the recipient or the creator.
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i doubt it could get into a cancer. broken computer code rarely (if ever) develops into a virus.
i would have thought personality depends on the person, not the energy they use (even if it has been preprogrammed)
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Constructs aren't really necessary. It can be done. I was part of a "psionic network" which consisted of friend's and my now ex lover. We were able to share skills and abilities through the network of links that we shared. I can actually tap into another and do the same thing without having to create a network of anything. Keep in mind that with sensory mechanisms there comes in perception or interpretation of the information by the mind from that sense. Take sight, for example. The sense is your eyes, but it is taken as impulses that are then interpreted by the visual cortex.
All that being said, individual skills that revolved around sensing anything are normally attuned to that person's perception or ability to percieve whatever. Take a person who has a hard time making out let's say thoughts. They pick up thoughts, in whatever form they may be in, but their mind can not make sense of the encoding, so to speak, so they don't hear or understand it on a consious level or it gets rejected or they are only aware of it on a subconscious level. A person who is a good telepath has the ability to pick up and understand what it is that they are picking up. In order to pick up said skill, you would have to match or mimic some type of perception that allows you to understand it or be already capable of making it out.
For example, I am bad with visually interpreting data. I can sense information from my environment. I can sense matter around me, but it comes through as tactile impressions. It is more or so like I am feeling around with my mind in the way that I am running my hand across something. I can create an image of what it is that I am "feeling" by piecing together the impressions of whatever along with its properties (I can sink my awareness into things and kind of feel out sense the properties of things). It is hard for me to hold images in my head or understand them in that way. If you told me to close my eyes and picture a cup, it would be hard for me to do. This is because of my personal make up. Physically and psychically I am a tactile person.
My ex is visual. He can sense information from his environment, too, but it comes across as images. He can Remote View, but it is pretty much limited to that. He doesn't have my ability to sense things on a "tactile" level, so it is more or so like watching something versus actually feeling it. These are two different variations to the same type of skill, but what makes it different are the people involved. I would first have to match his perception of said information in order to tap into that skill of his, otherwise, it is useless.
I was part of a net in which one could draw from the other in a type of pool, but we all pretty much were so synced that it didn't really matter the perception.
Then you have the fact that advanced skills are a mixture of basic abilities. For example, I can do healing on varying degrees. For me, personally, it is a combination of a type of remote sensing (in that tactile way that I explained earlier), empathy, and applications of psychokinesis on some levels. A person couldn't just tap into me and expect to be able to do it, because they don't have the accurate knowledge or experience (unless they pulled that from me too which is another story) to pull that off.
I don't mess around with or understand constructs very well, so I have no idea of how to do it that way. I know how to do it via telepathy/empathy, as mentioned above, though.
I can actually share my psionic abilities. I normally do it with people having a hard time with psychokinesis. Personally (as for me and from my perspective), I sense the object or whatever it is that I am trying to move and affect it. A lot of people have a hard time doing that, so I link with the person on that level and I allow them to feel the object through me (matching up perceptions by doing a quick analysis and synthesizing something that would fit the them). In that mode they normally end up affecting the object while pulling off of me individually. I normally get frustrated with people who can not sense what I sense, so I stretch myself out and allow them access to how I sense things and what I sense. Then you have differences in how much energy something eats up. I have a very high threshold, so it takes a lot to wear me out whereas someone may have a higher or lower one, so me tapping into something may take a toll or them doing it may take a toll.