In 2108, humanity discovered the spike drive, the first faster-than-light engine, and began to colonize the stars. As they expanded outward, eventually some spacers began to develop psychic and psionic abilities such as telepathy, telekinesis, teleportation, and precognition. Humanity harnessed these psychic abilities in tandem with advanced technology called “psitech” to make wondrous advances. They eventually developed psitech powered jumpgates, which shortened the transit time across the galaxy down to mere days, making spike drives obsolete. Then the Scream happened. In 2665, after more than 500 years of human colonization throughout the galaxy, everything came crashing down. Without warning or reason, every psychic in known space either died or was driven permanently insane all at once. The event became known as the Scream, and the period that followed it was the Silence. Planets are cut off from each other. Developed worlds with their megacities could no longer import the re...
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