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Comic for 22 April
Topic Started: Apr 24 2013, 07:11 PM (148 Views)
eremon
Rookie
So, I find it interesting that Kipling's comments about his coin mirror Josh's about his cell phone, Romeo. The psychic/cyborg's control increases due to familiarity, not simply due to skill. Makes it pretty clear that they have more in common than their first syllable.

His point about increasing ability (perhaps due to better/frequent training) over generations also underlines that this entire Australia trip's message might be "Fear Avery".

Just woolgathering...
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tanonev
Junior Agent
Completely unjustified rampant (but fun!) speculation:

Psychic powers are actually innate to all humans, but most people never figure out how to use them. What turns out to be easier than using those powers, though, is giving them away -- in the form of memories of other people. The "fame" power that ghosts draw on is actually the donated psychic strength of the people who remember them.

But it wasn't always this way; long, long ago, this fame setup didn't exist; you used it or you lost it. Back then, it was far more common to use and to teach these powers. But then someone figured out the fame trick, and discovered that they could hold on to these powers after death if they "borrowed" the strength of the living. But this required those living to not tap into their own reserves. And so, this person went and struck a deal with the strongest people they knew: stop sharing their knowledge with any outsiders, and they'd share the secret to affecting life after death. And thus the old families are born, and gradually this setup becomes the norm; the notion of fame gradually spreads among the dead, though more and more details of the origin are lost with each passing. Eventually it becomes common knowledge that you can pull strength from the living, to the point that it becomes a basic aspect of the afterlife. The Founding Father ghosts are many generations younger than the originals (gods of sorts), and they have no clue that the afterlife was ever any different from what they're currently experiencing.

Fast-forward to the modern era. Our "rogue ghosts" somehow stumble across the original secret, and they're not happy about it. It could be jealousy at the power enjoyed by the more famous, or indignance at the living being stripped of their own resources, or a combination of both. So they decide to break the setup, and restore psychic power to the living. Of course, undoing a force so firmly entrenched in the universe would require immense planning, an effective combination of psionics and technology, and more than a few sacrificial lambs. And thus, the Program is born...
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