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| ===== Psi Jargon ===== | ===== Psi Jargon ===== | ||
| + | * **Continua/continuum**: a discrete volume of space; a universe among the multiverse. | ||
| + | * **The Real**: our continuum; realspace. | ||
| + | * **Bright Continua**: the neighboring slices of the multiverse theorized to be the medium by which [[psi]] effects are achieved. Popularized as an ‘astral plane’ in operant media. | ||
| + | * **Dark Continua**: realms beyond the Bright Continua; a sort of slur used to cover illegal/shady/immoral uses of psi. | ||
| - | * Bright Continua: the neighboring slices of the multiverse theorized to be the medium by which psi effects are achieved. Popularized as an ‘astral plane’ in operant media. | + | * **[[operancy|Operant]]**: a functional psi-user with one or more developed psi faculties. |
| - | * Dark Continua: realms beyond the Bright Continua; a sort of slur used to cover illegal/shady/immoral uses of psi. | + | * **Latent**: not yet operant, but potentially capable of developing operant faculties. |
| - | * The Real: our continuum; realspace. | + | * **Blank**: not latent or operant; baseline human, unaltered by [[the Signal]]. |
| - | * Faculty: a discrete ‘school’ of psi power. | + | * **Paramount**: an informal designation for someone whose operant faculties exceed ‘normal’ maximums, usually from illegal study and modification of the Signal or invasive implants like CE rigs. |
| - | * Operant: a functional psi-user with one or more developed psi faculties. | + | |
| - | * Blank: not latent or operant; baseline human, unaltered by the Signal. | + | * **[[Faculty]]**: a discrete ‘school’ of psi power. |
| - | * Latent: not yet operant, but potentially capable of developing operant faculties. | + | * **Backblast**: an effect by which over-extending psi power results in an energetic bleed from the Bright Continua and corresponding flash burns/trauma inside the operant’s brain. |
| - | * Backblast: an effect by which over-extending psi power results in an energetic bleed from the Bright Continua and corresponding flash burns/trauma inside the operant’s brain. | + | * **Burnout**: someone who has suffered permanent brain damage from overuse of psi. |
| - | * Burnout: someone who has suffered permanent brain damage from overuse of psi. | + | |
| - | * Paramount: an informal designation for someone whose operant faculties exceed ‘normal’ maximums, usually from illegal study and modification of the Signal or invasive implants like CE rigs. | + | |
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