Unified Terran Community

Excerpt from a discussion on the Avalon Community Forum:

Harrier posted 20.03.2237
Having recently joined a Chroniclers group, I was looking for detail on one of the military battles that took place during the founding years. I discovered that the outcome of the conflict had revolved around the use of powerful psychics on the side of Heru Seleem. On an impulse I checked a few more and discovered much the same thing. There was considerable variance in the number of forces involved, but every battle I could find information on had, essentially, been fought between a small group of psychics and a much larger force of conventional troops. The result was always victory for the psychics. It was the specific accounts by Community members, who had been those soldiers in past incarnations, that caught my attention. In one account, heavily verified, a psychic flayed a thousand armoured troops with an ‘ululating cry’. There were many, many more accounts of such spectacular feats. And then it struck me, since that time, there have been no psychics with such raw power. Not even close. Anybody got any ideas?

Dinarzade posted 20.03.2237
Harrier, I’m a practising Psychonaut and have been for my last three incarnations. I work with psychics frequently and am one myself, and I assure you, there is a vast spectrum of ability and strength. However, particularly traumatic events can cause the memory to warp. I suspect these events have become slightly exaggerated through misremembering. Also, Seleem probably recruited the strongest psychics he could.

An0nymous posted 21.03.2237
Harrier, keep searching! consider, why does the Seleem Configuration Count go to a figure that no human has ever had?

Dinarzade posted 21.03.2237
An0nymous, the score that you’re alluding to, represents a hypothetical situation whereby all of the genetic markers are found in one person. From your other posts I’d say you were a little paranoid. Your choice of username is in itself a bit worrying. I can help you, message if you’re interested, Dinarzade@unifiedterrancommunity.co.uk

An0nymous posted 24.03.2237
Harrier, I now have docs which prove that Heru Seleem was working with a group who all had a Configuration Count of 100. It was from this baseline that all humans are measured. I have your details, will forward docs.

Harrier posted 24.03.2237
What do you mean you’ve got my details? How? and what do you mean ‘all humans are measured’?

Harrier posted 25.03.2237
An0nymous? Still waiting for those docs!

Dinarzade posted 29.03.2237
Harrier, I have another theory for you, about your powerful psychics. I just became aware of a group called the Mechanics. The one I met was able to take down an Outsider which had managed to break through from the spirit world. Its more than possible that you have been discovering the early origins of that group. Did An0nymous sent your docs?

Harrier posted 29.03.2237
Nope, never got them. Probably never existed!

Dinarzade posted 30.03.2237
Had a strange dream last night, I’ve meditated on it and I’m pretty sure there’s going to be a significant amount of volcanic activity from Mount Etna. You heard it here first!

convert this post to pdf.

Despite the outward harmony, there are two significant threats to the survival of the Community.  These threats are respectively referred to as Outsiders and aberrant personalities.  The latter are more understood by the Community.  Aberrant personalities are those human souls who would have been considered psychopaths.  they are individuals who, at a fundamental level, think differently to other people.  They have no grasp off, or interest in, the social conventions of the Community and they have no conscience.  The aberrant personalities are aggressive, domineering and are prone to violent yet calculated actions.  They are dangerous simply because there is nothing they will not do to achieve their aims.  The aberrant personalities are usually very clever, but a limited ability to learn from their mistakes prevents them from hiding too long in the Community.  Numerous therapies have been tried to try and integrate the personalities into the greater Community.  These have not only been unsuccessful, but also equipped the aberrant personalities with the tools they needed to better hide in the Community, they now knew how the Psychonauts were identifying them.  The Community’s current policy towards the aberrant personalities, is to detain them when they are revealed and then subject them to an intense program of ‘re-education’.  After this process is complete, the Life Engineers who oversee the procedure, release the reformed people into experimental sub communities.  Thus far, the Life Engineers have enjoyed an impressive success rate with their rehabilitation techniques, unmanageable individuals are prevented from reincarnating until such time as they are willing to try the program.

The Outsiders are a completely different matter.  Their origins are unclear, even to the most experienced of Psychonauts.  The one thing that is clear, is that the Outsiders are souls or spirits who have never been human.  Outsiders are not born on earth in any of the conventional fashions.  They strike from the spirit realm, shredding the soul of a living human and seizing their now soulless body for their own.  The Outsiders also manifest a range of supernatural abilities, making them more than a match for most members of the Community.  To give a sense of perspective, the Outsiders were considered demons and dark gods in bygone ages.  The response of the Community to an intrusion from an Outsider is markedly different to their approach to the aberrant personalities.  Once captured by Life Engineer operatives, the host body is destroyed and the Outsider cast back to the spirit realm.

Over the last twenty years, the Life Engineers have become aware of an unwelcome development from the aberrant personalities.  While the Outsiders had always stolen bodies, the aberrant personalities had to be reborn in one of the conventional methods.  This allowed the Life Engineers to proscribe certain individuals temporarily.  In the last twenty years, the aberrant personalities have developed the ability to possess bodies in a manner similar to that of the Outsiders.  How they developed this alarming ability is, as yet, unknown.

convert this post to pdf.