Post by Decadent Prince on Feb 23, 2005 5:15:32 GMT
The Overmind is less of an organization and more along the lines of an aberrant psychic mutation, an appalling new direction for the human species. In existence since at least the 19th Century, what at first appears to be a ruthless conspiracy of discrete individuals is actually a single psychic hive-mind, an entirely telepathic organism that is greater than the sum of it's parts.
The Overmind completely disregards the value of individual life, willingly sacrificing others for the hive's aggregate goals: the accumulation of power, wealth, and scientific/psionic knowledge. Estimates place the number of individual hive members at several hundred, and it is known that the Overmind has amalgamated several dozen psychic animals into it's globe-spanning gestalt. It is even possible that the Overmind has managed to assimilate an alien member or two.
The Overmind operates ultra-tech corporations, controls a large portion of the world's psychic research, and does not shrink from using deadly force to protect the secret of it's existence. Usually this is not necessary, as the Overmind is more than capable of telepathically erasing memories of those who discover too much about it. In this fashion, it has remained unknown to all for many years.
Overmind members are largely indistinguishable from ordinary people. However, their thoughts are alien and not entirely their own. Instead their perceptions are warped by a melange of precognitive visions, telepathic impressions, empathic feelings, and kirlian auras. These Overmind drones can no longer be considered part of humanity, they are both more and less than human.
Most of the Overmind's activities involve horrific psychic experiments involving mind control, and the manufacture of biomechanical components or psychic batteries. It's bio-psychic research usually involves the surgical removal of human, dolphin, or other brains and treating the neural tissue for use as specialized "Psiborg" components. They also produce cloned, genetically engineered brains that can be sliced up and grafted onto it's members, vastly increasing their psychic powers. The Overmind also secretly manufactures highly addictive and dangerous psi-boosting drugs which it sells to covert government and corporate programs, and the telepathic underground's black market.
The Overmind is parasitical and often targets psychics for involuntary inclusion into the gestalt, or worse, for conversion into disembodied psi-borgs. It rarely targets individuals, preferring instead to assimilate smaller Psi-Hives; cult-like gestalts centered around and guided by a charismatic telepath. By abducting and assimilating the Hive-Node personality, the entire hive becomes part of the Overmind. The Overmind also attempts to forcibly absorb Psi-Unions; gestalts which are not dominated by a singular power or inner circle and thus experience a fuller form of telepathic communion and oneness.
The Overmind does not appear to assimilate non-psychic individuals for reasons that remain largely unknown. Although it could easily kidnap especially important individuals and graft cloned telepathic brain tissue into their skulls in order to surgically render a victim part of the gestalt, it rarely does so.
It is possible that many Overminds have existed in human history and have not survived for various reasons (witch hunts, extra-terrestrial intervention, destruction by an especially powerful individual telepath, etc) There also might be entire worlds or galaxies controlled by Cosmic Overminds that have seamlessly merged together as streams of minds flow into the great river.
Overmind Psi-Tech:
Seer Psiborg: Scans possible futures.
Watcher Psiborg: Clairvoyant ESP and astral projection to watch restricted areas and targeted individuals.
Hunter Psiborg: A sliced up Telekinetic Brain with powerful channels of ley line energy connecting the horizontal "slices" to increase power. The slices expand and contract inside their sterile carbon crystal container.
Medical Psiborg: capable of telekinetic psychic surgery and healing/regeneration.
Overlord Psiborg: Telepathically boosted Hive-Node. Overmind members become more and more inhuman in their behavior the closer they are to this living telepathic nexus. Overlords are frequently built into huge heavily armed and armored robots.
Telegen: injected drug. adds to psychic skill, can cause seizures.
Neurokor: pill. adds to telekinetic power, lowers skill, can cause spontaneous manifestations.
The Overmind completely disregards the value of individual life, willingly sacrificing others for the hive's aggregate goals: the accumulation of power, wealth, and scientific/psionic knowledge. Estimates place the number of individual hive members at several hundred, and it is known that the Overmind has amalgamated several dozen psychic animals into it's globe-spanning gestalt. It is even possible that the Overmind has managed to assimilate an alien member or two.
The Overmind operates ultra-tech corporations, controls a large portion of the world's psychic research, and does not shrink from using deadly force to protect the secret of it's existence. Usually this is not necessary, as the Overmind is more than capable of telepathically erasing memories of those who discover too much about it. In this fashion, it has remained unknown to all for many years.
Overmind members are largely indistinguishable from ordinary people. However, their thoughts are alien and not entirely their own. Instead their perceptions are warped by a melange of precognitive visions, telepathic impressions, empathic feelings, and kirlian auras. These Overmind drones can no longer be considered part of humanity, they are both more and less than human.
Most of the Overmind's activities involve horrific psychic experiments involving mind control, and the manufacture of biomechanical components or psychic batteries. It's bio-psychic research usually involves the surgical removal of human, dolphin, or other brains and treating the neural tissue for use as specialized "Psiborg" components. They also produce cloned, genetically engineered brains that can be sliced up and grafted onto it's members, vastly increasing their psychic powers. The Overmind also secretly manufactures highly addictive and dangerous psi-boosting drugs which it sells to covert government and corporate programs, and the telepathic underground's black market.
The Overmind is parasitical and often targets psychics for involuntary inclusion into the gestalt, or worse, for conversion into disembodied psi-borgs. It rarely targets individuals, preferring instead to assimilate smaller Psi-Hives; cult-like gestalts centered around and guided by a charismatic telepath. By abducting and assimilating the Hive-Node personality, the entire hive becomes part of the Overmind. The Overmind also attempts to forcibly absorb Psi-Unions; gestalts which are not dominated by a singular power or inner circle and thus experience a fuller form of telepathic communion and oneness.
The Overmind does not appear to assimilate non-psychic individuals for reasons that remain largely unknown. Although it could easily kidnap especially important individuals and graft cloned telepathic brain tissue into their skulls in order to surgically render a victim part of the gestalt, it rarely does so.
It is possible that many Overminds have existed in human history and have not survived for various reasons (witch hunts, extra-terrestrial intervention, destruction by an especially powerful individual telepath, etc) There also might be entire worlds or galaxies controlled by Cosmic Overminds that have seamlessly merged together as streams of minds flow into the great river.
Overmind Psi-Tech:
Seer Psiborg: Scans possible futures.
Watcher Psiborg: Clairvoyant ESP and astral projection to watch restricted areas and targeted individuals.
Hunter Psiborg: A sliced up Telekinetic Brain with powerful channels of ley line energy connecting the horizontal "slices" to increase power. The slices expand and contract inside their sterile carbon crystal container.
Medical Psiborg: capable of telekinetic psychic surgery and healing/regeneration.
Overlord Psiborg: Telepathically boosted Hive-Node. Overmind members become more and more inhuman in their behavior the closer they are to this living telepathic nexus. Overlords are frequently built into huge heavily armed and armored robots.
Telegen: injected drug. adds to psychic skill, can cause seizures.
Neurokor: pill. adds to telekinetic power, lowers skill, can cause spontaneous manifestations.