Definitions Of Powers
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STRUCTURAL: Mutation that affects discrete physical structures only.
- biomorphs: mutation causes a dramatic physical change. Examples include caudates and dermal affects. This is usually the most visibly obvious form of mutation, and is often noticeably present before birth.
- processors: sometimes classified as ‘neuromorphs.’ Mutation causes dramatic changes in the cognitive regions of the brain. Examples include ‘calculators.’ (n.b.: there is still some debate as to whether this is a discrete category in its own right, or whether processors are sensory/extrasensory mutants who have simply had their physical centres of power better mapped.)
SENSORY: Mutation seems to affect entire sensora of at least one sense, including inputs and processing of sensory signal.
- visual: marked increase in visual acuity (telescoping or microscopic)
- audible: marked increase in hearing ability
- tactile: marked increase in sensitivity to touch. *
- gustile: marked increase in taste sensation. (often registering in ppb)
- osmatic: marked increase in sensitivity to smell.
* All sensory mutations can cause psychiatric conditions if not detected and properly treated, and sensory deprivation may be required before beginning long-term treatment. However, tactile mutations (especially sudden during onset of mutation) may in particular lead to sensory overload issues through constant contact with air currents, clothes, even dust and dead skin cells.
Sensory mutations tend to occur in only one sense (i.e.: heightened visual acuity only). It is theorized that this is due to the separation of processing centres in the brain.
EXTRASENSORY: ESP is where the subject can receive sensory impressions or affect external agents or objects through means beyond the five basic (unenhanced) senses.
- proximal ESP: mutation causes an ability to send or receive thoughts, images, sounds, sensory impressions, memories or emotions from another person, through non-traditional means, within a limited proximity. Examples include telepathy, empathy and psychometry.
- distal ESP: mutation causes ESP that can operate over a significant distance. Examples include telesthesia and remote viewing.
- Extratemporal ESP: Sometimes referred to as prescience, this mutation is a form of ESP that operates through time rather than over space. Examples include precognition or clairvoyance.
Proximal and distal ESP may also be categorized into ‘projective’ and ‘receptive’ categories, but a single subject may possess both simultaneously. There is some suggestion that extratemporal ESP may have an analogous ‘affective’ and ‘reactive’ split (i.e. can affect the future/observe the future) but this is not confirmed.
ENERGY: Energy mutations are those which allow a subject to create or manipulate energy in some form.
- electro-static: mutation allows subject to create or manipulate energy in an electrical form. Examples include generating static electricity or manipulating current. There is some suggestion that some forms of magnetism should also be categorized here.
- kinetics: mutation allows for transfer of energy to affect either the EP or EK of an object. Examples include telekinetics.
- dynamism: another contested category, dynamic mutations allow for the creation and/or manipulation of energy that is neither electrostatic or kinetic. Again, there is arguments that magnetism is a dynamic mutation.
ELEMENTALS: Elemental mutations allow for a subject to affect natural systems.
- atmospherics: can affect atmospheric processes, particularly weather systems, wind and rain.
- structuralists: this mutation affects non-atmospheric, natural, discrete systems, including systems as large as geological shifts or as small as cell mitosis. Examples include lithokinetics.
- elemental kinetics: this mutation allows for the creation or manipulation of natural high-energy phenomena. Examples include pyrokinetics and hydrokinetics.
All the above classifications are further delineated using the 1-5 strength classification system.
STRUCTURAL: Mutation that affects discrete physical structures only.
- biomorphs: mutation causes a dramatic physical change. Examples include caudates and dermal affects. This is usually the most visibly obvious form of mutation, and is often noticeably present before birth.
- processors: sometimes classified as ‘neuromorphs.’ Mutation causes dramatic changes in the cognitive regions of the brain. Examples include ‘calculators.’ (n.b.: there is still some debate as to whether this is a discrete category in its own right, or whether processors are sensory/extrasensory mutants who have simply had their physical centres of power better mapped.)
SENSORY: Mutation seems to affect entire sensora of at least one sense, including inputs and processing of sensory signal.
- visual: marked increase in visual acuity (telescoping or microscopic)
- audible: marked increase in hearing ability
- tactile: marked increase in sensitivity to touch. *
- gustile: marked increase in taste sensation. (often registering in ppb)
- osmatic: marked increase in sensitivity to smell.
* All sensory mutations can cause psychiatric conditions if not detected and properly treated, and sensory deprivation may be required before beginning long-term treatment. However, tactile mutations (especially sudden during onset of mutation) may in particular lead to sensory overload issues through constant contact with air currents, clothes, even dust and dead skin cells.
Sensory mutations tend to occur in only one sense (i.e.: heightened visual acuity only). It is theorized that this is due to the separation of processing centres in the brain.
EXTRASENSORY: ESP is where the subject can receive sensory impressions or affect external agents or objects through means beyond the five basic (unenhanced) senses.
- proximal ESP: mutation causes an ability to send or receive thoughts, images, sounds, sensory impressions, memories or emotions from another person, through non-traditional means, within a limited proximity. Examples include telepathy, empathy and psychometry.
- distal ESP: mutation causes ESP that can operate over a significant distance. Examples include telesthesia and remote viewing.
- Extratemporal ESP: Sometimes referred to as prescience, this mutation is a form of ESP that operates through time rather than over space. Examples include precognition or clairvoyance.
Proximal and distal ESP may also be categorized into ‘projective’ and ‘receptive’ categories, but a single subject may possess both simultaneously. There is some suggestion that extratemporal ESP may have an analogous ‘affective’ and ‘reactive’ split (i.e. can affect the future/observe the future) but this is not confirmed.
ENERGY: Energy mutations are those which allow a subject to create or manipulate energy in some form.
- electro-static: mutation allows subject to create or manipulate energy in an electrical form. Examples include generating static electricity or manipulating current. There is some suggestion that some forms of magnetism should also be categorized here.
- kinetics: mutation allows for transfer of energy to affect either the EP or EK of an object. Examples include telekinetics.
- dynamism: another contested category, dynamic mutations allow for the creation and/or manipulation of energy that is neither electrostatic or kinetic. Again, there is arguments that magnetism is a dynamic mutation.
ELEMENTALS: Elemental mutations allow for a subject to affect natural systems.
- atmospherics: can affect atmospheric processes, particularly weather systems, wind and rain.
- structuralists: this mutation affects non-atmospheric, natural, discrete systems, including systems as large as geological shifts or as small as cell mitosis. Examples include lithokinetics.
- elemental kinetics: this mutation allows for the creation or manipulation of natural high-energy phenomena. Examples include pyrokinetics and hydrokinetics.
All the above classifications are further delineated using the 1-5 strength classification system.