Rhine-12
The world of
Rhine-12 is a hell parallel or rapidly going that way. As in most Rhine parallels the experiments of
J.B.Rhine lead to Psi Powers being proven. In this parallel, once the break though to learning PSI powers was made, it was ridiculously easy to teach PSI powers to others. Thus once one driven Researcher in the 1990's made the breakthrough to full telepathy it was child's play to teach telepathy and most other Psi powers to anyone in their teens or older.
Once a certain number of people were regularly using psi powers suddenly using Psi powers became much easier and teaching psi became easier too. Once a critical mass was reached, people started becoming psions spontaneously. And then the horror began.
Well it started before that. When strong psions are asleep, the conscious mind is asleep, as in all normal humans. But the telepathic functions are easier for the subconscious to use than the conscious mind. Thus people's unconscious minds reached out and made contact with other minds.
Now the unconscious self is rarely a lovely and restrained personality, in fact we generally repress many unpleasant traits and urges, but these dream selves knew nothing of restraint. Dream rape and other forms of violence became commonplace. Where
Freddy Kruger was one ghost,
Rhine-12 has billions of Freddy's crawling out of everybody's subconscious each night.
Civilization has collapsed in waves of violence and catatonia. The few sane survivors attempt to shield their minds from the dreams of the mad.
This Q4 world terrifies and attracts both Homeline and the Cabal. Clearly there are profound secrets to be learned here, but the cost is the question.