02-04-2020, 10:51 AM | #11 | ||
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Re: World War One Psychics [Powers]
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Or you can go a sinister conspiracy and say the pro-slav archduke was sacrificed intentionally to keep the empire together. Quote:
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02-04-2020, 11:26 AM | #12 |
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Re: World War One Psychics [Powers]
Sacrificing the Archduke to perverse the Empire would probably be acceptable, especially if the psychics forsee worse consequences if he lives. Of course, Hapsburg inbreeding may result in innate psionic resistance spreading among the royalty, preventing the psychics from accurately telling the future of the royals (they would know war is coming, but they would not know they events that caused the war).
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02-04-2020, 11:43 AM | #13 |
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Re: World War One Psychics [Powers]
It may even be forbidden forbidden to tell the future of the royals. Yes, that would be monumentarily stupid but it wouldn't be the first time royal privilege overruled common sense.
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02-04-2020, 11:44 AM | #14 |
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Re: World War One Psychics [Powers]
Fortune telling has been illegal in a number of societies, so it would not be an unreasonable position.
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02-04-2020, 01:29 PM | #16 |
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Re: World War One Psychics [Powers]
Redl would have likely been caught long before he could give critical information to the Russians (as soon as telepaths became reliable, mind probes would have likely been used against every high level individual outside of the imperial family).
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02-04-2020, 01:50 PM | #17 | ||
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Re: World War One Psychics [Powers]
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02-04-2020, 02:05 PM | #18 |
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Re: World War One Psychics [Powers]
Well, that's the conundrum; it happens often enough for Redl to give a description of how the process works (at least from a Layman's view), or it doesn't and he goes undetected for a little while. Using Telereceive 3 with a skill of 11 (adds up to 50 pts exactly) from Psionic Powers as a guide, it would probably take a few hours per person to check them, so more than weekly would seem unlikely.
Besides Redl, the problem of a weak collective identity would remain for Austria-Hungary. Mercenary or Nationalist Psychics may betray AH to Advance their own agenda, and the higher concentration of Transylvanians would probably be very concerning. |
02-04-2020, 02:54 PM | #19 |
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Re: World War One Psychics [Powers]
Well, it would depend on the loyalties of the organization that controls the psychics. If the psychics belong to an organization that is loyal to the House of Lorraine, then you may have telepaths reprogramming new psychics as they come in through the use of Mind Control (Slow and Sure). Regardless of their original loyalties, the psychics would become loyal to the House of Lorraine before anything else.
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02-04-2020, 07:13 PM | #20 |
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Re: World War One Psychics [Powers]
The Black Hand could also be connected with psychic powers, maybe thats how they maintained their plot secret, assuming he was not "sacrificed"
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