[Psi-Tech] Strategic Psychotronic Devices

Prince Charon · 06-28-2020, 09:31 AM

Trying to recreate a thread I started just before the forum went down.

When humans encounter new technology, we far too often think of how to weaponize it, and when modern humans encounter new tech, we frequently contemplate how it might be used as a strategic weapon, or as a means of defending against the enemy's strategic weapons.

So, what would a Strategic Psychotronic Device do (apart from 'a lot more damage, but in a strange way')? Psi-Bombs (Psi-Tech pp28-29) with longer ranges are probably only the start (the 250 lb version is a pretty good start, a radius of 128 feet, while not huge on a strategic scale, is still quite disruptive in the right place). Lots of possible variety, there. As a defence, using Probability Alteration or Ergokinesis to disrupt incoming missiles or vehicles is a possibility, as well as theatre-scale Mind Shields. In both cases, there are certainly other options. What are your ideas, and how might they be used?

For an ATE scenario, what might a world devastated by both sides using Strategic Psychotronic Devices look like?

What about an interstellar war that includes strategic-level psi-tech?

06-28-2020, 09:31 AM	#1
Prince Charon Join Date: Dec 2012	[Psi-Tech] Strategic Psychotronic Devices Trying to recreate a thread I started just before the forum went down. When humans encounter new technology, we far too often think of how to weaponize it, and when modern humans encounter new tech, we frequently contemplate how it might be used as a strategic weapon, or as a means of defending against the enemy's strategic weapons. So, what would a Strategic Psychotronic Device do (apart from 'a lot more damage, but in a strange way')? Psi-Bombs (Psi-Tech pp28-29) with longer ranges are probably only the start (the 250 lb version is a pretty good start, a radius of 128 feet, while not huge on a strategic scale, is still quite disruptive in the right place). Lots of possible variety, there. As a defence, using Probability Alteration or Ergokinesis to disrupt incoming missiles or vehicles is a possibility, as well as theatre-scale Mind Shields. In both cases, there are certainly other options. What are your ideas, and how might they be used? For an ATE scenario, what might a world devastated by both sides using Strategic Psychotronic Devices look like? What about an interstellar war that includes strategic-level psi-tech? __________________ Warning, I have the Distractible and Imaginative quirks in real life. "The more corrupt a government, the more it legislates." -- Tacitus Five Earths, All in a Row. Updated 12/17/2022: Apocrypha: Bridges out of Time, Part I has been posted.