In the PBEM game Mike Metlay recently made the following statement:
> There are few things on
> which Lucan, Dulinor, Margaret, Strephon, and the Solomani all agree;
>psionics are one of them.
Now, I wonder about the Solomani. We've been told that the present anti-
psionic hysteria was started around 800 by a mismanaged experiment in
psyco-history (Has this been stated as true, or is it just a theory?).
The problem was exarcebated by the fear of the "Zhodani menace" and got
out of control. Well, at that time the Solomani Sphere was very remote
from the Imperium mainstream. They may not even have been part of the
experiment, and they definitely can't' ve felt seriously threathened by
the Zhodani, can they? _Is_ there actually any great anti-psionic
feeling among the Solomani? Especially the rimward part that were never
under Imperium rule? Can anyone remember reading anything about this,
either pro or contra?
Mike?
Hans Rancke
University of Copenhagen
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As an aside, I don't think that Lucan, Dulinor, Margaret, Strephon or
very many of the more educated part of Imperial society is all that
bothered by psionics either. It's Joe Q. Public that gets upset and
institute progroms, necktie parties and other such fun. As witness
the two psionics institutes that were allowed to survive in secret to
advance imperial knowledge. The authorities uses psionophobia (lovely
word, don't you think? ;-) but they don't suffer from it. I wouldn't be
at all surprised, actually, to learn of high nobles secretly employing
psionic adepts to increase their security.