Telepathic strength in relation to size

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Telepathic strength in relation to size

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So Fel, is there any general relationship between size and telepathic strength? I know amongst humans and the faey that strength varies a lot, but on average, do people with larger brains, or the part that deals with telepathy, have a stronger talent?

I'm wondering if the Faey are going to get a surprise by the Benga mindstrikers?

A further question, can multiple telepaths combine their effort at all, for example to take down a super strong Benga telepath?
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Now I've got Yoda shouting his opinion in my head... :mrgreen:
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If syndicate telepaths are so strong, then the karinnes will just bring Coma into the battle linked with a Generation.
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Greymist wrote:So Fel, is there any general relationship between size and telepathic strength? I know amongst humans and the faey that strength varies a lot, but on average, do people with larger brains, or the part that deals with telepathy, have a stronger talent?

I'm wondering if the Faey are going to get a surprise by the Benga mindstrikers?

A further question, can multiple telepaths combine their effort at all, for example to take down a super strong Benga telepath?
Size has nothing to do with telepathic power, but the Benga WILL surprise the Faey.

And no, multiple telepaths can't combine their strength to create a more powerful attack, but multiple telepaths can each attack individually, which puts the defender in a position where they have to defend on multiple fronts, and that wears down a defender's defenses much faster. So multiple telepaths attacking a single target have an advantage.
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Fel wrote:
Greymist wrote:So Fel, is there any general relationship between size and telepathic strength? I know amongst humans and the faey that strength varies a lot, but on average, do people with larger brains, or the part that deals with telepathy, have a stronger talent?

I'm wondering if the Faey are going to get a surprise by the Benga mindstrikers?

A further question, can multiple telepaths combine their effort at all, for example to take down a super strong Benga telepath?
Size has nothing to do with telepathic power, but the Benga WILL surprise the Faey.
I figured out that much as soon as that Benga picked up commune. Commune is after all just an more advance/evolved form of telepathy. The only other telepath I know of aside from a Generation that could sense commune immediately and without having to teach themselves how to pick it up was Yana and she is perhaps one of the most powerful Feay telepaths, period, that is not a Generation. But no matter how surprised the Faey are, I think no one will be more surprised then the Benga when Coma and her sister CBMOM, which should be finished very soon and will be installed on the Aegis, enter the field and kick some Benga telepathic butt. It seems to me that people forget they can do that because the Consortium bugs are immune to telepathy and the Karinnes were forced to only use the telekinetic part of those abilities. Jason and Cybi very nearly single handedly disabled the Urumi invasion of Karis in book two and now the Karinnes can bring that power onto any battlefield. Let the fun begin!!!!
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Interesting idea. I wonder if telepaths will be unable to shield non telepaths from Benga domination as the confederation is counting on. Maybe forcing Jason to consider re-establishing the generation program while the benga spend a year in interdicted space trying to get out. Or at least forcing them all to use bionoids to fight on the ships.
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I would have thought communing would have allowed a group of generation telepathy to unite their strength in a singular purpose.
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