Belgarion213 wrote:Yeah, and that was one of the reasons, alongside their tech, that the original Karines were attacked and wiped out. As you said, to truly counter a telekinetic, you need another telekinetic...and nobody at the time knew about gestalts.
Jason is going to have to make sure nobody tries to remove this new race. I mean I'm assuming that the Karines and the Kimdori are not the only one checking them out and when they learn both how many telekinetics they have and how widespread their abilities somebody is going to get a bit nervous.
The current Karines are probably already terror inducing, remember they were using telekinetic (with gestalts but still) to rip STARSHIPS apart and redirect fleet level weapons. That level of personal power must be terrifying and paranoia inducing for security people all over the galaxy. What do you do when telepaths are already rare enoguh (outside of the Faey) that you need a 'loyal' telepath there to defend your rulers mind...but you also need to find a even RARER telekinetic to try and defend against an invisible, undetectable assassin.
Actually, another telekinetic
isn't a defense against a telekinetic unless they know exactly when, where, and how, a telekinetic is going to strike. I believe it was earlier in conviction when Rann and Shya were horsing around and Shya used telekinesis against Rann, but Rann was able to counter it only because of his deep telepathic bond with Shya, so he knew exactly how to counter her. So unless there are again more advanced tricks the Pai have to sense what a telekinetic is doing and counter it, there is no way to stop a telekinetic, except to telepathically attack the telekinetic or with a preemptive strike. In both cases, you first have to know the telekinetic is there.
miraborn wrote:On a complete tangent - I've been re-reading the entire series and just happened upon Chapter 5 of Insurrection, during Dahnai and Kellin's first visit to Karis, Lyn asks Kellin, "Batchi? How many teeth did you lose?" to which he replies "None, but I got banged around a lot" Perhaps his first taste of pizza made him forget his jaw being broken in nine places?
There are quite a few mistakes like that spread out throughout the series. Fel is just one guy and doesn't have editors like most other authors. I guess, we, his fans, can be considered his editors really.
I am actually currently rereading the series again myself and am in the last chapter of the first book. And i just started making a note directly in the PDF file on every single mistake i can find. Maybe, if Fel doesn't mind, I'll send them to him when I'm finished??
"I got stabbed. After 10 days of agony, the sword died."