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>It's been said that attacking a Scellor is basically trying to attack every Scellor in existence at once because of the Undermind, but what about defending against it? Maolla could have the Undermind assist in her attack on the space doobie, but how typical is that?
Alright, this is a little complicated, so listen up.
First, imagine the universe's psychic field. You can sort of imagine the psychic forces as existing in a spectrum like the electromagnetic, but it has its own quirks. It doesn't seem to interact much with the universe we experience, much, to most species, at first, but you know the ideas of dark matter and dark energy? Trying to explain why there are forces being generated by stuff that seems like it's missing? A lot of people think that's the universe's psychic field at work, on huge huge scales. Some people think the psychic field is the mind of the universe, but that's, you know, religion. The psychic field is, along some parts of its spectrum, attached to the universe we normally interact with, and some parts of it aren't and are tucked away in their own dimension, though they interact with each other and there are chains of events and so on and so forth, basically that's why psychic powers can defy the normal rules on distance and time, to an extent. Anyway. Most naturally occurring species develop some interaction with the psychic field, and the particular part that's attached to them gets all complicated and we call it their psychic pattern, the extension of their brain into the psychic field. When someone uses or is affected by psychic powers, their psychic pattern is being manipulated to produce effects.
So. Scellor psychic patterns all resonate with each other (or they do now, anyway) and generate a particular flavour and interaction range within the psychic field, which we call the Undermind; it creates and sustains the connection between all scellor psychic patterns and can maintain psychic patterns which come detached from the normal universe, by allowing them to steal a sequence of little timeshares off scellor who are still alive. And there is a spectrum within the Undermind itself, with "lighter", weaker psychic patterns and their thoughts floating up near the top and older, stronger, "heavy" ones deep inside. And they all interact with each other and form little structures, and in a lot of ways you can think of the Undermind as one huge psychic pattern itself.
Thus, to answer your question more directly, the Undermind is always in place "around" a scellor's personal psychic pattern, enveloping it, immersing it... normally. When they're being passive. So, if their personal mind is "inside" the Undermind, any external psychic force trying to get in has to penetrate the Undermind itself before it can penetrate the individual. However! When a scellor switches to active mode, they have to extend a portion of their own psychic substance and twist and transform it to make it do what they want, extending it beyond the Undermind. And when they're doing that, an external force with sufficient skill and power can slip in have its effect.
Normally, the Undermind doesn't assist with psychic "attacks". In my case, however, because I have an old pattern and am connected at the same level as other old, strong patterns, I can ask those individual patterns for help. Disembodied patterns don't have as much power, but they have some, and they can feed it into me for me to use. Since I'm using more power than I can generate, though, it's a strain, and too much would damage me.
>To the Scellor, what was First Contact like?
It's kind of an underwhelming story. Sorry. Essentially, one day some aliens in a ship spotted us, noted that we existed, and flew off. Then, later, some robots came down and said, hey dudes, you look interesting, there's a whole universe out there, here's a starter kit. And so, we got started.
Those ones, they do that all the time.
>hey Maolla, did you ever fight in a war in a past life and if so what is the one battle that stands out most of all of any of your past lives and why?
The battle that stands out most, for me, was during one of our early expansion efforts. Some guys, they'd claimed a whole planet when they were only using part of it, and they got annoyed when we wanted the rest. We had just gotten enough technology that they couldn't just wipe us out with air strikes, but they still had better tech than we did at that point. So, though we got into actual person-to-person combat, it was them with all sorts of crazy vehicles and energy beams and EMP bombs, and us with flashlight lasers and firework bullet launchers. We managed to win, partly by numbers, mostly because some of us had particularly awesome psychic powers, which some of us used to kick a few teragrams of ass.
>What color is the sky on the Scellor homeworld?
It changes, depending on which and how many of the suns are in the sky, and things like air pollution and so on. But stereotypically, when I think "the colour of the sky", I think a sort of pale violet.
>Hey Maolla, is Heimogena sex considered "worth it" to any Scellor you're familiar with? I mean, given that you have to get a new body afterwards and everything.
You don't have to get a new body after. You could be lucky, or not fight back too hard, and then get the right medical attention. Or you could tie them down. Or you could wrestle them down and have them take the passive end, though then they get all weird and blissed out and dopey until their body realizes it's not dead, and then they have to take some medication until their brain chemistry sorts itself out again. But assuming you're on the receiving end, and you're not taking restrictive precautions, then... well, you have to be someone who likes things really rough, because that's what you'll get! I've heard of one or two who've tried it, but for them - aside from just the masochists - what they were looking for is passion, rather than the physical experience. It's just a numbers game; if under the natural circumstances one heimogena in two gets killed just the first time they get it on, then half the species is only going to have sex once in their whole lives. So, when they do it, they get way more into it than anyone else. They go crazy! And some people, they like that. Jaded psychics, in particular, can get a lot out of experiencing that sort of raw intensity. So, yes, there are some scellor who think it's "worth it". These scellor are, to use the technical term, "fucked up". And even those ones would only do it with a younger body, so not as much is lost. It's not really approved of, wasting lives for personal frivolity, but you're allowed do it once in a long while.
>how are Scellor viewed in general by the other races of the universe.
>Also how do the Scellor view other intelligent species.
There's too much variation between the different races of the universe for me to answer that! Some people we're friendly, some we're not, some the question is entirely meaningless. I guess a lot of people don't like us expanding so much, but plenty of others don't care at all.
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