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Telepaths "We Are Everywhere For Your Convenience." It has been almost a hundred and fifty years since the existence of human telepaths became both accepted and regulated by society. Strong privacy laws regulate the jobs telepaths can have and the activities telepaths can participate in. Originally these laws were put in place to protect the rest of the population from mental intrusions. The law of unintended consequences has dictated otherwise. The law states that an unregistered telepath has three choices upon discovery by the authorities 1) Join the PsiCorps, 2) go to prison or 3) take strong drugs that inhibit telepathic abilities and often lead to depression and suicide. Many telepaths are born within the PsiCorps, by arranged marriages between genetically compatable telepaths, and often do not know their own parents. Human telepaths are required by law to wear a badge identifiying them as a telepath and gloves on their hands to prevent casual scanning of others minds. This ghettoization of telepaths has lead to fear on both sides, among teeps and mundanes alike, made worse by the highest levels of PsiCorps acting as judge, jury, and executioner both on rogue telepaths, and on those who they see as a threat to telepaths in general. Some telepaths subscribe to a philosophy called "Homo superior" and believe that telepaths are the next step in evolution, superior to regular "mundane" humans. More information on the P-scale and what telepaths can do can be found here. |