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Absalom wrote:Huh? No, I believe that Arioch originally said that, apparently it involves accuracy to replace strength, I was just responding to a question of what Tempo might be doing.

Arioch wrote:Telepathy has never been well suited to long-range communication. In ancient times before amplifiers, telepathic sensitivity could only increase reception range of normal messages by say an order of magnitude (~1 km), which is not enough to reach between settlements. Therefore a long-range telepathic message must be "shouted" by a powerful telepath, which is potentially injurious to nearby Loroi. It would be like using a loudspeaker that could send an audio message miles away... it would severely damage the hearing of anyone nearby. This is only really usable for brief messages in dire emergency situations.

In the current era, Farseers and their equipment are specialized for detecting the presence, location, and condition of remote minds. They are not specialized for receiving distant telepathic signals, and so do not make for good FTL radios. It is possible to send amplified messages that a Farseer can receive at distance, but this presents the same problem as above; it's dangerous to other Loroi near to the sender (not to mention the sender herself).