Energy beings and bionics

[SYED]

computers and circuits hold and channel energy. biogenics allow for machien telepathy and telekenisis, so a consortium hooked in to thier version would become a telepath, over night an entire species becomes telepathic with the ability to use telekenisis on large scales

[expedient]

Biogenic computers boost psionic abilities. It is a matter of debate if Cybi has normal telepathic or telekinetic abilities. Cybi communes with the Generations with a Kimdori genetics enhanced version of telepathy and she floated the Dukal ring towards Jason.

[Then it falls upon you, Jason.] The image motioned with its left hand, and a tiny door opened in the floor. A pedestal rose up from the floor, and then the top of it opened, revealing a small box. To Jason’s surprise, the box rose up from the pedestal and floated over to them. [As the ranking member of Karinne, this belongs to you.]

Jason took the box, and felt that it had no wires or anything. How had it moved? He opened it, and found himself looking at a soft cloth cushion. Wedged into it was a gold ring, upon which the face of it was engraved the crest of Karinne.

It was the insignia ring of the Karinnes!

So she may have those abilities, or the process could be facilitated in some other fashion.

However, it is only when Cybi and Jason merge that Jason’s psionic abilities are weaponized to form large scale effects.

How useful any of this would actually be useful to the Consortium without the Generations themselves is debatable. Cybi is more powerful than Imperium computers due to her sentience but the ordinary biogenic computers have some disadvantages over moleculartronic equivalents.

Miaari gave them a tour of the biogenic facility, which was conducted by the Kimdori scientist who was in charge of it. They showed them the vast liquid tanks where the crystals were grown, and the huge facilities where those crystals would be cut and shaped into both processing crystals and the board on which all the components would be installed. The computers used cybernetic components rather than moleculartronic and were actually less powerful than modern Faey moleculartronic computers, but the site commander also showed them a research building where they were already at work adapting biogenic components to the new standard in computer science, moleculartronic systems. He was quite confident they would have their first moleculartronic-based biogenic system by the end of the year, since they’d already done a great deal of research and preparatory work for this project, they had just lacked the biogenic crystals to test their theories and designs. When they managed to do it, they would refit every biogenic system currently in operation to moleculartronics, and would build new gestalts and memory bands using the more powerful system. For Jason and the other gestalt wearers, it would be like having the power of a panel at his disposal rather than the current computer, which wasn’t half as powerful.

Improvements have been made but we don’t know if they are much better than normal moleculartronics.

[kal]

Miaari gave them a tour of the biogenic facility, which was conducted by the Kimdori scientist who was in charge of it. .

this happened in unification, where insurrection happens several months later. if the Kimdori already had ideas how to adapt it i would say it is a safe bet that those modifications are already in production