Reign: Realities - Out of the Violent Planet

Everyone is psychic. Everyone in the known universe. Everyone except us. Think about what that means for a minute. Humankind is unique. Alone in all the cosmos, we have sentience without psychic ability. 99+% of humankind is psychically inert, while 100% of alien sentience is psychically active. Aliens don’t have language. At least, they don’t have spoken language. Their written communication is quite advanced, better than ours in some ways, but why would they need to talk? They can just beam thoughts and ideas across. Some alien cultures have traditions of profound intellectual discourse and debates. Others? They get by with a nifty little trick that humans translate as “ego breaking.” Instead of persuasion, they just invade minds and rewire them so that disobedience is inconceivable (or, if you’re not that good, at least uncomfortable). The most degraded inmate in the harshest Earthly prison has a freedom of thought that is beyond the reach of 80% of the galaxy’s sentients. Aliens d