Poice

Poice is short for "Perception voice," a spectrum of sensation akin to light or sound. It is used to convey certain non-verbal languages.

• It is a portmanteau word.

Description (Specifications)

Perception detects life and the emotions behind that life, instincts to intuition, the background one hears when all other audible sounds are absent. "Poice" is the name for what Perception is detecting, much as "light" is the name for what vision detects and "sound" is the name for what hearing detects.

Poice is perhaps best understood as the background noise, or static, generated by all living organisms. It permeates realspace similar to electromagnetic energy. Poice is strongest around worlds rich with life (being generated by said life) and weakest in the voids between the stars (where there is no life to generate it). Virus does not naturally generate Poice (although it is possible to add augmentations which amount to cybernetics, introducing biological components to a non-biological sophont, which then give off a Poice signal).

Poice is not itself psionic or any psionic sense, any more than light is itself sight or vision.

History & Background (Dossier)

Perception appears to be a biologically-based sense. Awareness is based on electric fields. Poice has no pherochemical component, though it is related to the electrical coronal discharges that can be imaged by Kirlian photography. It is both biological and electrical (that is, it is bioelectrical) in nature.

Poice is sometimes used for psionic communications similar to Telepathy, but involving Telempathy. The voices of telepathy are to spoken languages, what Poice-conveyed signals are to hand sign languages.

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