Vapula has never been known for his self-restraint when it comes
to new and psychotic ideas, but this latest one has put more than
a few people on edge. A few years back, Vapula was inadvertently
slipped a few role-playing games along with his daily technical
journals. Everything probably would have been fine, had someone
not realized the mistake and tried to remove the games from the
large stack of unread magazines inside Lab 1.
After a few blind runs with cybernetics enhancements and genetic
modifications, he finally stumbled onto an idea which caught his
attention. The very idea of an orbital platform from which to
insert Shedim into the minds of the masses had never even been
contemplated, as the typical Shedite can only possess someone
within a few yards of his current location, and knows better.
Vapula, however, is not a Shedite.
After several dozen costly failures with little to no results,
Vapula finally came up with a solution, which fits perfectly with
the ideas of the original game designers. Unlike many other
Vaputech devices, the name actually fits, and it actually does
what it says it does. Sort of.
The Orbital Mind Control Laser isn't actually a laser, but a
background signal which piggybacks on the radio signals sent to
cellular phones or pagers. When a target is identified by the
satellite's controller, coordinates are sent up to the satellite
and its resident Shedim, who are waiting in modified computer
systems with their Shedim of Technology attunements. Once the
target has been locked onto, a highly charged Song of Possession
is used to inject one of the waiting Shedim into either the
target, or the closest cell phone, pager or palmtop available.
Naturally, as the song is transmitted over radio waves, the
targetted area is not very small. While it is quite likely that
the Shedite will find its target, the disturbance of the song
will be heard quite clearly and loudly for an area equal to the
Shedite's forces in miles. The echoes of this will persist as
though a 100 pt disturbance was caused, although they will not
directly pinpoint the possessed person or object, only putting
the target within 100 yrds of the center of disturbance.
Since this is quite prohibitive in terms of Essence, Vapula does
not authorize its use often, but clearance for its use can be
acquired relatively easily by emailing a request to the project's
director. In a properly ironic twist of fate, the project
director just happens to be the newly recruited Impudite who
tried to remove the gaming supplies.
One can only guess who he worked for...
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