Overlap

Chapter 101: The Purge of 1903

<04/09/2013 - 13:50 | Cage High School (History), Austell, GA, USA>

"I'm here now. What did you want to talk about?" With Lumina's attention back on me following the phase in of the connection, she and I shared the quiet space of the history room, an environment which I blocked out for the sake of another juicy mix-up.

I knew already what I wanted to ask her, though my expectations were long out the window given the possibilities. I still couldn't be sure before speaking with Lumina, but I feel like this Yogi business is somehow partly involved in the role of the Altiri... They already interfered with our human race when they purged us twenty-four times, much more when they unknowingly transferred their English language onto us. I'm learning that there is actually an unseen kind of sociology, one that exist between the human and Altiri race through what little information has been shared. "Be honest with me. Have you ever heard of something called the Astral Plane?"

"The Astral Plane?" Lumina froze in her tracks, as she had been walking through her main room towards the cockpit. I didn't see it for myself, I merely felt the strange movement of her inertia. What I asked - must have been unexpected. "What the? Where did you hear that from?"

"So you do know it?" This is now a thousand times interesting! She wouldn't be this shocked if the term was foreign to her, yet in all these months of me asking her for interesting stories to fend off boredom, she's never once mentioned the concept! I should be the one making the face she's making right now. "Tell me your version of it Lumina. This astral stuff, it's all about the immediate spacial afterlife we go to because our souls are currently tethered between there and our physical bodies; is that right?"

"I mean... Yeah, that is right. But I have no idea how you could have known about it."

"I'll get to that in just a moment. On one hand, I'd like to know why you didn't mention it to me before."

"I did. I told you in part about the separate dimension in which psionic energy travels, and where our souls go to when we die, for ten days at least. I simply didn't use the term Astral Plane when I explained it to you."

"What an oversight."

"There's a lot of reasons why; some of the research on that place is still technically in progress, even though there isn't much progress to be had."

"Research?" How can the Altiri research the afterlife?

"Herios was originally the one who came up with it, including that phrase. She used it almost religiously. Discovering the properties of the Astral Plane was a big part of what split off into psionic purges, resurrection, transperation, biolution, and theory of the other Clair-senses."

"Herios again, huh?" I wonder if this means Herios was somehow the founder of the Yogi Philosophy, or at least its core principles. Still, I never had any idea the Altiri were still looking into it.

"Herios helped us invent a lot of things, but that doesn't mean we have a full understanding of the technology that relies on her research, or a full understanding of the properties either. For example, just on psionic frequencies alone, the concept of a psionic signature for each person makes sense to me, but the actual data values are harder to study. Lots of psionic transmissions through the astral plane involves positive and negative frequency values as coefficients to each other, more than one at a time."

"I'm sorry, negative frequencies? How can a frequency be negative?"

"It's a lot harder for me to explain that. I don't understand how the exact values come into play, but machines like the transperator run software designed to handle those predicted coefficients, despite the fact that no electronic equipment can read or interpret the same data. A computer doesn't have to understand or read data in order to transmit the same information, so it was still made possible."