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"If You Could Read My Mind"

Developments

• Boone may have received psychic abilities from Katya Petrenko.

Backstory

Lili Marquette

• Lili lost her faith because of her father. He and Lili’s brother had some kind of disagreement, but Lili was always a comfort to her brother.

Augur

• Augur’s true passion is his art collection, including at least one stolen painting.
• Augur suggests that he might also feel passionately about Lili.

Dr. Julianne Belman

• The doctor has developed a technique for transferring thoughts between two hardwired brains.

The Taelons

• Agenda on Earth
  
  
  • The Taelons have been conducting extensive testing in the area of psychic phenomena, and co-sponsored the Thirteenth Annual Psychic Sciences Symposium at the J. Calvert Conference Center.
  • Ma’el
    
    
    • Ma'el gave humans psychic abilities in the hope that they would allow humanity to tap into the Taelon collective consciousness, to understand the Taelons and to convince them that humanity could be a partner to the Taelons. He did this without the knowledge of the Synod. Da’an does not reveal this to the Synod, either.
• Psychology
  
  
  • The collective consciousness that connects all members of the Taelon race is called the Commonality. An invasion of the Commonality was the Taelons’ greatest fear upon arriving on Earth.