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Aionic(s)
Pronounciation: /eɪɑnɪk/
The term "aionic", plural form "aionics", refers broadly to individuals who have been granted supernatural, or superhuman, abilities. The scope of their general powers can be rudimentarily defined into nine unique groups: (Class I) cognics, (Class II) energetics, (Class III) morphics, (Class IV) psychomancers, (Class V) temporalists, (Class VI) enhanciles, (Class VII) weavers, (Class VIII) spatials, and (Class IX) ergodics.
- Cognic types have profound intellect or an impossible threshold of memory retention. While memory and cognition can be trained to a point of near-supernatural ability, a definitive cognic type would, for example, be able to innately determine how to construct a "Turing machine" from any viable material. Another example would be an individual who can immediately recall any minute details of any given conversation they have ever had in their entire life without being consciously aware of the information intake.
- Energetic types have dominion over the flows of energies. "Energy" is used as a catch-all term that can apply to the capacity for doing work in a physics perspective, such as potential, kinetic, thermal, electrical, chemical, nuclear, etc.
- Morphic types have control over the forms of their own bodies. While this should not be mistaken for literal bodily autonomic ability, morphics can manipulate the shape of their own body, such as the elongation of limbs or changing the skeletal and muscular structure of their appearance.
- Psychomancer types can influence the preception of others, such as casting illusions that only a single person can see, or the implantation of false memories on a subject.
- Temporalist types can manipulate the flow of time in varying degrees. Unlike the majority of types listed, temporalists are not well studied as they tend to age biologically faster than the average aionic. The oldest temporalist was recorded to be in their early 50s.
- Enhancile types gain various strengths over the natural human condition, and while they are generally difficult to detect, enhancile abilities are not usually trained as they are already innate to the individual's lifestyle.
- Weaver types possess the control over states of matter. This control can be as basic as the three classical forms of matter; solids, liquids, and gases, or it could be more esoteric forms of matter such as plasma, superfluids, or photonic matter.
- Spatial types have the ability to manipulate three-dimensional Euclidean space. While a complete definition of their dominion is addled with discrepancies, an example of a spatial type powerset would be the interaction and manipulation of an area that causes changes in location and positioning from a determined range of effect.
- Ergodic types are those that are categorized with no type in particular, making their designation difficult to easily define in a single category.
The detailings of type definitions are not made to be entirely inclusive, and it is important to note that the descriptions are a simplification of observance. Relatedly, common observations are that some aionics have access to multiple abilities that may, or may not, necessarily be related, as well as hereditary transferrence of similar power. This leads to the dual classification of "major" and "minor" subtypes, e.g., maj-cVII and min-cIII. The discourse surrounding the nature of how aionic abilities manifest as a biological science is still largely conjectural and debated throughout a number of different theories. What is known, albeit to a superficial degree, is a residual biomarker that may predict aionic potential through extensive testing.EXOR
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