Note: I'm a bit sick, and one of the things that takes my mind off this (other than ice cream) is creating a world. So, I'm on a bit of a kick right now. Bear with me.
I haven't done something psionically lately.
World of Formed Dreams
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Upon arriving, the verser sees a barren plain of jumbled rock with some water. Magic bias is at 3@1, and Tech bias is at 0@10 but Psi bias is 15@10. The verser will feel as if he is being watched, especially during the day. This feeling will rise at dawn, peak at midday, and sink toward sunset at which point it will drop to nearly nothing.
There are mosses on rocks which feed the snails and beetles with the crawfish snacking on the beetles and the snails when they come down for a sip of water. Its a very simple ecosystem. On other parts of the world, there are similar simple ecosystems more suited to equatorial or subartic conditions and so on. The landing site is sub-tropical so the verser will have little difficulty sleeping outside except for enjoying the comfort of a rock for a pillow.
There are a variety of rocks. The largest ones are the primordial granites which range from car sized to ten acre wide chunks, and then there are layered sedimentary rocks which range from TV sized to house sized. There are no erosion markings between the sedimentary layers which proves that the layers were laid down quickly in succession, not having time to erode between each layer being laid down.
While it would be difficult to spot from the ground, there are radial patterns of sedimentary rock and slices in the granite (most of the ten acre chunks are such because of these slices). Much of these patterns are overlapping, and they are distorted by the passage of time and storms in the centuries since the multiple orbital strikes that wiped out the previous Tors civilization.
The very simple ecology is what survived the war.
These strike points created the small ponds that gather the local rainfall from the many streams.
The Tors had a thriving psionically powered civilization with a decent Tech base as well. It became a Living Meme in their culture that the Old Ways were obsolescent, and the New Wise Psiman could handle all decisions just by virtue of his native brilliance. Problem was, the New Wisdom was not very wise, and it was more of pat on the back for lazy minds. "You're so brilliant, you don't need to study."
What could have been stopped by expelling a couple dozen rich but lazy students turned three decades later into a global war. The varying sides used Telekinetic lightning bolts of enormous power by manipulating air effects in the atmosphere, and things got out of hand (well more so than complete global war), as the atmosphere manipulations provoked a global storm. The bolts blew holes in the topsoil, and the topsoil got blown around and turned into sedimentary rock by the water, and more bolts came and another layer of sediment was layed down. Eventually the global air storm killed everyone.
However, there had been a worldwide net of black, crystalline rocks used in the psi-tech. This was broken up, and scattered by the bolts and the airstorm. One of the psi-techs was the use of pschyometry to create an overlay over material reality, a waking dream encoded in the black rocks.
With thousands dying, the psi ether was greatly energized, and so there was a possibility that when someone died, they were able to cling to physical reality by connecting to the black crystal.
Now a thousand years later, the storms are gone. And the black crystal provides the matrix for a world of psionic 'ghosts', sentients of mind, who create a dream world they remember by will and concentrated imagination.
By continued effort, they can keep things stable and stave off boredom. The 'towns' in the 'wilderness' are needed because in the wilderness there are Wild Memes and Mindstorms and Logic Traps and Confusion Forests which can destroy a single mind alone.
The towns have to be interesting as well or boredom and Destructive Thoughts will generate. Thus for both reasons, the 'ghosts' work very hard to stabilize and beautify their towns.
They do have some other issues. There are still some who are the Lazy from the Old War who haven't been killed off or transformed into something inhuman. But the biggest proble is the Art Wars. Everyone wants to beautify their town, but not everyone agrees on the best design for this. Sometimes you get two schools of thought that really hate each other, and this leads to wars and sometimes towns being destroyed.
Children can be born, but it requires some energy from a wide group of people and a male and a female parent. It takes too much energy to have a child without a wide base of support. Each parent receives a small token of energy from a long list of supporters until they are overflowing with energy...the two join...and a stork literally flies into the window in some towns. Often a child is borne in every month.
Many are still alive that were transformed at the end of the Old War, but their memories are faded. But they do hold control of the Committees of the Rules of Art that forbid non-material dream laws (gravity must exist, and so forth).
Moving in the physical world the black rocks can create non-physical representations in the Formed Dream, or simply disintegrate town into wilderness, or even worse, cause wildnerness to become 'dead' and non-functional as a psi field supportive element.
A verser arriving here is likely to have strange dreams, and faces the possibility of developing various psi abilities. The Formers as they now call themselves don't have TK or other real world psi anymore.