The Lords Physique, the Lords of Meaning, the Lords Tekne, and the Lords Mentat had always ruled Do' Cam'mara-phon from their high castles of red stone set high over the rocky land, and the sheer chasms of the Belowmountain. For the Mountain was the world.
The World stretched from the highest towers of the Four Lords Councilcastles down the skirts of the Mountain which were red with iron ore much prized by the Tekne, and on to the caves of the dragonwyrms which preyed on the sheep, and gave cause to the Physique to demonstrate their warrior skills, and onward it went to flatter lands with sudden chasms where grass might grow, and sheep, if tended carefully by kindly men prone to prayer, might survive, and then on to the outer edges of the world where men listened to the Sun as it whispers secrets in their minds.
For the world mountain is a mile high, and twenty miles in radius, and below its level where men live is a great ball five miles through which serves as the keel of the mountain as it floats through the air of space, and around a telepathic Sun that burns coal. And the nature of the universe is that it is filled with air, and green grasses and mosses grown on the wall of the outer edge of reality which is but a thousand miles across.
So things had continued for a long time. The Physique studied stealth, and to strike as a dragonwyrm strikes with no thought, and ultimate speed. They learned techniques to leap high, and strike with devastating force.
The Meaning prayed to the Maker, and blessed their people,and gave healing as it was requested. And sheep, who would die faster than live, under their care lived, and thus Man had meat and wool. For the Meaning told that one day long ago, Man had warred upon each other with great weapons of magic, and that the Maker had come down and taken these weapons away from them, and rebuilt the world they had almost completely destroyed. But he had so little to build with, and he would not give them new things to put in their care for they were unworthy of his trust, so that there was little for Man to live on but sheep, and vegetables, and that Man would have to watch over these both with care for a reminder of his lack of care, his recklessness, in the old days.
And the Tekne take iron ore, and make steel. They take steam engines and have moved a single railroad up the Mountain. They give the Physique steel crossbows to hunt the dragonwyrms with when they come out of their caves in the twilight to hunt sheep. They make stoves of iron that can hold coal.
The Lords Mentat have long served as communicators via telepathy, and they have served otherwise. But a great inventor has figured out how to make psionic amplifiers. And he has realized that with an amplifier, he can make a better amp. The process looks to feed upon itself,and offer speeds that climb ever higher and ever faster.
In another world, one might say 'the Computer Revolution' has happened. Here, psi amps are the key that opens other keys that open even more keys. Its a snowball effect.
And now, in a world that has stayed the same, comes change, and not just any change, but riotous, and fast moving change. Its a Psionic Singularity.
At the beginning, all levels are about six or so, but the psi people start rapidly going up.