Creativity
Names: CreativityPsychocreativityCerebroenergetic enhancerCreative metafacultymana loapsychocreative mindpowercerebroenergeticsCEcreativity enhancementCE creativityE15 equipmentCE righelmethatcerebroenergetic equipmentcreative CEEnhanced-creativity (CE) equipmentmental laserCerebroenergetic enhancementCE hatsbrain-bucketsmetacreativitymetacreative boltCE helmetsCE rigsmetaconcerted CEfarsensory CE
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 31 (9)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 36Creativity lets operants shape space, time, matter and energy fields; Lucille's materialized mouse simulacrum registered a mass gain of 0.061 micrograms on the electro-balance.
Book 2: Jack the Bodiless
- Ch 4A mind-boosting device outlawed by the Galactic Milieu, worn as a wet body-monitoring coverall.
- Ch 38Jack says creativity cannot make matter from nothing or transmute elements, but can rearrange molecules, spreading from molecule to molecule; the kahuna called it mana loa.
Book 3: Diamond Mask
- Ch 3Cerebroenergetics is a human technology that augments metapsychic functions; the five other Milieu races view it with awe and misgiving.
- Ch 13The CE rig's crown-of-thorns electrodes penetrate the user's brain. The helmet is a crude demonstration model, not yet at full capacity, with a prototype still to be built.
- Ch 16A reproduction of Marc's CE rig was secretly built; the weapon needs many grandmaster creators using it in metaconcert to be effective.
Book 4: Magnificat
- Ch 4Exotic races distrust CE because they fear it would skew human mental evolution; the Caledonia success moved the debate into the public sphere.
- Ch 16CE amplifies mental faculties to a godlike degree and is addictive; the exotics warned of its dangers.
Connections
- created byMarc
- enemy ofPhilip Remillardopposed Marc's CE research in Concilium
- enemy ofMauriceopposed Marc's CE research in Concilium
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 13Lynelle dons the helmet
While Marc tends the fire under the Hydra's coercion, Lynelle puts on the CE helmet and uses the diamond to overpower him mentally, drawing him into an intense erotic and painful union that she says will teach him who he is.
- Book 3 · Ch 13Marc wakes with no memory
Marc wakes alone on the hearthrug in a cold cabin, with the fire dead and the CE rig out of its pod. He remembers nothing, assumes he used it himself, and goes to shower in self-loathing.