<strong>Name</strong>: Donel “Hector” Thompson<br/><strong>Nom De Guerre</strong>: The Engineer<br/><strong>Position</strong>: Instructor of Super Science and Technology<br/><strong>Location</strong>: Hall of Oracles - Auditorium<br/><strong>Tagged</strong>: Zhang<br/><br/>Hector’s attention had been on the sea of specimens that kept pouring in. He was sweeping the room for any external mutations that he hadn’t studied or beings that were in the crowd, showing off their abilities. The voice of the Guidance Counselor had filtered into his ear, and from its volume, he could tell that she was looking his way.<br/><br/>“Aye,” he replied. “More samples for my research.”<br/><br/>The Guidance Counselor may have seen the students as students, but Hector saw them as opportunity. Ms. Zhilan was one of the psychics he had desired to study, Mr. Jackson was another. He never understood how humans with psychic ability could manipulate, intrude, and affect the emotions of others. As he sat in his chair, he knew that he was building potential energy so that if he desired to stand or even switch lounging positions, it would be possible to do so. Chemical and electrical energies exuding from the neurons in a being’s brain were what would make the action possible, but if the neurons underwent a mutation that altered the amount of electrical and chemical energies being produced, then what sort of energy was branching outwards that allowed psychic users to affect others? It may also not even be a direct mutation of the neurons, but the increase in neurons brought by neurogenesis from the birth of the child to adulthood and onward.<br/><br/>Hector had been studying the work of Frederick Myers and William Crookes’s brainwaves theory. It hadn’t been just any form of electrical and chemical energy, but the brain harnessed electromagnetic energy. There were numerous devices he could think of that used this energy, one of them that instantly came to thought was his gloves, and then there were radio waves. Using electromagnetic energy, the brain could produce brainwaves that could afflict the minds of others, and therefore create interference to the sensory and motor functions by affecting the alpha, beta, theta, and delta waves of the brain.<br/><br/>The Engineer was frowning hard in his meditation. Brain waves and radio waves…reaching into his coat, he produced a notepad and pen and began scribbling down a design for an antennae and tuner. He might have been able to create a device that could pick up the brainwaves being used, and perhaps even tune into a mental conversation. If the antennae was able to sense the brainwaves, then he might also been able to build a device that counteracts the frequency the psychics use to manipulate others and objects. Now he was really anxious for the meeting to end. Not only did he need to find a chimpanzee, but he needed to get to work on that antennae.