The energy release from the deaths of millions more in turn releases even more mystic energy, causing more disasters in a vicious cycle. The deaths of millions at this time amplifies these already high psychic energies, triggering many powerful natural disasters across the world, including the return of Atlantis. What is already a huge release of mystical energy is multiplied as a result of several special conditions: a rare multi-planetary alignment, occurrence during the Winter Solstice, and all at midnight. The cataclysm begins with unprecedented storms of all kinds, earth quakes and tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions including the Yellowstone Caldera.
Second, that this golden age is followed by an unknown cause near the winter solstice and a rare planetary alignment, causing a disaster that cascades into tremendous destruction via a ripple effect. Much of the solar system is conquered, humanity's wars will end, and harmony will reign. Humanity as a whole is at peace as a majority of Earth's nations decide to cease world war and begin to share ideas and technology freely. Rifts begins with two future-historical premises: first, a golden age of humanity occurs, with tremendous advances in science, technology, military, and society. Some psychics develop differently, such as psi-stalkers human mutants that feed on psychic energy.
Psychic abilities can manifest in virtually any way imaginable. Psychic phenomenon (more commonly called psioics) can also vary from individuals, ranging from none at all to Master level abilities. PPE also allows Psionics which uses energy known as Inner Strength Points or ISP. An adult's level of PPE can vary based on other factors. Found in various places, objects, and animals, one of the greatest sources of PPE is in young and prepubescent children. The Magic energy making up Ley lines as mentioned is Potential Psychic Energy or PPE. Otherwise at night or from space the massive bands of blue-white energy can be as large as half a mile wide in some places, and stretching for many miles. Some are visible during the day as evident by a slight blue shift of the surrounding environment. Ley Lines in most lower capacity "realities" have less Potential Psychic Energy or PPE to allow them to be visible, but in the magic or PPE saturated worlds like Rifts Earth, they become visible based on PPE intensity. If a Ley Line nexus energy surges or is purposely activated, the very fabric of space and time can be torn, creating a rift, or a hole in space-time leading to another place, time, or a new/parallel dimension. Points where Ley Lines intersect, called a nexus, are places of powerful magic, such as the Pyramids of Giza and Stonehenge. Ley lines, lines of magic energy, criss-cross the earth forming supernatural geographic areas such as the Bermuda Triangle. The Rifts world is Earth, but hundreds of years into the future. The foundations for the Rifts world were originally developed in the Palladium game Beyond the Supernatural (first released in 1987), which uses Lovecraftian storytelling techniques for a role-playing experience based on horror fiction. The RPG had the tentative title Boomers, named after the original name for the Glitter Boy power armor until Kevin Siembieda changed the name after finding out it was in use for Bubblegum Crisis. The web site is quick to point out that this is not a second edition but an improvement and expansion of the original role playing game.
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Rifts Ultimate Edition was released in August 2005 and designed to update the game with Palladium's incremental changes to its system, changes in the game world, and additional information and character types. Palladium continues to publish books for the Rifts series, with about 80 books published between 19. Rifts describes itself as an "advanced" role-playing game and not an introduction for those new to the concept. Rifts serves as a cross-over environment for a variety of other Palladium games with different universes connected through "rifts" on Earth that lead to different spaces, times, and realities that Palladium calls the "Rifts Megaverse". Rifts takes place in a post-apocalyptic future, deriving elements from cyberpunk, science fiction, fantasy, horror, western, mythology and many other genres. Rifts is a multi-genre role-playing game created by Kevin Siembieda in August 1990 and published continuously by Palladium Books since then. Carella, Kevin Long, Patrick Nowak, Julius Rosenstein, et al. Front cover of Rifts Role-Playing Game, Ultimate Edition, illustrated by Scott Johnson
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