Fiction-Generation

A technology pioneered at the Mercury Culture Manipulation Research Institute dealing with the alteration of reality through belief and creating anomalous and para-causal phenomenon with such belief. The power and range of the anomalous effect is connected to not only the strength of the belief but also how widely a belief is held.

Utility

Fiction Generation technology requires the immense belief of sentient humans and as such its use is usually close to humanity. Some fiction generation machines are being tested, but the ones in use publicly are as follows.

1. Personal generators that allow a person to tap in the collective religious belief about reality. This is the simplest for of fiction generation since it taps into a belief about the world that people do genuinely hold to be true. These utilizers are called Fiction Scions - Cleric.
2. Usually reserved for military purposes, more advanced fiction generators can deal with a collective belief in how the world should be. This relies on a group belief in an ideal and purpose. Such as collectivism, communism, capitalism or any widely held concept. This requires much more firm belief by the user themselves, but still need wider set of similar beliefs to collectively be held. it's assertive nature often means the powers manifest in aggressive ways. Thus the name Combat Ideologue -(Paladin) is used often.
3. The rarest and some say entirely fictitious personal generator use relies solely on a persons view of themselves and their minds and self perception. This would require a fiction engine several degrees stronger than ones available on the market. As well as some stretches in science yet unproven to the public. These are called an Egoist - Bard

Access & Availability

Access to a Fiction Generation engine is a rare technology in use and difficult to acquire illegally much less legally, however, many engines, especially repaired and experimental engines stolen or smuggled from labs can be found

Discovery

The technology was discovered when the labs at MCMRI when they were testing a device that was suppose to allow one to subtly alter reality by perception. They took several faith healers, separating the grifters from those who were merely disillusion, and cancer patients and saw if they could use faith healing to heal the patients. They separated them into four groups. Those with cancer and no Fiction Generation field known as Alpha, a control without cancer and a fiction-generation field known as Beta, another control of the healers without the field known as Gamma, and those without the field and without cancer as a final control Delta.
What they discovered was not only did the field allow the faith healers to heal the cancer patients, something they failed to do in the control against the field, the Beta group was tested and shockingly they were found to have dead cancer cells in their body. Meaning the intended result, destroying the cancer cells much as we would by manipulating strings, the fiction generator gave the fake patients cancer and cured them, or more accurately, they altered causality to make the reality the faith healer believed real.
The study also found the belief of the healer radically effected the likelyhood of success, but also the amount of believers changed it as well. An Imam and a Catholic healer were both more successful and effect lasted longer than fringe cult leaders even with similar self belief scores, meaning even believing while unaware of the current situation can effect the field view the collective belief principle of Fiction Generation. Also the study found that the belief of the patient was utterly meaningless to the field compared to the belief of the healer and their followers, quadrupling the implications of the technology.