THE PHENOMENON DESIGNATED "BLACK CHOIR" IS THE UNCONTROLLED PSYCHIC EXTERNALIZATION OF ABSORBED CONSCIOUSNESSES WITHIN SUBJECT TW-X. WHILE FIELD IMPACT ON ALLIED AND HOSTILE PERSONNEL IS SEVERE, LONG-TERM OBSERVATION INDICATES THAT THE CHOIR IS PRIMARILY DESTRUCTIVE TO THE SUBJECT HIMSELF.
OBSERVED MANIFESTATIONS
MIMETIC VOCALIZATION
VOICES REPLICATE THOSE OF KNOWN PERSONNEL, OFTEN RECENTLY DECEASED.
INDUCES HESITATION, DISORIENTATION, AND FATAL MISIDENTIFICATION IN COMBAT SCENARIOS.
SILENT TRANSMISSION
AFFECTED PERSONNEL INSIST THEY HEAR COMMANDS INTERNALLY.
LONG-TERM EXPOSURE RESULTS IN PARANOIA, INTRUSIVE THOUGHT LOOPS, AND SUICIDAL IDEATION.
VISUAL DISTORTIONS
SEMI-VISUAL MANIFESTATIONS OF FEATURELESS SILHOUETTES, REPORTED TO MOVE "OUT OF SYNC" WITH BASELINE REALITY.
TECH INTERFERENCE
COMMUNICATION BLACKOUTS AND WEAPON MALFUNCTION IS COMMON WITHIN AFFECTED ZONES.
SUBJECT SOMETIMES TREATS DISTORTED RADIO STATIC AS IF IT WERE SPEECH DIRECTED AT HIM.
RESONANT INTERFERENCE APPEARS NOT AS A DELIBERATE WEAPON BUT AS A BYPRODUCT OF SUBJECT TW-X'S COLLAPSE.
SUMMARY
THE CHOIR IS NON-LETHAL IN CONTAINMENT BUT PRODUCES CATASTROPHIC BATTLEFIELD INTERFERENCE.
LORE: THE BLACK CHOIR.