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Your name is now <span class="mu-i"><span class="mu-s">Radjo Berax</span></span>. Over the course of what has been your life- you've failed in many pursuits. You failed to bodybuild, you failed to live up to your father's incredible example of masculinity as a warrior, and you failed to get your teenage crush. But you've succeeded in another way. After decades of careful study and mentorship- you have become the first sighted Jaxtian to gain the powers of <span class="mu-i">Starsight</span>!
You've always been a physical, visual person. This is a depth of thought and feeling that went deeper then you thought you were capable of. After many years of quiet meditation, study, and practice you feel as though some part of your conscious mind is “beyond” the physical, the animal, and you can now explore the stars the way the blind do.
Tetak Kallas, the disgraced <span class="mu-i">Starseer</span>, taught you how to tap into your mind. Mostly, as an experiment to see if it was even possible.
<span class="mu-g">”Congratulations, Radjo. We had to pull some strings with Cijan to even get you into the exam; they wouldn't even accept a person with functioning eyes!”</span>
“Thank you, Tetak. But how did you know this was even possible?”
<span class="mu-g">”To tell you the truth Radjo, I didn't know. I simply had a hunch. It's kind of silly; but in many ways here, Andoen, was the birthplace of Starsight. When the Hegemony discovered the ruins of the race of giants- they also found the first maps of Starsight. It is obvious this race of aliens had the ability. But it made me think; if they had three eyes, how could their brains be wired the same as a two-eyed creature, as with most intelligent species we've discovered? They'd have to be much more advanced in the visual cortex. It was always believed there is a bit of convergent and mutually-exclusive brain structures that lead to either Starsight or Visual Processing. But these aliens proved that can't be true. Why does <span class="mu-i">blindness</span> specifically allow or disallow for Starsight? Even Kimnan II, the first Starseer, could still process some visual light data through his damaged eyes at some point in his life even after he gained his abilities. Even if being able to see somehow blocked Starsight development; how could blinding a sighted creature unlock an ability that would otherwise be incapable of? It'd be like blinding a deaf animal and expecting it to be able to hear. It didn't make sense to me. So I had to know for sure.”</span>
“I mean, I spent half of my life to discover this ability. I think blinding someone may actually be a lot more efficient... Though I don't regret it in the slightest.”
<span class="mu-g">”You're right. It's a parlor trick at this point- but we've proven it can be done. Perhaps in the future, training procedures and eugenics can make Starsight an innate ability of all Jaxtians- or just easier to gain through training...”</span>
