Dossiers A Better Life The Psionic Predator, by Charles Cosimano | Page 40

There is a story behind this box. It was created a couple of years before the Starblaster
to be loaned to a friend and so I put it in a box that printer-paper came in back in the
old days when they had the tracks on each side to drive the paper. As you can see, it
has handle on the top to make it easier to carry. In use, a witness plate was plugged
into the left-hand jack and a rate taken, then the box was stood on it's side, as in the
picture and the person just sat and looked at the foil plate in the center and sucked the
energy in. In effect, it was early version of a vampire machine, where a helmet was
simply not the best way to absorb the energy and we wanted a direct method rather
than just using a witness of the person who was receiving the stuff. It was a case
where directly willing the absorbtion was important.
However, we discovered two things. First, the energy really flew out of the pattern and
this became the basis for the Starblaster that I just described. Second, the foil in the
center of the pattern worked really well for visualization.
The box is wired as in the diagram.