On Aug 8, 2014, at 10:45 AM, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

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> But the new personality is merely that: a new personality. There is no mention of gaining new or different skills or attributes (something which almost rises to the level of a taboo in Classic Traveller, after all!). Basically - although the adventure text never comes right out and says so - the purpose of the personality overlay is to prevent the user's actual identity from being revealed to anyone making a casual probe of his mind.

Ahh, sort of a ‘software’ psionic helmet, then…

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