Kyn'ai

Kyn'ai were beings born with unique abilities, primarily the ability to manipulate gravity and mass with their minds.

Kyn'ai Power Manifestation
There were two ways of a child developing Kyn'ai abilities.
 * 1: When a member of a viviparous species carrying unborn young travelled through a Tachyon gate there was a very small chance (approximately 1 in 100 trillion) that the offspring would be born with Kyn'ai abilities.
 * 2: Kyn'ai abilities can be passed down hereditarily. The odds of this are significantly higher than the random-chance mutation caused by the tachyon gates. The odds of a parent passing their Kyn'ai abilities to a child are 90% for a male child, and 70% for a female child.

Kyn'ai Powers
The ability to manipulate mass and gravity was the primarily ability of the Kyn'ai and was available to all Kyn'ai in varying degrees; ranging from the ability to move a pebble to lifting a freighter off the ground.

The other ability that all Kyn'ai possessed was a small degree of telepathy which linked all Kyn'ai together. The usefulness and strength of this link was heavily dependent on range; two Kyn'ai in a room together may be able to hold a telepathic conversation, but those two same Kyn'ai on opposite ends of the galaxy would merely be aware of each other. Thus all Kyn'ai could sense each other at all times, and if one focused on another they would be able to determine their status (alive, wounded, etc.)

One of the rarer abilities Kyn'ai possessed was the ability to create very specifically shaped gravity wells that would cause light to bend around them, effectively becoming invisible. For reasons unknown this ability manifested itself in females far more than males.

The final, and rarest of Kyn'ai abilities was the ability to see the future. It manifested itself only a dozen or so times in recorded history, and in each case, in a female human.

In the cases of species that had multiple sexes, or were asexual, the female-predominant powers would manifest themselves in approximately half of that species Kyn'ai.

Kyn'ai Composition

 * Nearly 90% of Kyn'ai were human.
 * Nearly 90% of Kyn'ai were male.

There were several species that had no chance of developing Kyn'ai powers, and humans had the highest chance.