Birds can mind-control everyone, what will happen to humans?

I plan to make a RPG setting and I want it to be as credible as possible. By that I mean that I want to be able to explain everything with science without cheating. Statistically not likely but possible scenarios are accepted, as long as there is no absolute contradiction with things we know not being possible.

In this setting, some bird species have grown an organ that emits special brainwaves. When any animal (human included) receive these waves, they override its own and it loses control of itself. At first birds were not particularly intelligent but this ability made them able to give orders such as "feed me" or "protect me", in a way subtle enough that it was not discovered by humans before it was too late.

When the game takes place, birds rule the world since centuries, keeping many humans as slaves. Free humans survive by living in places where the birds can't go (eg caves and tunnels, some the top of very high mountains where you need an oxygen supply, space stations, etc). Human mutated and as there is no more anything like globalization they separated in different species.

1) What do you think would be a realistic gap of time for the setting to occur, assuming the psychic birds appear tomorrow ?

2) Is there a way to explain that, despite the difference in structure between different human brains, everyone can be targeted and there is nothing such as "immunity to psychic waves"?

posted almost 8 years ago

Anne Aunyme‭

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