| abstract | - The Psionovores were energy-based beings inhabiting the ionised dust left by comets in interstellar space. Under normal conditions they could shape the dust into a semblance of solid objects, but maintaining those objects took significant will. With enough channelled will power, any manner of objects could be created wherever they wished, and could interact with other physical objects. As a secondary form, Psionovores could possess the body of a sentient being, but only if the consciousness of that body was absent. To that end, they developed a number of ways to shift the minds of sentient beings. Bad thoughts and desires were food for Psionovores. The Eighth Doctor described it this way: "They feed on the negative neuronic emissions of sentient beings — pain, fear, anxiety, jealousy. A Psionovore battens on it like maggots on rotting food." (AUDIO: Minuet in Hell) To that end, they would take any opportunity to promote a person's fears and anger, and then drink in the resulting psionic energy.
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