Somnica

Somnica is an ace related to empathica, but with a single focus: putting its target to sleep almost instantly. The sleep is natural but extremely difficult to wake from unless the target is no longer tired. Most somnics have the related vice, that if they themselves are extremely tired, attempting to put another to sleep will put the somnic to sleep instead.

Like others of the Within aces, most somnics who need advanced training visit Great South, fortuitously for everyone, because the polar day/night cycle makes sleep disorders more frequent and their assistance more needed.

The known Terran somnics frequently volunteer their services in hospitals or residences for the elderly; Ty "Sandman" Sanders in Kansas City runs a project where he spends his time interviewing the elderly in his area, as well as providing services for those who need help attaining rest. He says that using his ace has actually given him a sense of which people around him desperately need his services-- a claim that is unproven so far.