Quote Originally Posted by Gavinfoxx View Post
Well Astropaths do also use encoding and cryptography and such... but for long distance messages, you generally get very very few images to send (maybe under 10?), so it has do be done via emotions and images that the lead astropath manages to interpret, via experience, into some sort of coherent message.
This is an astropathic chain in a well-inhabited area of the galaxy though. There aren't any really long distance messages that don't go through a relay.