People who have been trained in the Discipline, which these days is largely used the give people enhanced control of their bodies, have the possibility of using a Receptor, which is a device that uses a person's inherent Power to accomplish extraordinary things. One obtains a Receptor by using a Channel, which binds a person's Power with the Receptor. The potential Receptor is connected to the Channel, then is inserted into a person's body. In the case of the Sword Channel, the sword's hilt...
I first came up with the idea of the Sword Channel Saga 40 years ago, and wrote the first hundred pages or so, then stopped for reasons I can't remember. I did manage to transfer the original files that were composed on Wang word processors (remember them?), or handwritten and then put into word processor, then exported them to WordPerfect (remember that?) and finally to Word, so I must have had some idea of continuing it some day.
Then a confluence of retiring, and getting inspiration from...