Psionic powers

While the sphere has stagnated in many areas and otherwise great technology has been lost to time and incompetence new technologies and developements also flourish.
One of the greatest of these new developements is Psionics.

Psionics are perhaps the ultimate developement in brain and nerve enhancement, the culmination of biotech, perhaps the ultimate technological developement. Pisis are able to control different aspects of the world or rather the universe around them. Some are even able to manipulate different elements of the four elementary interactions. However psionics are also mysterious, psionics are few and far between and no way of reproducing psionic abilities have yet been found.

Some claim psionics to be divine: The Brutii believe that psionics are the manifestations of their ancestors. The Enochians believe that psionics are the divine intervention of gods and that psis are champions of deities. Remuleans see psionics as a living all permeating force of life and intellect. The surface dwellers of Azura believe that psis are the result of the gods secretly impregnating women.

Many also see psionics as a deviation from standard human evolution and a natural phenomenon that can be studied, understood and harnessed for the betterment of all. The independent colonies and Regnum Mars feature great institutes dedicated to the study of psionics. The second human empire and many in the independent colonies see psionics as skills that can be harnessed to achieve great power.

Psionic potential is rare among the spheres resident where it's almost 1 in 5000 who have latent psionic powers. Regnum Mars discovered psionics and from their extra ordinary capabilities tried to discover a way to attain true immortality for their elite. However only a handfull of psionics have succeeded in delay death indefinitely and the power is rare.

From Psionic powers the following powers are considered generic belonging to no school in particular. Any psi can learn them and they would be common for rogue psis that has not been picked up by any psionic school and trained.
In a sense they are dormant in any psi and can be trained or somehow mastered.

Anti-Psi

All anti-psi powers are allowed and can be bought, it should be kept in mind that anti-psi cannot do any other psionics as per page 23 in psionic powers.

Telepathy

All psis have access to telepathy here all powers except for mental surgery are allowed.

Psychokinesis

Psychokinesis is also allowed for any psionic and may be bought freely.

Psychic healing

Psychic healing is available to all psionics with the exception for Life extension which is only available to the most powerful and unusual psionics and requires GM permission.

ESP

ESP is common for psionics and available to any psionics. However only the following powers are allowed: Combat sense, Signature sniffer, Awareness, Psi sense, Psidar and Psychic hunches.

Schools

The other schools of psionics are replaced by the different schools found amongst the factions of the sphere, in order to have access to these a character must be part of the faction. These powers are learned via special instruments and intense training and cannot simply be thaught by character to character. They are secrets belonging to these schools and can only be earned in game by interacting with the schools and doing preferably hard quests to get instilled with the potential to unlock these powers.

Each school consists of roughly 4 powers and are aimed at different spects of gameplay that they specialise in.
If a character is to start with powers from different factions schools its definently unusual background cost.

From a design point it should be noted that once you choose any Empire or faction it usually has a sister school you have access to along with the original.
Remember that each power rolls against its own IQ/H skill, name it after the power it triggers.

More posts will soon follow on factions and schools.