Psion

Where being an investigator, soldier or spy is a profession, taken by choice in adulthood, the psion really has no choice: they are what they are. Some just exude the power that they have, others have been trained, but they all suffer the trauma of just seeing too much.

The psion is a mysterious practitioner of occult arts. In combat, you just hope that you have the drop on them and shoot first, because if they know your coming, they’re very hard to beat.

With the Mind We Make The World

Psions know that the world is not what it seems, because they are incessantly shown the view behind the veil, whether they want it or not.

Making a Psion

How your psion character came to be, how they navigated their difficult and confusing childhood, and somehow survived the many trials to reach adulthood is always a fascinating story. As you create your psion character, consider whether your parents heroically withstood your tempestuous being, or whether they institutionalised you. Were you kidnapped by government agents and spent most of your life in a research lab or being trained as a child assassin? Or were you more fortunate and trained in a religious school, where they appreciated and honed your talents?

Quick Build

You can make a monastic quickly by following these suggestions.

Choose Talents

A navigator tends to live in the mind a lot more than many others, but they often have to endure a lot as well, and yet keep their focus. Although navigators are known for piloting strikers, they often get a lot of other vehicle skills, because they are inevitably having to get to, from and between strikers. They are also most often remote pilots for probes and other drones. They are also at home in space and spend a lot of time in aegis suits.

Select the following 10 skills as talents:

Health, Focus, Perception, Resolve, Agility, Insight, Stealth, Deceive, Investigate, Persuade.

Choose Background

You might want to choose a background with a lot of practical skills, like Colonist, Resistance Fighter or Spacer.

Apply Ranks Per Level

At each level (including the first), you distribute:

• 4 ranks to the range of skills, and
• 4 ranks to the range of techniques

presented below.

The psion's primary skill is any one of the psionic skills (Clairsentience, Psikinesis, Psimetabolism, Psiportation or Telepathy). You should try to have at least half your level as ranks on this skill.

Psion Skills & Techniques

4 ranks spread to these skills

Health, Energy, Focus

Agility+BODY|MIND|SKILL***, Perception, Resolve, Insight, Stealth+BODY|SKILL***, Deceive, Investigate, Persuade, Antiquities, Science, Society, Survival

Cbt-Melee, Cbt-Ranged, Cbt-Tactical

Machinery, Materials, Munitions, Neuronetics, Robotics

Clairsentience, Psikinesis, Psimtabolism, Psiportation, Telepathy

4 ranks spread to these techniques

Calmness (Insight|Resolve*), Clarity-Save (Insight), Enthral (Telepathy), Inspire (Telepathy), Rally (Telepathy), Revival (Resolve|Survival*), Spoil (Persuade), Staunch (Persuade), Track (Investigate), Tenacious-Save (Resolve|Survival*)

Alarm (Clairsentience), Precognitive-Save (Clairsentience), Precognition (Clairsentience), Psychometry (Clairsentience), Remote-Seeing (Clairsentience), Thoughtseeing (Clairsentience)

Electrokinesis (Psikinesis), Focus (Psikinesis), Pyrokinesis (Psikinesis), Shield (Psikinesis), Telekinesis (Psikinesis), Thermokinesis (Psikinesis)

Action-Surge (Psimetabolism), Enervation (Psimetabolism), Harm (Psimetabolism), Heal (Psimetabolism), Preservation (Psimetabolism), Psychic-Decoy (Psimetabolism), Resistance (Psimetabolism), Resurrection (Psimetabolism), Suspend (Psimetabolism)

Blink (Psiportation), Blur (Psiportation), Phase (Psiportation)

Annihilation (Telepathy), Domination (Telepathy), Empathic-Projection (Telepathy), Focus-Drain (Telepathy), Possession (Telepathy), Tanglefield (Telepathy)

* You can choose one skill to base this technique ** You can choose one skill to base this technique, if you need the technique under another skill, you must take the technique again, based on the new skill.
*** You can choose one aspect when putting your first rank on this skill, you must spend a rank on getting a second aspect.