Psion Careers

[mridolph]

Hi, I recently purchased the pocket edition and I have been working with character generation (which has been fun!). I had a question about the psion careers. Can a player choose to try to enlist in one of these careers or are they only open through the life events table?

 

[AndrewW]

In the default setting of the Third Imperium Psionics are not well liked and that life event is the usual way to enter the Psion career. The Psions book due out in March greatly expands upon this with a lot more career choices, which can be used if the campaign is more accepting of Psionics.

A character may only attempt to enter the Psion career with the permission of the Referee. One life event (see page 34) allows a character to find a Psionics Institute and begin his training during character generation; some campaigns may allow access to psionics for any character.

Ultimately it is up to the referee depend on what works in his/her setting.

 

[alex_greene]

It all ultimately depends on whether or not your Referee agrees to let you have psionic talents. Some Referees might consider psionics to be a game balance breaker. Personally, I don't think so, but then I only generally allow one, maybe two psionically-enabled characters and at least one psionic latent in any given crew, for any given campaign.