Psychic Academy

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Most significant factions are capable of employing psychics, but this faction can actually train their own. They excel at precise and focused application of the psionic disciplines, and can get far more out of their available psychic resources than other factions.
Effect: This faction can provide psionic mentor training to qualified psychics. Once per turn, this faction can also force a rival faction to reroll any one d10, whether or not they’re involved in the roll.

Leaders:
^{Who leads the faction}

• Manipulative telepath using every means to protect the academy
• Big-hearted biopsionic seeing the academy as a public good
• Plans-within-plans oracle seeking power

Rules:
^{What are some universal laws or beliefs in the faction}

Illegal psionics is punishable by death enforced by the academy

Every student must have a monetary patron and a psychic guarantor

Disagreements can be settled through psychic duels

Every student receives an obligatory in-depth course on law

Enemies:
^{Which person inside the faction might oppose the group}

Corrupt telepathy instructor

Renegade student with high-up connections

Researcher of biopsionics seeking lab rats

Opposition:
^{What forces might engage the group in combat}

Psychic assassins

Psychic soldiers

Indentured non-psychic soldiers

Obstacles:
^{How might the faction inconvenience the group}

Oracles predict and counter the enemy's moves

Factions that depend on the academy's services are pressured to intervene

Telepaths keep the enemy under observation reading their minds

Friends:
^{Who might offer the group services or missions}

Hands-on teacher of telekinesis

Slightly deranged researcher of teleportation

Barely trained metapsychic student

Complications:
^{How might negotiations be complicated}

The local natives hate the academy

The academy is part of a religion

Petitioners without powers are looked down upon

Missions:
^{What missions might the faction offer}

Travel to a tombworld and acquire a pretech piece of psitech

Help a telekinetic enforcer bring a renegade to justice

Uncover information about a faction seeking to dismantle the academy

Things:
^{What items might have relation to the faction}

Psitech headband worn by the academy's master

Datadisk containing the lesson plans for the teleportation course

Stun rifle and accompanying uniform worn by academy guards

Papers declaring the holder a certified psychic under local law

Places:
^{Where might the faction take you}

The telekinetic training grounds

Experimental metapsychic laboratory

Forbidden section of the academy library

Neighborhood bar frequented by the seniors

Tags: Core