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Old 03-15-2019, 07:19 PM   #45
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Default Re: Magic in Space Opera

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Originally Posted by Chris Goodwin View Post
If a setting has psi in it, then what happens if that occult practitioner has some kind of psionic talent?

I like playing with this. There's a Babylon 5-style Psi Corps, where the training is military style, rigid, everything is done by control and rote, but there've been occultists and witches for centuries, and if and when psionics start working they're likely to be the first ones to figure it out. There's a semi-friendly rivalry; the Corps hates it when a perfectly good psionic gets ruined by witchy mumbo-jumbo, and covens are saddened by all of the marching and the barking of orders when it's really supposed to be about the feeling, maaannnnn.
This reminds me of something in the Aeon/Trinity. The healer Psions (Vitakinetics) are split into two groups, the Medical Science faction, and the New Ager/Shamanic/Ritualist faction.
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