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Originally Posted by combatmedic
IMTU, things like folk magic are usually ignored by the Imperium as local matters. Only if verifiable psionic acitivity is reported does the Imperium deign to get involved in 'local customs', as a general rule. Of course, the situation may be very different on some worlds or in some sectors. IMTU, there aren’t very many ‘Imperial Courts’ set up to try crimes of any sort other than treason against the Imperium, space crimes, and offenses committed in starports or other Imperial possessions. Dealing with dirtside magicians suspected of psionic activity would most commonly be handled by an Imperial noble telling the local rulers to crank up the pressure on the suspected psionicists.
Now, if the suspected psions are fooling about in space, a starport, or other Imperial jurisdiction, then that’s a different story…
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The Imperium would have neither the power nor desire to bother much about the back country. Just like the Grand Mogul didn't go out of the way to eliminate sutee, nor for that matter did the John Company until well into the nineteenth century even though if you asked a given Mogul he would likely have theoretically voiced his disapproval.