'Imperial Culture' (non-canonista)

[combatmedic]

Originally Posted by Astromancer

One thing it does cause complications for are practitioners of folk magic. Every society has fortune tellers and similar professional folk magic pactitioners. At least every human society. In the 3I they'd be severely persecuted by the courts. Their lives would be interesting!

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…