[PP] [P] Psionic Ability Building

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If I might have more questions later, can I not name this thread for a specific ability I have in mind RN, yes?

I have an idea of an extra-sensory PK-based sense ability. Can somebody, pls, help me build it? Feel free to just give pointers, focus on any of of variants/alternatives below you think you reasonably understand how to build with existing BS, PP or Powers resources, but I am more interested in basic version as I outline below.

I ask here, because cursory search didn't help. Enhanced Senses doesn't seem to have that power.

It's a ranged touch with all the benefits of sight and touch, which gives some strengths of both, sort of "3D Spatial Sense" on steroids. It gives you distance and precise position of everything to you and each other and better, than sight/hearing combo.

Instead of telling you colours, it provides you information of shape, texture, whether it is soft or hard, smooth or rough. Unlike with vision, you can see behind objects and as long as you you can connect a unbroken curve between you and the object, you can "feel" behind the corners, every nook and cranny, between floor boards, from every direction, you cannot be confused by optical illusions, you may know is somebody carries a gun under a jacket or a knife behind their back, but it can't go through less than certain width and definitely not through hermetically sealed containers.

Depending on how strong it is, this sense can feel objects it touches from both sides, or it can be "shallow".
Errr.. this ability overall and this variant in particular is potentially very physically invasive, but this aspect will be largely ignored for the sake of propriety in favour of "I know where you are and what is needed to know".

It can be non-detectable or cause tiny pinpricks and trigger pressure sensors, etc.

Arguably, it could be detected by TK Grab or other more appropriate highly sensitive ability.

The variant I've seen in fiction is a omnidirectional field (aura?) that senses every point simultaneously. So you can't fail to notice anything within (you might not have react in time or interpret it correctly, though).

Variants might include a cone like the Awareness ability or a projected zone of PK perception, like Clairaudience, a 360⁰ volumetric sphere. rather than total area coverage. It might have unlimited area coverage or a sort of "curving lidar" with a max distance limitation (so former would beat a maze and go beyond, while latter would cover only up to max distance). In my opinion it is not the same as scanning sense's deep scan because this technique goes through objects, but it's not the same as looking at them from behind.

Depending on whether it's good at detecting atmosphere changes it can also be stronger or weaker, but it can very useful in finding hidden rooms if there is gap or find a hidden compartment if you feel that the the distance between the outside of wall and inside wall surface is unusually thick.

If this ability does have a deep scan version it is gonna be especially ludicrous.

TL;DR: At the end of the day it's like having thousands or even millions of invisible intangible fingers all over the place and being aware of each and their relation to each other (potentially simultaneously).

It's probably a combo of multiple different advantages, like many abilities in Psionic Powers. "Protected Sense" probably has to be included by default.