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===Positive Psychic Levels=== #'''Alpha-Plus''' #*Alpha-Plus psykers '''''do not''''' represent the top of the scale, but are completely beyond the scale. In fact, the scale theoretically continues upwards beyond Alpha-Plus into truly godlike tiers of power, although such individuals have never been encountered, barring maybe the Emperor. Even so, Alpha-Plus individuals operate on a completely different wavelength from normal people and are owners of completely alien mindsets. In terms of power, they are akin to weapons of mass destruction, as in theory there is nothing that a trained Alpha-Plus psyker cannot accomplish through force of will. There is a tacit assumption that this category contains the [[Emperor]] and his "notably-psychic" [[Primarchs]] (especially [[Magnus the Red]] in his daemon Primarch form), but even he admitted there were limits on his power, specifically that one could not be both all-seeing and all-powerful at the same time. No attempt is made to distinguish power levels among members of this grade, because they're all so absurdly strong there's no point in quantifying it. To put it in context, an emergent Alpha Plus psyker - one not fully in control of their abilities - was able to destroy a starship, freeze time, put it back together and resurrect its crew from the dead before removing themselves permanently from the physical universe in an act of unparalleled self-control and incredibly heroic self-sacrifice to defend humanity from that psyker’s risk of possession. To dumb it down for the rest of you idiots, that the same as snapping an [[Emperor_Battle_Titan|Imperator Class Titan]] in half with a sneeze at HALF A SECTOR AWAY! #'''Alpha / Beta''' #*Exceedingly rare and dangerous. The Imperium believes that human beings have not sufficiently evolved enough to contain Beta and Alpha levels of psionic talent without going completely batshit mental, though exceptions do exist. [[Arvann Stern]] is confirmed to be Beta-level, and he's not even the most powerful psyker in his chapter. Beta seems to largely be the limit of human sanity, though this is probably fixed with heavy amounts of cybernetics and hypno-indoctrination to make the crazies into useful, if mindless, tools. Most psykers of this power level are considered too dangerous to control and are likely to be sacrificed to power the Astronomican, while ''very'' unlucky Alpha psykers may instead find Imperial service in the Ordo Sinister, meaning they'll get turned into screaming batteries for [[Warlord_Battle_Titan#Warlord-Sinister_Pattern_Battle_Psi-Titan|Psi-Titans]]. The unluckiest Alphas and Betas get to be [[Grey Knights]], and fight daemons until their painful death in battle. The luckiest ones become specialized Astropaths whose predictions of the future are used by the Adeptus Custodes to find threats to Terra. #'''Gamma / Delta''' #*Approximately one out of every billion human births will produce a Delta or Gamma level psyker, who, for the Imperium, represent the "useful" upper limit of psychic potential without being too dangerous to let live, though it's up to the [[Inquisition]] to be the ultimate judge of that. Most psykers of this power are either slain or possessed if they are not discovered quickly by the Adeptus Astra Telepathica. The Inquisitor [[Gideon Ravenor]] was believed to be a high Delta-level psyker. #'''Epsilon / Zeta''' #*Epsilons and Zetas represent relatively powerful psykers, who are strong enough to be considered threats to security by the Imperium. #'''Eta / Theta / Iota''' #*Iota represents the first "true" psykers who are able to manifest and control psychic abilities with a modicum of training. Anything below this point is not considered a "true" Psyker. #'''Kappa / Lambda / Mu / Nu / Xi / Omicron''' #*People who can manifest psychic talents either unconsciously or so subtly as to be beneath the notice of everyone but the Inquisition, such as performing minor "magic" tricks, divinations, or other weird occurrences generally dismissed as good luck. Most of the time they are quite useless, but still represent a danger since they can be possessed. Although the Inquisition is too busy to sort out everyone at this level, the Imperial public is conditioned to spot and ostracize these witches if the truth about them ever comes to light in their societies. Those that do get picked up by the Black Ships are generally considered not worth the risk of training and almost always receive a one-way trip to the Golden Throne to have some sort of use wrung out of them. If you’re power level is low enough, though, even the Inquisition and Black Ships will ignore you as a non-threat. Which sounds like a damn stupid thing for them to do, really. #'''Pi / Rho''' #*Run-of-the-mill humans, neither psy-active nor psy-inert, but indisputably on the positive side because the negatives... get weird.
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