Editing Genestealer Hybrids (section)

==Psychic Hybrids==
Purestrain genestealers and first and second generation Hybrids have no psychic powers except for their innate abilities, Hypnotic Gaze and Brood Telepathy (and the potential to mutate into a [[Genestealer Patriarch|patriarch]]). Third and fourth generation hybrids, however, will often have additional psychic powers. Inherited psychic traits passed on from infected psykers in the hybrid's ancestry may become apparent in the near-human third and fourth generation hybrids.

Purestrains and hybrids can recognise human psykers when they find them. Genestealers are attracted to psykers, and share none of the normal human's prejudices against them, simply regarding them as exceptionally advanced specimens of the race. Consequently, the psykers in a community are often among the first to be infected by the stealer gene. This means that human psychic traits will pass into the gene pool of the hybrid brood, to be inherited by later generations. Thus, by the third and fourth generations, the hybrids can develop full psychic powers in addition to possessing the two innate abilities of genestealers. Note that without access to psychic genes in the host, a cult will have no psychics other than its [[Genestealer Patriarch|patriarch]] - the stealer genes alone are unable to lend psychic talent to anything else.

Psychic hybrids ordinarily tap into the psychic energy and will of their patriarch, and by extension the [[Hive Mind]]. While they are genetically hardwired to be loyal, in theory they could be forced to fall to [[Chaos]] against their will, in which case they would tap that for power.