User blog:Holokami/Faraday Isles Psychic School

The Psychic School is the main and titular feature of the Faraday Isles. It's an enormous school which is located in cities all across the isles, and covers subjects across nearly all areas. It's the first center of education in the world to teach and research psionics.

Introduction
The Psychic School, or First Psychic School as also known, covers subjects in a huge number of areas. It's currently the only place in the world open were you'll be able to learn about psionics, and the world surround psionics. Lumi Faraday pushed hard to get permission to build the Psychic School- it took her over a year of constant persuasion, and even longer than that to gather an argument together.

There is a huge amount of support for the students of the Psychic School; from a great number of student apartments to career guidance and more, if a student has an issue of any sort, there will be someone to listen.

Twice a year, all psychic students must go through a progress evaluation. It's a week spent doing nothing but evaluating the abilities of each psychic student, and compare that to their overall progression. There aren't any targets are quotas to meet in regards to powering up, and there's absolutely no pressure to do so, but students tend to set their own targets. This also serves as a way of scouting new Shepherds.

Years and Levels of Education
The Psychic School covers all years. It covers from age three right to PhDs.

Student Residence
Around the areas surrounding each part of the Psychic School campus, there are great numbers of houses and apartments. These are all dedicated to students, and are fully funded for. Applying to get an apartment is very easily as well.

There are two options when applying:
 * A Single Apartment (1 person)
 * A Shared Apartment (2 or 4 people)
 * A House (1-4 people)

There aren't many student houses, and they're typically prioritized for masters and PhD students, but high school students, college students and university students can be placed with the post-grad students.

There is also an opt-in "Housekeeping Service" ran by Mai, who will keep your apartment or house clean for you. In fact, Mai can always be found in the morning around the Student residence in Lefévre.

PICT
Psychic Ranks were very messy at first, lots of numbers and writing to express the psychic's abilities. But Lumi though up a method of universal psychic ranking. The PICT system of Psychic Ranking is so far the best accepted method to use, as it can give you a really good snapshot of the psychic and what you can expect from them. The PICT system functions as follows:

P ower: The power-class is what it says on the tin. No need for technique here, the bigger the numbers and damage the better.

I nformation: The information-class is all about reading, seeing and gathering. Mind readers, emotion readers, astral readers, clairvoyants, claircognizants, e.t.c., they’ll all under this class.

C ontrol: The control-class is about control. Mind, emotion and astral control are the predominant control-class powers, but telekinesis is also listed under control in certain cases. Psychic who can control the powers of other psychics is listed here too.

T echnique: The technique-class is all about the skill of the psychic. This class is often considered the opposite of the power-class, as power isn’t at all necessary here. Manipulating cells and atoms with telekinesis, impeccably fine control of energies, illusions- mental or light-based, incredible speed and insight, combinations of multiple skills together, these are the technique-class.

When a psychic is observed, one of these classes will typically stand out more than the others, when that has been assessed, the psychic will be classed P, I, C, or T. Next comes the magnitude of that classification. How good are that at what they do? They're then graded from 0 to 9. And finally comes the average ability grade. There are seven areas to psionics: Telekinetics, Telepathics, Pemics (Psychic Energy Manipulation), Empathics, Clairics (Clairvoyant, Claircognizance, e.t.c..), Cognitics (Precognition, Retrocognition, e.t.c..), and Astralics (Astral abilities). Each of these areas is assesses for each psychic, and graded 0 to 9. Typically, the P, I, C, or T grade is equally to the greatest of the ability grades. All the grades across the seven area are averaged and rounded down. This makes up the PICT Rank. Here are some examples: P5-2, I9-5, C3-3, T8-7.

On the occasion a psychic does stand out equally in two or three PICT classes, there are extra classes from A to L which they are listen under, such as A-class for P and I. If a psychic stands out in all PICT classes, like Lumi, an S-class is given. When a psychic is given an S-class, this usually means they have equal levels of skill across all seven areas of psionics, and so the average ability grade is left off. Finally, if a psychic doesn't really stand out in any class, an O-class is given.

"Extended" PICT ranks include:

A = P + I

B = P + C

D = P + T

E = I + C

F = I + T

G = C + T

H = P + I + C

J = P + I + T

K = P + C + T

L = I + C + T

The Elite Seven
The Elite Seven are the most powerful students on the Psychic School Island. They aren't an official group of any sort, and are more of a list. Nevertheless though, being one of the Elite Seven comes with its own fame. The current Elite Seven are: