Mentalist Classifications

Mentalists were given a classification tier as part of an ongoing Intelligence project in the 1960's, design to discern their potential uses as weapons of espionage as well as threats to national security.

Class 1

Basic levels of power, capable of some or all of the following.


 * Read surface thoughts.


 * Communicate with willing participants via telepathy.


 * Stun or disorient targets with pyshic abilities.


 * Use Suggestions to influence behavior or inspire emotion. A Class 1 might get a disgruntled worker to shove their manager into traffic, but could never turn them against friends, family or even strangers unless the target was already so inclined.

Class 2

More advanced documented abilities, which may include...


 * Deep probing of an unguarded or unprepared mind for information.


 * Line of sight communications with willing or unwilling subjects.


 * Cripple or mentally incapacitate subjects. Permanent brain damage observed in up to 30% of victims, though combative versus lab environments thought to cause higher rates of brain damage.


 * Subtly influence or incite a small group of people, or exert powerful influence over an individual.

Class 3

This tier begins to be the developing point of truly problematic powers, though the most noteworthy qualifier is the ability to use most of their abilities on Class 1 and 2 degree mentalists as well as normal, unprotected individuals. Class 3's are usually capable of...

Class 4
 * Ripping or planting thoughts out of subject's brains.
 * Using potent crippling mental effects on large groups of people.
 * Using mental abilities on other, lesser mentalists with ease.
 * Strongly influencing a massive group of people or utterly dominating an unshielded individual.

Anyone of this class isn't allowed with three miles of any figures of significant military or political clearance, and will be terminated on sight if attempting to approach such individuals. Signs of a Class 4 potence include... Class 5
 * Able to kill or cripple opponents with psychic assault.
 * Able to harvest and process large amounts of data from multiple minds at the same time.
 * Can utterly control large groups of people, or incite whole armies to flee or frenzy.
 * Beginning development of non mind-on-mind powers, with telekineses being the most common manifestation of power.

Any class 5 that is not on Government Payroll is considered to be an automatic security hazard. Class 5 Manifestions are usually announced by some sort of peripheral phenomena, such as brilliant lights, sounds, omens and other such manifestations. Class 5 abilities might include.
 * Total mental domination on a massive scale. Can swing major elections or incite civil wars.
 * Manifestation of extremely potent metahuman abilities, usually telekineses but other effects, such as pyrokinesis, are not  uncommon.
 * Capable of widespread destruction, penetrating the mental defenses of most any other meta human, mentalist or not, with relative ease.
 * Mental blast abilities capable of flattening most targets of comparable abilities.