On my other accounts I've shared some #babylon5 fan fiction mixed with theories. Although as I can type long sentences and reply to myself here , I may as well have them here although I am a little reluctant to repeat myself too much.

Perhaps I spend too much time on other apps but it's easier and more immediate to view pictures and videos than reading lots of text

Anyway

Had some background on why the #PsiCorps may be allied with the Shadows although, as usual, I got distracted.

Hadn't really confirmed why, but let's say that IPX hires a lot of telepaths so there is a connection before first contact with aliens and the official forming of the Earth Alliance

IPX find a ship in Antarctica. Later the pre-corps telepaths realised they may be fodder in a war and need to choose sides , or at least find a way to survive by being useful to the (later) #EarthAlliance and , crucially, by #breeding as many #telepaths as possible

This is more a "explanation for myself as to

why telepath breeding programmes and arranged marriages are a thing in #PsiCorps

To sum up officials in IPX along with a small group of among the first telepaths to be discovered "know" about the Vorlon/Shadow conflict

My premise is that a small number of nations set up "Interplanetary Expeditions" and national bodies to basically register #telepaths , which 100+ years later becomes the Psi Corps #b5reboot #b5fanfiction

The USA and China probably don't exist as they are now by the end of

the 22nd century, although they may as well be "founding EA members" (along with #Japan and #Russia they set up IPX and the Internal Telepath Registry)

EA exists later for the purposes of interstellar relations and managing non corporate colonies on the Moon and Mars ,but has no real authority by itself on Earth ๐ŸŒŽ๐ŸŒ until after the forming of #PsiCorps

Oh to add semi official #Babylon5 novels exist but their version of a pre-Psi Corps is just as #authoritarian I have yet to read them I'm not happy with the summations of their operations.

In my version the purpose of the Registry is for governments and civilians to secretly enquire if a potential employee has telepathic abilities or not.

I was also wondering which would freak people out more: finding out aliens exist or the discovery that there are humans who can read people's minds!

To add: From what I can gather, the "Metasensory Authority" or whatever it is called in the books operates in the same manner as the later Psi Corps. perhaps the only exception is that it (maybe) only operates on Earth and only in EA members
Maybe start a new thread ? ๐Ÿงต#b5fanfiction
Promotion in Earth Force based on (number of) off world transfers while the Psi Corps based on years spent training. Psi Cops also get promoted each time one retires or one graduates. Officers in either branch of the service (technically at least four!) get promoted every five years up to the rank of colonel, unless they are promoted or ordered to retire early
#earthforce #babylon5

My idea is also to have an air force branch but has no commissioned officers below the rank of brigadier as it is entirely devoted to training pilots for the other branches. Is this weird?

Well, it's my #fantasy so up yours #fanfiction

Demotion in #PsiCorps would lead ultimately to #prison

I suppose the two branches could be the Infantry as a whole [which includes the marines , security (on and off-world) with the latter including (or having authority over the) Psi Cops /level 12 Investigations (should this not have another nam e/include also P10+P11 ?)] and the Navy

Well it's my fantasy

So perhaps Psi Cops can be lower than P12?

Work it out later maybe ๐Ÿค”
Edit: Let's say that officially there are ten grades , but internally there are P11 (more powerful than P10) and P12 (ditto)

Trainers, educators and senior administrators in Psi Corps hold warrants and outrank other #telepaths

Management get commissions

Telepaths permanently or temporarily assigned to Psi Cops are under the aegis of Earth Alliance Security. If they retire or return to Psi Corps

they return to the previous rank
In this version, although it explains the "actual" backstory of #babylon5 , I'm not suggesting that #telepaths actually stay in #PsiCorps all their lives , particularly if they are "fairly low on the teep scale" . But employment opportunities outside commercial or police work are few and far between.
The pre Psi Corps system had Teeps avoid registration by acting as snitches, "undercover" border security and, mainly and alongside "Normals/Mundanes" , bounty hunters. This was useful as such
"pretend" or fake mundanity. Later it wasn't technically legal in the Earth Alliance to discriminate against telepaths and they could even join any branch of #EarthForce if they wished to enlist but they were barred from certain occupations either entirely or without extensive supervision. I had a whole P-scale worked out, but I think crucially a low level "Teep" could only read surface thoughts and only if they were alone with just one or two people. Otherwise it gets lost in White Noise.
Higher P-levels could be trained to differentiate over "who is thinking what" , while the highest could do such with little training and even pick out a telepath in a crowd plus as some limited telekinesis, at least over electronic devices, with training and practice.
To encourage unidentified telepaths ("Blips" and "Rouges") to voluntarily join Psi Corps (this was legal to assess a telepath's potential and complete the training appropriate for that level) the EA senate
proposed #conscription in member nations and colonies and barred telepaths from active service in Earth Force in the years following the Dilgar War. Conscription proved useful to the Earth Alliance and Psi Corps in identifying Blips and latent telepaths.