Psionics Club
The Psionics Club was a psionics organization that existed during the early days of the Third Imperium.
Description (Specifications)[edit]
Herod Thuwiid found The Psionics Club on Idmum (Core 2316) in -361 to combat the anti-psionicist rhetoric that was growing in populatity on that world. His high standing as an author of historical fiction allowed him to share his vision of a world free of psionic prejudice. THose involved in the literature community on Idmum (mostly members of the upper class) were swayed by his vision. When they gatherd in the many reading groupd that were popular at the time, they invariably discussed his ideas of psionics and society. As he travled among these clubs, giving reading of his works and lectures on various subjects, he came to realize that forming an activist organization woudle be a fairly simple matter for him, since he already had a ready made network of like-minided people. In addition, it would be a useful way to bring about his vision. Thus, the members of the reading clubs founded the bulk of the early membership of the Psioncis club.
The Psionics Club, headquarted on Idmum, maintained brached offices on all populated worlds of the Sylean Federation. Membership as of 20 was approximately 10,000,000 with about 10% of the membership as psionicists. Membership dues are Cr500 per year, and anyone may join.
History & Background (Dossier)[edit]
The Psionic Club's goal was to blunt the Idmumian government's anti-psionicist tendencies. Through the members' business and political savvy, liberal amounts of finance, and well-presented argumentation, they were able to rid the society of all government-sanctioned anti-psionicist activities and policies by -330
Having tasted this success, they decided to make their next goal to bring about government support of psionicist and psionic activities. This battle was much more difficult, as the arguments were more easily countered. In effect, since the government was no longer causing harm to psionicists, those in power felt there was no reason for passing additional legislation.
Ranking members of the Psionicis Club decided it was time to try a new tactic. They undertook a program of public education in hopes of creating a groundswell of public support for psionicist. It was though that this would put pressure on government officials to enact new legislation favoring psionicists.
Yet changes in widespread public opinion are not easy to achieve. It was not until -97 that they finally turned the society psioniphilic. Nonetheless, their hard work had indeed paid off, so they turned their attention to the worlds in the rest of the Sylean Federation.
Unfortunately, even though they were able to increase their ranks substantially by drawing from the interstellar population, progress was slow. They killed quite a bit of anti-psionic legislation. Since the Third Imperium began, they spent significant time attempting to adjust to the new political reality.
During the second decade of the Imperium, they worked with the University of Sylea's College of Psionics to create a set of professional licencing standards for psionicists. Although the licensing standards were not been adopted by any world government, they proved to be good tools in discussing the legitimacy of psionics.
The Club's public focus was on members of the Moot, recommending the Emperor enact laws to protect psionicists from persecution. Although such laws would only have validity in the Imperium's jurisdiction (that is, between worlds), it is hoped they would serve as a model for the individual member worlds.
At the same time, their private focus on infiltrating and disbanding (or at least rendering ineffective) the Psionic Now! group, as the Psionics Club saw their efforts as counterproductive.
References & Contributors (Sources)[edit]
- Psionics Institute
- Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
- Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science