Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Battle Psychic

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The Battle Psychic is one of the infantry of the Katsuragi Protectorate, which replaces the Battle Idol for Psionic Command. Planned to be voiced by.

Overview
* TBA*

History
"I will not lose control."

-Battle Psychic, composing herself

Sometimes, the world is unfair. Sometimes, people rise up to fight against that oppression. And most of the time, those that do get hammered right back down in their places. Most of the time, no one amongst the oppressors actually cares. This was, for most of the GVAW, the case for the all-girls academy of Satarea, located in the woods near Hakodate and yet somehow out of reach for everyone else. Here, far away from the Protectorate naval bases, the sea battles and the attacks, the students under supervision of their teachers went along their business as usual, training to fit into Protectorate society as proper ladies. The school's pupils were, however, very special: all of them were forcibly sent there by their families after exhibiting rebellious behavior against their parents, school, or officials.

Forced into a strict regime to become more proper, refined, and to break them of their rebellious habits, it became evident in the summer of 1988 V.C. that there was something else amongst the students at Satarea, something more than just defying their superiors and wanting more than was their lot in life - psychic activity was detected. When Protectorate agents flocked to the academy, what they found there was amazing - whether it was due to their outlook, their mental state, or the sheer luck of the universe, over 23% of the girls 'enrolled' in Satarea Academy happened to have latent psychic prowess, and were starting only now to begin to exercise it.

Soon enough, the proper authorities high within the ranks of the Protectorate were notified, and discussion began of what to do with this find. There had been other reports throughout the Protectorate, but none in such large numbers, and none of such young ages before. Various sides argued back and forth as, oblivious, the students at the academy began to realize some of them had powers. One side suggested quietly eliminating them, remembering the Yuriko experiment and the monstrous results created. Others advocated welcoming the girls openly, encouraging them to work with the Protectorate military and hoping that, in time, they could learn how to hone their skills on their own.

Eventually, however, the side that won out was the one that represented Tenzai Robotics, intrigued by the possibilities and game that could be theirs if they could finally make mass combat-ready psychics a reality on the battlefield - they offered to fund a secret school, within the bowels of the existing Satarea Academy, and to train and discipline those girls that showed psychic prowess in order to make them fit to be in combat. They were given permission by Emperor Tatsu, who at the time focused on other matters, and quietly began their work. Though in order to make not arouse suspicion they had managed to masquerade it as a special idol school, which unintentionally led to the Battle Idols when they learned that some of their psychics began channeling their power through song and dance.

Girls that joined the Psychic Battalions were trained mercilessly, not only in the continual efforts to make them proper and compliant but now in the arts of warfare and their own minds. But in order to properly harness their psychic potential, and actually gain mastery over the skill at their disposal, they could not remain children. Constant drills, practice battles, and mental exercises slotted in alongside preparing tea and leaving no sound when they walked, until by the time the newly christened Battle Psychics saw their first battle they were girls no more, but soldiers.

Even now, their presence is disquieting to enemy soldiers on the battlefield, as even a hardened private mercenary is likely to pause upon seeing a young girl, barely out of her teens, hovering slightly above the battlefield in armor formed into a gross parody of their old school outfits. That time is enough for a Battle Psychic to send darts of will and energy streaking across the field, killing their foes with an utter lack of emotion from months of mental training. When enemies fire back, the Battle Psychics will extend protective psychic bubbles, swatting aside projectiles from their brethren as fellow warriors or their own cadre move in for the kill.

In training, the Battle Psychics are also taught about the one psychic warrior that came before them - Yuriko Omega. Portrayed in Imperial military reports to the girls as a master of self-discipline, feminine quietness, and utter obedience to her superiors, the Psychics are trained to empathize with her, to feel her as if she were a part of their own cadre, and to emulate her in self-mastery of psychic prowess.

Of course, those that do end up on the field fighting alongside Yuriko are in for a shock - for when fighting, the utterly unstoppable living weapon that is Yuriko is nothing like they have ever been led or trained to believe. That they will continue fighting alongside her when other soldiers have died or fled is both a testament to their bravery, their training, and in the backs of their minds the thought of what Yuriko might do if she sensed another psychic was going to abandon her...