Nierite wrote:
My main question is how do val Psions fit into this? Are there just so few of them that they are functionally the same as a shaman Legionnaire (they are not an 'official' battle mage, but fill the same niche in a squad)? Would they fill their own cadre? Would the number of val's in the 'common lines' be considered relatively rare as most in-universe vals (as opposed to heroes) would be filling up the non-combat Tribunships? Who knows!
My guess on this is that psions, as val who are likely to also have val bloodline powers as well as psionic powers, and as they are more likely to join legions associated with their families, are more likely to be assigned to "special forces" as similarly empowered strike squads, rather than interspersed throughout the legion as "mages." But that is just my thoughts from having read about the "specialists" various families had in their specific legions from stuff from the last campaign.
Thus the assassins of the cadician legions, the brute squad of the val'virdan legion, the shapechangers of the val'dellanov legions, etc.