What do you get when you mix the military machine with the power of the human mind? A bunch of p*ssed off psychics generally. Psychic experiments are particularly prevalent in futuristic sci-fi games when humanity has a desperate need for a new war weapon. Unfortunately that desperation also drives some really horrible experiments. Unlocking a person's psionic potential isn't easy and seems to come from stressing out someone to their point of mental breakdown such as in Starcraft, or through painful implants like in Mass Effect, or other more disturbing methods like in F.E.A.R. One thing they all have in common though is that the experiments always involve an unbelievable amount of trauma to the individual, usually during their childhood. It really should come as no surprise that when these psychics break free of their prisons the first thing they do is go on a mass killing spree or at least file for implant compensation. Why Does It Belong Here? Traumatizing childhood experiments is this type's claim to fame. The mechanical experiments performed on adults is bad enough, but psychic unlocking has to start early. That means most, if not all, psychic training takes place on children and so from a young age kids are treated to such delights as watching animals be killed, being forced to fight with other psychic kids, and the installation of nerve implants. Even so this training is occasionally done right in places like Grissom Academy found in the Mass Effect universe. Children with psychic potential are cultivated in a positive way in those areas that lacks the traumatic crap found in Starcraft's Ghost Program. The existence of things like that academy redeem this experiment type just a bit and saves it from a spot further down the list.
