Psi Division

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Psi Division (Psionics Division) is a fictional organisation in the Judge Dredd and Anderson, Psi Division comic strips in 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine. It is the branch of Mega-City One's Justice Department that deals in supernatural phenomenon, using Judges with psychic abilities. Psi Judges are often highly-strung and eccentric as a result of the strain of their abilities. While Judge Anderson is its most famous operative, Judges Janus and Karyn have also proved notable. The current head of Psi Division is Judge Shenker.

The psi judges fulfil many roles on behalf of the Justice Department, including reading the minds of prisoners unwilling to disclose information, providing for warning of great events to affect Mega-City One and others, and providing a skilled force of specialist judges to counter supernatural threats to the city, such as the Dark Judges. During the time when the Dark Judges were imprisoned in a vault beneath the Hall of Justice, a team of psi judges were on hand to provide a constant watch over the malignant spirits, suppressing any psychic activity should they become restless.

While Psi Division was once a well respected and influential division, it has since lost much of its prestige due to its failure to predict several major disasters, the most recent being a nuclear attack on the city in the Total War story. As a result, the division is no longer represented on the Council of Five, and in the story After The Bombs it was seen going to extreme lengths to salvage its reputation.

Within Psi Division are two sub-divisions - Exorcist Judges, who deal with exorcising demonic activity, and the Department of Magic who were tasked with examining magic and how best to judge it. The Department of Magic's former head, Judge Fauster, was caught manipulating the Half Life virus crisis in order to achieve immortality, causing a wave of carnage within Mega-City One. Fauster was arrested and sentenced to life (which, given that he had already achieved immortality, will be a very long sentence indeed).

[edit] Psi judges

Because of the psi judges' special status within the Justice Department, they are entitled to more specialised equipment and procedures, such as the ability to carry silver boot knives and special silver tipped rounds for their lawgivers, as well as not having to wear helmets when riding lawmasters, to keep their heads clear should they need to use their psychic talents while travelling.

Psi judges also have an unusual uniform quirk, whereby their badges, (bearing the name of any other form of judge) simply reads: PSI. This has been apparent in several comic strips featuring the Psi judges (although not in all of them, with some artists simply depicting the judge's surname instead).

Psi Division also uses civilian auxiliaries and even prisoners to supplement its contingent of judges, as anyone with psychic powers is potentially useful to Justice Department.

[edit] List of Psi Division personnel

Name	Abilities	Position	Current Status
Judge Agee	Telepathy	Standard operative	Killed in Necropolis, 2112
Judge Anderson	Multiple	Department legend, veteran operative	Active
Judge Corey	Empath	Standard operative	Deceased
Judge Ecks	Unknown	Former head of division	Killed in Apocalypse War, 2104
Judge Fauster	Witchcraft	Dept. of Magic head, traitor	Imprisoned
Judge Feyy	Precog	Veteran operative	Deceased
Judge Gistane	Extispicist	Dept. of Magic operative	Deceased
Gaia Innocenti	Precog	Prisoner, forced into service	Active, heavily drugged
Judge Janus	Precog, telepathy	Standard operative	Active
Judge Karyn	Precog, telepathy	Veteran operative	Possessed by superspook
Juliet November	Pyrokinetic	Prisoner, used when needed	Imprisoned
Judge Omar	Unknown	Former head of division	Killed in action, 2108
Judge Shakta	Telepathy	Standard operative	Active, blinded during Half Life mission
Judge Shenker	Unknown	Current head of division	Active

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