··· Infusion of Essence: This technique acts just as Extension of Awareness, but requires a much greater Psionic potential as it does not just knit together and strengthen the always present linkage between a Psion and his bioware, it actually creates such a linkage between the Clear and a piece of unliving 'soulless' hardtech!

System: Roll Psi and spend 2 points to establish the linkage with any touched bit of hardware up to the size of a spacecraft as above. It lasts for the scene and allows a pilot an intimate bond with his vehicle, a marksman with her weapon, a 'hacker' with his computer or a doctor with her intensive care tank, allowing the Psion to use Psi in place of the relevant Attribute (usually Dexterity or Intelligence) to utilize, understand, repair, destroy or even find the item in question. If the item is damaged during the scene, the linkage will cause pain to the Clear, imposing a +1 to all Difficulties until the power fades or the item is repaired (or leaves Attunement range, as this power lapses at that range). If the item in destroyed while the user is still linked to it, the Clear takes unsoakable Bashing damage equal to the items cost in Dots. (The damage is not lethal as with Extension of Awareness as the item linked to is unliving and the linkage is entirely created and sustained by the Psion.)

The unusually level of interconnection between man and machine tends to manifest as obsession with the item on the part of the Psion and he must roll Willpower to be able to actually loan the item to someone else or threaten or damage the device. Unlike an intense emotional and *reciprocal* bonding with a piece of bioware, bonding empathically with a piece of emotionally 'dead' hardtech makes the user distant from his own feelings for the duration, add a +1 to the difficulty of all Social rolls both for and against the user, as his emotional distance makes it difficult to read or influence the emotional states of others, or to be read or influenced in turn.