Making a competent Psion in MgT2e+

I see people ask sometimes about making a Psion in the current version of Traveller.

This is the best way I see to do it:

Pre-Career in Psionic Community

• - From the Traveller Companion
• - You get the Psionic Testing and Training free, even if you fail Entry
• - Take Telepathy for the first Talent. There's no roll for it if you take it first.
• - Increase Skill Levels in Talents you just gained
• - Increase PSI if possible
• - Try to get anything Psionics-wise that you can in the Pre-Career because it will only help later.
• - Don't forget the extra PSI point the Pre-Career gives
• - If you fail at Entry, you can still go into Psion as the 1st Career.

Term 1 in Psion

• - This is really the best 1st Term if your character had Psionic Community for a Pre-Career.
• - It works even if the character's PSI is a bit low. But not too low.
• - This is where you build the Talents up so they are useable later.
• - Increase Skill Levels in Talents you already have
• - Increase PSI as much as possible
• - Adding new Talents is nice, but they will always be low-level getting them at this point.

Term 2 in whatever you want

• - You can take University here if you want.
• - But if you don't make it well in the Pre-Career and the 1st Career, you will always be a low-level Psion without some enhancements like a PSI Battery.

Remember, you have a minimum of 2 on every roll, so it's:

PSI Bonus +
Skill Level +
Skill Check Roll +
Other Modifiers

And then you get almost all of the lower level skills without rolling or easily.