Ok, let me be clear on this - a totally untrained Gamma level psyker managed to summon enough angyls to kill a 1.5 million people not too long ago.
You are assuming that this was a child with absolutely zero training who just awakened his power
It could have been an adult who has been hiding his ability until that moment and has had many years of practice before finally fucking up
@durin how old was the gamma level in question?
Also, you are completely ignoring the part where he was curb stomped by xavier who then closed the portal. Banishing demons and closing portals is a thing that psykers can do, as well as preventing portals from opening in the first place.
Being under close observation of superior psykers in the academy enables them to shut down any shenanigans. Not to mention that there are actual psyker inhibitors which can be further limit risk of accidents when not in official training under strict teacher observation.
The notion that psykers who haven't yet reached a certain mandated level of mastery become too dangerous to train anymore at 24 because they are now too
powerful flies in the face of the fact that psykers have different power levels. And yes I know our boss psyker is punching above his weight class, that isn't through raw power, it is through skill and many many years of experience.
You said 'But between heroes and self study I think there is room for some high quality teachers.' - I'm not sure what else that is supposed to mean if not saying there should be self study.
It means that I am explaining to you that the quality of teachers are a continuum, at one extreme there is "taught by a hero" at the other extreme there is "self study" and in between there is an infinite amount of tiny steps. That your argument that there is no possible way for there to be a level between our current teaching quality and hero teaching quality doesn't make sense because teacher quality is a contiuum.
I never said the training programs couldn't be improved - I outright stated the frequency research would likely provide a boon earlier in this conversation. What I'm trying to do is correct certain misunderstandings you seem to have about why things are the way they are with the program as is. The worst one you have is that we can simply extend the time until the trials commence, which as I explained above is extremely dangerous.
The extension idea had a bunch of caveats, specifically that the person is growing their control at a steady pace and that they get increased external security.
The trained, proven stable psykers no doubt continue their training already. I don't see why they wouldn't, and Ridcully shows that at least some did in the Imperium anyways. We are seeing many get promoted, after all. But as durin mentioned, the Sanctionites already have to spend most of their focus on teaching the new people.
This has nothing to do with what you quoted and were replying to. I didn't say they don't train after they pass the testing, I said that the testing was designed to churn out soldiers who are immediately sent to the front and as such the breakoff age was likely a result of the necessities of the eternal war rather than a necessity of the training itself.
