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== Literature ==
* The Department of Paranormal Resources in the ''Temps'' [[Shared Universe]] is another (relatively) benevolent version. Although its main purpose seems to be to [[Super Registration Act|draft]] paranorms as crimefighters, its more subtle role is to reassure [[All of the Other Reindeer]] that the paranorms are on their side, or at least controlled. This reassurance helps protect the ones with [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|useless powers]] from mob mentality.
* Aes Sedai in ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'', who hold a monopoly on organized use of the One Power. They constantly search for girls with the power and induct them, track down runaways, and immediately break up any rival attempts to organize users. Aes Sedai do let go trainees who refuse to go through with promotion tests or women who are (arbitrarily) too old to be initiated in the first place if the Aes Sedai think they have learned enough to not kill themselves, but those sent away had better keep a low profile or else. They monitor the movements of an organization called the Kinswomen that helps runaways, allowing them to recapture them. However, they do not know everything about the Kinswomen.
** Actually subverted. The Aes Sedai really induct very few women who can channel the Power. Mostly women have to travel to Tar Valon or be lucky enough that an Aes Sedai finds them. When they start to actually make an effort to recruit all comers they end up with more apprentices than they have had in two millenia. And boy, do they need them, as the Black Tower has been doing a non-stop recruitment drive from when it was first founded, and has about three times the numbers of the White Tower.
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** Also, as mentioned in the ''StarCraft: Nova'' novel, all psychics slated to be Ghosts (some weaker psychics act as "sniffers" of rogue telepaths) are mind-wiped in order to ensure their past experiences will not interfere with their duties.
* After the Vell-Os (a psychic offshoot of humanity) were defeated in ''[[Escape Velocity]]: Nova'', they were enslaved by the then-government of most of humanity, the Colonial Council. This was kept up through the collapse of civilisation and reconstruction all the way to the start of the game, although at some point the official stance became that they were willingly serving the Federation. It is made clear in the Vell-os storyline that you ''aren't'' one, but as you are an unregistered (and, at first, unaware) telepath the Bureau that has jurisdiction thinks you are one and enslaves you.
* In ''[[Mass Effect]]'', Kaidan, a member of humanity's first generation of [[Mind Over Matter|biotics]], reveals that when news of the [[Bizarre Baby Boom]] first went public, a military corporation called Conatix "[[Double
** Cerberus still kidnaps and experiments on biotic children.
* In ''[[Dragon Age]]'', all mages are required to join the Circle or be killed by [[Knight Templar|templars]]. The reason for this is twofold: first, because mages who are not formally trained are prone to suffering [[Demonic Possession]], and second, because the Chantry still remembers that the ancient lords of the Tevinter Imperium acted [[A God Am I|very irresponsibly]] with their magic.
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