the current rc requires only three possible options, the mod screwed up the character, taiga misread it, or taiga is lying. any of those are possible options but i lean toward #3. taiga is claiming an impossible character and one i can't see the mod making with that much detail.
option 1: it is possible, but not likely, that artsapat know the series well enough to include psi rating but forgot that the psi corp only picks its most powerful telepaths to be psicops. not very likely though, the whole p12=psicop thing is mentioned a lot, nearly as much as psi ratings entirely. a p1 also can't read minds at all, they can notice if someone is reading them, that's about it.
option 2: misread, "you're a level 1 telepath on the run from the psicops, once per night you can cop someone" --> "oh, I'm a psicop" believable but iffy, i have to assume most people took a moment to look up their character and both the fan wiki and wiki-wiki both explicitly mention the p-scale and p12=psicop thing, and we've established that ignorance=anti-town when it comes flawed claims. if taiga is a psicop then looking it up is expected and it would be impossible to miss:
from b5 wiki:
Psi Cop -
Psi Cops is the collective name for officers of the Metasensory Police, or MetaPol and were the police enforcement arm of Psi Corps, usually dealing with cases relating to telepaths, mostly rogues and blips. All Psi Cops are P-12s, the highest rating within the Psi Scale, but not every P-12 has the ability to become a Psi Cop, because it takes a certain amount of ruthlessness. Psi Cops receive a special training in blocking and scanning so that they are able to resist a deep-scan for at least an hour
from wiki-wiki:
Psi Cops are members of a para-military body enforcing laws related to telepaths and operates with few checks against their authority. This is especially true when dealing with non-telepaths who have done violence against a member of the Psi Corps. For example, after capturing a murderer of telepaths, they implanted an image in his mind so horrifying that the person had to be permanently restrained to prevent him from ripping out his own eyes. In another case, a man who murdered a Psi Cop was ejected from a spaceship. While Psi Cops claim to only want to bring rogue telepaths back to the Psi Corps family, they are likely to kill a rogue telepath upon capturing one. Psi Cops possess a rating of P-12. P-13s or slightly higher are a rarity and some of those that are eventually found out to be P-13s, also become rogue telepaths and go on the run in fear of what the Psi Corp will do with them through experiments ("A Race Through Dark Places". Psi Cops also use telepaths of lower ratings in support roles.
now at a minimum if tiaga looked up the concept as we expect people to do, that rating issue should have come up and either been mentioned to us as a 'don't know why but i am only p1' or been asked of the mod who presumably would have explained or corrected. so it smells of poorly researched fake claim. this is possible though, just didn't do the research.
option 3: taiga's lying, this just seems the more likely option. i'm not going to say 100% but better than 50%, what he's lying about is hard to say, being a p1 or being a psi cop or being a townie but none of those options is a good thing.
- Albert Einstein
King of Cairhien 20-7-2
Chancellor of the Landsraad, Archduke of Is'Mod