Esper rating

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An esper rating or esper potential is a apparently a measure of a person's psionic abilities. Commander Hayes mentions esper ratings at least twice. One time is when the Kohr-ah are allowed to win the Doctrinal Conflict. He says that certain crew members with high esper ratings fell unconscious, overcome by a feeling that something very wrong had happened. Another time he mentions it is when The Captain brings the Taalo Shield in for study. Hayes claims that whenever you put a charge anywhere through the shield, all crewmen with high esper potentials get a bad headache, and "all evidence of psychon interaction is flatlined." Besides the six people on the Earth Starbase who react to the Kohr-Ah victory, Ensigns Hodgkins and Witherspoon, who reacted to the Taalo Shield, are the only crew members specifically identified as having noticeable esper ratings.