Hello everyone,

I will soon start a new DH group - and possibly a longer campain - but I'm not entirely familiar with the setting, so I just have a few questions for background and a request for inspiration concerning psykers.

Where does a Psyker go to after Sanctioning?
I understand that all playable Psyker-Characters have been taken to Terra for Sanctioning, and then back again. It's the "back" part that troubles me – do they send the psyker back to where they came from, or just anywhere where they are needed? I.e. does my player's Psyker need to hail from the Calixis Sector, or might he come from anywhere in the galaxy, or is it even common for Imperial Psykers to work where they grew up? The question's background is, the player chose a Rogue Trader origin for his Void Born Psyker, and I will need a Rogue Trader NPC later on (lucky me ), so I thought maybe this would make for an interesting encounter for the Psyker. Only works if it's not completely unrealistic, though.

How does a Void Born Psyker from a Rogue Trader vessel get onto a Black Ship?
I guess his powers woke up during an emotionally demanding situation (I hope the player will come up with something dramatic, else I have to think of something), but then what? Will the crew capture him, drug him and then set out for a journey to find a Black Ship? These are not famous for travelling fixed and known routes, as far as I know, so how would they find one, and would it even be worth the trouble, wouldn't they rather just dispose of the dangerous individual?

What is Terra like?
As the most sacred place in the galaxy, I am prone to think of it as some kind of Eden, but as this is the Grimdark™ Future, I'm probably wrong. And, while I'm at it, does Sanctioning involve beholding the Golden Throne and the Emperor in person, or is this reserved for the sacrifice psykers?

Adeptus Astra Telepathica and the Scholastica Psykana
After a bit leafing through "the Internet" I found that the two words that are more or less used arbitrarily. However, I though that the Adeptus Astra Telepatica are the Imperial organisation responsible for Sanctioning (and that Astropaths are not their only area of influence), while the Scholastica Psycana is the lore of the psyker, so to speak, a credo/science/conditioning concerning Psykers. Is that correct?

How does a Psyker meet the Inquisition?
Finally, I humbly request a bit of inspiration for bringing my Psyker into the Inquisition.
I have a small scene prepared for each character of how they first stumble into one of the Agents and how and why they are picked to serve the Inquisition, because 2/3 of the players are completely new to the setting. But I'm a bit at loss concerning my Psyker, as they are sent from Terra to take up some fairly high ranking positions in Imperial society, as I understand it, and I simply fail to come up with an event that would be small enough for one or two scenes and significant enough to draw the attention of the Inquisition… What kind of job would a Void Born Pyker with a strong will (and probably a tendency to think out of the box and not take authority overly serious) take up anyway?
My last resort is that Silvanus was sent to Scintilla specifially to serve the Inquisition and have his first scenes be some kind of trial from his new masters, but that somehow feels dull and as I didn't find anything about the Scholastica Psycana training I would't know how to test him anyway.
Maybe someone has a spontanous idea?

Thanks a lot for reading and input!

* Where a Psyker is put to use after his Sanctioning is not defined. Could be anywhere where there is demand at the moment he finishes "graduates", could be random, could be where he is familiar with something, could be where he is NOT familiar with something so as to him being more dependent on his superiors.

* Getting on the Black Ship could be done with dropping the Witch on the next biger planet/ port-facility so that the local authorities deal with him just as with a native Witch. Black Ships should stop on hiveworlds a lot more often than on sparsely populated Agroworlds.

* Terra - Garden Eden? ... Eh, not quiet.... Holy Terra is completly covered in the Imperial Palace, they even had the Oceans drained / build over so to have more administrative space. Its a mix of Hive/Shrine/beurocratic administration center on a global scale.

* The Adeptus Astra Telepathica is caring for the Astropaths, while the Scholastica Psykana is caring for the Imperial Psykers. These are litterally two different schools on how to use warptalents. Those not exceptionally strong and/or stable, but still good enough become Astropaths, while the better ones become Imperial Psykers for special uses. Most of these are handed to the Imperial Gard, some are taken to the Administratum and a selected few are requested by the Inquisition.

* Meeting the Inquisition is "easy". Inquisitor puts in request for a Imperial Psyker to use in his work and then gets one alloted. Or if he needs a more experienced one (higher level) he looks where they are, Imperial Garde or Administratum and takes them: "Taa daaa! Congratulations, you have a change of position. Get your personal things and be at the Spaceport´s Meeting Lounge B175 tomorrow at 1600."

Just to add a few things:

The Scholastica Psykana is part (i.e. a sub-division) of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica , as is the League of Blackships . Check the Lexicanum links for details (also in regard to Terra ).

My groups Psyker was originally from Orbell Quill and assigned to the Magistratum in the Tephaine System (Siculi) after sactioning. There he was coincedentally recruited by the groups Inquisitor, who was just the one saving the Psyker as a boy from a planetary purge by the notorious Witch Hunter Rykehuss and giving him to the League of Blackships.

Thanks for the lexicanum links, that cleared up a whole bunch of other things, too. And as they write that almost noone ever crosses through Eternity Gate, I guess Santioning does not involve seeing the Golden Throne with one's own eyes.

Lone Pilgrim said:

Sanctioning (usually) takes place on Terra. Though only the (potential) Astropaths kneel before the Emperor for their Soul Binding ritual. Maybe they use the back entrance instead of the Eternity Gate...