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>Gryphon has done neato-jedi mind tricks and the like. You may want to
>note the telekinesis in "Checkmate".

Force manipulation is not psionic power by the standards of the Corps. They consider "the Force" a myth and discount reports of its existence. Those who have the ability to manipulate the Force do not register on the tests used to determine if someone is a telepath and thus subject to the Corps' jurisdiction.

>Azalynn is empathic.

Is she?

>Also, I think we need to address the question of what the Psi Corp
>considers psi talent. Would Zoner or Utena fit into a Psi Corp
>category? What makes psi power distinct from magic?

It's all in how it shows up on the gauges. "Telepathy" by the Psi Corps' standards is a distinct condition of the brain which results in a quantifiable power that normal humans don't have - period. Most of the special powers exhibited by the UF mainliners are much more exotic. Zoner, even if he submitted himself to be tested, would come off as strange, but not a telepath. Utena isn't even close. The Corps doesn't have instruments that can register the Power of Dios; she'd come off as a plain old ordinary mundane.

>When you say magic, I think of invocations
>and such. I haven't seen any one in UF invoke any power

You haven't been paying much attention, then... there are invocations all over Twilight (Skuld's creation of the Cosmic Rod, the working she weaves on Gryphon during their battle with Fenris, the Great Warding that separates Loki from Zoner), and Utena has (unconsciously) invoked the Power of Dios five times now. Six, if you count her own arrival in Midgard, though that was offscreen.

Block transfer mathematics are themselves a form of sorcery - manipulation of otherworldly energies by way of a mental construct. The line between magic and technology blurs a bit in Skuld's case, but that's because of who and what she is. You want some more conventional sorcery, take a look at her elder sisters...

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