[Mark Walton]

I was thinking of putting "psionic training" in as a tech tree for any race - not as powerful as psychics, but making use of any "latent" abilities in the race. (Or creating technological equivalents). This was part of my Intel integrations. So one pside effect would be psi shields.

As for the psychic race sensors, I see these operating using a combination of Telepathy to detect enemy minds, ESP/remote viewing, precognition, and generally lucky guessing. (One of the interesting implications of real-world psychic research; how can you be sure which ability you are testing for, or whose ability you are really testing?)