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I am going to try to better explain my theory and answer some misconceptions on what I meant. First of all the evidence I am using is not from any singular passage of any singular book but bits and pieces of information scattered through to build a logical conclusion, although I will try my best cite my source when possible.



Now the question that comes, that fuels this entire theory is, "Why doesn't Academy City fully develop all of the espers since a large amount of high-level espers is essential for Aelister's plan to succeed." I would like to point out that I am considering level 5 fully developed, not level 6. This is due to the fact that in, I think VL. 12, Aelister pointed that he isn't even interested in the level 6 (and probably never was considering that he had set up Accelerator’s level 6-shift project to be botched since at least when Touma was first brought into Academy City). He in fact had stated that he had created something even greater, "The Trinity" (And yes THAT Trinity...no not from The Matrix from the Bible, silly) and it still wasn't "Good Enough" for his plans and he needed something stronger still. Indicating that the espers are probably being used for a different part of his plan and he doesn't need nor want a level 6 for the godlike being part of his plan. This also indicates that any other plans for level 6 by Academy City didn't involve Aelister. But as said before the majority of espers are level 2 or lower but why is that.



The answer that was given was given during the WW3 arc to Hamazurra by the assassins sent out to kill him. The problem is the integrity of that information is questionable at best. For instance why would the lackeys, who were sent out halfway around the world into the battles of WW3 to kill off some punk who would have probably died anyways (even if didn't would no longer be problem), have privileged information such as the true nature and reasoning of Aelister’s plans. In short, they wouldn't, they told Hamazurra what they were told but it doesn't mean that it is all accurate. Heck even the explanation they gave is practically ludicrous if you sit down to think about it. The explanation they had given in essence was that they didn't have enough money or time to do it.



Seriously... Am I really supposed believe that? Ohhh Kay...ah... so let's get this straight, the guy who singlehandedly has totalitarian control over the self-governed city-state with technology so advance that the general public assumes it's only 20-30 years more advance than the rest of the world (which by the way is only the generally assumed, the reality is that it's much greater), says he doesn't have enough money. Entire countries would risk near bankruptcy just to get a hold of some of the technology that would be considered obsolete by Academy City standards, but he doesn't have enough money. The guy could buy out the world and probably the moon just for good measure and he doesn't enough money??? Ok, is he like using business practices patented by Scrooge McDuck or something!!! I mean come on; stinginess hardly seems like a good excuse for risking failure of his plan! It just doesn't make sense!



And as for time, it has already been established that Academy City's espers are essentially crap versions compared to the gemstones and the method they using to make them is completely flawed as well. So if it takes too long to mass produce espers that are even halfway decent, then maybe he should try to get the process of creating espers actually perfected first. I mean, it's not like that life support system isn't going to keep around for a millennia or two. Nope, still doesn't make any sense.



Ok to be fair what they said was that they focus their time and money on developing espers who worth it and cater to their development and drop the others which by the way I think is true. I just don't believe that the reason is money.



The theory that I came up with to explain the true reason why he doesn't fully develop all the espers is in fact that in order for his plan to succeed he needs to stay in control. His plan requires a large amount of high-level espers but the fact of the matter is there is no way of controlling 1.8 million level 5 espers. He needs to stay in control and the only way of controlling people is physically overpowering them or manipulating them. But not everyone is capable of being manipulated and you can't very easily overpower a level 5.



The level 5's are espers who can be allowed to be fully developed because they are capable of being manipulated one way or another. The Level 1's through 4's are espers whose powers were developed to the point where they can be controlled through overpowering or manipulation but any further and they would become too strong and in turn start becoming too difficult to control. And level 0's are people who are way too difficult to manipulate, therefore should not get a power to increase their strength and capabilities. This is all generally speaking of course and they are many exceptions.



<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">This all means that the esper development program is catered to people that are easier to control than others and because of this the number of what level you are and ONLY the number could be said to be reflecting of this but it doesn't change or effect the meaning, reason, or process of reaching that level number. Please remember this is simply just a theory based random bits of information throughout the series to explain the fact that I don't believe that Aelister doesn't have the money to fully develop espers.

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<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">And now to answer questions from the comments above:

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<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">First: I didn't say Touma was the strongest I said he was one of the strongest there is a clear difference. Also it is generally accepted that Touma has been stuck at level 0 because the system scan wasn't able to detect his ability so no one knew it therefore couldn't measure its strength. That is complete BS, of course we meant to think that but it is still BS; first off Aelister invited Touma into Academy City fully aware of the capabilities of both his Imagine Breaker and the "Hidden Thing". And since they already knew that he had a power and they knew what was and how it worked there is no reason why they couldn't have developed a special way of testing in order to rank its strength and ranking him. Even with Gunha they have no clue what his power is, how it works, or what it even does but they still managed to rank its strength and sense they have shown that they can rank the strength of powers that are solely defensive there is no reason why they couldn't have ranked him properly. In fact Touma is a level 0 because he needed to defeat Accelerator in order to botch the level 6-shift project but in order for it to work he needed to be the weakest of the weak. All in all the only reason Touma is ranked 0 is because Aelister wanted him to be.

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<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">Secondly: On the matter of Uiharu when I said that she could literally shake the Earth, I literally meant Literally. Her power allows her to control the thermodynamic equilibrium of anything she touches. Right now she is only a level 1 and she can only keep it at a constant but assuming that she is level 5 just imagine what she could do by simply touching the ground. She could create earthquakes volcanoes, she could touch the ocean and create title waves or stop the ocean's currents she can touch the air create massive hurricanes and tornados she could easily make the movie 2012 look like documentary. God help the first guy who has balls to dump her. Now with all that being said let's this fact with what I had mentioned above. Uiharu has a strong sense of justice, duty, honor, and compassion and even after being tortured by the 2nd strongest level 5 wouldn't give in to him and tell him where Last Order is. We have also seen her go out of her way to stop that semi-truck full of dangerous chemicals. She has a personality that can’t be easily manipulated and if she did manage to find out half the stuff Aelister is planning she could open a crack in the earth right above windowless building and drop it down into the earth’s mantle and let him rot, that is of course if she was a level 5. This is also one of the contributing factors of why despite being able to program security better than anyone else Academy City, she isn’t hired to create it for the board of directors because she would gain access to information that she would be able to leak. In essence a lot of her personality can be said to be similar to both Touma and Hamazurra, I bring this up because the Agitate Halation Arc also points out the concept of some low level espers being difficult to control they even gave these type of espers a name, they called them "Heroes." But what if you take into consideration the possibility that maybe they did not become the way they are because they are low level and needed a way to get more powerful but instead possibly are low-level espers because there are too powerful.

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<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">All in all I don't just don't see how Aelister doesn't have the money or capability to not fully develop the espers unless he already didn't want too. The only way the explanation given makes sense is if my understanding that a large amount of high level espers are essential to Aelister’s plan is nothing more than a misconception. If that is indeed the case or if my way of looking at all this is just wrong then please correct me.