Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-24516349-20140208174350/@comment-5230978-20140210135659

KingWizard wrote:

Seriously? And if it were just drugs and technics, how come other nations didn't come to the same results? There is a 20-30 years technological gap between AC and the rest of the world, so even the drugs made by AC (the raw material adopted and the manufacturing process) are unlikely to be replicable by other scientifical organiziations. More importantly these organizations don't know how an esper really works, which is the reason behind the gemstone mining. Aleister knew how a gemstone works, so he was able, I think with the help of HC, to produce similiar stimuli to the ones the gemstones receive, but using scientifical methods, which is probably the reason why Made in AC espers only have physics based/related abilities or espers' features based ability (e.g. AIM manipulation abilities).

The PCP is not only shady in this sense, but it also randomly produce different Levels without any coherence, or Academy City could produce as much Level 5 as they want.

And that's not even getting into the Parameter List... Thanks to the Parameter List AC knows the potential of espers and based on that they train the ones with more potential, but it dosn't mean that all these espers have the same potential and that if they were developed to the same extent of all the others their levels would be the same. Even in the Magic Side equality doesn't exists. Although Magic is learnable and usable by everyone, there are magicians who have more talent then others (e.g. Tsuchimikado was referred as a genius onmyouji from his childhood, Leivinia is a 12 old magician who is not second to a Saint) and there also magician born with magical features like Saints, William and Brunhild above all, or Fiamma. Returning to the main point, even if AC wanted to create as many Level 5 as they wants, despite being huge, their funds and resources have a limit. Well, they still have enough to create a cyborg with the abilities of six Level 5 and able to copy other esper abilites, so even if their capital is not infinite they should have enough funds to raise some other Level 5s, but, aside Rikou, there aren't probably other valid candidated. It could even be that there are other potential Level 5s, but Alesiter prevented their development, directly ordering it or falsifying reports or the like, for personal reason (his plan).