Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20150501024240/@comment-226878-20151101194259

From a certain perspective... it depends on how you interpret the process. Certain psychoauxiliary abilities can be interchangeable if you're intelligent enough to isolate and manipulate the ways in which they are related.

A certain level of ignorance has already been demonstrated here by saying telekinesis could not translate to any other kineses. There's no inherent relation that makes it easier for psychics to manipulate fire or water, it's simply an expertise. Fire is the result of combustion in molecules caused by friction. It, air, and electricity would technically be the easiest things to manipulate (though probably not controlled). Water would be the first stage in manipulating something tangible, but would be just as difficult to wield effective control over.

Telepathy may not require movement, but it can hardly be claimed to be "vastly different" from telekinesis if a strong enough mind were wielding it. I've already cited examples of how tk could accomplish the same feats as telepathic manipulation. I'll grant that ttk would not equal the scope of communication availed of telepathy, implanting as well as receiving thought engrams from the target mind, but for control purposes, it could still work.