Reflavoring magic to psionics

[Neongelion]

I know right off the bat I'm not using Starfinder's default setting. I'm curious if it will still be playable for a setting where there are no magic, but psionics is a thing. The setting would be less Star Wars, more Starcraft or Firefly but I still like the sound of classes like the Mystic and Solarian so I'd keep them.

So how would I flavor stuff like the technomancer in a setting with no magic? What would be a cool name for a psionic hacker/techie? I have some ideas but I wanted to hear what others thought (and I'm typing this on a cumbersome iPad).

[CoeusFreeze]

The Psionic Technomancer could be called a Decker, similar to shadowrun. Alternatively, you could use the Cryptic or Psion classes.

[Jamie Charlan]

Many systems especially sci-fi tend to have psionics instead of magic. Part of that is the perception that it's a "sci-fi" thing, even though the roots of psionic systems are in ancient epics like the Mahabharata; affecting the universe with your will is basically walking - depending on the mythology - towards apotheosis, or enlightenment.

While Shadowrun's magic is MECHANICALLY much closer to D&D psionics than it is to vancian casting (drain aside, it's an entirely mental exercise to manipulate the local manasphere) You'll find psionics in various forms in various other systems, from Traveller to Warhammer 40k.

[DaveFrahm]

I'd imagine something like swapping components to Thought/Emotion (a la Occult Adventures) and maybe stealing some stuff from that book would be a good way to do some of that.

[Jamie Charlan]

It'll still be the same mess as long as it stays vancian. Changing the casting components can't really save it there.