Are astral constructs thwarted by Prot. Evil?

[Pielorinho]

Can they perform other roles? For example, form a line of defense around the psion, throw things at them, collapse buildings, etc? Can anyone dispel the protections? Can anyone TK a PC into smacking into a construct, thereby removing the protection vs. that one construct? (Okay, that last one's a little cheesy). Or could you just do a literal rules-reading on them?

Daniel

 

[Saeviomagy]

Fundamentally, I think that unless you want to rewrite the entire magic system, you have to use magic/psionics transparency.

Which means that a given psionic power has to work the same as it's arcane or divine analogue unless there's a specific clause that states otherwise.

In this case, it's clear that summon monster and astral construct are analogues of each other, therefore spells like protection from evil work on astral constructs.