In Mage: The Ascension, the Technocratic Union (or Technocracy) is a world- wide conspiracy that employs a technological paradigm to pursue an agenda. A friend, recently, asked me how I run Technocrat games since I have a very cynical view of the Union. I tell him that I treat the Union higher-ups. Guide to the Technocracy (Mage: The Ascension) [Phil Brucato] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. We are the greatest scientific minds of.

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Of the different groups, only the Nephandi can be said to be singularly “evil”, and even that is not always a good fit.

They also have fought the Technocracy and won, and they make their lands acceptive of Paradox. The Traditions and the Technocracy hate te other, but since they ultimately both want humanity to “ascend,” no matter how sharply they technnocracy on what that means, their hearts are both in the right-ish place, and they both regularly declare truces and cooperate to fight Nephandi, Marauders, and regular-old human evils like child pornographers. Tend to be pretty fun, but Hermetics also tend to explode into giblets due to Paradox pretty easily if they stick to tradition, and the politics of the Order demands that they do.

Lets say the technocracy wants to release FTL drives. In practice, this conflict is a cold warand the Technocracy has had far more success in proving to the Masses that supernatural beings do not exist rather than eliminating them. This is what happens when an Abyssal Exalted ends up in H.

Ascnsion, so like, all the different Africans, Pacific Islanders, and Native Americans get lumped together because they’re all “primitive? Nowadays, the Technocracy is basically a hybrid of a boring government agency and a greedy, money-grubbing business, less actively malicious than sullenly satisfied with the status quo and opposed to change for reasons of sheer inertia.

Or Newton with gravity. While having your character be a member of a Tradition discussed below helps with figuring a lot of this out, you more often end up with people tossing aside interesting characters to just play easy-to-make Neo-Pagans. Unfortunately, it’s not very well-designed.

Physicist Bukrhard Heim proposed a theory in that FTL travel may be possible by using magnetic fields to enter higher-dimensional space. How do they do that, and how do they get sleeper scientists to “confirm” it is true?

I think the Union has a healthy fan base among people that do not, necessarily, play or enjoy Mage as a game – they are a vocal presence in online discussion of Mage because it gives them a platform to drop into threads and comment that they could not “get into” Mage or “take it seriously” because of a perceived anti-Science agenda.

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They just believe so technocfacy that what they’re doing makes sense according to principles that make sense to them.

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Unsurprisingly, many of the Nephandi were Naziswhich was expected of White Wolf. The menagerie of spirits from Werewolf start causing metaphorical, spiritual rot to become very-literal structural rot, destroying countless pollution-spewing factories and the like.

The VE labs will perform tests first with Enlightened scientists, then Extraordinary Citizens, then Un-Enlightened citizens loyal to the Technocracy, and then to the educated masses. It lets the user tear open the Gauntlet, the protective Saran-wrapping around reality created by the Technocracy’s consensus, and slip outside of the universe.

They can even create a small universe by gathering pure Quintessence, and essentially becoming the god of that universe. On the other, other hand, they are the single most likely mage-group to get a multi-faction party together to get shit done and pull awesomely pragmatic feats like frying a sub-continent darkening vampire Antediluvian by using orbital mirrors to reflect and concentrate light from the other side of the world.

If it was a pre-existing fact of the universe, then one need only discover it. Both gather their forces for a massive battle in Australia, where there is some protection from the Avatar Storm, but a message comes to the PCs: It is the primary villainous organization of the game. On the one hand, you have the old guard of master craftsmen and inventors, the cool ones. In the 20th Anniversary edition, the Sons got officially renamed to the more P. A paradigm is not only a belief system but also delves into your character’s backstory and psyche – you have to craft an entire, logical reason for your character to be able to do magic.

You have to remember that most Paradigms, including the Technocratic Paradigm, operate under a kind of chicken and egg dilemma.

Considering the measurement issues here is a great way to procrastinate on considering the measurement issues in the paper I should be writing, so let’s look at a few versions. Yes i know about the incremental thing, but it ascenskon doesnt explain how they get sleeper scientists to replicate their results. This is a question specifically, mine about how Mage players feel about the Traditions and Technocracy. How do Technocrats get sleeper scientists to buy off on ascenslon like that?

All of them are awesome in their own ways, and most factions are particularly good with at least one of them. Spheres provide rough outlines of the areas they govern, and how many dots are required to do certain things within them.

[Mage] How exactly can the technocracy manipulate the consensus? : WhiteWolfRPG

The difficulty often begins right at character generation, since newly Awakened mages are almost always incapable of grasping their capacity to bend reality. Even the nuclear forces at high levels. Back in ye olden days, otherwise known as the Mage: Now they seek to rebuild their power techocracy the great tradition of “China takes ascensuon the world”. If something fails to be accepted as part of the Consensus after all of the painstaking redaction, tailoring, and predictive statistical and psychological analyses ascensioon to ensure it will be accepted before publication, then the Technocracy likely dials back, reassesses what went wrong, and finds a new approach or a shift in approach to show how this new group of scientists were able to replicate the first study’s results.



The Masquerade immigrants, but there were always some good bits thrown in too. This is a good example – but it’s important to note that the earlier experiments are what makes it possible in the first place.

You need a lot of effort and time,or a huge spark of change to even slightly affect the tide of consensus. Huge colliders that allow to “reverse the flow of time” inside a particle. So you could briefly have a gun dealing X2 damage to vampires or make computers that don’t need power or an internet connection to function. At what point do you need an awakened avatar to do something? Disruption keeps them from doing this until the situation is laid bare before the heroes, and some drama with the Rogue Council having the Tenth Seat takes place, but eventually, Technocratic hit-men warp in and start killing everyone, even calling in mundane police and Riot cops for backup, as the Tenth Seat gets stolen by a group of people trying to fix the world, who then grab the party.

In the meanwhile, lots of Technocrats collaborated with Traditions or went against procedure, and now they’re being cracked down on for it. The moment an “awakened” Mage tries to throw a fireball in front of a “sleeper” an average personbad things happen. They can only do things that they’ve always done–stomp on Reality Deviants including Technocrats who try to leak amazing new Inspired science to Popular Mechanicstinker in their sterile labs, and play politics.

This is ascesnion accomplished through intellectual sniping in underground scholarly journals, and sometimes through actual sniping via lightning guns and disintegration beams.