The Technocracy is however the closest faction to the views of most people on this board, both politically and aesthetically. They represent, in general, liberal materialism transhumanism etc. That's a very comforting aesthetic for people on a science fiction web board, which tends to skew politically liberal. You have to wave at the fact that the technocracy is you know, a fucking vanguard party, but people that's not exactly too difficult to wave at.
I don't care about any of these things, I am deeply religious, humanistic and... Well I
am liberal (actually centrist, but my country's centrist parties suck so I end up voting far-left
), I think the Technocracy makes for interesting character conflicts and does in fact challenge my beliefs; now obviously most people here do not meet those parameters.
Regardless, I don't think it's important to call attention to the fact that it's a vanguard party, disregarding how I think this sort of labeling is trite; that the Union does shady things is something we can all agree on, I think; that the Union is not the designated good guys, I think we can all agree too.
I don't know how it is in your mage game, but in mine, when I've played a traditionalist the Technocracy is trying to kill me. What do you expect the traditions to do in the face of a group who is willing to send cyborgs to assassinate them? Civil disobedience?
I think this again demonstrates my point about the different stories we buy into, I mostly play Revised where the war is over and the sides are just doing their best to survive and get by, where the Technocratic Construct on the other avenue over there is pretty likely to just leave you alone unless you start doing stupid shit, indeed your Virtual Adept probably plays poker with their Enforcer every other tuesday and they jokingly talk about "converting each other", and the Construct is actually much more interested in getting funding so sometimes you do a few runs for them and in return, they pretend you don't actually run around throwing fireballs and certainly it would be a shame if such reports suffered a computer failure that might prevent them from reaching the Director.
(I mostly run Traditions, it should be mentioned.
)
Whereas your world is not at all like that, and that's understandable; you don't like Revised, so you prefer one where the war is very much going on and showing your face on the wrong cameras can be a death sentence, and that's cool too, I did that a few times and I loved it; games where you have to watch out or blac-clad cyborgs will come to get you are cool too.
(In fact, I'm going to be running one soon; wish me luck.)
Eh. I don't think it's particularly unlikely, even if it's a bit weird. The belief that all beliefs in god are actually the product of one thing is long standing, and it's not particularly difficult to see all the religious mages working together, despite their differences, against the greater threat of HITMARKS IN THE ROOM RIGHT NOW!
Yes but that's not my issue with them. My issue is that they
don't belong to any denomiations, they're just universalist monotheists rather than say, the successors of the Chæur Celeste who work along with Sufi muslims and Krishanists, who sometimes argue with the Gnostics over there in the corner who totally claim they're older than those damn Cathars and they all think the Mithraists are
fucking weird and no one really wants to talk with them. And yes, there are some ideas that all roads to the top of the mountain are one, but really are you going to be the one to trust the dude who claims his God sprang from a bull when you're
preeetty sure that God created this mortal illusion and your gnosis lets you see through the lies?
Regardless, I think we can have civil discourse and forget the whole discussion on whether the Union is good or evil, yes? We seem very much both to be in agreement that the Union is
not nice.
