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Mage: the Ascension
Technocracy: Iteration X
The Machine is Perfection. Free will is a danger. Hope is an illusion. Flesh is weak. Only through the Machine can humanity rise above its inevitable destruction.
Iteration X understands this. Anyone who does not must be convinced. We are the Machine From the dark reaches of Autocthonia to the cybernetic fantasies of Hollywood, Iteration X marches into the future with a vision of clockwork perfection.
Feared and shunned, this Convention knows that when the time is right, all will understand. This Technocracy sourcebook gives the Machine's-eye view of Ascension.
And the Machine is never wrong.
Technocracy: Iteration X includes:
*The history, world-view, goals and tactics of the Convention.
*An order of battle detailing the stormtroopers of the Pogrom.
*An Iteration X production facility for Mage Storytellers.
Iteration X understands this. Anyone who does not must be convinced. We are the Machine From the dark reaches of Autocthonia to the cybernetic fantasies of Hollywood, Iteration X marches into the future with a vision of clockwork perfection.
Feared and shunned, this Convention knows that when the time is right, all will understand. This Technocracy sourcebook gives the Machine's-eye view of Ascension.
And the Machine is never wrong.
Technocracy: Iteration X includes:
*The history, world-view, goals and tactics of the Convention.
*An order of battle detailing the stormtroopers of the Pogrom.
*An Iteration X production facility for Mage Storytellers.
72 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1993
About the author
Chris Hind
13 books2 followersChris Hind is a writer originally from Toronto. He began his career freelancing for pen and paper roleplaying games, including Land of Giants: Scandinavia & the Beowulf Saga in the Time of King Arthur. While working in the video game industry, he continued to research Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian legends. In late 2024, his wife suggested he transform his research into fictional that humanizes the legends while grounding them in history and archeology. Finn's Legacy is the first in his Hengest Cycle. He lives in the Seattle area with his wife, Julianna, and their dogs, Fay and Ares.
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June 28, 2019
This is a difficult book to review for me. On the one hand, I hate it. On the either, it is a well written book that is just part of first edition where the Technocracy is an irredeemable villain rather than a potentially valid antagonist.
It is told from the point of view of a recent recruit, who was given advanced prosthetics that were necessary due to thalidomide. He breaks conditioning for long enough to describe how terrible Iteration X is, and it's bad down to explicit comparisons with Nazis. The book gives a general overview including introducing the Artificers who are prominent when Sorcerer 's crusade is written. They effects and wonders are some of the most interesting parts of the book, along with the running theme that the Dreamspeakers are the biggest rival of the Convention, due to being the two oldest groups focusing on the spirit world and on tool use. It also introduced the Computer explicitly as a spirit that has some goal in Reality and is using Iteration X to achieve it.
Overall a solid book, but not great in many places if you prefer a sympathetic Technocracy.
It is told from the point of view of a recent recruit, who was given advanced prosthetics that were necessary due to thalidomide. He breaks conditioning for long enough to describe how terrible Iteration X is, and it's bad down to explicit comparisons with Nazis. The book gives a general overview including introducing the Artificers who are prominent when Sorcerer 's crusade is written. They effects and wonders are some of the most interesting parts of the book, along with the running theme that the Dreamspeakers are the biggest rival of the Convention, due to being the two oldest groups focusing on the spirit world and on tool use. It also introduced the Computer explicitly as a spirit that has some goal in Reality and is using Iteration X to achieve it.
Overall a solid book, but not great in many places if you prefer a sympathetic Technocracy.
February 5, 2014
Welcome to the machine... These guys are the Terminators of thr technos, but they are also an inspiration for the perfect reason they struve for. A very good Convention book.
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