So I can see why Traditions don’t collect massive resources or infrastructure on the Material world but It’s different for the Techies. They have the organization and internal structure to pool massive resources so besides the need to cover up things when the rest of humanity advances what stops them from building massive deep underground structures larger then cities and secret transportation infrastructure. With basic automation and the ability to transmute matter and bring forth substance ex nihilos why would they not have insanely large amounts of well everything, to some extent the books already assume they do do this with their superior resources and satellites but they also go a long way to make it appear like it comes from dipping into mortal resources.
And in the same department what stops techies from winning Consensus by cultivating massive populations of sleepers controlled and indoctrinated into a culture they fabricated. So hundreds of millions of sleepers in secret nations below the crust? This goes easily into the billions if include methods like cloning and Umbral Constructs but those were not as reliable and I consider them more part of the other world then the material and material consensus. Perhaps a large portion of the spirit worlds metaphysical inertia has even come from lost Mage settlements over the millennia.
And in the same department what stops techies from winning Consensus by cultivating massive populations of sleepers controlled and indoctrinated into a culture they fabricated. So hundreds of millions of sleepers in secret nations below the crust? This goes easily into the billions if include methods like cloning and Umbral Constructs but those were not as reliable and I consider them more part of the other world then the material and material consensus. Perhaps a large portion of the spirit worlds metaphysical inertia has even come from lost Mage settlements over the millennia.
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