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[glamourweaver]

In my interpretation of events the facility and everyone inside vanished into the momentary singularity....

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Because Communist theory doesn’t ideologically rely on radical nativism, the demonization of perceived foreign “the Other”, Social Darwinist supremacism within the state, and a cult of action which rejects thought as weakness. Marxist regimes often do, but if we’re talking about viewpoints on the theory, that’s a difference. Fascism is inseparable from ethno-nationalism.

Now Marxist Regimes have been murderous totalitarian hellscapes to be sure (and i’d point out in actual Marxist theory, the whole concept of a “Marxist state” is an oxymoron), but Marxism also heavily...

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The fascism comparison was clumsy for the reason you say, but I agree with muon’s point that to the general public, former Nova-support institutions would be seen as collaborators who brought this down on the world.

Project Proteus going public to take out novas with Medusa Protocols though is probably why it was accepted enough to survive as part of the Aeon Trinity....

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I thought through some of the political ramifications of this at one point. The market crash gets blamed solely on N-Day panic rather than the Bush Administration, McCain hammers defense defense defense to an increasingly nervous public, while Obama’s lofty optimistic rhetoric is less comforting, and McCain wins the Presidency - while Obama is still a huge international celebrity (some of you may not remember the scale of his global popularity in 2008, but it was insane) and gets tapped by the UN to head Project Utopia, which he leaves the Senate to do.

I think I had McCain die...

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I need to reread 1602 one of these days....

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Vitakinesis and Electrokinesis as her primary focusing on Noetic research. For modern day TC i’d go Psi 5, for Aberrant i’d go Psi 6.

No Favored Aptitude or Strong Mode. She gets those in Quantakinesis and Fundamentals in 2104.

Dots in all Aptitudes (except Quant) but not necessarily all Modes. She’s got all Psychokinesis Modes at 3, but relatively little Telepathy for example....

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I hope the Chiron Group gets mentioned as a Conspiracy.

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And my point was that if the Doyen are examples of Tier 4 Psychomorphs, then based on what we’ve seen of Tier 4 Eximorphs, the implication would be that achieving Tier 4 means shedding anything recognizable as human, and becoming something alien like pure thought and plasma, or an alien god-monster....

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That’s why I said “or equivalent”....

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They’re very nice in my experience and have held up (much better than the PoD versions)....

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All Slavic myth sources are dubious. Using it all means accepting you’re going to be using some amount of early-modern nationalist fan-fiction...

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Are Doyen Tier 4 psychomorphs, the way Aeon-era Terats are Tier 4 eximorphs (implying achieving Tier 4 involves shedding anything recognizable as humanity [or equivalent])?

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You can go up to 5 in one specific Mode at Psi 6 with the Strong Mode Edge....

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Is the intent that Nihjon Superiors(who aren’t intelligence agents) and most Psiads will use custom Society paths?

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I’m inclined to tweak things the same way, but wanted to confirm RAW before I started messing with anything....

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True and that’s why I referenced narrow exceptions earlier, but that’s also non-diegetic. The Nova (or Superior with Tactics) isn’t reality editing, they just planned ahead really really well as they now reveal and that’s the best way the rules have to simulate it (of course Talents can use Dramatic Editing the same way, but diegetically they also are bending probability in their favor)....

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Those are Origin Paths...

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So I guess Nihjon Superiors who aren’t intelligence Agents need custom Society Paths?

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Well they also had access to the same Dramatic Editing in 1e Adventure!. Talents being exclusive Dramatic Editors (outside from very narrow cases) does a lot to level them with other Tier 2 character types....

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Might be cool to see some new Gifts, but the system they run on needs no changing or reprinting....