* MagicVersusScience: The Technocracy has "technology": Spaceships, cybernetics, genetic engineering, and a lot of other stuff that looks like science fiction. Most of their enemies do "magic": They keep genies in rings, summon storms by chanting prayers, and do other things that look like fantasy. Ultimately subverted, as mages will tell you that the the Technocracy still uses ''magic'', it's just that their magic has been accepted as common knowledge, and the Technocrats will tell you that "magic" is just wildly-applied para-science created by people who don't understand the forces they touch. In the World Of Darkness, the metaphysics underlying magic and science are ''exactly the same'', and both "science" and "magic" are pretty inaccurate terms to describe the primal energy that shapes reality. This is why (prior to [[BrokenBase Third Edition]]) the books used the word ''[[InsistentTerminology magick]],'' which they defined at "altering reality through force of will." When they dropped the "k" at the end, [[InternetBackdraft well...]]

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