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Re:magic in space?
« Reply #30 on: October 18, 2006, 03:44:11 PM »

Yes, but Luna is closer.

Radiation has some strange effect on the Astral. Presumably the background count of the sun would be off the scale due to the radiation.

When Ares dumped FAB III into Bug City, the FAB started to feed on the background count generated by the radiation. While the Sun may be the source of all life, I can only presume that it needs to be processed before it becomes "flavored" to our liking. The mana generated by the sun would be incredibly powerful.

In a symbolic way, however, I can see where the Sun may be "flavored" to our liking, however...
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Re:magic in space?
« Reply #31 on: October 20, 2006, 12:57:50 PM »

With magic, EVERYTHING is symbolism. It's what makes ritual casting (and I'm talking the initiation version whose name I forget at the moment) possible at all. It's also what makes background count such a cnosideration. Sure Auschtwitz (sp) has a massive BC becasue of the suffering there, but so does the Vatican, and for a totally different reason. The Vatican has a BC of 4/5 because people beleive in the Church there, and that symbolic belief in a diety/ideology/religion fuels the astral in the area. So in a very real sense, if you get enought people believing, and I mean REALLY believing, in an idea/concept/symbol, then that belief is tuyrned into power.

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Re:magic in space?
« Reply #32 on: October 20, 2006, 04:39:26 PM »

I've heard Salt Lake City described that way- in fact, all the megacorps have headquarters there, because they get almost free magica security.

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