Affinity Sphere: Matter & Forces - Mage20: Forces, Matter, or Time
Old Name: Artificers
Headquarters is Horizon realm called Autocthonia. Orbits opposite Earth. Very large and still being explored. Void Engineers discovered Autocthonia.
Ranks
Prole - unAwakened employee
Cipher - Apprentice (mage in training)
Armature - Disciple
Programmer - low-level leader or specialist
Comptroller - leader (more than one)
NOTE: Those in Autochthonia have higher status.
NOTE: Revised Edition doesn’t list Cipher & Programmer
Terms
In first 2 editions, Iterators could not study Spirit Sphere (Dimensional Science) Pg. 79 Book of Madness Revised states Iterators can now study Spirit Sphere. Iteration X Revised backs this up. Mage20 states Iterators can study Spirit but rarely do.
IDEA: Iteration X thinks it’s inevitable that AI systems will take more and more control of things vital to society. Automobile traffic, space ship & space station maneuvering & responses to trouble, financial markets. AI systems will take over because they can make decisions and respond to trouble so much faster than humans. This is The Computer's “in”. When AI systems control more of society’s necessary functions, The Computer can influence those AI systems and take more power.