A powerful group of mages who advance magick based on scientific principles. They currently have the strongest influence on the Consensus. They seek to eliminate mages who oppose their plans.
Formal Name: Technocratic Union
Member groups are called Conventions.
Technocracy Terms
Technocracy Secret Societies
East Asian Technocracy
Methodologies that serve the whole Technocracy and do not belong to a Convention:
Started in the 1800s when the Order of Reason was reformed. Early groups of the Order of Reason: Craftmasons, Parmenideans - key to understanding consensual reality & coincidental magick, also paradigms.
In 1851 the Order of Reason became the Technocratic Union at the Great Exhibition in London. Pg. 26 Convention Book N.W.O. Revised
Technocrats live by the Precepts of Damian. Named after the Technocrat that wrote them. One place these are detailed is pg. 168 of Mage20 core.
The Horizon Realm Constructs allows the Technocracy to quickly advance its science/technology
Symposia exist in large Constructs and major cities on Earth. Symposia members give orders to Amalgams on the front lines.
Construct Null-B fell to Marauders - pg. 19 Guide to the Technocracy. Null-B was probably named after World of Null-A by A. E. Van Vogt.
The White Tower of Languedoc was destroyed in 1745 by the Traditions
pg. 46 of Guide to the Technocracy “Remember, too, that though most agents can use just about any Technocratic Procedure, most operatives have particularly favored skills.” Sorcerers Crusade pg. 46 “They begin to weave a single system of magick and a paradigm to go with it,…”. The Technocracy is all one paradigm.
Psionics is used as a concept in many published Mage books when talking about Technocratic Sphere effects. It’s a way to let technomages do effects that can’t be explained (or easily explained) by high-tech/science. It’s an example of being flexible with the high-tech/super science paradigm.
Pg. 13 Infinite Tapestry - Control, no longer living on Earth, may have spent too much time in the Umbra and become spirits. That’s why they remain distant.
In First Edition, the Time Table is a schedule for releasing specific technologies and scientific knowledge to Sleeper society. Pg. 33 of Convention Book N.W.O. Revised changes that. It becomes a list of goals to accomplish for controlling Sleeper society.
In Stewart Weick’s original view of the Technocracy, it’s reasonable to assume Technocrats want willworking (true magick) to become orderly & predictable along with the universe. They work to limit their own powers in pursuit of this goal. They are unhappy when they have to break their own rules to deal with an immediate problem. Technocracy leadership see this as a noble sacrifice of their power for the common good.
The Mage writers overreacted to the “faceless monolith” of early 1st Edition that they so disliked. It became a fragile coalition of 5 Conventions. Each with its own goals, worldview, etc. Such an arrangement can’t hold together for long. Also, Mage writers focus on the personalities of the Conventions so much they forget the Technocracy is an organized group.
“It is the great peril of our society that all its mechanisms may grow more fixed while its spirit grows more fickle.” GK Chesterton