Technocracy: Iteration X

See also: Convention Book: Iteration X (Revised edition)

Technocracy: Iteration X is the Mage: The Ascension First Edition sourcebook for the Iteration X Convention.

Summary[]

From the White Wolf catalog:

The Machine is Perfection

Free will is a danger. Hope is an illusion. Flesh is weak. Only through the Machine can humanity rise above its inevitable destruction. Iteration X understands this. Anyone who does not must be convinced.

We are the Machine

From the dark reaches of Autochthonia to the cybernetic fantasies of Hollywood, Iteration X marches into the future with a vision of clockwork perfection. Feared and shunned, this Convention knows that when the time is right, all will understand. This Technocracy sourcebook gives the Machine's-eye view of Ascension. And the Machine is never wrong.

Technocracy: Iteration X includes:

• The history, world-view, goals and tactics of the Convention.
• An order of battle detailing the stormtroopers of the Pogrom.
• An Iteration X production facility for Mage Storytellers.

Contents[]

Demo: 1110010100[]

Drive A: Hardcopy[]

Disk One: Initialized[]

Disk Two: Clockwork Convention[]

Drive B: Systems[]

Drive Three: Essential Data[]

• Common Effects
  • Correspondence Effects
    • Targeting Computation
  • Entropy Effects
    • Organize
    • Statistical Mechanics
  • Forces Effects
    • Audio Tap
    • Remote Programming
    • Antinoise
  • Matter Effects
    • Smelt Primium
  • Mind Effects
    • Positronic Brian
    • Social Science
  • Prime Effects
    • Recharge Device
  • Time Effects
    • Rigid Schedule
    • Planned Projection
• Spells
  • Time-Motion Study ( Correspondence, Time)
  • Unleash Nanotech Destruction ( Correspondence, Entropy)
  • Emit Beam-ray ( Forces, Prime)
  • Perpetual Motion ( Forces, Prime)
  • Craft Biomechanism ( Matter, Prime)
  • Attach Biomechanism ( Matter, Life, Prime)
  • Machine God ( Mind, Matter, Forces)
• Devices: Technocractic Talismans
  • Microtools A: 2, Quin: 10 [Cost 6]
  • Iteration MP-0 "Penetrator" A: 3, Quin: 15 [Cost 11]
  • Stealth Suit A: 4, Quin: 20 [Cost 17]
  • Net Gear A: 5, Quin: 25 [Cost 17]
  • Exoskeleton A: 6, Quin: 30 [Cost 22]
    • Biomechanisms
      • Digital Enhancement Implant (DEI) A: 2, Quin: 10 [Cost 6; Enhancements and Inserts cost 1 per dot]
      • Sensor Organ A: 2, Quin: 10 [Cost 6]
      • Electropulse Hand A: 3, Quin: 15 [Cost 11]
      • Iron Lung A: 3, Quin: 15 [Cost 10]
      • Cardio-Muscular Assemblage A: 4, Quin: 20 [Cost 14]
      • Hypersynaptic Reaction System A: 4, Quin: 20 [Cost 14]
      • Kinetic Legs A: 5, Quin: 25 [Cost 17]
      • Pneumatic Arm A: 5, Quin: 25 [Cost 17]
      • Firearm A: 6, Quin: 30 [Cost 22]
      • Primium Plating A: 6, Quin: 30 [Cost 23]
• Ascension Warriors
  • Typical Technocrats
  • Kamrad, Rank-and-File - Stats
  • Kamrad, Elite - Stats
  • Cipher - Stats
  • Armature - Stats
  • Programmer - Stats
  • Comptroller - Stats
• Machines
  • ARCs (Advanced Rotor-Craft)
  • Automated Vehicle
  • Cyber-tooth Tiger
  • Hyper Intelligence Technologies

Mark I - Stats

• • • Mark II - Stats
    • Mark III - Stats
    • Mark IV - Stats

Mark V - Stats

• • • Mark VI or NT-1 (Nanotech Assemblage) - Stats
  • Roving Recorders

Drive Four: Construct of Iteration X[]

• Cyberfascists - Stats
• Maintenance Robots - Stats

• Suggested Immersion
  • Harlan Ellison's Knox, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream and Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman from The Essential Ellison (Morpheus International, 1993)
  • Noem Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent and the documentary Manufacturing Consent: Noem Chomsky and the Media (1992)
  • Neil Postman's Technopoly
  • THX-1138
  • Other useful sources:
    • Both Terminator movies, Robocop I and II (ignore III) and Hardware
    • Daniel Burrus's Technotrends (1993)
    • Sun Tzu's Art of War, The Analects of Confucius and Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching
    • Aldous Huxley's Brave New World

Background Information[]

• Technocracy: Iteration X was later included in the Technocracy Assembled 1 omnibus.
• Chris Hind dedicates the book to Harlan Ellison.
• There are two codes in the book as Computer Binary in the Demo: 1110010100 chapter:
  • Pg. 6: SHOCKCORP DETECTED.ONEHITMARKOVERLOAD (The rest is hard to make out)
  • Pg.s 6 and 7: CANCEL"INSERT.COM"; LOAD"X:ASSAULT.COM", R.TARGET$="VANA (The rest is hard to make out)
• There is a backwards message on the Euthanatos section:
  • Pg. 36: Your threats are useless. If you let me live, my mere presence will disrupt your ordered-well Construct. If you kill me, you will uphold the Reincarnation Manifesto. I'll eventually return, more powerful than before. In the meantime, the Reincarnation Men will contact my spirit and learn all your secrets. You can't hold back the tide of oblivion. You too will eventually experience death. Not a good death, but death none-the-less. And when you do, I'll be waiting for you on the other side...

Memorable Quotes[]

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Characters[]

• Demo: 1110010100
  • Van Baas - Son of Ether Mage, Deacon of Graylock Chantry
  • Harlequin - Son of Ether Mage
  • Donovan - Son of Ether Mage
  • Wells - Son of Ether Mage
  • Paul - William's Cousin
  • Garth - William's Cousin
• Disk One: Initialized
  • Lao Tzu - Historical Figure, AES
  • Daedalus - Historical Figure, AES
  • Roger Bacon - Historical Figure, AES
  • Jules Verne - Historical Figure, AES
  • Sun Tzu - Historical Figure, AES
  • Confucius - Historical Figure
  • Ssu-ma Fa - Historical Figure
  • Wu-tzu - Historical Figure
  • Wei Liao-tzu - Historical Figure
  • Mo Di - Historical Figure
  • Huang Shih-kung - Historical Figure
  • Thales of Miletus - Historical Figure
  • Pythagoras - Historical Figure, Artificer
  • Plato - Historical Figure
  • Aristotle - Historical Figure
  • Archimedes - Historical Figure
  • Algoritmi - Historical Figure, AES
  • Ismaeel al-Jazari - Historical Figure
  • Gilbert of Aurillae - Historical Figure, Artificer
  • Marco Polo - Historical Figure
  • Copernicus - Historical Figure
  • Brunelleschi - Historical Figure
  • Ghiberti - Historical Figure
  • Alberti - Historical Figure
  • Benvenuto Cellini - Historical Figure
  • Albrecht Durer - Historical Figure
  • Leonardo da Vinci - Historical Figure
  • Johannes Kelper - Historical Figure
  • Newton - Historical Figure
  • Charles Babbage - Historical Figure, Son of Ether
  • The Computer
  • Henry Ford - Historical Figure
• Disk Two: Clockwork Convention
  • Ambroise Paré - Progenitor-turned-Artificer, founder of the BioMechanics
  • Matriarch
  • J. Williams - Former Chorus Mage
  • RAMses - Virtual Adept Master
• Drive Three: Essential Data
  • Forge - Time-Motion Manager, Iteration X, 19th century
  • Faustmann - Mage, 16th century
• Drive Four: Construct of Iteration X
  • Decillion - a Statistician Comptroller
    • Erastus Corning - Kamrad
  • Beriah Zimmermann - a member of the BioMechanics Methodology
  • Tecson - a Time-Motion Manager with vulgar cybernetics
  • William Arthur Smith - (1110010100) Iteration X, a Time-Motion Manager with missing memories
    • Amanda Smith - William's Mother

Terminology[]

Lexicon: Amalgam, Apparatus, Armature, Artificers, Assay, Big Machine, BioMechanics, Biomchanics, Biomechanisms, Cipher, Comptroller, Construct, Convention, DEI (Digital Enhancement Implant), Device, Digital Web, Iterator, Kamrad, Methodology, Mundane, Programmer, Statisticians, The Masses, Time-Motion Managers; 1523 B.C., 1356, 1400, 1453, 1837, 1900, 1974, 1953, 1984, 1993, Acme Pyrotechnic Institute (Iteration X Construct), AdmIn (Administration of Information, NWO), AES (Advanced Expert System), Amalgam Prime, ARCs (Advanced Rotor Craft), artes liberales, artes mechanicae, Autochthonia, Children of Gaia, ComLog (Committee of Logic, NWO), C.O.R.E. Amalgam (Acme P.I.), Deciphering, Detroit, Digital Imaging Chamber, Digital Web, Duplex Assembly/Recycling (Iteration X Node, Detroit), EAC (Electronic Analog Controller), Grayrock Chantry (Sons of Ether, Albany, New York), Great Symposium, HIT Mark, Horizon Realm, Kindred, MECHA, Michigan, Mount Graylock, Mythic Age, Paradigma, Paradox, Pogrom, prima materia, Primium, Pupils of Parmenides, Resurrection Men (Euthanatos/Dreamspeaker Cabal based in Windsor, Ontario), San Francisco, Shock Corps, Spy's Demise, Static Land (Realm), Theurge, Vampires, Werewolves,

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