Created by Onyx Path Publishing - Technocracy Reloaded
Order a Deluxe Edition of Technocracy Reloaded, a supplement for Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Stretch Goals! More Art! New Scenario!
almost 4 years ago
– Thu, May 14, 2020 at 02:10:00 PM
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/Tabulate Stretch Goal Achievements
/Release Subsequent Targets
Hello Agents & Operatives,
Well, the back half of this campaign is certainly continuing the success we saw in the first half! We've hit another Stretch Goal!
ACHIEVED! - At $148,000 in funding - Technocracy Reloaded Player’s Companion: Mission Statements —Additional short scenarios for use in your Technocracy Reloaded chronicle will be created for this PDF supplement.
Our achieved Stretch Goal, just previous to this one, was to add the Art of Mage: 20 Years and More PDF as a reward to all backers receiving the Technocracy Reloaded PDF as part of their reward tier. Thinking about some of the awesome art that's come from the Mage line over the past two decades makes me want MORE! And that's the thought behind our next Stretch Goal!
At $152,000 in funding - Art Budget Increase: Additional funds will be allocated to the art budget for Technocracy Reloaded, allowing Onyx Path to include even more awesome art in this sourcebook.
When we unlock that Stretch Goal, we'll also be able to add another slot to the IVORY TOWER SCHOLAR premium reward tier, giving another backer an opportunity to be a model for an interior illustration in our of the Mage projects we've unleashed. The additional spot will be added at Noon Eastern US Time the day following this Stretch Goal achievement, so if you've been hoping to get that premium tier, be ready.
And speaking of unleashed Mage projects, let's start building another...
At $155,000 in funding - Technocracy Reloaded Jumpstart, Phase One —Help us fund another supplement, featuring an introductory scenario that will launch your chronicle and get you started with the Technocratic Union. All backers receiving the Technocracy Reloaded PDF will automatically have the Jumpstart Scenario PDF added to their rewards list.
Keep working your magick, backers! And let's see if we can't add some additional art and another new project to our list of Stretch Goal achievements before the end!
#TechnocracyReloaded
#OneWorld.OneTruth.SixteenStretchGoals
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/maintain social distancing parameters
/stay safe
/be well
/persevere
Fifteen Days + Fifteen Stretch Goals.
almost 4 years ago
– Wed, May 13, 2020 at 09:55:07 AM
/initiate Concierge Protocol
/Chronograph Protocol
/Examine Additional Reward Quantity
Hello Agents & Operatives,
Personally, I've lost a lot of my normal time markers over the past few months. Any semblance of a regular schedule has gone out the window, and established routines have become pretty fluid.
I mean, I've been wearing these sunglasses non-stop, even at night! Who am I, Canadian treasure Corey Hart?!
Which makes it surprising when I realize we are at the halfway point in our campaign timeline!
FIFTEEN DAYS
That's right - we're through our first 15 days, and have 15 days left to go. This is typically right in the middle of the mid-campaign plateau, where things are a little slower and have quieted down a bit before picking up steam again in the final days. BUT NOT THIS CAMPAIGN! We've been rocking since Day 1, and had another awesome day yesterday.
In fact, just this morning, we unlocked our 15th Stretch Goal Achievement!
FIFTEEN GOALS
In the first half of our campaign, we've unlocked a whopping 15 Stretch Goals, ranging from additional reward options, additional celebratory rewards, and new content in the form of a Player's Companion!
Checkin' in on our 15 Stretch Goals!
PLAYER'S COMPANION
The Technocracy Reloaded Player's Companion PDF will be added to all reward tiers that include the Technocracy Reloaded PDF (so, everything $30+). So far, it includes:
Constructs and Symposiums — A collection of ready-made NPCs and locations
Constructs and Symposiums Expanded - doubled in size!
Digital Web 3.0 — An update to the Digital Web for M20
Digital Web 3.0.2 - doubled in size!
Technomancer's Toybox 20 —More gadgets, devices, adjustments, and procedures
Technomancer's Toybox 20, Q Division Bonus - doubled in size!
Unlikely Allies — A guide to cross-faction play incorporating the Traditions
Unlikely Allies II —A guide to cross-faction play incorporating the Disparate Alliance
Unlikely Allies III — A guide to cross-faction play incorporating street-level Orphans
NEW ADD ONS!
For only +$20, Add On a sturdy, three-panel screen featuring a collage of TechnocracyReloaded art on the outer side, and a selection of charts and other reference info on the inside to make running a Technocracy-focused M20 game session a little bit easier.
Can be added on to any reward tier containing a hardcover book by increasing your total Pledge Amount by +$20 and then confirming your selection in our Post-Campaign Pledge Manager.
A PDF bundle of earlier-edition Mage: The Ascension titles available to be added to any reward tier for only $25. This PDF bundle includes:
Convention Book: Iteration X PDF
Convention Book: N.W.O. PDF
Convention Book: Progenitors PDF
Convention Book: Syndicate PDF
Convention Book: Void Engineers PDF
Guide to the Technocracy PDF
Technocracy Assembled 1 PDF
Technocracy Assembled 2 PDF
Technomancer’s Toybox PDF
CELEBRATING THE MAGIC OF M20!
A Technocracy Reloaded-themed Kickstarter Backer shirt will be hosted on the Redbubble store for a limited time. All backers will be notified when the shirt becomes available.
Digital Wallpaper — An awesome digital wallpaper for your computer desktop featuring art from Technocracy Reloaded. All backers will have this automatically added to their rewards list.
Mage Cookbook PDF — We’ll add the Mage Cookbook PDF to the rewards list of all backers receiving the Technocracy Reloaded PDF.
Art of Mage: 20 Years and MorePDF — We’ll add the Art of Mage PDF to the rewards list of all backers receiving the Technocracy Reloaded PDF.
STILL TO COME...
We've still got 15 more days to spread the word and add even more cool Stretch Goal achievements to our rewards list. Our current target is another section for our Player's Companion:
At $148,000 in funding - Technocracy Reloaded Player’s Companion: Mission Statements —Additional short scenarios for use in your Technocracy Reloaded chronicle will be created for this PDF supplement.
And, if we pass that, we'll have an opportunity to improve our main reward and maybe even add more content with some new supplements! And, who knows, maybe more beyond that!
So, keep up the good work! Let's have a strong back half, and keep celebrating the past and future of the M20 line!
#TechnocracyReloaded
#HashtagMagick
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/stay safe
/be well
/persevere
ASK and an ANSWER
almost 4 years ago
– Tue, May 12, 2020 at 05:06:28 AM
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/too early for Concierge Protocol
/initiate Extreme Coffee consumption
Greetings Agents & Operatives!
Two quick notes this morning! First up, I posted the latest manuscript preview extra early for backers (at least I hope I did. I was not quite awake, and vision was a little blurry!) this morning so you'd have time to digest the massive section that is Chapter 4 from Technocracy Reloaded. I figured you'd want to have read that prior to our next chance to get more information about this book!
ASK (ONYX PATH) ANYTHING
And, if you have questions, here's the perfect forum for them... Onyx Path will be doing an AMA (Ask Me Anything) today starting at 12:00 Noon Eastern US Time. While this AMA is focused on our Technocracy Reloaded campaign, various Onyx Path developers and creative team members will be popping by throughout the day to field questions asked.
While the Onyx Path team prepares to answer any of your questions today, I can supply one answer for you... what are our next Stretch Goal targets?
And we'll need to know, because we just hit another Stretch Goal!
Achieved! - At $143,000 in funding - Technocracy Reloaded Player’s Companion: Unlikely Allies III — A guide to cross-faction play incorporating street-level Orphans into a Technocracy Campaign and vice-versa will be added to this PDF supplement.
We've now got a pretty robust Player's Companion framework assembled, and I'm looking forward to seeing what the team can build within that structure.
From looking ahead to revisiting the past... our next Stretch Goal will look back at two decades of awesome art for this game!
At $145,000 in funding - NEW REWARD: Art of Mage: 20 Years and MorePDF — We’ll add the Art of Mage PDF to the rewards list of all backers receiving the Technocracy Reloaded PDF.
I love flipping through art books and drawing inspiration from amazing visuals and interesting images. If each picture is worth a thousand words, this book is packed with stories, that's for sure! This is a great celebration of the history and path Mage: The Ascension has taken over the last 20+ years, and I'm eager to unlock this goal.
And after that bit of nostalgia, we'll travel to the future once more, with another section added to our already-packed Player's Compaion:
At $148,000 in funding - Technocracy Reloaded Player’s Companion: Mission Statements —Additional short scenarios for use in your Technocracy Reloaded chronicle will be created for this PDF supplement.
Tuesday Chore List
So, get your questions ready for the Onyx Path team - especially anything related to Mage: The Ascension and especially Technocracy Reloaded and head on over to Reddit for the AMA today: https://www.reddit.com/r/OnyxPathRPG
And then, let's keep up the awesome job we've done so far by unlocking another Stretch Goal or two! We've already hit FOURTEEN targets, and we've still got just over half of our campaign to go!
#TechnocracyReloaded
#OneWorld.OneTruth.OneOrder
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Backers Only - Manuscript Preview Part 3.0
almost 4 years ago
– Tue, May 12, 2020 at 03:17:00 AM
This post is for backers only. Please visit Kickstarter.com and log in to read.
[Excerpt] Dissident Factions
almost 4 years ago
– Mon, May 11, 2020 at 06:03:23 AM
/possible source of data breach detected
/collect information on dissident factions
/submit for review
Hello Agents & Operatives,
One more preview before we make the entirety of Unit 4 available to backers. A reminder, all backers for this kickstarter campaign will have access to the entire Technocracy Reloaded approved manuscript before we complete this campaign, so join in and check it out!
Dissident Factions
Despite atrocious risks and pervasive security, the Technocracy hosts a number of dissident groups. Some, like the Friends of Courage, strive to save the Union from itself; others, like the Adamites, rebel against what they see as an attempt to supplant humanity with its next stage of evolution. These groups exist within the cracks of the legendary monolith; if nothing else, their persistence reveals how stubborn individual human beings are, even those embracing collective identity and working toward a united future for all the world.
Each entry below also features a suggestion or two about how the group in question might be incorporated into your chronicle. Even if that chronicle does not focus on the Technocracy as a whole, the following dissident factions may provide a host of story opportunities.
Adamites
The Adamites are a faction of human supremacists harboring bigotry against, fear of, and disdain for enhanced operatives. This extends not only to constructs, clones and LERMUs, but even cyborgs and natural-born but genegineered agents and operatives. To the Adamite these aberrations are inferior because they are creations of humanity. Ergo, humanity must be superior. Like most bigots with an overinflated sense of importance, Adamites are frequently motivated by fear. This fear manifests in attempts to abuse, discredit, and otherwise interfere with operatives perceived to be of “lesser” status.
Human supremacy is absolutely unmutual and strongly frowned upon within the Union. An Adamite indulging their prejudice openly can expect a reprimand or a visit to Room 101. As such, the Adamites tend to work in secret, subtly causing difficulties for their enhanced comrades and bullying through microaggression.
The Cassandra Complex
The Technocracy has eyes and ears almost everywhere on the planet. What they don’t know is that there are eyes and ears on them as well — and mouths to carry that information, too. The Strategic Prognostication and Data Dispersal Unit (SPDDU, occasionally mockingly pronounced “spid-doo”), better known by their informal name the Cassandra Complex, or just the Cassandras, are these internal eyes and ears. Are they actually psychic? If not, they’re just as good. They collect information, sometimes before it even comes out, and disperse it to the right people at the right time.
Who are the right people? No one really knows, unless they receive an anonymous data dump from the Cassandras, often with a gentle suggestion on how to use the invaluable information contained in the package. If you’ve received something once from the Cassandras, chances are you’ll receive something again. Among personnel from the various Conventions, the Void Engineers, Iteration X, and the NWO are most likely to receive Cassandra packages, while Syndicate ops have no single recorded data dump from this particular amalgamated source. (Of course, this doesn’t mean individualSyndicate operatives haven’t received packages as “the right person,” but such packages were likely burned or erased after use.) Cassandra packages cannot be traced, and for good reason. Each package contains sensitive information, things that could get even the most spotless operative processed by PsychOps if they were discovered with it.
When is the right time? Cassandra packages never arrive in an awkward situation (unless such awkwardness was the intended goal) or around dangerous people. Operatives receiving Cassandra packages may do so at home, alone, or they might find them in their desk at work, under their seat on the bus, or inside of their lunch order. Whether or not the recipient decides to open said package is completely up to the operative in question, but all Cassandra packages self-detonate within 12 hours if not opened by the recipient — and detonate immediately if they’re opened by anybody else.
If a recipient chooses not to open a Cassandra package, that person may be safe for now, but the lack of information will come back to bite that person in the ass later. To add insult to injury, if a recipient spurns a Cassandra Complex package, that person isn’t likely to ever receive another such package in this lifetime.
A Cassandra operative could be anyone. They blend in perfectly with their surroundings, never announce their true allegiance, and clearly understand the principles of Correspondence and Psychodynamics quite well. Be careful what you say in mixed company, though; you could be part of a Cassandra’s next report.
The Friends of Courage
Operative “Secret Agent” John Courage is perhaps the least-suited person imaginable for running a clandestine operation dedicated to cleaning up corruption within the Technocratic Union. Such a task would be better suited to members of the Special Information Security Division, or perhaps to any other methodology within the Union. Surely, anyone who’s capable of keeping their head down without becoming a Technocratic celebrity would be a finer choice for such a role. Thus, in the quarter-century or so since rumors about the “Friends of Courage” began to circulate, several alternate possibilities have suggested themselves to Technocrats with half a brain: John Courage is a diversion, John Courage is a figurehead, John Courage is a myth, or John Courage and his so-called “friends” are bait.
Certain very quiet whispers have even begun to suggest that if there are Nephandic agents hidden throughout the Technocracy then perhaps John Courage is one of them.
As it stands, the Friends of Courage are surprisingly efficient at what they do. Most Technocrats outside the FoC dismiss this dissident methodology as a bunch of madmen charging at windmills. Of course, the Technocratic Union has problems — it’s made up of humans. Any group larger than three people is basically doomed to back-alley deals and minor corruption if it intends to get anything done at all, and so they live with those compromises, however odious some of the compromises might seem. However, the only example of the crusading Friends of Courage most operatives and administrative staff have to point to is “Secret Agent” (his title, he insists — or is it really him who insists upon it?) John Courage himself — a man (if he really is, or ever was, a man) who has supposedly been Socially Processed so many times he doesn’t even remember his original name. Naturally, all of the other Friends of Courage members would have to be like him, right?
Well, not exactly.
Agent John Courage knows how he’s perceived, and he happily uses that perception as a smokescreen for his “friends’” investigations. If everyone else is busy looking at the lunatic with the sinecure, the Friends of Courage can accomplish the actually usefultasks. Whether by receiving information from the Cassandras, working private investigations for overtime pay, or simply being in the right place at the right time, operatives within the Friends of Courage pursue any hint of infiltration they come across. It’s rare for them to work in groups of more than three operatives (again, due to that whole “human corruption” thing), but if and when something big does come up — such as reliable proof of Nephandic influence — several Friends of Courage may meet in neutral territory and hash out a plan.
Most Friends keep their heads down. If they’re caught by the wrong people, they know they’ll be sent to a particularly vicious round of Processing for questioning their superiors. Worse still, if they areright about Nephandic infiltration then the consequences for getting caught by the wrong people are considerably worse than the most nightmarish rumors about Room 101. Out of necessity, they operate in a structure of covert cells, all connected by a handful of enigmatic signs but none knowing what the group’s true size, membership or capabilities might be. Some Friends have tried to make contact with Project Invictus, with mixed results. Others maintain contacts within the Cassandra Complex. At least one Friend is a member of the SISD (see below) and has been looking to obtain any new information about the Special Projects Division that might be floating around. One Friend is investigating the mythical group SEAI (see below) despite the ridicule this draws from her colleagues. All FoCs have at least one project they’re covertly working on — so if you need help with an anomalous occurrence, look for a Friend of Courage. Or look for “Secret Agent” John Courage at least — he’s easy to spot, and there will be at least three more Friends of his in the background at any given time.
The Harbingers of Avalon
A small but influential group based out of the United Kingdom, the Harbingers of Avalon draw inspiration from the epic of King Arthur. These agents cling to values displayed in Arthurian legend, and in some ways venerate the ideals of the Round Table to an unmutual degree. The goals and beliefs of the Harbingers of Avalon are closer to those of the historic Order of Reason, including a much more accepting stance toward mysticism. The Harbingers of Avalon strive to be the embodiment of Arthurian ideal and see the rest of the Technocracy as falling short of that ideal.
Like Arthur, the Harbingers of Avalon are perfectly willing to fraternize with and seek the counsel of wizards. This fact alone makes them inherently unmutual. This, combined with their rebellious intent to cleanse the Union of perceived corruption, makes the Harbingers a hidden enemy within the Union’s ranks. Depending on the metaplot options used in your chronicle, the Harbingers may have left, or be preparing to leave the Union.
Project Invictus
It doesn’t exist.
Quite simply, Project Invictus is a rumor put out by the Syndicate, a simple ruse meant to keep Technocratic operatives on their toes. Reality Deviants involved in the Special Projects Division (SPD)? Laughable. Never mind that vampire you saw come out of the meeting last Wednesday. She definitely was a vampire, too.
Anyway, you don’t need to worry about Project Invictus. Anyone who believes there’s a network of cells inside the Technocratic Union heroically striving against the darkness inherent within the Syndicate’s SPD really should report to PsychOps. Maybe you’re feeling sick. It’s all right — the stress of the job gets to everyone eventually. It’s really all right. Once you start living in a world full of conspiracies and lies, it’s natural to start seeing them everywhere. Are you getting enough food? Enough rest? Stress can sometimes preclude self-care. Go take some time for yourself. The Union will still be here when you get back, I promise.
Where was I? Oh yes, Project Invictus doesn’t exist. It can’t exist. The Conventions and Methodologies of the Technocratic Union check everything in triplicate. You can’t sneeze without an operative knowing. Of course, we’ve had paperwork snafus; every major organization does, but a group like Invictus could never would have escaped notice for this long, especially not after the Dimensional Anomaly. Too many agents were lost. Even if Project Invictus did exist, their membership would be down to a fraction of the original total.
What would that fraction look like? My, you’re curious today, aren’t you? Best guess is that this so-called “Project” Invictus would be something like four or five operatives and a handful of extraordinary citizens. That is, of course, assuming they haven’t all swanned off to join the Traditions or the Nephandi. An actual Project Invictus would be treason of the highest order against the Union. Being expected to make judgment calls about who is, and is not, allowed to survive without proper authorization goes against everything we stand for. It would be suicide. It would be vigilantism. It would be impossible.
Is that all? Good. I’m going to have to ask you to step over here. One of the operatives from PsychOps is very concerned about our conversation and wants to check you out…
Wearing my data breeches
Another fun segment - and, remember, this is only a small sample of what we'll see in our Backer's Only preview post on Tuesday! So, come get indoctrinated - I mean, join the Union! And check back Tuesday for the complete and unredacted Unit 4 preview.
