[DaltonS]

Originally Posted by maximara

But you are going to convince them that is not some sort of trick. Given the fantical mentality they had this is going to be a real hard sell.

I'm afraid I'm not very familiar with the roots of Japanese military fanaticism but I assume there was a hierarchy involved, and if one of the observers was sufficiently trusted and of high rank wouldn't their advice be heeded? Maybe a close encounter with a demon proved convincing.

Originally Posted by maximara

How would it do that? Stalin would have wanted the thing in his country where he could control it not at the end of the earth where any Tom, Dick, and Hanry could go and take a look.

Except empowering the masses was not really high on his agenda. Besides, the electromagnetic effects could leave his country open to attack. (A remote chance I admit, but with his documented paranoia would he be willing to take the risk?)

Originally Posted by maximara

As the American Antiquities Act of 1906 was orignally written no. But modifications additions and interpitations had made dealing with the thing a royal nightmare. But it follows the tradition of the older 'Resurrection Men' Laws that grew out of antics of people like William Burke and William Hare who took the practice of digging up corpses for surgons to practice on to its logical conclusion - go out and make a corpse!

The spector of Resurrection Men would desend on Louisiana faster than anything else and the issue of the dead being the 'property' of the family would come up. There there is the issue of Louisiana being in the Bible Belt - you imagine any minister supporting this practice? The zombie chain gang idea would not fly anywhere.

First, think work gang (chains would be unnecessary). Second, the law might pass if the period of undeath was strictly limited, after which the zombie would be put to rest. Third, the sentence would have to be reserved for truly heinous crimes, such as child molestion and murder.

Originally Posted by maximara

But in the Technomancer history there is no Nevada Test Area! And there in is one of the problems with the way the setting is set up. The book says A happens or doesn't not happen but a little futher on it says something wonky that contradicts A. The basic premice of unless it is obvious or we say otherwise a history followed the course it did in our history does not work any better than DC comic's efforts at dealing with its Post-Crisis universe.

While the nuclear testing of our universe didn't occur there, I wouldn't be too surprised to learn that secret atomic reactor research was going on there. After all, Nellis is the home of Area 51 where both Fafnir and Sinbad projects took place

Originally Posted by maximara

True but Technomancer espressly states that the assembly line enchantment require Magery 2 workers who know the Enchantment spell. That is a bit much.

Well, since Magery 2 is a prerequisite for the Enchantment spell, there really isn't any choice. The main purpose of Industrial Enchantment is to accellerate the S&S method by a factor of ten, so that enchantments of a 1,000 points or more could be done in days or weeks instead of months or years. The how (a mechanistic, enchanted work place) merely provided a frame of reference that made the whole procedure appear more high tech and thus more appropriate to the setting. (A business plan for financing the production line enchantment would probably make very interesting reading. ;) )

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