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Old 03-23-2013, 06:20 PM   #61
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Default Re: (IW) Infinity getting to Yrth

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IIRC, a conveyor was seen disappearing from Merlin-1 and when it could not be magically traced anywhere on Earth, they began to purse extraplanar venues, so there would be no detection for Infinity to know about.
Do you remember the Albuquerque cop who was immediately alerted to the arrival of the outsiders and sent to help them?
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Old 03-23-2013, 08:11 PM   #62
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Anybody from Infinity on Yrth is a research team (plus security) investigating Quantum Sargassos. They'd only be pretending to be White Star traders.
What about intel? Infinity is involved in a four party (at least) cold war.
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Old 03-24-2013, 08:22 AM   #63
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What about intel? Infinity is involved in a four party (at least) cold war.
Yrth is Q5. No regular Centrum access and even if there is a nexus portal connection Centrum doesn't like worlds with magic.

The Cabal doesn't like worlds with _overt_ magic and especially not worlds with powerful magical bureaucracies they don't control. Maybe the Cabla already controls Yrth (especialy the MOS). If so they're hiding _really_ well and would be very difficult to deal with. The cabal is probably too scatterted and decntralized to gather intel on in any systematic manner.

Q5 is beyond any known Reich-5 activity.

So, no not really an obvious intelligence hotbed.
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Old 03-27-2013, 12:30 AM   #64
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On the Merlin side of things a thought is whether there is a direct correlation between Magic/Mana levels and Oz particles.
If the latter increase in concentration through both mana use and Parachronics travel, Merlin could detect an inbound conveyer through sensing the Oz build up.

However the counter is that their magical activity could mask this.

In terms of Infinity's interest in Yrth I think the study of magic and artifacts would be a good enough reason to justify the risk.
IW hints at the patrol stumbling around with such things as the Astral Plane, however being from a no mana world they're ignorant and under equipped.

Setting up a magical college in some secluded part of Yrth then visiting it via White Star would be prudent.

Also the study of fantastic zoology and materials produced as a byproduct of magic would be of interest.
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