From:	"Jeremy \"Bolthy\" Zimmerman" <jeremy@***********.COM>
Subject:	Re: Radiation and Magic
Date:	Tue, 12 May 1998 12:45:10 -0700

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> From: Wafflemeisters <evamarie@**********.net>
> To: SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET
> Subject: Re: Radiation and Magic
> Date: Tuesday, May 12, 1998 12:12 PM
>
> >
> >
> > Re: Radiation and Magic (Wordman , Mon 19:24)
> >
> > Mongoose wrote:
> > > IIRC, cosmic rays are just very high energy free electrons.
> >
> > Last I heard, cosmic rays are _protons_ moving near the speed of light.
> >
> > Wordman
>
> Ah, so I didn't recall correctly. The dictionary says "high
energy
> atomic nuclei"- are they the result of supernovae?
> To bring this back on topic, how does that affect the discusion I
was
> apllyng them to? That being, radition in space is diffrent enough to be
> the cause of "space madness" for mages, and terrestrial radiation might
> be responsible for similar effects in fovae and also realted to
> background count?
>

Don't know if this helps or what, but I've been reading a bit of Target:
UCAS at the same time as by digging through cyberpirates, and in Chicago
there are apparently areas of decreased magic that randomly appear as a
result of the mana-draining effects of the bacteria they used. I haven't
really looked at the rules for it too much, but it seems that magic has
little to no effect in those areas, and anyone attempting something astral
in there takes damage. Those who spend prolonged time in those areas go
ape-drek. Struck me as being a subdued version of what happens in fovae or
in space. No radiation, though.