From:	Rand Ratinac docwagon101@*****.com
Subject:	magical activity inside the arc.
Date:	Sun, 11 Jul 1999 21:21:39 -0700 (PDT)

> :> How many mages, shamans and adepts are among the blues and greens
in the arcology?
> :
> :Stats not given. 1 to 10 or 20 is probably a good
magical/non-magical ratio to use for the blues. Make it 1 in 50 or 100
for the greens.
>
> That later seems odd- why would the greens have mages?
<Snippola(TM)>
> Mongoose

As I agree with everything else Mongoose mentioned, I just thought I'd
answer this question.

Because.

8-)

No, seriously, look at it this way. The blues are all ex-security
personnel, Red Samurai and other combat types. The greens are workers,
lab technicians, researchers, doctors and the like. Believe it or not,
there would likely have been mages amongst the latter category,
especially in the fields of research (magical or otherwise). A lot of
them wouldn't be well-suited to combat duty. Deus is not stupid. He
wouldn't have gone "Make all mages blues". He'd end up with mages who
knew nothing of combat and who possibly didn't even have any combat
spells. Also, if that particular mage was a drek-hot researcher or
doctor beforehand (especially in the field of cybernetics), do you
really think Deus would have made him into a blue? Uh-uh - he'd make
him a green and get him to carry out his research on the other arc
inhabitants.

That 1 in 50 or 100 is not supposed to represent mages Deus
deliberately made into greens. It's supposed to represent people who
have the training and skills to be greens and who just happen to be
magically active.

Make sense?

*Doc'...blanks. What to say, what to say? Oooo, ahhh, lunch-time! Buh-bye!*
==Doc'
(aka Mr. Freaky Big, Super-Dynamic Troll of Tomorrow)

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