Convention Book: Iteration X

See also: Technocracy: Iteration X (first edition)

Convention Book: Iteration X, also known as Technocracy: Iteration X Revised, is the sourcebook for the Iteration X Convention in Mage: The Ascension Revised Edition.

Summary[]

From the White Wolf catalog:

Man or Machine?

Iteration X represents the cutting edge of artifice, material science and man-machine technology. The Clockwork Conventioneers may be considered killer cyborgs or emotionless drones by their peers, but in truth they're pioneers as well as warriors. The Iterators' tools and computer empower humans, overcome defects and enable people to do things that would be impossible without the aid of machines. But with directives from machine intelligences and humans who give up flesh for metal, who's the master and who's the servant?

A Whole Greater than the Parts

A new direction for the Conventions for Mage: The Ascension. Completely new material covering history, practices, beliefs, special character rules and more. Finally, books that build upon the Guide to the Technocracy and bring for the secrets for your Technocracy characters.

Contents[]

Prologue: Hirings[]

Introduction: The Tools[]

Cycle One: Header[]

A collection of informal essays from the Iteration X archives which go into the basic understanding of what drives the Convention, historically and currently. This chapter also collects snippets and longer pieces that discuss the feelings various convention members have about people and things outside the group.

Cycle Two: Code[]

Discusses the material hierarchy and structure of the convention. How has this structure changed in the wake of the Avatar Storm? How do new members join up, and what divisions, both social and political, exist to receive them? What, at heart, is the paradigm of Iteration X and how does it differ from that of the rest of the Technocracy?

Cycle Three: Modules[]

Goes into some of the best-known members of the convention and some of the most popular equipment, including new hardsuit designs. Further, there's discussion of how to run an all Iteration X-based chronicle.

Wonders
- Advanced DEI (Background Cost 6)
- Dimensional Sensory Unit (2 or 3 Background Points) Enlightenment 2, 20 Prime Energy
- Encephalograhic Probe (3 Background Points) Enlightenment 3, 30 Prime Energy
- Mirco-RPV (Background Cost 2)
- Nanotech Medicines (Background Cost 3)
- Universal Nanotech Interfaces (3 Background Points)
Hardsuits
- Alanson Light Hardsuit (5 Points) Enlightenment 3, 25 Prime Energy
- Martinez Robust Hardsuit (9 Points) Enlightenment 4, 35 Prime Energy
Hardsuit Modules
- Heavy Armor (1 point)
- Life support system (3 points)
- Medical Kit (2 Points)
- Minigun (1 point)
- Movement Assist (3 points)
- Nanotech Self-Repair System (3 points)
- Plasma Cannon (6 Points)
- Prime Energy Reservoir (2 Points)
- Primium Plating (4 or 6 Points)
- Propulsion Unit (2 Points for the underwater unit, 3 Points for the space unit)
- Stealth Coating (3 Points)
- Taser Gloves (1 Point)
Sample Extraordinary Devices and Implants
- Advanced Bugs (1 Point)
- Digital Interface Armband (1 Point)
- Impact Armor (2 Points)
- Hidioshi Wearable Translator (1 Point for the Wearable Version, 2 Points for the Implant)
- Mark IV Hand Computer (1 Point)
- The Mask Maker (2 Points)
- Remote Piloted Vehicle (1 Point)
- Sensor Glasses (2 Points)
  - Extraordinary Implants
    - Implant Radio (1 Point)
    - Mapping Implant (2 Points)
    - Multi-Purpose Computer Implant (3 Points)
    - Detox Implant (2 Points)

Templates
- Intelligence Expert
- Transhuman Cyborg
- Detective
- Research Scientist
- Convention Enforcer
- Artificial Intelligence Expert
- Social Scientist
- Performance Artist

Epilogue: On the Job[]

Background Information[]

This book was released on the same date as Exalted's Time of Tumult, which first covered the tool-god Autochthon in that setting, providing a sort of theme to that day's releases. Convention Book: Iteration X’s references to Autochthonia and the Computer make oblique reference to Autochthon.
The Credits sidebar notes that Tradition Book: Dreamspeakers is coming soon for Mage.
The physical book has extra reprinted pages from 98 to 104 as a printing error. This may or may not be fixed in the DriveThruRPG edition of the book.

Memorable Quotes[]

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Characters[]

Prologue: Hirings
- John Billings
- Alison Crows
- Director Osiki
- Lieutenant Jessica Silver
- Faugh - Drill Sergeant
- Greg Frazier
- William Albacastle, "Willy Pete"
Cycle One: Header
- Imhotep - Historical Figure
- Pythagoras
- Archtyas of Tarentum - Historical Figure
- Archimedes - Historical Figure
- Lao Tzu - Historical Figure
- Confucius - Historical Figure
- Emperor Qin Shihuang - Historical Figure
- al-Khwarizimi - Historical Figure
- Heron - Historical Figure
- Kallinikos - Historical Figure
- Ismaeel al-Jazari - Historical Figure, Wrote the Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices
- Gilbert of Aurillae - Historical Figure
- Roger Bacon - Historical Figure
- Copernicus - Historical Figure
- Kramer and Sprenger - Historical Figures
- Leonardo daVinci - Historical Figure
- Durer - Historical Figure
- Cellini - Historical Figure
- Charles Babbage - Historical Figure
- Joseph Jaquard - Historical Figure
- Ada Lovelace - Historical Figure
- Herman Hollerith - Historical Figure
- Michaelson and Morley - Historical Figures
- Henry Ford - Historical Figure
- Lord Vargo, the Zeppelin Emperor
- Oppenhiemer - Historical Figure
- General Leslie Groves - Historical Figure
- Alan Turning - Historical Figure
- Director Adlinga - Iteration X
Cycle Three: Modules
- Dr. Amanda Peel
  - Dr. Hiroyuki Kaga - Iterotion X, Peel's predecessor, Died in the Dimensional Storm
- Computer
  - Tychoides
- Dr. Angela Hernandez
  - Dr. Joseph Germain - Iteration X Statistician
- Jackson Durkee
- Jefferson - Iteration X

Terminology[]

1300, 1325, January 1st 1400, 1893, 1897, 1985, 1992, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2001, Advanced DEI, AES, Africa, Akihabara, Amalgam, Analytical Reckoners, Armatures, Artificers, Artificial Intelligences, Ascension War, Asia, Atlanta, Australia, Autochthonia (Research Zone Zero), Baghdad, Black Hats and Mirrorshades, BR-356654 Development Location/Multinational Military Development Site/MMDS (Hardyman/Alanson/Martinez Hardsuit Program, Nanocloud-Based Disassemblers, Enhancement Services), Cabal of Pure Thought, Canada, Chicago, China, Civil War, Clockwork Engineers, Clockwork Convention, Comptrollers, Conditioning, Consensus, Constantinople, Control, Curtis Electronics Corporation, Cyborgs, Darwin, DEI (Digital Enhancement Interface), Department 37 (Iteration X Cabal), Digital Equipment Corporation, Digital Image Chambers, Digital Web, Dimensional Science, Dimension Storm, Denver, Duplex Assembly, Electrodyne Engineers, Enlightened, Europe, Faeries, Five Metal Dragons, Five Year Plan, Georgia, Germany, Ghosts, Great War, Greece, Grierson Company, Hardsuit, High-Guard Nanoresearch, HIT-Mark, Hunters, India, Indiana, Inner Circle, Inquisition, Israel, Ivory Tower, Japan, Joliet, Korea, L4 Sun-Earth Orbit/L4 SE, Lake Arthur, London, Louisiana, Louisiana Technological Development Zone/LouZone (Integrated Assistive Technology Group; Prosthetic Attachment Research Group; HLLD: Healthy Living and Lifestyle Division), Machine Cult/Cult of the Machine, Machinists, Masses, Methodologies: BioMechanics, Macrotechnicians, Statisticians, Time-Motion Managers; Micronesia, Minneapolis, Missouri, Mythic Age, New Mexico, New Mexico Institue of Technology/TERA/NMIT (EMRTC: Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center; ICAS: Institute for Complex Additive Systems; Distance-Comprehension/Presence Team), North America, Operation: Ragnarok, Order of Reason, Oslo, Pakistan, Palestine, Paradigma, Pattern Spiders, Persia, Pogrom, Poland, The Precepts of Damian, Primium, Proles, Reality Deviants, Rome, Section Eight, Socorro, Sons of Ether, South America, Spirits, St. Louis, Superstitionists, Symposium, Taiwan, Technocratic Union, Technotica, THOR strike satellites, Time Table, Tokyo, Toledo, Trinary, unEnlightened, United States, Vampires, The Vat (Brain Construct), Virtual Adepts, Von Neumann nano, Werewolves, White Tower, Winnipeg, World War II, Wyoming, Zaibatsu,

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