A Narrow Escape and a Good Laugh
Ætherflare Larius narrowly avoids collision: Muggles establish permanent satellite around Saturn
Well, the muggles have made it to Saturn. Caused all kinds of ruckus here since they just about ran into one of our colonies there. It was all we could do just to keep them from detecting us, and more to avoid a collision. Wouldn't have damaged the stone structure of the almost 1000 year old research colony, but the muggle's might have actually figured out this time, unlike the last two collisions with the Mars colony.
But none the less it's been hilarious watching the muggles struggle with the difficulty of space. All you need is air, shielding, and something to keep the air from escaping. It's taken them thousands of years to invent plastics, air filtration systems, launch mechanisms, etc. It was 1126 when Merlin first proposed the possibility of there being an "Æther" beyond the limit of the sky. He built the first of the Ætherflare colonies and levitated them into space, opening the heavens to all of wizard kind. Now the first few tries had much lower success rates than the muggles, loosing something like 200 brave souls to experiments involving the nature and the exploration of the Æther. Most of them died however, because unlike the 20th century muggles, the wizards hadn't really gotten the technology and spells needed to detect radiation and gas pressure levels in space. But mostly because Merlin was the first to even test the nature of the Æther, and even wizard science of the time didn't know about solar winds and the vacuum of space.
But in any case, I must commend the muggles for doing it just about the hardest way possible, but I think I should petition the magister to have them disclose the orbital path of our colonies to the higher up muggles so we can avoid this kind of thing in the future.
Well, the muggles have made it to Saturn. Caused all kinds of ruckus here since they just about ran into one of our colonies there. It was all we could do just to keep them from detecting us, and more to avoid a collision. Wouldn't have damaged the stone structure of the almost 1000 year old research colony, but the muggle's might have actually figured out this time, unlike the last two collisions with the Mars colony.
But none the less it's been hilarious watching the muggles struggle with the difficulty of space. All you need is air, shielding, and something to keep the air from escaping. It's taken them thousands of years to invent plastics, air filtration systems, launch mechanisms, etc. It was 1126 when Merlin first proposed the possibility of there being an "Æther" beyond the limit of the sky. He built the first of the Ætherflare colonies and levitated them into space, opening the heavens to all of wizard kind. Now the first few tries had much lower success rates than the muggles, loosing something like 200 brave souls to experiments involving the nature and the exploration of the Æther. Most of them died however, because unlike the 20th century muggles, the wizards hadn't really gotten the technology and spells needed to detect radiation and gas pressure levels in space. But mostly because Merlin was the first to even test the nature of the Æther, and even wizard science of the time didn't know about solar winds and the vacuum of space.
But in any case, I must commend the muggles for doing it just about the hardest way possible, but I think I should petition the magister to have them disclose the orbital path of our colonies to the higher up muggles so we can avoid this kind of thing in the future.
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Stop and consider: They can produce air tight shields, spontaneously create things like air, and have a way of bypassing gravity (contragrav); why couldn't they have long since had space travel? With magic, most of the difficault parts are almost non-existant. No escaping gravitational fields, no O2 scrubbers, no nothing. It's so obvious it's almost painful. Plus, it makes for a good explanation of the one or two martian probes that "vanished". ^.^
Stop and consider: They can produce air tight shields, spontaneously create things like air, and have a way of bypassing gravity (contragrav); why couldn't they have long since had space travel? With magic, most of the difficault parts are almost non-existant. No escaping gravitational fields, no O2 scrubbers, no nothing. It's so obvious it's almost painful. Plus, it makes for a good explanation of the one or two martian probes that "vanished". ^.^
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Okay, well it's not all that exciting, but consider that the magic itself may be a local occurence, confined to the earth, say. (Stops quoting from Shadowrun)
Maybe the magic itself is a form of EM radiation, which interferes with modern tech, which would explain why we don't see much in non-muggle households.
Okay, I'll stop spurting all over the place now.
Keep in mind, this is based on the Harry Potter world, with the social limitations placed on magic by J.K. Rowlings reworked for useful means.
As for "Technological Incompatibility" allow me to cite a few examples: The flying car, the Knight Bus, the magic photographs (made using conventional cameras), and the list continues. The only technical restriction placed is that there is a law (A social restriction) banning the mixing of muggle devices and magic, although the blatent violation of that law occurs frequently in the stories.
For the localized magic thing, not much can be said. Rowlings han't made any explanation on the theory underlying magic in the H.P. world. (Like mana in shadowrun, or the weave in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting) so I basically have all the librities I want with it as long as I don't try and explain it. ^^
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