Duck

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I honestly want to push for this to be really crazy if we can.

@VitaVitaAR

Crazy as in...?

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Maybe people start doing crazy shit with magic, or conflict arise around the hows and whys of magical practice.

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2) Or maybe a golden age. we start with the efects of discovering magic by science and the first wizards. Exploitation of the magic. The first organisation/school. First colonies. And end it with earth being in shambles/ruined and colonies being the only place for surviving.

@TalijaKey

This I like.

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Hmm... The starting point could be the discovery of "mana" (or whatever we want to call magical energy/whatever). Maybe humanity (if it is them we are following) thought they were on the verge of discovering some source of power, but got more than they bargained for, more than they had ever dared dream of. Through science, they found something that defies science.

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I misunderstood what was being said, I wasn't trying to make a fuss.

@VitaVitaAR

Alrighty then, seems I misunderstood you in turn :)

EDIT

So we're pretty clear about the premise then? Magitech space adventures? Would someone care to phrase that nicely? :P

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<Snipped quote by Duck>

No fuss at all. I think Mr. Clarke was talking about the perception of the people in the world. Like in star trek when they beam down to a planet that doesn't know about transporters... they simply think it's magic. Or the Aztecs mistaking Cortez for a god. It was meant to inspire more than conflagerate-my bad lol.

@Rhymer

I do not mean, in any way, that you're the source of the fuss. I understood completely.

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Then I don't see what the fuss is about. Magic is still magic regardless of whether you need technology to use it or not.

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The thing with that is to follow it you'd be going do pure sci-fi and it'd probably be pretty soft sci-fi.

If we're doing magic, it's going to be magic, since the consensus doesn't appear to be pure and very soft sci-fi.

@VitaVitaAR

Why couldn't it be magic just because you need gadgets to use it? Is Harry Potter sci-fi because they need to use wands in order to perform magic? Maybe our bodies aren't really suited to this fantastical force, but science has given us the chance to wield it (which could also add a dilemma to the plot - are we meant to use it?). Magic is magic is magic, similar but different in every story that has ever used it, involving technology or not.

EDIT: What does "soft" sci-fi even mean?

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

@Rhymer

I'm with you. I just think it'd be cool with real techno-mages is all.

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So, in premise terms... I guess my suggestion would be:

"Using advanced technology, people have discovered magic, allowing them to travel to the stars"