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Message: <blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 436514" data-attributes="member: 6929">Well, the more it's discussed the more apparent it is that a Nexus Tower really would change things - and probably into an elitist society. We're talking one person in charge of a hundred thousand life forces here, giving them incredible resources. That kind of power has rarely been seen in Earth's history; even in the days of grand empires the imperators had to secure at least some modicum of goodwill from their populace, but a Nexus Tower just sits there no matter what the people think.The economics are an interesting issue, too. A good point about selling off magic items to pay for your magic-enhanced troops; that would pour maybe fifty minor magical items into an area of 100,000 people per year. So one item per 2000 heads. That wouldn't actually change things much... until you look at accretion over a hundred years, in which case you've got one item per twenty heads. Saturation is not a given, but it does create an environment of magic in known use.And to jerk things back to the topic of the thread, I can't think of any technological device or scifi plot where something like this exists except The Matrix, and even then it's a tenuous connection - it doesn't sound like many people in Urbis are concerned for the happiness of the plebians, unlike the machine intelligences of the twenty-somethingth century. And there's no false reality.</blockquote>