Virtual Adepts

==Events==
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Event/Virtual Adepts
==History==
All technomancers have been warned at one point or an other that dependence on 'toys' would eventually be their down fall. Any technomancer worth their salt would laugh and simply gesture to the world around them as proof of near infallibility of technology. Not to mention the fact that everyone was so hopped up from rush the Information Super Highway gave them to heed the warnings of ignorant Luddites. One of the problems of living in the future is that you end up forgetting about the past and ignoring the present. In principal, the Fall should have been a welcome change to the Virtual Adepts, in reality it was a digital holocaust.
It went something like this: Baba Yaga eats the Russian Prime Minister on TV, Virtual Adepts, as usual, begin to enthusiastically circulate this footage to anyone and everyone. The Union responds with the previously unknown fury. Being the favorite scapegoat for Union fuck ups, the Virtual Adepts defection and subsequent encouragements of free information are cited by the Union as a major cause of the Fall. The Union, furious that reality is literally coming apart at the seams, no longer has a reason to practice restraint and goes all out. The most notorious and high profile individuals are targeted first. The Virtual Adepts send out the cattle call to mount a counter offensive they had be waiting for since their defection, thus bringing most of the Tradition online for what they believe will be the defining battle in the Ascension War. Just as the Adepts are manning the virtual battle stations, the Digital Web goes down like the Titanic. With three quarters of the Tradition online at the time, the Virtual Adepts were nearly decimated. The date was April the 14th, 2004. This date is still observed by the Tradition as the beginning of 'Silent Spring'. On that day, the Tradition as a whole abstains from the use of the Matrix.
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