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The Technocracy Within: The Thirteenth Hour Crossover~*~ Void Engineers ~*~
“To Boldly go where no man has gone before…”
This Convention has, without a doubt, the bestreputation amongst Tradition mages. This isprimarily because the Void Engineers have little todo with the pogrom, and therefore rarely come intoconflict with the Traditions. Because of theirpragmatism, they have even cooperated withTradition mages in the Deep Umbra on occasional,and they are generally viewed as harmless. Indeed,many of their goals seem to satisfy the goals of theTradition Magus…but were the true goals of theConvention known, this opinion would likelychange.During their explorations of the Umbra, the Void Engineers developed a desire to reincorporate the spiritworld with the physical world. There were simply too many wonders to ignore. The Voiders supported theTechnomancer paradigm, however. They resolve this conflict by trying to expanding the Technocraticparadigm into the Umbra, converting it into deep space. To date, they have had little to no support fromother Technomancers, who find their goals frivolous. The Voiders have, at various times, considereddefecting, but consider it unlikely the Traditions will support their goal either.The earliest inception of the Convention is as the Seekers of the Void. They were dedicated to map theworld, and seek out information on each of the corners so that understanding and reason could be broughtto the common man. They dedicated themselves to the exploration of the earth, the sea, and eventually theheavens and spiritual spaces. The convention claims that they’re the oldest of the conventions, older thanthe Traditions, because before there were Traditions or Conventions, Explorers existed; men and womenwho left their homes to find new ones. These men and women never stopped moving; they had nointention of living in the places they discovered, only to rest for a while before seeking out adventure in thegreat unknown. This drive and wanderlust is what formed and shaped the world that we live in, makingcivilizations and bringing cultures to spread across the face of the earth. Their thought were not onmaterial gains, but on the wonderment of the distant lands that glimmer in the night sky. Curiosity fueledtheir desire to explore where the great waters of the seas went when they flowed past the rivers; where the
 
essence of their people went when they died; on what lies in the between and how to bridge the gapbetween the two places. They became dedicated to the idea of exploration and knowledge.In the cities were kindred spirits to the wanderers, but they dealt with machines and calculations. Theywere the Celestial Masters, and they used math to measure the stars, to weigh the human soul, and to putreason to the world of spirit. The Celestial Masters sponsored the Seekers, made sense of their findings,and together they pushed back the creatures o the darkness and gave humanity room to grow. In time, theend result was a man who called himself Tychoides, who took all math and all the discoveries and put itinto one over-arching theory and called it Dimensional Science.The 19
th
century saw the Order of Reason and it’s evolution into Control. The Seeker and the Masters joined to become, first, the Explorers and finally the Void Engineers.The Void Engineer arose to fill a specific need in theTechnocracy. To close off the gateways to the Umbra, theyneeded Technomancers familiar with the world of spirits. TheVoid Engineers fulfilled this need neatly, not onlystrengthening the Gauntlet, but setting up networks ofTechno-spirits to monitor its boundaries. The Voiders mayhave learned too much in their journey however, for theycould not leave the Umbra well enough alone. They workedclosely with the Electrodyne Engineers until that Conventionleft the Order of Reason to become the Sons of Ether, an actwhich the Void Engineers compare to having your onlybrother betray your darkest secret to your worst enemy. TheEtherites that did not want to abandon the Order of Reason joined the Void Engineers, and proceeded with their sciencesin different ways, creating Starships and labs on the sea floor.Most notable were the Starships, which were competing withthose of the Etherites in space. They have continued into thepresent day, with only one small glitch: when the DiffusionEngineers joined the Traditions at the Virtual Adepts.The Convention has the reputation for being the most strange out of all of the Conventions. Thecombination of science with “other” tends to unbalance them, or so the Technocracy claims. VoidEngineers have the most contact with the supernatural’s and they’re almost always under suspicion andinspection by the Ivory Tower or Technocracy to ensure that what they are doing it “status quo”. Yet theycontinue, fighting the Syndicate budget cuts and NOW investigations, because they can still find solace“Out There”… despite some Engineers believing that the Technocracy is no place for them anymore. Suchmutterings stay private, because if the Void Engineers left, who else would let them do what they do?
Philosophy
: "A study of history shows that a civilization maintains its vigor is throughexpansion and exploration. Yet on the limited sphere of the earth, this invariably leadsto war and death. Only the limitless bounds of space allow the expansion needed tomaintain civilization without the accompanying destruction. When we are ready, wemust reopen the gates to the Void, not to allow others to enter, but to sweep out andclaim the universe as our own."
 
Organization
: Void Engineers have two distinct divisions: Ground Control and theExplorers. Ground Control maintains the gauntlet and monitoring network, while theExplorers probe the Deep Umbra. Ground Control has a complex hierarchy to regulate istechnical developments, while the explorers spend too much time in the field to haveany real organization beyond the Cabal level. They have several different divisionsamong the groups:
Border Corps
 Division 
Earth Frontier
Division
Aquatic Exploration Teams
Cryogenic Specialists
Hydrothermal Botanical Mosaic Analysts
Inaccessible High Elevation Exploration Teams
Subterranean Exploration Corps
Neutralization Specialist
Corps 
Enforcement Training and Conditioning Agency
Department of Psychological Evaluation and Maintenance
Pan-Dimensional
Corps
Research & ExecutionMeetings
: Due the Conventions loose organization, they have little in the way ofmeetings beyond the practical level, though Voiders do have a penchant for attendingScience Fiction Conventions.
Initiation
: The Void Engineers recruit primarily from two fields: space agencies andscience fiction writers. Oddly enough, it is the second group who commonly make upVoider Explorers, while recruits from NASA tend to fill out Ground Control.
Chantry
: The Voiders greatest Chantry isCape Kennedy, though they have diversifiedconsiderably in recent years, especially inEurope. They are greatly disturbed at therecent developments in Russia and thecollapse of its space program, and suspectthere is more to what is going on than asimple NWO/Syndicate squabble. If there isan aeronautical division in a government,there is a Void Engineer leading it’sexploration and development; unless it’sgoing nowhere.
Acolytes
: Space Technicians, Air Force Officers, Sci-Fi Fans
Sphere
: The Voiders are the only Convention to fully explore the Spirit sphere. Theyeventually desire to quantify the Umbra as Deep Space, but have yet to come up withany unified theory to do so. As a result, they still use many outdated Rotes to deal withspirits, drawing heavily from the Hermetics. This does not help their reputation withother Technomancers.
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