Editing Mage: The Ascension (section)

====[[Progenitors]]====
The biological sciences division, specializing in everything from medicine to genetic engineering under the umbrella of the Life sphere. Used to have a bunch of horrible eugenics and transhuman types, but after discovering them collaborating with [[Nazis]] and [[Nephandi]] during the Second World War, they purged that division, and are today some of the nicest, most bro-tier Technocrats... mostly. They really, ''really'', homicidally hate homeopathy, healing crystals, ''reiki'', and all that other New Age pseudo-medicine. Like, they think of it as an honest-to-God ''war crime''. This tends to make them the most predisposed towards violence against the Traditions. 

The other Conventions generally regard Traditions as either pathetic throwbacks and relics of a bygone time or a reliable, resourceful enemies who at least aren't as crazy as the Nephandi or Marauders. Not the Progenitors. To a Progenitor, the Traditions are FUCKING KILLING PEOPLE WITH NONSENSE NON-SCIENCE, and force is completely justified to stop them and save ordinary people from their manipulation. They were one of the few Conventions to actually undergo character development between editions: initial versions stressed their role in drugging humanity into sleepy, compliant docility while being moustache-twirling mad scientists behind the scenes, whereas later ones pressed on the idea that they are doctors first and foremost, hoping to heal the wounds of their faction and the rest of the world.