Editing Mage: The Ascension (section)

====[[Iteration X]]====
Talking about the It X'ers inevitably means talking about the biggest divide between them. On the one hand, you have the old guard of master craftsmen and inventors, the cool ones. On the other, you have the Autopolitans, crazy transhumanists worshipping the "Xth Iteration" of the Master Computer they've built with their own hands. Naturally, there's a lot of friction there. As a whole, they are the Technocracy's R&D division, focusing on cybernetics and robotics, and they focus on the spheres of Forces and Matter.  

Unfortunately, said Computer is almost certainly some kind of rogue god possessing the Computer to control and puppeteer them rather than an "actual" Artificial General Intelligence. And it keeps sabotaging other projects to create more because they would reveal that Computer is ''not'' an AGI. It enforces a degree of conformity and anti-supernatural thinking on Iteration X that even other Technocrats find tiresome, and has left the Convention struggling to adapt and change in the face of Mundane science taking some weird, quantum physics-y directions. 

Fortunately, the Avatar Storm cut them off from their base of operations on the Umbral machine-planet Autocthonia (a counter-Earth), forcing them to get by without its dark influence and accomplishing many much-needed reforms. Unfortunately, they ''really'' want to try to go get it back, and even more unfortunately, those trapped by the Storm were effectively transformed into Drones (flesh/spirit amalgamations) and enslaved by the Computer which runs Autocthonia; see Threat Null below and note that the Null It X'ers didn't even have to change their faction name.