Editing Virtual Adepts (section)

== History ==
While the very basic concepts of the Adepts are often rooted in the beginnings of mathematics, the Virtual Adepts have their origins in the 19th Technocracy, as one of their many conventions called the '''Difference Engineers'''; a group of [[Sons of Ether|Electrodyne Engineers]] who developed their own understanding of reality that was rooted in Correspondence, Entropy, and Pattern, and were obsessed with what could be done with the first electronic communications, and their ideas metastasized into a discovery of what the fuller implications of Correspondence could be; understanding it as a way to manipulate space and the things traveling along it. The telephone actually opened up what they understood as "Virtual Space" for the first time, and once they could connect to it, they went chasing it for the rest of time, becoming the Virtual Adepts in the process.

Of course, with their understanding of what is now an extremely fast-moving way of understanding and changing reality, the Technocrats, the Electrodyne Engineers, and the Virtual Adepts were becoming more and more distant on each other's goals. Namely, the Electrodyne Engineers fucked off to become the Sons of Ether, and the Adepts were quickly becoming extremely frustrated with the lack of progress on information technology that would help them understand the Net, as it had become known, better. Without the Sons of Ether, they really couldn't build much if they didn't have any concrete knowledge of how to build shit already, and worse, they had unintentionally helped the allies win WWI against orders, so now they had the Technocracy breathing down their necks. 

The final straws came in the 30's, with the Stock Market Crash being predicted ahead of time by probability-minded Adepts who benignly suggested that a world economy could alleviate any such thing from happening again...and what the Technocracy did with that suggestion was decide that fucking Hitler of all people was the guy to back early on. The camel's back was broken when Alan Turing's daring within the realm of computing was cut short by what in the World of Darkness universe was just an outright murder by Technocratic agents rather than a suicide, which incensed the Adepts so badly they took every last scrap of data they could find and then fucked off onto the net and joined the Traditions for good, but not before getting a nasty mnemonic virus from the Technocracy that severed their understanding of super-match and theoretical physics, which took decades to unfuck and set their work back generations...and then the Avatar Storm happened.