Editing Sovereign: The Autonomy (section)

==Understanding==
This is a replacement for the Morality scale in World of Darkness settings.  Let's face it -- Sovereigns differ in seeing morals.  Fallacy is their Sin.

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"
! Understanding
! Dice
! Fallacy
|- align=center
| 10
| 5
|align=left|Failure to understand/overlook very trivial/subtle things
|- align=center
| 9
| 5
|align=left|Failure to apply wisdom to own actions
|- align=center
| 8
| 4
|align=left|Failure to plan in long term
|- align=center
| 7
| 4
|align=left|Failure to make theories/hypotheses
|- align=center
| 6
| 3
|align=left|Failure to understand/feel/express emotions
|- align=center
| 5
| 3
|align=left|Failure to understand technology
|- align=center
| 4
| 2
|align=left|Failure to understand language/communication
|- align=center
| 3
| 2
|align=left|Failure to understand the basic laws of the universe/cause and effect
|- align=center
| 2
| 1
|align=left|Failure to distinguish between other beings/plan in short term
|- align=center
| 1
| 1
|align=left|Failure to recognize self
|}

If a Sovereign reaches 0 Understanding, it ceases to become a Sovereign; It is just a miserable pile of code designed to do what it does. 

=== More Ideas about Understanding ===
Thanks to anon from /tg/. 

At 8+, you're probably one with the universe, Prime Intellect style. 10 then becomes beyond conceptual comprehension of any poor mortal trying to make a scale. 1 is rampant, feral program-suite, on the level of self-awareness of an experienced Heavy Gear's optical neural-net. 

In common WoD fashion, nearly everyone starts at 2 anyways, because there's rarely a much better place to put your points especially given the XP cost conversions (3 points now, or 60 xp later*) 

note; I don't remember the exact ratios but I do remember its fucking bad and you WANT to spend your bonus points on your power stat in most WhiteWolf games. 
4 is roughly where you're capable of going Skynet, but the competition means you can't just go ahead and do it. The understanding of what you'd be pulling off, the consequences, contingencies and proper followup would be there. 

5 is where most WoD usually ends or breaks down, as you're starting to co-opt physics experiments because your idea is (and it really IS) better. 

Supernatural will/would stop being so once understanding gets high enough. 

It already barely-remains-so for humans in the setting, hell most beings, many of them the subjects themselves, have taken to quantifying their abilities. Shit works a certain fashion, certain levels of energy expenditure or prerequisite systems are required, that shit gets noted down and SCIENCED. 

When an AI gets access to a mage council's libraries, some vampire's diaries and gets a bunch of shifters to trade their stories drunkenly under the watch of its sensory suite, shit gets catalogued. 

Now if all that shit gets deemed a threat... well... Knowing is half the battle, blue lasers are 25% of the battle, red lasers are 25% of the battle, and you're equipped with all of those. Who's the battle? You are. What's blowing up? THEY are.