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 ::The first rumors of the Celestial Exalts generate at this point from the strange, half-dream memories of the Kings.
-::Dragon King science, although mostly forgotten in the terrible sleep since Creation was transformed by the Big Bang, helps expand the knowledge of artifact production to include the other four of the Five Magical Materials, although soulsteel is banned, and adamant.  This permits a wider range of artifacts to be developed, especially the otherwise rare Starmetal!  Moonsilver is almost impossible to find or develop until irradiated silver is used.  Dragon King technology can produce up to rank 4 artifacts, with Shogunate-era precision, but frustratingly, this production does not translate well.  Dragon King technology is half produced by the spirit-natures of the Kings themselves, and remains beyond the reach of mortal and Exalt science for the moment.
+::Dragon King science, although mostly forgotten in the terrible sleep since Creation was transformed by the Big Bang, helps expand the knowledge of artifact production to include the other four of the Five Magical Materials, although soulsteel is banned, and adamant, the sixth magical material, is as of yet unknown.  This permits a wider range of artifacts to be developed, especially as the otherwise rare Starmetal can be alloyed from meteoric iron!  Moonsilver is almost impossible to find or develop until irradiated silver is used.  Dragon King technology can produce up to rank 4 artifacts, with Shogunate-era precision, but frustratingly, this production does not translate well.  Dragon King technology is half produced by the spirit-natures of the Kings themselves, and remains beyond the reach of mortal and Exalt science for the moment.
 ::With the aid of the Dragon Kings, the Oblivion Campaign of the Nephwracks is pushed back in South America and Africa.  Containment of Asia proves less and less possible, but many of the world's greatest Terrestrials both inside and out of the Secure World Occult Resistance Directive volunteer for the Asia Forces and European Line, and while the entire Mongolian region is lost, no further ground is permitted in Eastern Europe and heartland China remains intact.

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 ::The first rumors of martial artists producing unusual effects other than basic thaumaturgy are heard, though nothing comes of it.  (Half-forgotten Terrestrial Martial Arts and Essence awakening techniques)
 ::Scientific study of essence begins in fits and starts in the west, primarily for shadowlands protection.  Mao subsumes Confucianism and odd varieties of Buddhism into his work, and manages to control some of his worse impulses due to their obvious negative effects on campaigns.  Stalin continues his bloody purges, claiming that the "zombies" are the result of Western sabotage and "dirty people".  Zombie waves strike USSR territories as a result.
-::Senator Joseph McCarthy nearly sabotages attempts to prop up Mao and prevent the loss of China during his feud with Truman.  Members of the Republican party as well as Democratic politicians come together to bring McCarthy’s witch-hunts to an end during the height of his power after a long and prolonged fight that would have dire repercussions on American thaumatech research.
+::Senator Joseph [[McCarthy]] nearly sabotages attempts to prop up Mao and prevent the loss of China during his feud with Truman.  Members of the Republican party as well as Democratic politicians come together to bring [[McCarthy]]’s witch-hunts to an end during the height of his power after a long and prolonged fight that would have dire repercussions on American thaumatech research.
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 === Comments ===
-Pretty nice, and involved, but the development of Essence-science seems ''far'' too fast, in my opinion. Science, as a concept, won't turn to 'non science' at first. Since Essence wasn't around for the past many-thousand years, we don't have means of detecting, manipulating, or controlling Essence flows. What (in my head) would happen would be the first scientists noticing 'problems' with experiments ''sometimes'' being repeatable, and trying to track down what "universal constant" is changing. You'd eventually have people proposing cock-a-mamy theories such as "Being close to the wilderness, on a full moon, and having a church next door praying causes this to work more reliably", which, of course, is rejected for publication, because that's just hooey. Thing is, this would go on for 2-3 years, until ''every'' research scientist who's seeing (and rejecting) these papers starts seeing trends in these submissions, and starts trying things like it in his own lab. Eventually, major scientists will start meeting, and start accepting these papers in new journals - the journal of unexplained science, for example. By this point, the government has research labs forming (think Oak Ridge National Lab) in the middle of nowhere, with controlled environments, and lots of young new scientists trying to harness these "unexplained sciences" for weapons and 'defense' purposes. In my head, it'd be easily 5 years from the 'creation' of Essence before science really had anything going. In your situation, you've got it only one year afterwards, which is too fast, in my opinion. This continues, with major essence-science developments occurring without major committee and scientific community changes. Once Dragonbloods Exalt, well, all bets are off, as these guys can see, feel, and manipulate Essence - hence, easily repeatable experiments, easily observed results, and ''finally'', someone to say "Well of ''course'' it's not working. The hospital nearby is just ''leaking'' death-essence. Can't you guys tell?"   -- GreenLantern
+Pretty nice, and involved, but the development of Essence-science seems ''far'' too fast, in my opinion. Science, as a concept, won't turn to 'non science' at first. Since Essence wasn't around for the past many-thousand years, we don't have means of detecting, manipulating, or controlling Essence flows. What (in my head) would happen would be the first scientists noticing 'problems' with experiments ''sometimes'' being repeatable, and trying to track down what "universal constant" is changing. You'd eventually have people proposing cock-a-mamy theories such as "Being close to the wilderness, on a full moon, and having a church next door praying causes this to work more reliably", which, of course, is rejected for publication, because that's just hooey. Thing is, this would go on for 2-3 years, until ''every'' research scientist who's seeing (and rejecting) these papers starts seeing trends in these submissions, and starts trying things like it in his own lab. Eventually, major scientists will start meeting, and start accepting these papers in new journals - the journal of unexplained science, for example. By this point, the government has research labs forming (think Oak Ridge National Lab) in the middle of nowhere, with controlled environments, and lots of young new scientists trying to harness these "unexplained sciences" for weapons and 'defense' purposes. In my head, it'd be easily 5 years from the 'creation' of Essence before science really had anything going. In your situation, you've got it only one year afterwards, which is too fast, in my opinion. This continues, with major essence-science developments occurring without major committee and scientific community changes. Once Dragonbloods Exalt, well, all bets are off, as these guys can see, feel, and manipulate Essence - hence, easily repeatable experiments, easily observed results, and ''finally'', someone to say "Well of ''course'' it's not working. The hospital nearby is just ''leaking'' death-essence. Can't you guys tell?"   -- [[GreenLantern]]
 :Well, there are a couple of assumptions that are made here.  First of all, anyone who flat out rejects the use of thaumaturgy-- Essence science isn't really a proper term until the Celestials or maybe the Dragon Kings, I might need to change it-- is going to get ignored.  The restless dead situation is too great, and besides, there are <i>Angels</i> in the Middle East.  Yeah, you get a lot of 'it's aliens!' theory and so forth, but most people have to deal with the realities of the moment.  Also, I think we're viewing the effects of thaumaturgy a bit different.  In the timeline and my conception of it, Wards and Exorcisms flat out WORK.  Repeatable, consistent-- somehow, they've been preserved.  So initial thaumaturgy is closer to anthropological studies mixed in with hasty test work.  I should also note-- I don't know if I'm clear enough on this-- that thaumaturgy doesn't start getting -any- reliable results for 5-6 years afterwards other than, "This ritual works, consistently.  Use it again." and "These rituals are behaving in a similar fashion, despite cultural differences.  How can we investigate their function?"  The first real theoretical breakthrough is Essence Awareness, you see; it's not until 1958 that repeated experiments, minor variations and hypotheses lead to thaumaturgy-style rituals being understood in terms of their causes and effects, and even then, it's really limited except for the wards and exorcisms, which are special cases.  Basically -- 1951 is when people start STUDYING them.  When they realize that (a) these rituals work, and they work repeatably and (b) there might be something behind it.  In actuality, yeah, they spend about 5 years flailing around until clues from the martial artists, who have their own work with chi and similar stuff to contribute when they finally start getting a clue.
-:I _do_ need to work out the committees and Manhattan Project equivalents, though.  You'll notice that historical events rather than Exalted-related ones become less and less frequent as we move from 1950 on.  That's because there've been huge background changes.  The Timeline needs major expansion into 'world events' (I'm probably going to mine wikipedia) before I can make concrete judgments on that-- this is more of the skeleton for when events pop up. -- IsawaBrian
+:I _do_ need to work out the committees and Manhattan Project equivalents, though.  You'll notice that historical events rather than Exalted-related ones become less and less frequent as we move from 1950 on.  That's because there've been huge background changes.  The Timeline needs major expansion into 'world events' (I'm probably going to mine wikipedia) before I can make concrete judgments on that-- this is more of the skeleton for when events pop up. -- [[IsawaBrian]]
 While this is a great setting and timeline, I wonder about something. What are the angels? For the life of me I can't figure out what they are meant to be related to. Still, great setting with a great timeline. -[[Heru]]
-:Thanks.  As for the angels, they're Plot Devices.  I didn't want to get into the effects of the Israeli-Arab conflict, or the Oil Wars, and so on, and so forth, nor did I want the setting to suddenly cause major crises of faith over the whole world.  So, basically, the Middle East is sacrosanct territory.  No religious strife, no wars, none of it.  More or less, the local governments and organizations slowly devolve to social programs, or local problems-- there's no need for militaries or police forces.  Instead of Hell on Earth, it's near paradise-- though not without some complications I'd explore when I got back around to it. :) -- IsawaBrian.
+:Thanks.  As for the angels, they're Plot Devices.  I didn't want to get into the effects of the Israeli-Arab conflict, or the Oil Wars, and so on, and so forth, nor did I want the setting to suddenly cause major crises of faith over the whole world.  So, basically, the Middle East is sacrosanct territory.  No religious strife, no wars, none of it.  More or less, the local governments and organizations slowly devolve to social programs, or local problems-- there's no need for militaries or police forces.  Instead of Hell on Earth, it's near paradise-- though not without some complications I'd explore when I got back around to it. :) -- [[IsawaBrian]].

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 ::The first rumors of martial artists producing unusual effects other than basic thaumaturgy are heard, though nothing comes of it.  (Half-forgotten Terrestrial Martial Arts and Essence awakening techniques)
 ::Scientific study of essence begins in fits and starts in the west, primarily for shadowlands protection.  Mao subsumes Confucianism and odd varieties of Buddhism into his work, and manages to control some of his worse impulses due to their obvious negative effects on campaigns.  Stalin continues his bloody purges, claiming that the "zombies" are the result of Western sabotage and "dirty people".  Zombie waves strike USSR territories as a result.
-::Senator Joseph McCarthy nearly sabotages attempts to prop up Mao and prevent the loss of China during his feud with Truman.  Members of the Republican party as well as Democratic politicians come together to bring McCarthy’s witch-hunts to an end during the height of his power after a long and prolonged fight that would have dire repercussions on American thaumatech research.
+::Senator Joseph [[McCarthy]] nearly sabotages attempts to prop up Mao and prevent the loss of China during his feud with Truman.  Members of the Republican party as well as Democratic politicians come together to bring [[McCarthy]]’s witch-hunts to an end during the height of his power after a long and prolonged fight that would have dire repercussions on American thaumatech research.
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 === Comments ===
-Pretty nice, and involved, but the development of Essence-science seems ''far'' too fast, in my opinion. Science, as a concept, won't turn to 'non science' at first. Since Essence wasn't around for the past many-thousand years, we don't have means of detecting, manipulating, or controlling Essence flows. What (in my head) would happen would be the first scientists noticing 'problems' with experiments ''sometimes'' being repeatable, and trying to track down what "universal constant" is changing. You'd eventually have people proposing cock-a-mamy theories such as "Being close to the wilderness, on a full moon, and having a church next door praying causes this to work more reliably", which, of course, is rejected for publication, because that's just hooey. Thing is, this would go on for 2-3 years, until ''every'' research scientist who's seeing (and rejecting) these papers starts seeing trends in these submissions, and starts trying things like it in his own lab. Eventually, major scientists will start meeting, and start accepting these papers in new journals - the journal of unexplained science, for example. By this point, the government has research labs forming (think Oak Ridge National Lab) in the middle of nowhere, with controlled environments, and lots of young new scientists trying to harness these "unexplained sciences" for weapons and 'defense' purposes. In my head, it'd be easily 5 years from the 'creation' of Essence before science really had anything going. In your situation, you've got it only one year afterwards, which is too fast, in my opinion. This continues, with major essence-science developments occurring without major committee and scientific community changes. Once Dragonbloods Exalt, well, all bets are off, as these guys can see, feel, and manipulate Essence - hence, easily repeatable experiments, easily observed results, and ''finally'', someone to say "Well of ''course'' it's not working. The hospital nearby is just ''leaking'' death-essence. Can't you guys tell?"   -- GreenLantern
+Pretty nice, and involved, but the development of Essence-science seems ''far'' too fast, in my opinion. Science, as a concept, won't turn to 'non science' at first. Since Essence wasn't around for the past many-thousand years, we don't have means of detecting, manipulating, or controlling Essence flows. What (in my head) would happen would be the first scientists noticing 'problems' with experiments ''sometimes'' being repeatable, and trying to track down what "universal constant" is changing. You'd eventually have people proposing cock-a-mamy theories such as "Being close to the wilderness, on a full moon, and having a church next door praying causes this to work more reliably", which, of course, is rejected for publication, because that's just hooey. Thing is, this would go on for 2-3 years, until ''every'' research scientist who's seeing (and rejecting) these papers starts seeing trends in these submissions, and starts trying things like it in his own lab. Eventually, major scientists will start meeting, and start accepting these papers in new journals - the journal of unexplained science, for example. By this point, the government has research labs forming (think Oak Ridge National Lab) in the middle of nowhere, with controlled environments, and lots of young new scientists trying to harness these "unexplained sciences" for weapons and 'defense' purposes. In my head, it'd be easily 5 years from the 'creation' of Essence before science really had anything going. In your situation, you've got it only one year afterwards, which is too fast, in my opinion. This continues, with major essence-science developments occurring without major committee and scientific community changes. Once Dragonbloods Exalt, well, all bets are off, as these guys can see, feel, and manipulate Essence - hence, easily repeatable experiments, easily observed results, and ''finally'', someone to say "Well of ''course'' it's not working. The hospital nearby is just ''leaking'' death-essence. Can't you guys tell?"   -- [[GreenLantern]]
 :Well, there are a couple of assumptions that are made here.  First of all, anyone who flat out rejects the use of thaumaturgy-- Essence science isn't really a proper term until the Celestials or maybe the Dragon Kings, I might need to change it-- is going to get ignored.  The restless dead situation is too great, and besides, there are <i>Angels</i> in the Middle East.  Yeah, you get a lot of 'it's aliens!' theory and so forth, but most people have to deal with the realities of the moment.  Also, I think we're viewing the effects of thaumaturgy a bit different.  In the timeline and my conception of it, Wards and Exorcisms flat out WORK.  Repeatable, consistent-- somehow, they've been preserved.  So initial thaumaturgy is closer to anthropological studies mixed in with hasty test work.  I should also note-- I don't know if I'm clear enough on this-- that thaumaturgy doesn't start getting -any- reliable results for 5-6 years afterwards other than, "This ritual works, consistently.  Use it again." and "These rituals are behaving in a similar fashion, despite cultural differences.  How can we investigate their function?"  The first real theoretical breakthrough is Essence Awareness, you see; it's not until 1958 that repeated experiments, minor variations and hypotheses lead to thaumaturgy-style rituals being understood in terms of their causes and effects, and even then, it's really limited except for the wards and exorcisms, which are special cases.  Basically -- 1951 is when people start STUDYING them.  When they realize that (a) these rituals work, and they work repeatably and (b) there might be something behind it.  In actuality, yeah, they spend about 5 years flailing around until clues from the martial artists, who have their own work with chi and similar stuff to contribute when they finally start getting a clue.
-:I _do_ need to work out the committees and Manhattan Project equivalents, though.  You'll notice that historical events rather than Exalted-related ones become less and less frequent as we move from 1950 on.  That's because there've been huge background changes.  The Timeline needs major expansion into 'world events' (I'm probably going to mine wikipedia) before I can make concrete judgments on that-- this is more of the skeleton for when events pop up. -- IsawaBrian
+:I _do_ need to work out the committees and Manhattan Project equivalents, though.  You'll notice that historical events rather than Exalted-related ones become less and less frequent as we move from 1950 on.  That's because there've been huge background changes.  The Timeline needs major expansion into 'world events' (I'm probably going to mine wikipedia) before I can make concrete judgments on that-- this is more of the skeleton for when events pop up. -- [[IsawaBrian]]
 While this is a great setting and timeline, I wonder about something. What are the angels? For the life of me I can't figure out what they are meant to be related to. Still, great setting with a great timeline. -[[Heru]]
-:Thanks.  As for the angels, they're Plot Devices.  I didn't want to get into the effects of the Israeli-Arab conflict, or the Oil Wars, and so on, and so forth, nor did I want the setting to suddenly cause major crises of faith over the whole world.  So, basically, the Middle East is sacrosanct territory.  No religious strife, no wars, none of it.  More or less, the local governments and organizations slowly devolve to social programs, or local problems-- there's no need for militaries or police forces.  Instead of Hell on Earth, it's near paradise-- though not without some complications I'd explore when I got back around to it. :) -- IsawaBrian.
+:Thanks.  As for the angels, they're Plot Devices.  I didn't want to get into the effects of the Israeli-Arab conflict, or the Oil Wars, and so on, and so forth, nor did I want the setting to suddenly cause major crises of faith over the whole world.  So, basically, the Middle East is sacrosanct territory.  No religious strife, no wars, none of it.  More or less, the local governments and organizations slowly devolve to social programs, or local problems-- there's no need for militaries or police forces.  Instead of Hell on Earth, it's near paradise-- though not without some complications I'd explore when I got back around to it. :) -- [[IsawaBrian]].
 Instead of a set of wards in the Himalayas, I'd go with making the angel-protected zone explicitly have as its eastern border the limits of the Ganges river valley.  This 1) defuses the Kashmir conflict, which is as big a deal as the conflicts over Israel, if less-reported in the U.S., and 2) puts the cradles of most of the world's major religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Baha'iism, and Zoroastrianism) into a single protected zone.  For the western border, I'd use the Mediterranean, then the Nile down to the Atbarah, the Atbarah to the Tekeze, and then along some line from the Tekeze to the Red Sea.  (This puts Axum, which has a cathedral that supposedly houses the Ark of the Covenant, and the Axum Stele Field, in the zone.)  For the south, the Indian Ocean works fine.  The northern boundary would consist of the Bosporus, Sea of Marmara, Dardanelles, Caucasus, Caspian Sea, and the some line approximately along the northern borders of Iran-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India.  "Sacred exceptions" to the border would bulge out very slightly to the west to put the Giza Pyramid complex and the Hagia Sophia in the zone. -[[See]]

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 ::The first rumors of martial artists producing unusual effects other than basic thaumaturgy are heard, though nothing comes of it.  (Half-forgotten Terrestrial Martial Arts and Essence awakening techniques)
 ::Scientific study of essence begins in fits and starts in the west, primarily for shadowlands protection.  Mao subsumes Confucianism and odd varieties of Buddhism into his work, and manages to control some of his worse impulses due to their obvious negative effects on campaigns.  Stalin continues his bloody purges, claiming that the "zombies" are the result of Western sabotage and "dirty people".  Zombie waves strike USSR territories as a result.
-::Senator Joseph [[McCarthy]] nearly sabotages attempts to prop up Mao and prevent the loss of China during his feud with Truman.  Members of the Republican party as well as Democratic politicians come together to bring [[McCarthy]]’s witch-hunts to an end during the height of his power after a long and prolonged fight that would have dire repercussions on American thaumatech research.
+::Senator Joseph McCarthy nearly sabotages attempts to prop up Mao and prevent the loss of China during his feud with Truman.  Members of the Republican party as well as Democratic politicians come together to bring McCarthy’s witch-hunts to an end during the height of his power after a long and prolonged fight that would have dire repercussions on American thaumatech research.
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 === Comments ===
-Pretty nice, and involved, but the development of Essence-science seems ''far'' too fast, in my opinion. Science, as a concept, won't turn to 'non science' at first. Since Essence wasn't around for the past many-thousand years, we don't have means of detecting, manipulating, or controlling Essence flows. What (in my head) would happen would be the first scientists noticing 'problems' with experiments ''sometimes'' being repeatable, and trying to track down what "universal constant" is changing. You'd eventually have people proposing cock-a-mamy theories such as "Being close to the wilderness, on a full moon, and having a church next door praying causes this to work more reliably", which, of course, is rejected for publication, because that's just hooey. Thing is, this would go on for 2-3 years, until ''every'' research scientist who's seeing (and rejecting) these papers starts seeing trends in these submissions, and starts trying things like it in his own lab. Eventually, major scientists will start meeting, and start accepting these papers in new journals - the journal of unexplained science, for example. By this point, the government has research labs forming (think Oak Ridge National Lab) in the middle of nowhere, with controlled environments, and lots of young new scientists trying to harness these "unexplained sciences" for weapons and 'defense' purposes. In my head, it'd be easily 5 years from the 'creation' of Essence before science really had anything going. In your situation, you've got it only one year afterwards, which is too fast, in my opinion. This continues, with major essence-science developments occurring without major committee and scientific community changes. Once Dragonbloods Exalt, well, all bets are off, as these guys can see, feel, and manipulate Essence - hence, easily repeatable experiments, easily observed results, and ''finally'', someone to say "Well of ''course'' it's not working. The hospital nearby is just ''leaking'' death-essence. Can't you guys tell?"   -- [[GreenLantern]]
+Pretty nice, and involved, but the development of Essence-science seems ''far'' too fast, in my opinion. Science, as a concept, won't turn to 'non science' at first. Since Essence wasn't around for the past many-thousand years, we don't have means of detecting, manipulating, or controlling Essence flows. What (in my head) would happen would be the first scientists noticing 'problems' with experiments ''sometimes'' being repeatable, and trying to track down what "universal constant" is changing. You'd eventually have people proposing cock-a-mamy theories such as "Being close to the wilderness, on a full moon, and having a church next door praying causes this to work more reliably", which, of course, is rejected for publication, because that's just hooey. Thing is, this would go on for 2-3 years, until ''every'' research scientist who's seeing (and rejecting) these papers starts seeing trends in these submissions, and starts trying things like it in his own lab. Eventually, major scientists will start meeting, and start accepting these papers in new journals - the journal of unexplained science, for example. By this point, the government has research labs forming (think Oak Ridge National Lab) in the middle of nowhere, with controlled environments, and lots of young new scientists trying to harness these "unexplained sciences" for weapons and 'defense' purposes. In my head, it'd be easily 5 years from the 'creation' of Essence before science really had anything going. In your situation, you've got it only one year afterwards, which is too fast, in my opinion. This continues, with major essence-science developments occurring without major committee and scientific community changes. Once Dragonbloods Exalt, well, all bets are off, as these guys can see, feel, and manipulate Essence - hence, easily repeatable experiments, easily observed results, and ''finally'', someone to say "Well of ''course'' it's not working. The hospital nearby is just ''leaking'' death-essence. Can't you guys tell?"   -- GreenLantern
 :Well, there are a couple of assumptions that are made here.  First of all, anyone who flat out rejects the use of thaumaturgy-- Essence science isn't really a proper term until the Celestials or maybe the Dragon Kings, I might need to change it-- is going to get ignored.  The restless dead situation is too great, and besides, there are <i>Angels</i> in the Middle East.  Yeah, you get a lot of 'it's aliens!' theory and so forth, but most people have to deal with the realities of the moment.  Also, I think we're viewing the effects of thaumaturgy a bit different.  In the timeline and my conception of it, Wards and Exorcisms flat out WORK.  Repeatable, consistent-- somehow, they've been preserved.  So initial thaumaturgy is closer to anthropological studies mixed in with hasty test work.  I should also note-- I don't know if I'm clear enough on this-- that thaumaturgy doesn't start getting -any- reliable results for 5-6 years afterwards other than, "This ritual works, consistently.  Use it again." and "These rituals are behaving in a similar fashion, despite cultural differences.  How can we investigate their function?"  The first real theoretical breakthrough is Essence Awareness, you see; it's not until 1958 that repeated experiments, minor variations and hypotheses lead to thaumaturgy-style rituals being understood in terms of their causes and effects, and even then, it's really limited except for the wards and exorcisms, which are special cases.  Basically -- 1951 is when people start STUDYING them.  When they realize that (a) these rituals work, and they work repeatably and (b) there might be something behind it.  In actuality, yeah, they spend about 5 years flailing around until clues from the martial artists, who have their own work with chi and similar stuff to contribute when they finally start getting a clue.
-:I _do_ need to work out the committees and Manhattan Project equivalents, though.  You'll notice that historical events rather than Exalted-related ones become less and less frequent as we move from 1950 on.  That's because there've been huge background changes.  The Timeline needs major expansion into 'world events' (I'm probably going to mine wikipedia) before I can make concrete judgments on that-- this is more of the skeleton for when events pop up. -- [[IsawaBrian]]
+:I _do_ need to work out the committees and Manhattan Project equivalents, though.  You'll notice that historical events rather than Exalted-related ones become less and less frequent as we move from 1950 on.  That's because there've been huge background changes.  The Timeline needs major expansion into 'world events' (I'm probably going to mine wikipedia) before I can make concrete judgments on that-- this is more of the skeleton for when events pop up. -- IsawaBrian
 While this is a great setting and timeline, I wonder about something. What are the angels? For the life of me I can't figure out what they are meant to be related to. Still, great setting with a great timeline. -[[Heru]]
-:Thanks.  As for the angels, they're Plot Devices.  I didn't want to get into the effects of the Israeli-Arab conflict, or the Oil Wars, and so on, and so forth, nor did I want the setting to suddenly cause major crises of faith over the whole world.  So, basically, the Middle East is sacrosanct territory.  No religious strife, no wars, none of it.  More or less, the local governments and organizations slowly devolve to social programs, or local problems-- there's no need for militaries or police forces.  Instead of Hell on Earth, it's near paradise-- though not without some complications I'd explore when I got back around to it. :) -- [[IsawaBrian]].
+:Thanks.  As for the angels, they're Plot Devices.  I didn't want to get into the effects of the Israeli-Arab conflict, or the Oil Wars, and so on, and so forth, nor did I want the setting to suddenly cause major crises of faith over the whole world.  So, basically, the Middle East is sacrosanct territory.  No religious strife, no wars, none of it.  More or less, the local governments and organizations slowly devolve to social programs, or local problems-- there's no need for militaries or police forces.  Instead of Hell on Earth, it's near paradise-- though not without some complications I'd explore when I got back around to it. :) -- IsawaBrian.

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