...and I just thought of a third possibility for the whole magic issue.
The connection between the Linker Core and the coronae isn't to power a cape's powers. It's to siphon the mage's power. Cape-power is solely provided by the shard in that approach. The only problem with this whole line of thought is that MSLN-canon Earth has very few people with mage potential- less than the number of people who can/will trigger. The two don't really line up.
...if you did have a more Mid-like population, the entities would be drawing power from everybody with the capacity to trigger, and only spending power on the people who do. That's a much more reasonable deal to make, and I could see Earth as being the exception- a world that actually causes the entities (well, now just Zion) not to at least break even.
I'm mostly the same way, re: creativity. I feel your pain.
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.
The connection between the Linker Core and the coronae isn't to power a cape's powers. It's to siphon the mage's power. Cape-power is solely provided by the shard in that approach. The only problem with this whole line of thought is that MSLN-canon Earth has very few people with mage potential- less than the number of people who can/will trigger. The two don't really line up.
...if you did have a more Mid-like population, the entities would be drawing power from everybody with the capacity to trigger, and only spending power on the people who do. That's a much more reasonable deal to make, and I could see Earth as being the exception- a world that actually causes the entities (well, now just Zion) not to at least break even.
I'm mostly the same way, re: creativity. I feel your pain.
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.