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Warhammer 40k universum had technopriests - a caste of people maintaining technology and treating that as spiritual rituals (blessing the doors with sacred oils
by ajuc 7y ago
Warhammer 40k universum had technopriests - a caste of people maintaining technology and treating that as spiritual rituals (blessing the doors with sacred oils so that they become content and don't scream :), etc).
Funny how we could actually get to a similar point with computer technology.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoBabylon 5 had technomages. Similar, if a little less sinister.
- krapp 7y agoJMS obviously wanted to sneak in some high fantasy into his SF. The mystical themes (an epic battle between beings of light versus beings of shadow, resurrection, reincarnation, immortality, fate versus free will) names like Lorien, Morden, Zha Ha Dum, technomages (wizards - the "techno" part was just a thinly veiled contrivance, they were obviously just wizards) and the like are all basically fantasy tropes. The Minbari were space elves and I defy you to prove me wrong. And then you watch Crusade and realize it's literally an RPG party doing quests in a spaceship.
- zipwitch 7y agoAs opposed to Legends of Tomorrow, which is an RPG party doing "adventure of the week" on a timeship. (I enjoy Legends of Tomorrow a lot. It totally feels like the writers are running weekly gaming sessions and turning them into scripts.)
- rgovostes 7y agoThis is an element of Asimov’s later Foundation series books. I wonder if even then the idea was not original.