Chaing-ku aren't human either, I don't think tats have ever been exclusive to'm.
Mark Hall wrote:The CS has long taken some logically dodgy stances. Ghosts, Slayers, and Stalkers are all psychics, and psychics are OK (largely, I would imagine, because they occur naturally within the human population).
Dragons are psychics too, so are mind-bleeders and mystics
I'm not singling them out for being psychics, but rather for their non-psychic aspects, like being mutants with things like a major super power, or being a PPE vampire who has to torture living beings to survive (not limited to psi/mag/sup for slayer) or else capture/cut them, being someone who can turn into MDC, who can feed on ley-lines. What motive does a Stalker have to protect CS farmland when they can go survive on their sour-milk ley lines that let them survive without armor?
Mark Hall wrote:Non-humans are horrible, evil creatures, but they largely embrace several non-humans (mutant animals) as being useful (though not as full people).
I would say the CS embraces "Earthlings", all other animal species are non-human but have a natural place here, Dog Boys and go are just human enhancements to their pets. Of course, they can twist the idea on who is perceived to be a native earthling. Other species who have been here a long time or even predate humanity can be retconned by CS diplomats to be considered new arrivals who are lying
Mark Hall wrote:Magic is always suspect according to the official CS line. And someone who has been magically altered by alien beings to have magic? While some individuals blur that line a little bit (the RCSG study magic, but don't officially use it; the CS will us magic-enabled mercenaries with enough deniability), the official line stands at "magic is a horrible, corrupting force, to be destroyed at all costs."
They aren't that extreme, the CS takes mages prisoner after all (good emergency food supply for Psi-Stalkers, just cut their tongues, bind their hands, blast white noise into their ears, etc) so they could probably just throw someone beset with a tattoo infection into a room with some Nega/Nullifier psionics and work on how to fix them.
Mark Hall wrote:the official line on him is "He has been corrupted by magic and must die."
Per where? CS does not have an absolute "mages must die" public policy anywhere I've seen, just an overwhelming propensity to do it.
Maybe SoT events changed this (page?) but CWCp32 mentions that "practitioners" of magic aren't allowed into cities. It only says they "may" be exterminated. So even in the case of intentionally-learned guys like Walkers/Shifters they could be allowed to live within CS territory, just not allowed within population centers within cities due to the danger they pose.
I don't even know if T-Men are considered to be a 'practitioner' of magic, anyone with 1-6 I don't think would be (not even an OCC change) I always figured them to be more of a men-at-arms class. Just having magical abilities thrust on you doesn't make you a practitioner, or are Bio-Borgs now a practitioner-of-magic OCC?
ShadowLogan wrote:human mutants are specifically said to be out of bounds. Which I got from WB2.
Which page? WB21p107 only mentions 'most' human mutants can't use it. Atlantis said all?
Subjugator wrote:Ogres would also be excluded under that rationale, too.
Actually I dunno if a solid enough stance exists on Ogres. Are they mutant humans, or are humans mutant ogres, or are we cousins branched from an earlier common ancestor like humans/chimps?