[Torg] Penicillin aside

[Travis James Hall]

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> From: torg-bounces at justintimeadventures.com 
> [mailto:torg-bounces at justintimeadventures.com] On Behalf Of 
> Stephen John Smoogen
> 
> Well it could also be a spiritual or magical at before then.

Sure, it could. And velcro isn't listed either, perhaps it stays fastened
through the power of faith too.

The logic you present seems to be "If it wasn't developed through rigourous
modern science, and it doesn't appear on the Tech axiom chart, it could be
governed by a different axiom".

An awful lot of technological advances were passed down from many, many
generations through word of mouth, and were often not questioned thoroughly
by the receiver. That doesn't make them magical or spiritual advances
instead, even when those advances were later superceded. Even when it is
phrased as "my pappy said".

The determining factor as to what axiom governs the effect is the mechanism
by which it works. If it is a direct result of faith or the supernatural,
Spiritual or Magic respectively. If it is a use of the natural (by
appropriate definition) to produce an effect, it's Technological, regardless
of how much superstition is attached to it or how much people believe it
will work.

(And it's late, and I can't be bothered working Social into that.)

So, if mould produces an antibacterial chemical (as some do) and that can
have an effect on infection (as it did and does), and people can work that
out and use it (as they did) even prior to the benchmark for actual
penicillin, it's Tech.

Or you can write yourself a different history for Core Earth, and have that
not be the case. Your call, but it isn't indicated by a lack of a benchmark.

Travis Hall