Flipping a zone – that is, making a sudden polar shift from Technocratic Reality to Primal Reality – is almost impossible for a small group or single individual. The Technocracy and Traditions have been trying to accomplish such feats for centuries, and neither one has succeeded. Instead, the shifts come about by changing Localized Reality, winning hearts and minds over to a particular cause.

Such shifts have massive repercussions. The gradual shift from Primal to Technocratic realities has involved a gradual process and several catastrophes like the Triangle Trade and both World Wars. A polar shift back to Primal Reality would be even more catastrophic – it would be the sudden collapse of everything we hold to be real… in short, an Apocalypse from which almost nothing from our world remains. That almost happened during the Week of Nightmares, but it has not happened yet. And although many mystics speak fondly about such things in an abstract sense, no sane person wants them to happen for real.

(Marauders, of course, are insane by definition… and although the Nephandi might possess some awful form of sanity, it’s not one most other people share.)