Editing Genius The Transgression/Chapter Three:Systems and Foundations (section)

===Members:===

The Artificers learn by doing, by getting their hands dirty, and every Maker has an incredible, intuitive grasp of how things fit together. Members of the Union of Artifice are interested primarily in building: the theory behind what they do, and even useful applications for their wonders, come second to the joy of creation.

But the Artificers are about more than just factory-work: all geniuses build, and most build compulsively; they cannot help it. The Artificers are about building from whatever is at hand. The new Union is still young and poor, and so are its members. They are disaffected college students, third-world revolutionaries, first-world revolutionaries, punks, pranksters, and pissed-off super-smart gutter trash. The other foundations are old: they have money and philosophy, but the Union of Artifice has attitude. Anyone who joins the Artificers is expected to be self-sufficient, at least in theory, and to be able to make something wondrous from whatever is lying around, with whatever resources are available.