In the latter part of this year, when did we even USE the Wing? How could it be unbalancing if we never used it? And pretty much every single thing we ever encountered could not only nullify every one of its special capabilities, but seize control of it and bitchslap it and us like a red-headed step-child despite every single thing we did?

Now consider that the Wing has been approved for... oh, since Gillian was CST, and I had just started running the game. Well over a year. The first thing they did when taking office was say, "Oh, we don't think you can have the Wing, it's..." And they proceeded to provide about six different reasons. Such as "you can't have a Forces 5 Effect on an Artifact because your MC doesn't allow it" (patent bullshit) or something about NST approval (the hell?!). Finally they just said, "Okay, you have to rewrite these Effects, and post them on the database so we can approve it." And then the Wing got stolen. And they made promises like, "Oh, well, you'll have a chance to get it back" (which is *bullshit* because of the strength of the Technocracy). So I'm permanently out ten experience points on Vertigo -- and that's a freakin' Adept level Sphere, I could have Life 4 if I didn't have 10 dots of Wonder on my sheet which are permanently useless.