QUOTE (JanessaVR @ May 14 2016, 01:34 AM)

So, I conclude that the rules of magic say nothing about prohibiting the function of supplying a controlled flow of electricity into the battery of a device you're holding in your hand (or least within sight of).
And when looking at what magic
can do, there are multiple spells operating in the same ballpark. Lightning-based spells are the obvious ones, but there are also spells creating acids, oxygenating blood (which is slightly more complicated than just creating a few gas bubbles in the blood stream), interacting with various toxins, or even directly increasing the thermal energy of a body without heat transfer (Ignite). But messing with the chemistry of a battery is suddenly impossible? Sorry, I'm not convinced.
Also note that all those spells appear in either the 1st Ed BBB or the original
Grimoire and are not later additions by authors who had no idea of Paul Hume's vision for the magic system.
On the other hand, these examples also show how free electricity from magic isn't something added to the setting in
That Book. All you ever needed was something to convert the various forms of energy magic can generate to electricity, which is an area humanity has been quite creative in...
Anyway, back to space: It is actually possible to create a manasphere in space, you just need enough living things (plants suffice). Ares has done it on their Daedalus station (see
Street Magic) and uses the resulting self-contained manaphere for astral quests to the Invae home plane, in
Augmentation there also is this tidbit on Mars:
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> It’s a matter of time. Both Evo and Proteus are toiling away on projects to “green” Mars at some point in the future.
> Plan-9
> Omae, they’ve already started.
> Orbital DK