Dartz Wrote:Depends on how public the research is. You know what these SMoF's are like....Anyone "sensible"? It is magic we are talking about. Anyone sensible AND about 90% of yhose who would not be able to find the word Sencible with a dictionaryand google.
If it is, anyone sensible's going to get in on the act in *some* way. Even if it's just tinkering under the covers.
What worries me slightly is the political damage about all the secrecy, because it goes way too close to dystopism, but we have an entire mayor Faction of magical fen (even if we always ignore then in the stories) -two if we count the magical girls. Learning that another faction has known and researched magic for years and did not told then is the kind of betrayal of trust that is able to break a political system, with the Wizards leaving the convention.
This is something that the lack of interest on wtiting about then can help: Since we know nothing about what the Wizards have been doing after the war, maybe the Soviets and Stellvia did not actually keep magic secret for then, they simply asked for discrection. With the awful loses they suffered after the war, they would have been in Moody-levels of security paranoia, so they might agree with no problem, for the first few years at least -that's why the magic secret broke out in the late 10's, the post war mistrust had lessened enough by then.
We have not heard of the wizards again because they have been buried under hundreds of heavy tomes in their magic towers in the Belt, busy researching true magic...