[@Menhir]

Regardless, Scio set the rule: magic interferes with technology. This is one of the laws of this universe and however Scio chooses to explain it is fine. I don't really enjoy the idea of nitpicking the RP so I think the simple solution here is to just drop if Scio's game isn't agreeing with your tastes. I, for one, would like to continue our IC fun within the laws of the world. 

I'm fine with arbitrary rules, in short, so long as they're consistent and reasonable.