A Reason for Magical Ores: Science Vs. Magic

[Sam Guivene]

You might be able to sabotage computers and terminals with koshamarite, causing them to do weird things at random every now and then, such as the bank records shuffling wages, security records getting corrupted, communication consoles randomly calling/recalling the shuttle, etc. This would require you to take out the offending ore piece from the computer terminal.

But here's a fun and incredibly dangerous idea:

Koshamarite power cells.

Due to being infused with energy far ahead of the station tech's capabilities, this rapidly increases productivity and energy capacity at the cost of randomly-influcted malfunctions, such as APCs shooting lightning, cyborgs having momentary flip-outs, flash/cell assemblies randomly detonating, and so on and so forth.

For magic ores why not add a bunch of random "Wizardish" laws, such as "You are now in charge of the ministry of muggle studies, loudly observe and catalog muggle actions, do not interfere with muggles in there native habitat." or, "You are now a member of house Slytherin, act arrogant and be an all around jerk." , alternatively, have it randomly change the borg sprite to a scary spooky skeleton, a ferret, a hypogriph, a house elf, an owl, or one of several other "wizardish" sprites,