Yesteryear in the Trinity Universe?

[aberrantangels]

(edited 9:09 PM to note that it's xposted to aeoncontinuum, and again at 9:10 to correct the mood icon.)

camwyn quoted her answer to lots42's question "What would your favorite fandom be like if it took place a hundred years earlier?" In the same spirit, I'll quote mine:

As I noted on camwyn's journal, one of the people working with me on the Trinity Storytellers Handbook is writing the alternate settings chapter, one of which involves Trinity's psions appearing in the early 21st century (instead of the early 22nd) in place of Aberrant's novas. You'll get the details if we ever accidentally get our shit together and finish the book.

If the Nova Age had happened from 1898 to the mid-20th century, things would have been sufficiently different to deserve an entire post. If the Hammersmith Incident (from Adventure!) had happened in 1822, the Inspiration Age would probably have looked downright Gothic (if not actually Gothic-[Steam]Punk).

But, again as I asked J., does it have to be a whole century? I've long thought that the Trinity Universe might have been an interesting place if the Inspiration Age, instead of ending in the forties/fifties and taking most Inspiration with it, had segued into a Stalwart Golden Age which became a Nova Silver Age. Alas, that wasn't what Andrew Bates and company had in mind.

Comments, anyone?

Comments

[etherlad.livejournal.com]

My only real comment is that, looking at the timeline we've got (particularly now that it's linear rather than sorted by month), I feel there's some evidence to suggest there was a pre-Hammersmith Hammersmith Incident in the late 1800s. Probably 1880 or so.

Scalper Dutch would be one example of someone Inspired by this incident.

It would certainly work nicely with an LoEG game.

[aberrantangels]

*nods* Either a pre-Hammersmith telluric energy release, or (as some Inspiration Age scientists theorized) the effects of Hammersmith's experiment somehow echoing backward in time. (Or else my own occasional notion that what happened at Atlas Cross was a reality quake subsuming [a version of] the World of Darkness. That, however, begs the question of what Scalper Dutch, Jack Tallon and other proto-Inspired were in the old dispensation.)