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aberrantangelsAberrant: Year One has this happening August 19; it can't happen any earlier than the date I assigned it for the TU timeline, but I'm not sure it happens even that early.
Zam is one of those novas who really ought to've been mentioned in the Aberrant corebook, given the effect he had on his part of the world. Born in Karachi, Pakistan; sent off to England for secondary-age schooling; returned home only weeks before N-Day, at which point he erupted with super-intelligence and telekinesis. For the first few years of the Nova Age, his intelligence was the really important gift; he was one of three people who came forward after N-Day with thoughts on how to improve Karachi's quality of life. (His aberrations hardly matter to most Pakistanis: as of 2006, they consist of hairlessness and a slightly enlarged braincase.)
In the most recent Kashmir conflict, Zam was one of four novas the Pakistani government asked to intervene on its behalf, though it took them 48 hours to respond to the Chinese incursion (hours during which, as he points out to ICC prosecutor Russell Markham, neither the UN nor Team Tomorrow took any action). "It seemed likely at the time," he says, "that fewer of the Pakistani troops would be injured if the novas went in first."
The killing started when Zam dodged an energy blast from Chinese nova "Mu Lung", which hit a group of UN observers and reduced them to ashes, at which point Zam started blasting away at Mu Lung. The Chinese nova was impervious to the telekinetic attack, but not to himself.
When T2M Central finally showed up, the Chinese and Pakistani novas "put aside [their] differences to deal with them." But Mu Lung's powers started to go out of control, and he fled as fast as he could, hoping his incipient overload would thereby kill as few people as possible. Zam followed, hoping he could help, but arrived just in time to be blinded by the explosion (which melted the battling military vehicles and vaporized their operators, and also killed Mu Lung's teammate Fong and India's "Tiger Five"). Don't worry about Zam, though; his eyes will have recovered in about a year.
September? 19 [Aberrant]
Pakistani nova Zubin Alhazred Mohammed ("Zam") testifies in his own defense in his trial before the World Court, United Nations as plaintiff.
Zam is one of those novas who really ought to've been mentioned in the Aberrant corebook, given the effect he had on his part of the world. Born in Karachi, Pakistan; sent off to England for secondary-age schooling; returned home only weeks before N-Day, at which point he erupted with super-intelligence and telekinesis. For the first few years of the Nova Age, his intelligence was the really important gift; he was one of three people who came forward after N-Day with thoughts on how to improve Karachi's quality of life. (His aberrations hardly matter to most Pakistanis: as of 2006, they consist of hairlessness and a slightly enlarged braincase.)
In the most recent Kashmir conflict, Zam was one of four novas the Pakistani government asked to intervene on its behalf, though it took them 48 hours to respond to the Chinese incursion (hours during which, as he points out to ICC prosecutor Russell Markham, neither the UN nor Team Tomorrow took any action). "It seemed likely at the time," he says, "that fewer of the Pakistani troops would be injured if the novas went in first."
The killing started when Zam dodged an energy blast from Chinese nova "Mu Lung", which hit a group of UN observers and reduced them to ashes, at which point Zam started blasting away at Mu Lung. The Chinese nova was impervious to the telekinetic attack, but not to himself.
When T2M Central finally showed up, the Chinese and Pakistani novas "put aside [their] differences to deal with them." But Mu Lung's powers started to go out of control, and he fled as fast as he could, hoping his incipient overload would thereby kill as few people as possible. Zam followed, hoping he could help, but arrived just in time to be blinded by the explosion (which melted the battling military vehicles and vaporized their operators, and also killed Mu Lung's teammate Fong and India's "Tiger Five"). Don't worry about Zam, though; his eyes will have recovered in about a year.
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