This month in Trinity Universe history

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2002
[Aberrant] The Economist coins the term "India Syndrome" for the tendency in third-world and other pre-industrial cultures to view novas as gods, and particularly to those novas who encourage this attitude.

Of course, as we've seen, the tendency to view novas as gods is not unique to the undeveloped world. The Aberrant Players Guide includes campaign suggestions based on the reverse of this equation — what if the ancient gods were early novas who got euhemerized?

This *day* in Trinity Universe history

Not one, not two, but three.

1970
[Aberrant] Marcel Delorimier, later the Terat known as "the Apostle," born in Paris, France.

He was the sort of alienated suburban youth that makes easy pickings for ultranationalist movements, like the militias here in the US or Le Pen's lot in France. Then he erupted, expanding the list of people he considered himself superior to — not just piedsnoirs, but baselines in general.

It was in this state of mind, in the fall of 1999, that he and Caroline Fong met up with two other novas who weren't happy with the rules Æon was laying out for the nova game — jet-setter Raoul Cristobal Orzaiz and gray eminence Pedro Santiago.

Over the years, more disaffected novas (such as Shrapnel) found the nameless movement that resulted from that meeting. Last summer, they reached a critical point when Divis Mal joined — or, rather, when they joined him. He gave them a philosophy — Teras — and a name: the Teragen, omen-bringers. Now, their legacy is our future.

Delorimier has attached himself to Fong. He's a follower looking for leaders, but he has a tendency to betray his current leader when he finds one he likes better.

1998
[Aberrant] The Æon Society publicly announces its UN support and issues an invitation to open dialogue with any interested novas. The UN works behind the scenes to calm and reassure the world that Æon can handle the nova outbreak.

It's hinted (in the Trinity core rules, as I recall) that the UN was an Æon creation. Make of that what you will.

2001
[Aberrant] The Sternych Missive, in which Petr Ilyanovich, Calvin Lathrop and Mitsu Nakamura lay out for Eliot Stinson's perusal the case for the Directive and for US involvement therein.

They didn't have to do much persuading — Stinson, President Schroer's Assistant Secretary of Defense, was one of the first to realize that Project Utopia's interests would not always be identical with America's (and, in fact, already weren't).

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2004
[Aberrant] The World Health Organization approves a host of new genetic engineering techniques, many of which were developed in conjunction with the Triton Foundation over the past few years. Most national food inspection organizations (such as the Food and Drug Administration in the US) copy this move, marking the first widespread international use of genetic engineering for livestock and crops. World food production increases by 25% over the next two years.

All in all, the TU populace seems to accept genetically modified organisms in a way I can't quite see their OTL counterparts doing. Maybe it's because human GMOs have done so much good for that world.