This day in Trinity Universe history

"Many men are born blind and only realize it the day some overwhelming truth tears their eyes open."
— Jean Cocteau, La machine infernelle (freely translated)

1981
[Aberrant] Charlie Benton, later the elite and Terat known as "Epoch," born blind in Queens, NY.

"His parents sent him to the best schools he could afford," says Aberrant: Teragen, "but even there he did not fit in." He became obsessed with the few accounts of serial killers' deeds he could find in Braille editions.

He erupted sometime this year, after a car crash that killed his father and which only his powers enabled him to survive. He came out with gravity control, telekinesis, telepathy and something approximating what Doc Smith called "the sense of perception" — a view of what's around him without the need to "look" at it. After training at the Manhattan Rashoud facility, he began a career as an elite, the only way he knew of to vent his anger and bloodlust.

Today in the Trinity Universe

[Edited 2:41 PM to correct the link I was going to add but didn't. *^_^*]

Out on the horizon
I see a puff of smoke
Indians on the warpath
White man speaking with forked tongue, isn't it?
Pardon that?
— Boys Don't Cry, "I Wanna Be a Cowboy"

2004
[Aberrant] California Law Enforcement Bulletin includes a cult update mentioning nova-centric cults such as the followers of Bhagwan Sri Mahananda and the "Sacred Circles" of Kelly "Calliope" Pierson.

That's one aspect of novahood that Aberrant covered better than most previous, and probably some subsequent, superhero milieux — what they call "Mega-Social" powers. In fact, the only previous treatments of inhuman persuasive ability that I can readily think of were Zebadiah Killgrave, Marvel's "Purple Man" (a villain), and David Harstein, "the Envoy" of the Wild Cards world's "Four Aces" (a hero who had to go into hiding).

One of the Aberrant supplements I was looking forward to was Aberrant: Cult of Personality, which was supposed to be an in-depth discussion of the game effects of Mega-Social attributes and enhancements, with worked examples of their effect on the Nova Age. (Aberrant: Brainwaves, available as an unofficial e-book here, did the same for Mega-Mental powers, and Aberrant: Brute Force would have covered the Mega-Physical.)