This day in Trinity Universe history

[aberrantangels]

Well, the birds like it. (I have reason to believe archangelbeth at least will get that.)

1981
[Aberrant] David Scondras, a director of the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, receives a letter of inquiry from Dr. Aaron Richards of the Æon Society dated this date. Evidently, Richards is aware of what Scondras thought was a private letter to Governor Harris, asking for a declaration of medical emergency (based on findings of a CDC colleague); is responsible for halting that declaration (or else is speaking on behalf of the responsible Æon parties); and requires that the patient in question be transferred to a private Æon facility in New Jersey.

Judging from Scondras' reply, which Aberrant: Project Utopia quotes (and I will, too, when the time comes), the patient is a tainted eximorph whom Æon wants to study. Æon was aware of an upsurge in Inspired phenomena from 1970, even though the world at large doesn't seem to have noticed, or at least not seriously. By 1998, the only remaining trace was the Galatea. Speaking of which...

2003
[Aberrant] Team Tomorrow carries out a dramatic rescue of the space shuttle Discovery after a sizable meteor strikes the shuttle, knocking it off course and igniting an oxygen tank. The entire crew survives the rescue. This event marks the point at which governments begin to consider novas for space operations and exploration.

Weirdly enough, here in OTL, the Columbia was destroyed about that time. That's one of the reasons I didn't launch this journal by having Hugh blog about the Discovery rescue in pseudo-real time. With things like that and the São Paulo bombing, Aberrant almost seems to be anticipating the future we got without novas. Or maybe it's just that they know human nature. Wish I did.

Comments

[ezrael.livejournal.com]

Yep, no novas. I assure you, no novas. You've never spoken to one, there are none, there certainly never were or will be any. Really.

[aberrantangels]

Whatever you say, Mr. Anderson Rossmore. 8-)

Actually, remind me in September, closer to the anniversary, to tell everyone about the real-life experience I used as basis for the day Hugh erupted.