Today in the Trinity Universe: what's past is prologue

[aberrantangels]

I'm running late, but I'm running.

June 15
[Aberrant] official beginning of the Aberrant timeframe. There are approximately 40 Aberrants worldwide, all in either deep cover or hiding. To date, neither Corbin nor Rousseau has been captured, and the identity of Slider's assassin remains an official mystery.

Happy birthday, aeonaberrant!

The Democratic Party, searching for a candidate who will make their two major PR liabilities (the "character" issue, still lingering from the Clinton years, and the similarity of their program to the Utopian plan) meaningless, concludes that a nova candidate would solve both problems, and begins scouting Randel Portman.

etherlad has mentioned this as actually happening slightly earlier, but my obsession with every last detail of the TU isn't so deep as to cover every individual date of the 2008 (TU) primary season.

Charlotte "Ghostdancer" Holden, ex-Utopian and one of Slider's contacts, retreats to Ibiza, where she is hunted by Chiraben. A group of Aberrants seeks to find her before Proteus can disappear her. Utopian agents are sent to bring her into custody. Additional Proteus personnel are sent to capture Holden and keep Chiraben in line.

All this in "Permanent Vacation", the mini-adventure story arc included in the Aberrant Storytellers Companion book that came with the Aberrant Storytellers Screen.

Comments

[etherlad.livejournal.com]

I have it that May 30 was when they first come up with the idea of backing a nova president, at the Virginia caucus (c.f. Worldwide Phase I, p. 14). "Around the middle of the month" they get enough support to publicly announce their intentions.

Their decision is more or less certain by mid-July.

I can't find a source for when they decide to pick Randel Portman. Aug 11 is the DNC, but Mark Anthony Green starts going through Portman's journals at the end of July, so Portman must have been a clear favourite by that point, at the very least.

Funny how late in the year all of this happens, and how brief all the campaigning is, compared to OTL. (: