This day in Trinity Universe history: Overseas reportage

[aberrantangels]

Okay, I admit it, that post was to provide a buffer. Not one datum, but two data.

1983
[Aberrant] Allison Hughes, later the elite and Terat known as "Shrapnel," born in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Only 17 when a car bomb outside her church killed her family and triggered her eruption, Alison became a ward of Her Majesty's Government, which bundled her off to "the Farmhouse", their training facility for elites. The way she was treated there has turned her against baselines. They shut down her emotions as best they could and turned her into a walking weapon. Violence is her only outlet for the pain of being an orphan.

2000
[Aberrant] Fidel Castro dies. Cuba spends the following weeks in political turmoil. When the dust clears, a democratically elected president and legislative body take control of the government. Cuba's relations with the rest of the world normalize by July.

In the real world OTL, on April 8, 2000, Cuba was in the news because of the ongoing fuss over Elián Gonzalez (which wouldn't concluded for another two weeks or so). Whether that happened the same way in the Trinity Universe is debatable. It may be that novas saved Elián and his mother both (which was more than Peggy Noonan's Jesus dolphins managed in OTL), and so there was less of a dispute over his custody. It may be (it was my default assumption, actually) that the Miami relatives were quite willing to let Elián go back to Cuba once it began its transformation into the free-market paradise it will have become by 2008. We'll have to wait until the June release of d20 Aberrant, at the earliest, to find out any sort of official ruling. (Assuming, of course, that the guys at Sword & Sorcery decide to tweak the timeline to take these OTL developments into account at all. I do hope they keep President Schroer, though, for many of the reasons outlined in the post to which his name links.)