Hello Austin, I wanted to let you know that this journal has been very useful to me. I only own both Adventure PDFs and the Aberrant PDF, so your journal has filled in a lot of cracks. *Wry* When I put in Annabelle's character application over at Milliways, I was thinking I'd only ever need the Adventure! books, as Annabelle dies before any later events.
I do have a question for you, however. When I was looking through your older entries I came across this. I was under the impression that Michael was the first and only Nova before he utilized the telluric energy of the Galatea explosion to produce others like himself. I had thought that eximorphs prior to the Incident were Stalwarts and not Novas. Is there canon about that somewhere that I'm missing?
Not exactly canon, but derivable from canon. The timeline in the original ÆON Trinity corebook says there was a "dramatic increase in super-normal events" in 1970, and that baseline society was "amazed by the achievements and aghast at the actions of" this second wave of Inspired. As you've presumably noticed, Aberrant's backstory contains no mention of any such wave of public post-human activity in the seventies.
The d20 edition dropped the 1970 event and moved the amazement and aghast-ness to 1998, as part of an effort to reconcile these and other inconsistencies in the TU books' world info. Whether or not they're deliberately ignoring the mention (in Aberrant: Project Utopia) of some sort of Inspired activity in 1964, I don't know; I only know that I'm not ignoring such things. (Then again, maybe I'm just prejudiced because 1970 was the year I was born.)
Notes I made for etherlad's attempt to produce an Aberrant Storytellers' Handbook suppose that, in 1970, Divis Mal was ready to make another attempt at Inspiring the entire human race, such as he had tried and failed at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1943. Like the Hammersmith Incident, this release of Z-waves produced all three varieties of Inspired — but, perhaps because of Michael's own eximorphic nature, the recipients of dynamic Inspiration had more potential than the other two varieties, displaying Knacks that would have been considered level four or higher in the Adventure Era.
(The AbSH, and the Trinity Storytellers' Handbook Ian also supervised, were going to include notes on creating these low-power novas, based primarily on notes in the net-published Trinity order/region sourcebook Asia Ascendant.)
I suppose that continuity errors were probably inevitable. It might have helped if someone reminded the fine folks at White Wolf that there's a reason trilogies are generally written in chronological order. ;-) Thank you for clearing that up for me.
So the Eximorphs in the 1970's were something like proto-Novas? It makes sense to me that it would have taken Michael more than one go to get the process 'right'.
I'm still working on the Conversations with Dead People plot, and it started me thinking again on what might have happened had Annabelle not betrayed Æon in 1938. In Milliways canon, this would most likely mean that Michael would have died in 1938. Needless to say, that seems as if it would do...interesting things to the TU time-line.
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Date: 2008-11-11 10:07 pm (UTC)I wanted to let you know that this journal has been very useful to me. I only own both Adventure PDFs and the Aberrant PDF, so your journal has filled in a lot of cracks. *Wry* When I put in Annabelle's character application over at Milliways, I was thinking I'd only ever need the Adventure! books, as Annabelle dies before any later events.
I do have a question for you, however. When I was looking through your older entries I came across this. I was under the impression that Michael was the first and only Nova before he utilized the telluric energy of the Galatea explosion to produce others like himself. I had thought that eximorphs prior to the Incident were Stalwarts and not Novas. Is there canon about that somewhere that I'm missing?
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Date: 2008-11-11 11:02 pm (UTC)ÆONTrinity corebook says there was a "dramatic increase in super-normal events" in 1970, and that baseline society was "amazed by the achievements and aghast at the actions of" this second wave of Inspired. As you've presumably noticed, Aberrant's backstory contains no mention of any such wave of public post-human activity in the seventies.The d20 edition dropped the 1970 event and moved the amazement and aghast-ness to 1998, as part of an effort to reconcile these and other inconsistencies in the TU books' world info. Whether or not they're deliberately ignoring the mention (in Aberrant: Project Utopia) of some sort of Inspired activity in 1964, I don't know; I only know that I'm not ignoring such things. (Then again, maybe I'm just prejudiced because 1970 was the year I was born.)
Notes I made for
(The AbSH, and the Trinity Storytellers' Handbook Ian also supervised, were going to include notes on creating these low-power novas, based primarily on notes in the net-published Trinity order/region sourcebook Asia Ascendant.)
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Date: 2008-11-11 11:24 pm (UTC)So the Eximorphs in the 1970's were something like proto-Novas? It makes sense to me that it would have taken Michael more than one go to get the process 'right'.
I'm still working on the Conversations with Dead People plot, and it started me thinking again on what might have happened had Annabelle not betrayed Æon in 1938. In Milliways canon, this would most likely mean that Michael would have died in 1938. Needless to say, that seems as if it would do...interesting things to the TU time-line.