This day in Trinity Universe history
Nov. 21st, 2004 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aberrantangelsThe corporate world.
Japan owes much to its novas, and will continue to owe much to them. Let's just say that for now.
The Aberrant Players Guide outlines Nippontai's membership as of 2015 or so. The two members lost by then may still be part of the team in 2004, but they're not discussed in great detail in the APG. (We're told only that Haruhiko "Tama" Otani quits to become a freelance elite, and that Masae "Ku-rashi" Nomura is killed by an elite working for arms dealers in the East China Sea.)
I've already mentioned Nippontai's leader, Mayumi "Kô" Morioka. Many of the team's zaibatsu sponsors would prefer to have it led by one of the male novas on board, but between her telepathy, her telekinesis and her leadership skills, she's got what it takes.
The rest of the team consists of Ryu "Asahi" Okano (a martial artist who gained enhanced strength and speed and the ability to throw flames from his hands and eyes); Michiko "Naginata" Kasai (a student of that traditional Japanese polearm who, when she chopped a power cable during a demonstration of her skill, increased her speed and grace and acquired the power to direct electricity through her chosen weapon); Haruki "Kyojin" Furikawa (who can become the giant his name suggests); Fujiko "Tenshi" Kono (who jumped off a roof to escape her loveless marriage, and gained fiery angel wings that let her break the sound barrier); Norumyo "Denshi" Kozaka, the team's cyberkinetic; and one member who gets a paragraph to herself because it occurs to me that she may not be a nova at all.
Mariko Kuramoto was a miko — a Shinto priestess — even before that became her heroine name. Her powers (enhanced senses, ESP and occasional precognition) allegedly came to her not in a sudden eruption, but as a gradual result of spirituality and meditation. In consequence of which, I suspect her to be a psychomorph.
They came close to predicting AOL Time Warner, but the convergence of Old and New Media was an obvious trend even then, so that's no great shakes.
1999
[Aberrant] Japan announces Saisho, "The New Beginning," a series of government subsidies designed to employ novas in high-tech industries. The Japanese government agrees to pay for companies to hire novas for research and development purposes, in hopes that new technologies will salvage Japan's economy. The project is a rousing success, and within a decade Japan regains its position as the premier developer of new technologies.
Japan owes much to its novas, and will continue to owe much to them. Let's just say that for now.
* As part of the Saisho program, the Japanese government unveils its national superteam, Nippontai.
The Aberrant Players Guide outlines Nippontai's membership as of 2015 or so. The two members lost by then may still be part of the team in 2004, but they're not discussed in great detail in the APG. (We're told only that Haruhiko "Tama" Otani quits to become a freelance elite, and that Masae "Ku-rashi" Nomura is killed by an elite working for arms dealers in the East China Sea.)
I've already mentioned Nippontai's leader, Mayumi "Kô" Morioka. Many of the team's zaibatsu sponsors would prefer to have it led by one of the male novas on board, but between her telepathy, her telekinesis and her leadership skills, she's got what it takes.
The rest of the team consists of Ryu "Asahi" Okano (a martial artist who gained enhanced strength and speed and the ability to throw flames from his hands and eyes); Michiko "Naginata" Kasai (a student of that traditional Japanese polearm who, when she chopped a power cable during a demonstration of her skill, increased her speed and grace and acquired the power to direct electricity through her chosen weapon); Haruki "Kyojin" Furikawa (who can become the giant his name suggests); Fujiko "Tenshi" Kono (who jumped off a roof to escape her loveless marriage, and gained fiery angel wings that let her break the sound barrier); Norumyo "Denshi" Kozaka, the team's cyberkinetic; and one member who gets a paragraph to herself because it occurs to me that she may not be a nova at all.
Mariko Kuramoto was a miko — a Shinto priestess — even before that became her heroine name. Her powers (enhanced senses, ESP and occasional precognition) allegedly came to her not in a sudden eruption, but as a gradual result of spirituality and meditation. In consequence of which, I suspect her to be a psychomorph.
2002
[Aberrant] The Viacom and Microsoft corporations announce their merger into an enormous corporate entity to be called ViaSoft.
They came close to predicting AOL Time Warner, but the convergence of Old and New Media was an obvious trend even then, so that's no great shakes.
