Today in the Trinity Universe
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etherlad's present, I've discovered a number of things just in the first two weeks of January that I missed including in the "This Day in Trinity Universe History" aspect of this excuse for posting. As such, I'll need to continue doing that through at least this time next January.
Even if (as I currently plan) I stop doing the "This Day" once I'm all caught up, I'll be continuing with "Today in the Trinity Universe" as long as I continue to maintain this journal, unless someone tells me to stop in a way I can't ignore.
Tonight's CBS Evening News reported that independent novas Karma and Tombstone, breaking up a hostage situation on contract for the US government, were interrupted by unknown novas in blue and white uniforms who asked them to leave. When the two independents demurred, the leader of the group flashed a badge, identified himself and his colleagues as representing "the Directive" and advised Karma and Tombstone that they could either stand down and let the Directive handle the situation or face federal charges of treason.
This is the first most Americans have heard of the Directive, despite the fact that the multinational intelligence organization was created almost three years earlier. Some of them may remember the initial splash it made when one of its directors — Petr Ilyanovich, head of the Russian Confederation's Federal Security Service — addressed the UN General Assembly to inform them of its existence. It had, after all, been operating quietly before then.
Also, it hadn't been employing novas; in fact, it was only sometime this very month that FBI profiler Lucas Barrows became the Directive's first nova hire. (As such, he was probably one of the mystery novas in today's incident.) There are reasons it's called the Nova Age, and one of them is that if it doesn't involve novas, most people don't care. Even if he'd been told that America was represented at the conference that led to the Directive's formation by Eliot Stinson, President Schroer's Assistant Secretary of Defense, Joe Sixpack probably wouldn't have given a rip.
(A certain Jon Hickman remarked, on AGWW, that Aberrant's milieu isn't really all that different from more conventional superhero universes: "it just takes into account the fact that modern media personnel are starving piranhas." Sadly, the post in which he said this only survives on Google Groups through the quote's use in several .sigs by my good friend C. Richard Davies, that well-known advocate of darkness and part-time champion of light.)
The more that people outside the Directive become aware of it, the more they'll realize how little they really know about it, and the less they'll trust it. This will not be helped by the Directors' distrust of novas, whom (at this point in the TU timeline) hardly anyone has any real reason to distrust.
In the immortal words of Nguyen Van Phred, "Bravo for life's little ironies."
etherlad's present, I've discovered a number of things just in the first two weeks of January that I missed including in the "This Day in Trinity Universe History" aspect of this excuse for posting. As such, I'll need to continue doing that through at least this time next January.Even if (as I currently plan) I stop doing the "This Day" once I'm all caught up, I'll be continuing with "Today in the Trinity Universe" as long as I continue to maintain this journal, unless someone tells me to stop in a way I can't ignore.
Tonight's CBS Evening News reported that independent novas Karma and Tombstone, breaking up a hostage situation on contract for the US government, were interrupted by unknown novas in blue and white uniforms who asked them to leave. When the two independents demurred, the leader of the group flashed a badge, identified himself and his colleagues as representing "the Directive" and advised Karma and Tombstone that they could either stand down and let the Directive handle the situation or face federal charges of treason.
This is the first most Americans have heard of the Directive, despite the fact that the multinational intelligence organization was created almost three years earlier. Some of them may remember the initial splash it made when one of its directors — Petr Ilyanovich, head of the Russian Confederation's Federal Security Service — addressed the UN General Assembly to inform them of its existence. It had, after all, been operating quietly before then.
Also, it hadn't been employing novas; in fact, it was only sometime this very month that FBI profiler Lucas Barrows became the Directive's first nova hire. (As such, he was probably one of the mystery novas in today's incident.) There are reasons it's called the Nova Age, and one of them is that if it doesn't involve novas, most people don't care. Even if he'd been told that America was represented at the conference that led to the Directive's formation by Eliot Stinson, President Schroer's Assistant Secretary of Defense, Joe Sixpack probably wouldn't have given a rip.
(A certain Jon Hickman remarked, on AGWW, that Aberrant's milieu isn't really all that different from more conventional superhero universes: "it just takes into account the fact that modern media personnel are starving piranhas." Sadly, the post in which he said this only survives on Google Groups through the quote's use in several .sigs by my good friend C. Richard Davies, that well-known advocate of darkness and part-time champion of light.)
The more that people outside the Directive become aware of it, the more they'll realize how little they really know about it, and the less they'll trust it. This will not be helped by the Directors' distrust of novas, whom (at this point in the TU timeline) hardly anyone has any real reason to distrust.
In the immortal words of Nguyen Van Phred, "Bravo for life's little ironies."
