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...if you're on the frequency, yeah.

July 16
[Aberrant] Jacob Ashton writes a private journal entry bemoaning his non-nova status. He believes it's his birthright to be a nova, and has tried transcendental meditation, skydiving, even murder with his bare hands in hopes of joining their number


He complains of how eruption "sits just beyond my reach, taunting me.... I fear that I may kill myself before I stumble upon the right alchemy that will trigger my node.... How is it that I can have so much and yet be relegated to the hordes of common men — only to look in awe and envy upon the quantum gods who walk among us?"

Right below his plaint is an implied example of the sort of thing he's tried, in the form of a newspaper article headlined Industrialist Nearly Killed in Tragic Airline Crash. Thirty-nine people died when the pilots of British Airways Flight 317 lost control and the plane did a Brodie into the Atlantic; luckily, the HMS Inevitable was there to retrieve the survivors.
aberrantangels: (good commando name)
This didn't happen until the evening of the 24th, by which time I was in Maryland.

December 24
[Aberrant] DeVries Elites™ "Finn and Dog" leave 26 dead aboard the cruise ship Island Princess, including novox stars Brother Rap and Sister Soul, who are later found to have been dealing in arms for the Nation of Islam.


Well, technically a radical NoI faction, but still. It's a good thing the people who set Finn (somewhat bishonen, social combat-monster) and Dog (master tracker with a schnauzer's muzzle aberrated onto his face) onto BR&SS weren't playing the two elites for saps; their response to that sort of thing tends to be messy.

When they find out during the initial negotiations, it's still painful, but it tends to be only verbal (well, verbal with the full weight of Finn's Mega-Social enhancements behind it, but that's no worse than being insulted by, say, Pere Brinker or Doug Piranha). Something like Finn's "Lies give me gas, idiots give me a headache. Now I have both, and all I did was sit in the same room with you for two minutes" or Dog's far earthier and decidedly NSFW comment ).
aberrantangels: (dreaming of Zion awake)
A Sunday sermon, of a sort.

October 14
[Aberrant] A conversation between Bishop Dionigi Tettamanzi, Prelate-General of Opus Dei, and his personal assistant, Prelate Eduardo Mancenzo, on the necessity to step away from the world to see the Lord's love more clearly.


It starts with a picture Mancenzo can see only as "lines and blotchy colors" because His Eminence the Prelate-General has zoomed in too close. This is where Tettamanzi picks up; the picture represents God's love, andthe great people in life are those who can step away from the world and everything around them, including their loved ones ).
aberrantangels: (nothing pure)
Once again, sorry I'm late.

June 7
[Aberrant] The British tabloid the Sun uncovers London Fog's original name and [bodily] gender and makes them front-page news. Fog reacts poorly to being asked about the revelation at a press conference and requests the paper print a retraction.


They asked her "Were you born a man?" She, after a moment to vent lightning from her eyes, replied "What? No comment!" Because the question is actually as complex and difficult as the question of whether Magrathea is safe. Sure, she was born into a male body, which led society to consider her male, but that's another matter.
aberrantangels: (mad science)
The reason I decided to get my rear in gear yesterday.

January 15
[Aberrant] Andrew Pennyworth of British Power announces his company's rededication to seeking out cleaner, more efficient, more plentiful power sources, and apologises to the rate-payers for the contributions they'll be making to the financing of this research.


He expresses BPow's intent to perfect a fusion plant within 10 years, achieving what even Utopia so far have not. He allows as how the rate hike is only a few pence a month.
aberrantangels: (Nova Age)
I just created this character as an alt on CoH (ironically, after swearing I wasn't going to roll up any more supers there until jingle-jets started expiring).

2006
[Aberrant] Elizabeth Barton makes her first public appearance as "London Fog," dousing a rampaging fire with a sudden rainstorm and giving added impetus to her agent's ongoing negotiations with the city government.


I haven't mentioned Elizabeth Deborah Barton's life up to now, because Aberrant: Worldwide Phase II doesn't give specific dates for its events, just years and ages. So here's the whole sad tale. )
aberrantangels: (Trinity Universe)
More recap.

1999
[Aberrant] In a media spectacle attended by VIPs ranging from former President Carter to Secretary-General Annan and from Steven Spielberg to Tom Cruise, Project Utopia reveals the nature of the "something big" hinted at in several of [Justin] Laragione's late-1998 press releases, with the introduction of "Team Tomorrow," a group of novas from around the world organized to implement Utopia's goals of a better future. This first real-world "superteam's" initial lineup consists of Caestus Pax, Lightning, Griffin Armstrong, Ewen "Apollo Kid" Banks, Pratima "Splash" Basham, Ricardo Montoya-Bernal, Alison "Psyche" Pfalzgraff, and probationary members Hiram "Slag" Goldberg, Gvuthbjørg "Ragnarockette" Danielsdottir, and Christoph "Shadow Artist" Yannik. "T2M" begins to combat global terrorism, organized crime and natural disasters with the cooperation of law-enforcement agencies worldwide, even as Utopia's fledgling Science and Technology Department begins working on solutions to famine and environmental crises.


I think it was [livejournal.com profile] jachilli who coined T2M as "the Village People of Righteousness".

The "Thetis Proposal" crosses Laragione's desk. Submitted by an Internal Affairs agent who uses the proposal's name as her code name (in honor of Achilles' mother who sought to render her son invulnerable), it details what she sees as the "risks and harsh steps" (read: dirty tricks and other black ops) necessary to fulfill Utopia's vision of a better world, and proposes a division within Utopia to carry them out. Though resistant to the suggestion, Laragione discusses it with the Æon board Council, who (to his surprise and shock) greenlight Thetis' "Project Proteus" (named for the Old Man of the Sea who assumed his true form only when hopelessly trapped) and name her its director.


Whether the Council's approval had anything to do with Proteus division, I can't say for sure, but I suspect it.

2000
[Aberrant] The Y2K bug hits many of the world's computer systems, causing moderate problems. Power production, airline traffic control, Internet traffic and financial institution computers are the most affected. Utopia-affiliated novas race around the globe to restore (or, in some cases, generate) emergency power and direct what few planes are in the air. Most people notice only that the airlines and banks are shut down for a couple of days, and that Web pages and e-mail have glitches for a few weeks. Y2K becomes Utopia's biggest public-relations windfall since the coming of the novas. (Project Proteus takes advantage of "coding glitches" and "irreparable data-loss" to disappear a few more files into the Babel Dossier.)


This last sentence is my own addition, but it's based on material in Aberrant: Project Utopia.

2002
[Aberrant] London's Millennium Dome reopens as the London Museum of Living History, including an area of extensive documentation on what is already being called "the Nova Age".


This isn't recap — I found out about it after the fact, while prowling for dates (I think it was in Aberrant Worldwide Phase II).

2003
[Aberrant] N! The Nova Network, debuts on cable and satellite systems in 47 countries. N!, a spinoff of E! Entertainment Television, is dedicated solely to covering the lives and exploits of novas. It features biographies of famous novas, quasi-scientific documentaries on nova abilities and physiology, nova sporting competitions, interviews with novas, and nova-related news from around the world. Within three months of its initial airing, N! becomes the highest-rated channel ever.


All the world loves novas.

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