History TabletopGame / Aeon

* RepressiveButEfficient: In 2e, Ukraine and China are both authoritarian states where the trains run on time and the SinisterSurveillance has its eye on you. In China's case, it's an actual first-world country where everyone is at least modestly well-off (just remember to smile for your personal tracking implants), while Ukraine has very little in the way of luxury goods, but the food always reaches the table and the army is surprisingly powerful for a third-tier power.

* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: In 2108, faced with opposition from a coalition of militant atheists in the Chinese government who were trying to ban Christianity and Islam, Minister of Noetic Affairs Rebecca Bue Li dropped a telepathic hammer on their leaders, causing them to do an about-face and support equality and freedom of religion. She was completely open about doing this, and defended herself against criminal charges with more of the same. Since then, the Ministry prefers more subtle methods of doing the same thing.

* Upeo wa Macho - An interplanetary non-profit organization, focusing on space exploration and emergency action. Originally based in Nigeria, now on an extra-solar colony world. Specialize in [[TeleportersAndTransporters teleportation]].

Due to receive a second edition as ''Trinity Continuum: [=Æ=]on'', which is set to change up some things. It had a successful Kickstarter in February 2018.

* [[DyingRace Dying Aptitude]]: With the destruction of the Chitra Bhanu (and their Prometheus Chamber) there is no way for new Quantakinetics to be made. [[spoiler:Yet. The survivors managed to steal the core and are reverse-engineering it.]]

* ItOnlyWorksOnce: If you try to use another prometheus chamber after your Psionic abilities are activated, you'll die.

* PromotedToPlayable: In the original editions, full Quantakinetics were off the table, deemed appropriate only as {{NPC}}s, although the ''Trinity Players Guide'' made their first-level powers available to other psions as secondary powers they couldn't raise higher, and fan supplements gave them full PC writeups. For the new edition, full Quantakinetics were made available as [=PCs=] in the main book. [[spoiler:It also made the Chitra Bhanu - as in the actual psi order - [[OrderReborn a playable option too]].]] Also in 2e, ''all' psiads (natural-born psychics) are capable of quantakinesis (in 1e, the ability was off limits to psiads).

* BiotechIsBetter: Zig-zagged with the availability of many bio-tech devices that can replicate modern appliances, and some of the most sophisticated devices of the setting (like the jump ships) making major use of it. On one hand, they can replicate the appliances' work just as well and Psions can bond with them and get them to work a bit better. On the other hand, they have higher maintenance, are much harder to fix, people are ''not'' comfortable using them (the fluff explicitly says that many biotech devices are sold with normal-looking exterior shells), computers are still better as hard tech, and if Psions get attuned to too many biotech devices, they develop junkie-like symptoms.
* BlatantLies: In the ''Trinity Player's Guide'', each type of team has a real-life movie used as an example of the kind of missions that that team goes on. The section ends with an assurance that the fact that each film's mission goes completely to hell doesn't mean anything, "really."

* PromotedToPlayable: In the original editions, full Quantakinetics were off the table, deemed appropriate only as {{NPC}}s, although the ''Trinity Players Guide'' made their first-level powers available to other psions as secondary powers they couldn't raise higher, and fan supplements gave them full PC writeups. For the new edition, full Quantakinetics were made available as [=PCs=] in the main book. [[spoiler:It also made the Chitra Bhanu - as in the actual psi order - [[OrderReborn a playable option too]].]]

* EmpireWithADarkSecret: Nihon [[spoiler:figured out a ''lot'' of the setting's secrets -- the psi orders being of alien(and very likely malevolent) origin, that novas were ''not'' inherently unstable, etc -- thanks to figuring out which of their Novas were ''not'' going to go insane during the Aberrant War, and sheltering them. Three of them were super-scientists who figured out a treatment to suppress nova/psionic latency, and eventually refine it so it instead created a third form of superhuman they call a "Superior" -- which in first edition, unknown to them, are actually the "Daredevils" from ''TabletopGame/{{Adventure}}''; in second edition, only a fraction are Talents, the rest being their own type of Inspired]]. Suffice to say that there's a reason the Nihonjin are being very careful about reintegrating with the noetically-influenced rest of the world.

* BlatantLies: In the ''Trinity Player's Guide'', each type of team has a real-life movie used as an example of the kind of missions that that team goes on. The section ends with an assurance that the fact that each film's mission goes completely to hell doesn't mean anything, "really."

* EmpireWithADarkSecret: Nihon [[spoiler:figured out a ''lot'' of the setting's secrets -- the psi orders being of alien(and very likely malevolent) origin, that novas were ''not'' inherently unstable, etc -- thanks to figuring out which of their Novas were ''not'' going to go insane during the Aberrant War, and sheltering them. Three of them were super-scientists who figured out a treatment to suppress nova/psionic latency, and eventually refine it so it instead created a third form of superhuman they call a "Superior" -- which, unknown to them, are actually the "Daredevils" from ''TabletopGame/{{Adventure}}'']]. Suffice to say that there's a reason the Nihonjin are being very careful about reintegrating with the noetically-influenced rest of the world.

* AWorldHalfFull: ''Aeon'' is an AfterTheEnd world set in the ruins of the Nova Age, facing multiple civilization-threatening invasions from outside, but its themes are ''hope, sacrifice'' and ''unity''. There's a very real chance that despite alien interference and human bickering, ''this time'' humanity will keep its shit together, throw back the invaders and take its place among the stars, and there might even be a place for novas in the new humanity.

* DarkSecret: Nihon [[spoiler:figured out a ''lot'' of the setting's secrets -- the psi orders being of alien(and very likely malevolent) origin, that novas were ''not'' inherently unstable, etc -- thanks to figuring out which of their Novas were ''not'' going to go insane during the Aberrant War, and sheltering them. Three of them were super-scientists who figured out a treatment to suppress nova/psionic latency, and eventually refine it so it instead created a third form of superhuman they call a "Superior" -- which, unknown to them, are actually the "Daredevils" from ''TabletopGame/{{Adventure}}'']].

* OnlySaneMan: Of the proxies, the [[TeleportationTropes Upeo Wa Macho]] proxy was the only one other than the [[TheMissingFaction Chibs]] who even considered a peaceful solution to the returning Aberrants, involving making peace with the sane Novas that colonized other worlds. The other Orders began talks of dismantling their order as a [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished result]]. And the [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Norça]] proxy is the only one who has any kind of clue that the fall of the Chibs was due to outside interference and has been doing some digging. He also keeps many of the remaining chibs alive in secret.
** Then again, making peace is... not easy for the proxies, after the Aberrants' atrocities.

* BlatantLies: In the ''Trinity Player's Guide'', each type of team has a real-life movie used as an example of the kind of missions that that team goes on. The section ends with an assurance that the fact that each film's mission goes completely to hell, "really."

* BalkanizeMe: In Europe, this is pretty normal after the ''[[ColonyDrop Esperanza]]'' incident. France is nonexistent, while Spain, Germany and Austria have fallen apart into their component provinces. The Balkans, incidentally, are called "the Shatter" because they'd fallen down to the city-state level even before ''Esperanza'', but now they're reversing this trope in the face of Turkey's RisingEmpire and are refounding their component nations.