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* TranshumanTreachery: Argued for by Divis Mal and the Teragen. The argument of the Null Manifesto is that novas are ''not'' human, and that human laws and customs shouldn't apply to them; in the absence of a governing body for novakind, each nova is called on to consider themselves a sovereign country and act as they please. While not inherently anti-human, becoming Teragen is at best a sign of overweening arrogance and adherence to BlueAndOrangeMorality, and most Teragen ''do'' take "different" to mean "[[SuperSupremacist better]]."
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* TheAce: Divis Mal, by far the most powerful nova in the world. His partner Jeremiah Scripture is also in the top ten.
* ActionHero: "Ironskin" Andy Vance and his husband Jake "the Dragon" Korelli are less powerful, but also qualify.
* ActionHero: "Ironskin" Andy Vance and his husband Jake "the Dragon" Korelli are less powerful, but also qualify.
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* BadassGay: Divis Mal, by far the most powerful nova in the world. His partner Jeremiah Scripture is also in the top ten. "Ironskin" Andy Vance and his husband Jake "the Dragon" Korelli are less powerful, but also qualify.
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* ShoutOut: The "Node Phage" aberration means that the nova affected by it has to examine M-R nodes of other novas to increase their own power. Read: take superhumans' brains to get their abilities. Hmm, sounds a lot like that guy from ''{{Series/Heroes}}''...
** OlderThanTheyThink: Except ''Aberrant'' pre-dates ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' by 7 years...
** OlderThanTheyThink: Except ''Aberrant'' pre-dates ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' by 7 years...
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* TheExtremistWasRight: On both sides of the racial division. [[spoiler: The baseliners fearing novas as potentially deadly to human existence were right, since the canon of the metaplot is that they nearly destroy the world, leading to the Aeon setting. The novas fearing baseliners were right, as novas who sign up with Project Utopia are sterilised as part of it.]]
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* WaveMotionGun: Although ''Aberrant'' characters are generally played at a much lower level of power, akin to your average MarvelComics character, the game has Quantum powers at levels 4, 5, and 6 (which could only be acquired after a very long campaign if you play by the standard rules.) One of the ''least'' broken level 6 powers is Quantum Inferno which allows the character to fire a Quantum Bolt capable of punching a hole, hundreds of kilometers wide, clean through the planet (which needless to say is the immediate predecessor to the planet's destruction.)
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* WaveMotionGun: Although ''Aberrant'' characters are generally played at a much lower level of power, akin to your average MarvelComics Creator/MarvelComics character, the game has Quantum powers at levels 4, 5, and 6 (which could only be acquired after a very long campaign if you play by the standard rules.) One of the ''least'' broken level 6 powers is Quantum Inferno which allows the character to fire a Quantum Bolt capable of punching a hole, hundreds of kilometers wide, clean through the planet (which needless to say is the immediate predecessor to the planet's destruction.)
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'''''Aberrant''''' is a role-playing game created by WhiteWolf in 1999, set in 2008 in a world where super-powered humans started appearing one day in 1998. It is the middle setting in the greater TabletopGame/TrinityUniverse timeline, chronologically situated about 90 years after ''TabletopGame/{{Adventure}}!'', White Wolf's Pulp era game, and over a century before the psionic escapades of ''Trinity[=/=]TabletopGame/{{Aeon}}''. The game deals with how the players' meta-human characters (called "novas") fit into a mundane world when they most definitely are not mundane, as well as how the mundane populace react to the sudden emergence of novas. The original ''Aberrant'' product line was discontinued in 2002, though a d20 System version was released in 2004. A new edition was announced in 2012.
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* NGOSuperpower: Project Utopia is not a government, but has a seat on the UN Security Council and international regulatory authority over technology despite not answering to anybody at all.
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* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Averted and played straight. Project Utopia is using nova-developed technology to improve the world (greening the Sahara and replacing the Internet with the [=OpNet=], for example), but they're also keeping a lid on the more socially-disruptive technology as best they can.
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* MainliningTheMonster: There are several illegal drugs (most of which will temporarily give a baseline superpowers) made out of the organs of novas.
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* BewareTheSuperman: A strong element of the setting, one that the Church of Archangel Michael deliberately pushes, and canonically justified, since the Trinity/Aeon setting is the canonical future of this setting.
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* BondageIsBad: Minor team from the Player's Guide, the Queer Nova Alliance, includes a member with PsychicPowers of some nature called "The Master", whose presence in the team's attendant fluff portrays him as the TokenEvilTeammate. He's a homosexual dominant who refers to basically [[MindRape brainwashing a former homophobe into his helplessly loyal submissive gay sex slave]], and from the disgusted reactions of his fellows, this isn't the first time he's done this. They especially loathe him doing this because it only hurts their efforts to non-violently champion GLBT rights.
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* BondageIsBad: Minor A minor team from the Player's Guide, the Queer Nova Alliance, includes a member with PsychicPowers of some nature called "The Master", whose presence in the team's attendant fluff portrays him as the TokenEvilTeammate. He's a homosexual dominant who refers to basically [[MindRape brainwashing a former homophobe into his helplessly loyal submissive gay sex slave]], and from the disgusted reactions of his fellows, this isn't the first time he's done this. They especially loathe him doing this because it only hurts their efforts to non-violently champion GLBT rights.
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** The sourcebook ReignOfEvil.Com is about a particularly nasty cult born from a quintet of deranged nova satanists.
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** The sourcebook ReignOfEvil.Com [=ReignOfEvil.Com=] is about a particularly nasty cult born from a quintet of deranged nova satanists.
** In the reboot, however, it's zig-zagged, becoming SchizoContinuity. For Aeon, the Aberrant War is established history. For Aberrant, however, the War is in the potential future, and how things turn out is in the characters' hands.
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* HotScientist: Dr. Rachel Alinsky, DeVries Agency's scientific genius, looks like a grad student despite nearing her forties.
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* LateArrivalSpoiler: The {{metaplot}} is very clear from the beginning; there will be an Aberrant War that destroys everything that humanity and novas built together and drives the novas away from Earth.
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* LateArrivalSpoiler: The 1e {{metaplot}} is very clear from the beginning; there will be an Aberrant War that destroys everything that humanity and novas built together and drives the novas away from Earth.Earth (however, this is no longer an issue in 2e).
** The second edition, however, is not written towards that end. Partly this is because Aberrant no longer has an advancing timeline, and partly it's because one principle of the reboot is that games earlier in the timeline (in Aberrant's case, Adventure! and the new modern-day setting) are established history, while games later in the timeline (Aeon) are possible futures rather than foregone conclusions.
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** Greenwar's M. O. when not straight up murdering their enemies basically consists of mind-raping them. This is made possible by resident telepath, who can absorb thoughts of a dying animal and transfer them to the one(s) responsible for the crime against nature. One poor Japanese guy ended up believing he is a whale whose family was slaughtered by whalers (who, naturally, were his employees).
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* MugglePower: Various groups and factions. The most hostile is the Church of Archangel Michael, a fundamentalist group who stalk and murder novas whilst publicly becrying their existence as agents of Satan. [[spoiler: Project Utopia is ultimately one of these, sterilising all of the novas it recruits to ensure that, in addition to being drafted for the good of baseline humanity, they won't breed eve stronger novas.]]
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* RealityWarper: Although all Novas bend reality a little, the Level 6 power "Planck Scaling" is the purest example in the game. It allows the user to cause absolutely anything inside a certain area. These changes will last after power is turned off, even if their existence contradicts laws of physics. An interesting side-effect of the power is that in absence of the user, anyone else can project their thoughts into the "bubble", with multiple participants leading to most bizarre results.
* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: The most notable feature of Totentanz's costume is the golden skull which covers his head.
* ScrewDestiny : A significant portion of fans ignore the canon leading up to ''Trinity''.
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* RealityWarper: Although all Novas bend reality a little, the Level 6 power "Planck Scaling" is the purest example in the game. It allows the user to cause absolutely anything inside a certain area. These changes will last after the power is turned off, even if their existence contradicts the laws of physics. An interesting side-effect of the power is that in the absence of the user, anyone else can project their thoughts into the "bubble", with multiple participants leading to most bizarre results.
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* GenderBender: It can happen when one Erupts.
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** Divis Mal means something along the lines of "Wicked God"
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* ChestBurster: Novas with the 3-point variant of the Parasitic Gestation alteration are capable of victimizing people with their offspring in this manner.
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* ExplosiveBreeder: Proteus fears "breeders" (fertile novas) in general, but they reserve their greatest fears for "hatchers" -- tainted breeders whose mutations have transformed them into r-type (large numbers of progeny with little parental care invested) reproducers. A hypothetical "perfect storm" hatcher, one who produces 10 identically tainted offspring (of which 5 survive) per month, which grow to reproduction age in six months, could produce '''forty-five thousand''' offspring in as little as two years.
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* BlessedWithSuck: Some eruptions do ''not'' turn out well for the nova. Teragen member "Sloppy Joe" basically had his eruption ''dissolve his entire body'', reducing him to [[{{Squick}} a soup of acidic sludge and free-floating organs bobbing around inside a vaguely human-shaped forcefield]].
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* {{Cult}}: They're all over the place InUniverse, due to the fact novas are naturally adept at forming personality cults around themselves, especially those with social mega-attributes.
** The sourcebook ReignOfEvil.Com is about a particularly nasty cult born from a quintet of deranged nova satanists.
** The Storyteller's Screen includes a fluff piece about a mega-social nova woman, Kelly "Calliope" Pierson, who has formed a cult about herself and who performs HumanSacrifice by [[ImAHumanitarian physically absorbing baseline cultists into her body]], claiming that this allows them to "transcend to a higher place".
** The sourcebook ReignOfEvil.Com is about a particularly nasty cult born from a quintet of deranged nova satanists.
** The Storyteller's Screen includes a fluff piece about a mega-social nova woman, Kelly "Calliope" Pierson, who has formed a cult about herself and who performs HumanSacrifice by [[ImAHumanitarian physically absorbing baseline cultists into her body]], claiming that this allows them to "transcend to a higher place".
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* BoomerangBigot: In the sourcebook dealing with the Church of Archangel Michael, two fluff-pieces involve Reverend Gordon Fleischmann, who goes onto a talk show to talk about his Church's motivations, reveals he himself has suffered a minor eruption and developed a circle of eyes on his chest, and commits suicide rather than live as a nova.
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* TheExtremistWasRight: On both sides of the racial division. [[spoiler: The baseliners fearing novas as potentially deadly to human existence were right, since the canon of the metaplot is that they nearly destroy the world, leading to the Aeon setting. The novas fearing baseliners were right, as novas who sign up with Project Utopia are sterilised as part of it.]]
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It turns out that the thing that causes the Aeon War that leads to the ''Trinity'' setting? [[spoiler: It's the truth that Project Utopia ''sterilises'' all of its recruits immediately upon recruitment becoming public knowledge, leading to outraged novas and scared new novas rising up enmasse to defend and avenge themselves.]]
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: A lot of them exists, but Totentanz comes to mind most readily. Translated from German, his alias means "''The Dance of Death''". Fitting, considerin he's a Nova mercenary with absolutely ''monstrous'' fighting abilities.
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* EmotionSupression: Totentanz's eruption brought many wonders, one of which was complete elimination of all positive emotions; that's because he erupted after his "[[BitchInSheepsClothing lover]]" revealed her infidelity in [[MoralEventHorizon the worst manner possible]].
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** Greenwar's M. O. when not straight up murdering their enemies basically consists of mind-raping them. This is made possible by resident telepath, who can absorb thoughts of a dying animal and transfer them to the one(s) responsible for the crime against nature. One poor Japanese guy ended up believing he is a whale whose family was slaughtered by whalers (who, naturally, were his employees).
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* HotScientist: Dr. Rachel Alinsky, DeVries Agency's scientific genius, looks like a grad student despite nearing her forties.
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** OlderThanTheyThink: Except ''Aberrant pre-dates ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' by 7 years...
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* ShoutOut: "Node Phage" aberration means that the nova affected by it has to examine M-R nodes of other novas to increase their own power. Read: take superhumans' brains to get their abilities. Hmm, sounds a lot like that guy from {{Series/Heroes}}...
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** OlderThanTheyTink: Of course, ''Aberrant pre-dates ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' by 7 years...
** OlderThanTheyTink: Of course, ''Aberrant pre-dates ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' by 7 years...
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''Aberrant'' is a role-playing game created by WhiteWolf in 1999, set in 2008 in a world where super-powered humans started appearing one day in 1998. It is the middle setting in the greater TabletopGame/TrinityUniverse timeline, chronologically situated about 90 years after ''TabletopGame/{{Adventure}}!'', White Wolf's Pulp era game, and over a century before the psionic escapades of ''Trinity[=/=]TabletopGame/{{Aeon}}''. The game deals with how the players' meta-human characters (called "novas") fit into a mundane world when they most definitely are not mundane, as well as how the mundane populace react to the sudden emergence of novas. The original ''Aberrant'' product line was discontinued in 2002, though a d20 System version was released in 2004. A new edition was announced in 2012.
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'''''Aberrant''''' is a role-playing game created by WhiteWolf in 1999, set in 2008 in a world where super-powered humans started appearing one day in 1998. It is the middle setting in the greater TabletopGame/TrinityUniverse timeline, chronologically situated about 90 years after ''TabletopGame/{{Adventure}}!'', White Wolf's Pulp era game, and over a century before the psionic escapades of ''Trinity[=/=]TabletopGame/{{Aeon}}''. The game deals with how the players' meta-human characters (called "novas") fit into a mundane world when they most definitely are not mundane, as well as how the mundane populace react to the sudden emergence of novas. The original ''Aberrant'' product line was discontinued in 2002, though a d20 System version was released in 2004. A new edition was announced in 2012.
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* AtrociousAlias: ''Aberrant'', being a deconstruction of superheroics, touches on this: the rise of superpowered Novas, many of whom think they're now required to don costumes and take up aliases, have spawned a budding fashion industry dedicated to not only making non-stupid costumes, but also to come up with fitting and stylish names a Nova can use without feeling silly or raise UnfortunateImplications. A few sucky names still crop up, though. * BadassGay: Divis Mal, by far the most powerful nova in the world. His partner Jeremiah Scripture is also in the top ten. "Ironskin" Andy Vance and his husband Jake "the Dragon" Korelli are less powerful, but also qualify.
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* AtrociousAlias: ''Aberrant'', being a deconstruction of superheroics, touches on this: the rise of superpowered Novas, many of whom think they're now required to don costumes and take up aliases, have spawned a budding fashion industry dedicated to not only making non-stupid costumes, but also to come up with fitting and stylish names a Nova can use without feeling silly or raise UnfortunateImplications. A few sucky names still crop up, though.
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* BadassGay: Divis Mal, by far the most powerful nova in the world. His partner Jeremiah Scripture is also in the top ten. "Ironskin" Andy Vance and his husband Jake "the Dragon" Korelli are less powerful, but also qualify.
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* AtrociousAlias: ''Aberrant'', being a deconstruction of superheroics, touches on this: the rise of superpowered Novas, many of whom think they're now required to don costumes and take up aliases, have spawned a budding fashion industry dedicated to not only making non-stupid costumes, but also to come up with fitting and stylish names a Nova can use without feeling silly or raise UnfortunateImplications. A few sucky names still crop up, though. * BadassGay: Divis Mal, by far the most powerful nova in the world. His partner Jeremiah Scripture is also in the top ten. "Ironskin" Andy Vance and his husband Jake "the Dragon" Korelli are less powerful, but also qualify.
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* BulletCatch / DodgeTheBullet: Sufficently high levels of [=MegaDexterity=] will allow a character to do this.
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* BulletCatch / DodgeTheBullet: Sufficently high levels of [=MegaDexterity=] will allow a character to do this. (For a simple bullet dodge, "sufficiently high" is defined as "any [=MegaDexterity=] at all".)
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* ShoutOut: "Node Phage" aberration means that the nova affected by it has to examine M-R nodes of other novas to increase their own power. Read: take superhumans' brains to get their abilities. Hmm, sounds a lot like that guy from {{Series/Heroes}}...
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* MySuitIsAlsoSuper: Eufiber, a material produced by a particular Nova, is the material of choice for Novas who don't want to end up naked - it shifts to fit their form, and is nearly indestructible. The Aberrant Players' Guide even introduces the Weave skill, which allows a Nova to reshape their Eufiber suit with just their will.
