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''[=Æ=]on'' (later ''Trinity'', thanks to a run-in with MTV, who saw it as challenging trademarks on ''WesternAnimation/AeonFlux'') is the first game in Creator/WhiteWolf's TabletopGame/TrinityUniverse, and the chronologically latest.
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''[=Æ=]on'' (later ''Trinity'', thanks to a run-in with MTV, who saw it as challenging trademarks on ''WesternAnimation/AeonFlux'') is the first game in
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* DumpStat: In the original game, there are only two Skills each that use Strength or Appearance. Strength only comes into play in melee combat (in a game where everyone has psychic powers) or Might rolls (which usually applies in situations that can ''also'' be solved with psychic powers). Appearance is slightly more useful, as its Skills are Intimidation and Style, the latter of which can be used to build disguises, but it's still a very limited palette.
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* {{Afrofuturism}}: Subverted. Africa was one of the few places that were hit the least by the Aberrant War (the Americas and Western Europe got the worst of it) and thus was able to get ahead plenty during the reconstruction period, but it's by no means a utopia.
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* Chitra Bhanu - The so-called "dark psions", the fallen order. A research institute based in Mumbai, India, specializing in quantakinesis, the control of quantum forces. They studied Aberrants, who tap quanta directly, and were eventually wiped out by the other orders for Aberrant collaboration. While some quantakinetics still survive, no more can be created.
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* Chitra Bhanu - The so-called "dark psions", the fallen order. A research institute based in Mumbai, India, specializing in quantakinesis, the control of quantum forces. They studied Aberrants, who tap quanta directly, and were eventually wiped out by the other orders for alleged Aberrant collaboration. While some quantakinetics still survive, no more can be created.
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* Chitra Bhanu - The so-called "dark psions", the fallen order. A research institute based in Mumbai, India, specializing in quantakinesis, the control of quantum forces. They studied Aberrants, who tap quantum directly, and were eventually wiped out by the other orders for Aberrant collaboration. While some quantakinetics still survive, no more can be created.
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* Chitra Bhanu - The so-called "dark psions", the fallen order. A research institute based in Mumbai, India, specializing in quantakinesis, the control of quantum forces. They studied Aberrants, who tap quantum quanta directly, and were eventually wiped out by the other orders for Aberrant collaboration. While some quantakinetics still survive, no more can be created.
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* AntimagicalFaction: Nippon is very much anti-psionics. Psions aren't forbidden from visiting, but they're not welcome, biotech is absolutely forbidden, [[spoiler: and Japan secretly either neutralizes potential psions inside their borders or turns them into government-affiliated Superiors]].
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* AntimagicalFaction: Nippon is very much anti-psionics. Psions aren't forbidden from visiting, but they're not welcome, biotech is absolutely forbidden, [[spoiler: and Japan secretly either neutralizes potential psions inside their borders or turns them into government-affiliated Superiors]]. Ironically, Nippon isn't quite as hostile toward novas as the rest of the world, [[spoiler: having sheltered a few in secret during the Aberrant War]].
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* AntimagicalFaction: Nippon is very much anti-psionics. Psions aren't forbidden from visiting, but they're not welcome, biotech is absolutely forbidden, [[spoiler: and Japan secretly either neutralizes potential psions inside their borders or turns them into government-affiliated Superiors]].
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* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity:
** In this era, as far as anyone knows, Aberrants go insane. This is largely because the only ones who ''become'' novas in the present day were exposed to tainted Quantum Flux, and because The Colony's Aberrants are all extremely Tainted and enforce taint on others.
** Superiors were created to [[DefiedTrope defy]] this. Creating a Superior is an off-ramp for a potential nova, allowing them to develop superhuman abilities on a small scale without risking Taint. (Becoming a psion is another off-ramp, but Nippon doesn't trust psionics at all.)
** In this era, as far as anyone knows, Aberrants go insane. This is largely because the only ones who ''become'' novas in the present day were exposed to tainted Quantum Flux, and because The Colony's Aberrants are all extremely Tainted and enforce taint on others.
** Superiors were created to [[DefiedTrope defy]] this. Creating a Superior is an off-ramp for a potential nova, allowing them to develop superhuman abilities on a small scale without risking Taint. (Becoming a psion is another off-ramp, but Nippon doesn't trust psionics at all.)
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Novas aren't this, though it's an understandable mistake on humanity's part. ''Aberrants'' are at best [[HumanoidAbomination too alien to truly relate to humans]] and most of them are actively malicious toward humanity. And nearly all novas on Earth are Aberrants; even new eruptions are usually Corrupted from the beginning.
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: AlwaysChaoticEvil:
** Novas aren't this, though it's an understandable mistake on humanity's part. ''Aberrants'' are at best [[HumanoidAbomination too alien to truly relate to humans]] and most of them are actively malicious toward humanity. And nearly all novas on Earth are Aberrants; even new eruptions are usually Corrupted from thebeginning.beginning.
** Explicitly done with the [[BioPunk Coalition]] Progenitors in 2E - while every other member of the HiveCasteSystem is a slave who can be freed (and is playable), the Progenitors are the slave ''masters'' who purposefully made them that way and regularly cull their numbers between [[PlanetLooters conquests]]; redemption of them as a species is only likely after complete social breakdown forces then to change.
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** Explicitly done with the [[BioPunk Coalition]] Progenitors in 2E - while every other member of the HiveCasteSystem is a slave who can be freed (and is playable), the Progenitors are the slave ''masters'' who purposefully made them that way and regularly cull their numbers between [[PlanetLooters conquests]]; redemption of them as a species is only likely after complete social breakdown forces then to change.
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* GreaterScopeVillain: As of the Aeon period, Divis Mal is still the last word in Aberrancy, but he hasn't been seen since leaving Earth, and it's likely that he has no further interest in humanity and is busy seeking TheSingularity. On the other hand, his ally The Colony hates humanity with a genocidal passion, and it's the latter who is leading the Aberrant attack on Earth.
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* GreaterScopeVillain: As of the Aeon period, Divis Mal is still the last word in Aberrancy, but he hasn't been seen since leaving Earth, and it's likely that he has no further interest in humanity and is busy seeking TheSingularity. On the other hand, his ally The Colony hates humanity with a genocidal passion, and it's the latter who is leading the Aberrant attack on Earth. [[spoiler:And really, he's not nearly as much of a threat as the Doyen, who are this by preference.]]
* GuiltFreeExterminationWar: Chromatics actually have a formal term for this, "black" or "dark" war, eradication of a savage group that cannot live in peace with them, due to their [[SapientEatSapient experiences]] with Howlers. By contrast, "blue" or "bright" war is fought to the point of a surrender or truce against a less evil opponent. [[spoiler:This is part of the reason that captured Chromatics are so recaltrant - they think they're in a black war with humanity, and a successful communication means a terrible fate for their friends and families. Realizing humanity just wants to know why they attacked is liable to make them realize it's a blue war and be open to peace talks.]]
* GuiltFreeExterminationWar: Chromatics actually have a formal term for this, "black" or "dark" war, eradication of a savage group that cannot live in peace with them, due to their [[SapientEatSapient experiences]] with Howlers. By contrast, "blue" or "bright" war is fought to the point of a surrender or truce against a less evil opponent. [[spoiler:This is part of the reason that captured Chromatics are so recaltrant - they think they're in a black war with humanity, and a successful communication means a terrible fate for their friends and families. Realizing humanity just wants to know why they attacked is liable to make them realize it's a blue war and be open to peace talks.]]
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* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:The Doyen, especially in 2E, are driven by rabid fear of their own mortality, willing to commit genocide on entire species simply because they ''could'' threaten the Doyen.]]
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* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:The Doyen, especially in 2E, are driven by rabid fear of their own mortality, willing to commit genocide on entire species simply because they ''could'' threaten the Doyen. ''Under Alien Skies'' confirms they're so xenophobic, they're outright [[OffingTheOffspring infanticidal]], since any Doyen born as an EnergyBeing does not register as Doyen to the post-organic race.]]
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* ProudWarriorRace: The Chromatics, a [[LightEmUp photokinetic]] froglike species that are culturally equivalent to a theocratic collection of Bronze Age feudal civilizations, but advanced enough in biotech to be spacefarers, and who possess a genocidal fear of humanity for reasons unknown. [[spoiler:It's because they were attacked by Aberrants masquerading as gods just as they were becoming agrarian, and the Doyen tricked them into thinking humanity at large is AlwaysChaoticEvil- their tech is actually Doyen tech. They have always been a Proud Warrior Race though - as they co-evolved with a species that favors [[SapientEatSapient cannibalism]]. Their culture being based around being an organized military was a survival trait, as was the idea that sometimes, an entire species has to die.]]
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* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Chromatics, to the Doyen - if they became aware the [[GodGuise gods of light]] were evil manipulators, it's canon they'd sue for peace with humanity and end the pointless war.]]
