Character 3 - Aberrant
Welcome back, readers. I hope you're enjoying these characters and my commentary. Today's character is White Wolf Games' 1999 superheroes in the near future real world game, Aberrant! Set in the near future of 2008, Aberrant takes place in a world where the research satellite/orbital station Galatea crashed to earth in 1998, triggering the creation of superheroes known here as Novas. The first Nova was a firefighter named Randel Portman whose abilities allowed him to absorb the energy of a fire engulfing a school bus in New York, saving the lives of the children on board. Since then, plenty of factions have arisen including super teams and corporations dedicated to exploiting Novas and even a wrestling league (the Xtreme Warfare Federation... this is a VERY 90s game) dedicated to super powered brawling. Long time gamers may be aware that Aberrant was a prequel setting to White Wolf's Aeon (renamed Trinity because MTV had more expensive lawyers) and itself had a preque...