Asian NPCs

(Chinese and Indian NPCs have their own pages)

Lt. Ali Afzaal Ahmed

Ali erupted while flying in a Pakistani air force exercise. One moment he was flying a normal plane, the next he was roaring out of a fireball of wreckage in his "own" plane: an idealized fighter jet, a plane with all the features and benefits of the worlds greatest aircrafts but without any of their flaws. It can take off vertically, it can fire missiles and guns (and never runs out of ammo!), it has sensors most only dream of, it is stealthy, it resists damage like a battleship. The plane is actually a projection of his nova powers: a forcefield combined stealth, mega-perception, quantum bolt, flight, megaspeed, etc. When he is dormant he is just an ordinary Pakistani airman. But when he activates his powers his plane forms around him.

Ali has become the most famous Pakistani nova, a symbol of military might and competence. He regularly appears in air shows and patrols the Kashmir border. The fact that he is somewhat sloppy in his personal life and often disregards order is kept quiet; he is too important to lose.

Pejmon Abbaszadegan

Iran’s first nova. Pejmon is able to read information and signals from electronics and radio as well as create EMP-pulses and local electrical fields. He was a grocer when he erupted, propelling him to national fame. He began to work for the Iranian government, where he has gained education and devoted staff. Erupting was the best thing ever that happened to him, and he is doing the most with his newfound abilities, fame and (as he thinks) influence.

He is the “older brother” nova-wise to Sanjar Mahdavi, who he has been teaching about his power. He likes playing mentor and works well with the conformist policeman. Still, being a first wave nova he is comparatively weak, something which annoys him to no end.

Sanjar Mahdavi

Iranian policeman who erupted during a riot surge. He became pure light and vanished.

His power is to transmute into electromagnetic radiation. He can either dissipate and reform somewhere else, or detonate in a damaging radiation pulse. He can also radiate as a single, utterly devastating beam at a target. Unfortunately, after using his powers strongly he tends to dissipate and have trouble reforming. He is learning to not just transform himself but to bring another person with him, turning them into a diffuse field of electromagnetism linked to himself.

A staid, silent person, he has accepted his transformation and that the government wants to use him. He is still doing his job, despite privately being somewhat sceptical of their aims. But being a don’t-rock-the-boat type of person he goes along and even accepts the tutoring of the overbearing Pejmon Abbaszadegan. But he knows Pejmon is just his teacher, his real boss stands above both of them and knows who is a policeman and who is a grocer.

Sahran Al-Tarim

A Yemini technician who learned the language of the chips. Sahran is able to not just interface with computers he touches; he has begun to manifest “wireless powers” too. He is constantly connected to the Internet and can literally read his email in his head. After realizing the powers he had he quickly got himself a cozy job as information security specialist for the Saud family.

Nakiko Hasami

Nakiko Hasami was an engineer at Toyota when she erupted 2003 without warning as a response to industrial noise. She became able to silence noise, as well as developing a very sharp intellect. Taking advantage of her new abilities and fame she joined Japan’s Next Generation Materials Research Institute as a Toyota initiative. Nakiko is most well known for her co-discovery of Hasami-Oteka effect at NGMRI, enabling the production of metallic hydrogen. She is engaged in using the effect and related advanced materials to produce super-strong alloys and composites.

While Japanese media revere her, she is not as approachable as Akira Shigemasu and hence rarely seen. Which suits her fine.

Powers: modest mega-intelligence and an engineering prodigy, as well the ability to cause a zone of silence and gravity control.

Akira Shigemasu

Japan’s most famous nova. A railway worker who in late 2002 suddenly gained the power to see people’s dreams, enter them, change them and display them for all to see as holography. He has become famed as a dream psychologist, helping people to wellness by treating them in their dreams. His television program and stage show, where people come to be healed publicly, are halfway between psychotherapy and a revival meeting. Traditional psychologists are not happy about his practice, but he does have a statistically significant track record in treating many mental states and his charisma keeps him in the limelight.

Dang Thi Xuong

Thi Xuong discovered that she had the power to heal people. Not just from illness, but from old age. This has propelled her from the slums of Vietnam to a luxurious resort in Thailand, where she is the secret behind the exclusive “Quo Clinic”. Her father and uncle run the firm, with the uncle posing as the real source of life elixir while Thi Xuong heals rich clients posing as a nurse. She does not know anything about the triad backing of the clinic or the deals her father has made, she just knows things are better now.

Among certain exclusive networks of South East Asia the rumour of the real, working life extension therapy is spreading like wildfire. While many try to get an appointment, others have started to plan to wrest the secret from the clinic by force.