2000 [Aberrant] Having consolidated his hold on the Mafia in the wake of T2M's crime-busting, Luciano Camparelli phones his counterpart in the Russian Organizatsiya to propose a merger of their interests into what will become known as the Camparelli-Zukhov megasyndicate (C-Z for short).
2008 [Aberrant] Gabriel "The Miracle" Melchior, head of the Church of the Immanent Escheaton, punctuates an Easter sermon by disappearing in a flash of light. This was not his idea; the flash was produced by Argent, a nova attached to Project Proteus, and the disappearance was also Proteus' doing, motivated by their desire to study the most tainted nova currently known to exist.