Colombia is the northernmost country in South America. This article is about Colombia in the Trinity Universe. For the real-world country, see: Colombia.
Nova Age[]
Colombia was plagued by violence for a long time, dating back at least to La Violencia from 1948-1950.[1] The cocaine trade exploded in the 1970s, and was quickly dominated by the Medellín and Cali cartels. The highly centralized Medellín cartel was crippled in 1993 by the death of its leader, Pablo Escobar, and wiped out entirely in 2001 with the anti-organized-crime campaign of Team Tomorrow.[2]
Wilhelm Peron Lehrder escaped the purge, consolidated his resources, and resurrected the Medellín cartel in 2013. He had a new ace in the hole, a nova called El Puerto who could teleport drugs anywhere in the world. The cartel branched out beyond cocaine and heroin to drugs like soma, spike, andrenocillin and Red 7.[3] Lehrder used the revenue of the drug trade to enact his fascist vision of a new Colombia: he invested heavily in schools, but also operated death camps for "undesirables" and lobbied for a system of "licenses to parent" to keep certain people from breeding.[4] Lehrder accomplished this things with outright bribes, but by 2015 was angling to run for president outright.[5]
Unity Age[]
Colombia decriminalized most recreational drugs in the early 21st century, and had a thriving pharmaceutical industry before the Aberrant War.[6] Colonel Nathalie Güzman became a public figure for her successful battles with Aberrants, and was tapped to lead a new anti-terrorism task force called the National Force.[7]
Colombia was one of the South American nations to impose the Necessary Wall during the Aberrant war, heavily restricting travel and commerce from outside the continent to head off a flood of refugees from Europe and the newly-created Federated States of America.[8] During the interwar years, Colombia signed treaties protecting its natural resources and was one of the first nations to adopt the platinum standard and pioneered by China.[9]
By the 22nd century, Colombia became the financial capital of Sudamerica. Medellín became the hub of the pharmaceutical sector, although labs and processing plants dot the whole country.[10] It was also the birthplace of the Norça, originally a drug cartel that Giuseppe del Fuego transformed into the biokinetic psi order.[7]
References[]
- ↑ TU: Aberrant: Underworld, p. 78
- ↑ TU: Aberrant: Underworld, p. 75
- ↑ TU: Aberrant: Underworld, p. 76
- ↑ TU: Aberrant: Underworld, p. 78-79
- ↑ TU: Aberrant: Underworld, p. 66
- ↑ TU: Terra Verde: Psi Order Norça & Sudamérica Sourcebook, p. 73
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 TU: Terra Verde: Psi Order Norça & Sudamérica Sourcebook, p. 33-34
- ↑ TU: Terra Verde: Psi Order Norça & Sudamérica Sourcebook, p. 59
- ↑ TU: Terra Verde: Psi Order Norça & Sudamérica Sourcebook, p. 60
- ↑ TU: Terra Verde: Psi Order Norça & Sudamérica Sourcebook, p. 74