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* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: Being a nova is awesome, until you acquire so much [[The Corruption|Taint]] that you either go crazy, turn into a [[One-Winged Angel|hulking abomination]], or [[Power Incontinence|have your powers go wildly out of control]]. (Sometimes all three.) Of course, acquiring Taint is necessary for a nova to attain true power, so...
** Actually, it's not ''entirely'' necessary. The only Taint a nova absolutely has to have is the 1 point of permanent Taint for each dot of Quantum over 4. This means that you can hit Quantum 10 (which, remember, is the Q-level at which you can access powers like ''Universe Creation'') with only 6 permanent Taint, which barely qualifies as 'medium aberration'. Take the suggested medium aberration 'Vulnerability', whose only side effect is that you take +3 dice in damage from a particular attack form—which at that level of power is about as comparatively threatening as a mosquito bite—and shazam, perfectly sane Quantum 10 nova.
*** Actually, once you've hit Quantum 8 you gain access to Quantum Supremacy, which among other things allows you to permanently rewrite your own 'quantum template' (that is, to hack your own character sheet). That would likely allow you to actually remove your permanent Taint from yourself, so all you need to do is keep your Taint score at the minimum until you hit Q8 (min Taint for Q8 is 4, which is 'one mild aberration') and then boom. Even if your DM does not allow you to use Quantum Supremacy for permanent Taint removal, at Quantum 10 you get access to Planck Scaling which ''entirely'' lets you do this.
*** Sadly, as novas didn't have access to the rulebooks, most chugged down Taint like delicious superpower steroids for short-term gains (...such as being strong enough to literally move mountains) and consequentially used said superpowers to ruin the Earth.
*** Doyen propaganda! It was those damn Zips that fucked everything up. Except for the whole Fall of OpNet thing, that was a crazy abby, our bad.
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