Muitas coisas aconteceram em 1999 no Classic World of Darkness. ( Aqui está um link para a linha do tempo.) Estamos especificamente preocupados com o dia 4 de julho.
The Technocracy implement Operation Ragnarok.They use neutron missiles and four reflecting orbital mirrors to reduce the Ravnos Antediluvian to dust. Simultaneously, Technocrat Xerxes Jones detonates a nuclear device in the Labyrinth at the mouth of Oblivion, while the forces of Stygia drop a relic nuke on Enoch. So much spirit energy releases the Sixth Great Maelstrom and starts the Avatar Storm.
Por que Xerxes Jones estava fazendo esse experimento? Ele havia se infiltrado no círculo órfico .
Xerxes Jones, a Void Engineer who had infiltrated the Orphic Circle, was provided with the materials to build his Spirit Nuke by the cult. The cult (aware of his experiment) was expecting a full report from him when he returned. Jones's nuke was set off prematurely by the detonation of the relics of the nuclear weapons Fat Man and Little Boy, which were released by relic bombers of the wraithly Hierarchy in the assault of Enoch, the fortress of the Black Hand. The combined effect resulted in the Sixth Great Maelstrom, the awakening of Grandmother, and the creation of the Stormwall. Thus, Jones's “experiment” resulted in the destruction of the cult's headquarters and most of its members. Only two helicopters containing several of the Circle's leaders managed to flee the stronghold in the face of the Spectral onslaught.
Eu não encontrei nenhuma nota sobre o motivo pelo qual os supervisores de Jones na Tecnocracia não estavam cientes de sua experiência acontecendo neste momento. Eles podem ter se distraído demais com a batalha contra os Ravnos ou podem não querer que Jones abrisse seu disfarce. Basta dizer que não acho que a tecnocracia ou o círculo órfico tivessem alguma ideia do que aconteceria, mesmo que o experimento fosse como planejado. (Que decididamente não fez.)