In the Apatrides universe, 1995 is a milestone year. Initially, it marked a change in the leadership of the Consortium and an ensuing change in their attitude to Black Orchestra’s assaults on them. But in the end, the repercussions of that change went much further. Blascovitch dies, Gypsie attacks the Black Orchestra, Votan/Travis is defeated and Benson is replaced. Though we usually pace our stories over months, for the year 1995, a whole cascade of events happened in only a few weeks. As we’ve said before, many of these events were planned. However, others were added as a result of certain other developments (the Travis-Gypsie saga).