JENNIFER "SLIDER" LANDERS

This is the official site for T2M's Slider, maintained by Amber Lynn Carter.

NAME: Jennifer Landers

HANDLE: Slider

ERUPTED: August 24, 2000

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 5'5" tall, bright red hair, blue eyes, a legion of freckles. (But frankly, if you don't know what Slider looks like...what rock have you been under for the last nine years? ;-)

ASSIGNMENT: Team Tomorrow Central

OCCUPATION (before eruption): OpNet designer

OCCUPATION (after eruption): Primary transportation, combat support and disaster relief expert for Team Tomorrow Central

KNOWN NOVA ABILITIES: Near total control over all aspects of spatial reality. "Jen" can teleport objects, open gateways from one spacial location to another, "slide" an object through space, or even twist space into knots. She also has slightly mega-human physical and mental abilities.

BIOGRAPHY: Jennifer never really lived an "ordinary" life, though to hear her tell it, she was just another face in the crowd. Straight-A student, Homecoming Queen, civil and environmental activist — Jennifer was working to make the world a better place well before her eruption.

Of course, like every other nova, her life changed forever the day she erupted. For Jennifer, the crisis was an attempt by a digi-terrorist to destroy the website she'd done for a local branch of Greenpeace. (Local to her, of course.) As a site designer trying to out-think a prepared hacker in real time, Jennifer herself says she was outclassed. She tried to imagine herself in several places at once, throwing up firewalls in an attempt to block access. Space is an illusion in the OpNet, Jennifer once told me, and that proved to be her triumph. Though she couldn't out-program the hacker, she just popped into his room, then popped him to the nearest police station, before either of them knew what happened.

Given her history of activism and devotion to the greater good, Jen was almost destined to become a member of Team Tomorrow. The rest, as they say, is history. There are a plethora of fan sites on OpNet at which you can read a full account of her exploits as a Tomorrowite, and she spent the "lost year" battling Proteus.

CURRENT EVENTS: When not continuing her hunt for the Proteus conspiracy, Jennifer is returning to as normal a life as any world-famous member of Team Tomorrow can reasonably expect.

TOUR SCHEDULE: Jennifer is just ending an extended vacation from personal appearances. She expects to make NovaCon 2009, and is keeping her options open from there.

Links:

Never Forget. Never Again.

A word from Jen: The above web page was set up (and then hacked) in my memory. I find it deeply embarrassing, but a lot of brave people risked their lives to either protect me or avenge me, and I owe them all more than I can ever say or repay. Thus, I include a link to this page, erected then rewritten in my name, in their honor.

Note the first: For the terminally clueless, I AM NOT DEAD. The above net page was set up when I was believed dead. I have left it intact. Like Mark Twain, the reports of my death have been exaggerated (though not as greatly in my case as in his). I repeat: I — Jennifer Landers, aka Slider — am ALIVE. Everybody with me on this one? Good.

To the 99.9% of you who get it, BTW, I apologize for going on like that.

Note the second: Silver Lantern was neither Caestus Pax nor Lightning nor Skew nor Divis Mal (GAH!) nor Lotus Infinite (huh?!). It was Quasar. Only he would have a reference to a character so obscure that my "niece" Amber didn't know who it was.

Oh, and Quasar...I owe you one, you sweet, crazy, semi-suicidal fanboy.

A BIG thank you to everyone who helped turn back the night.

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