Editing Shard (section)

===Power Source===
One Shard is capable of settling in a grouping of near-identical worlds, drawing energy from all of those worlds at once. Most of the alternate versions of Earth have been sealed off, partitioned to provide energy to the Shards operating in the inhabited worlds the entities have chosen to focus on.<ref name="I26">[[Interlude 26]]</ref> While this provides immeasurable power it is still essentially finite, especially for dead shards.{{cite}}<!--recent chapter talks about the warrior hub not being around turning every shard into a dead shard-->

Powers that seem to be 'fueled' by absorbing things like emotions, people, or similar will not generally be powered by the subject in question but instead will be due to the shard being allowed to expend power due to the conflict it creates.<ref>Some were time limits, like only being able to stay [[breaker]] for a set amount of time.  Some were internal batteries, a power supply that filled up over time before they had to turn human and absorb more.<br>[...]<br>Some had a need for something environmental, like a water breaker who needed a body of water to manipulate and absorb.<br>[...]<br>There were others.  The ones who needed people, the parasite-breakers and those who drank up emotion to fuel themselves.  Not that emotion was something so physical, but the thing that supplied the power liked and valued the emotions they churned up and the reactions those emotions got.  It would be the kind of thing they wanted to set up. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/02/02 Excerpt] from [[Blinding 11.11]]</ref>