Editing Cauldron (section)

===Background===
[[Doctor Mother]] and [[Contessa]] formed Cauldron after [[Eden]] crash-landed near Contessa's home and was killed by Doctor Mother. They learned that the [[Entity|Entities]]' cycle would lead to the end of the human race and began formulating plans to defend humanity, including reducing conflict and maximizing the number of parahumans present for the final confrontation.<ref name="I29">[[Interlude 29]]</ref>

By extracting and refining parts of Eden's corpse, Doctor Mother and Contessa were able to produce vials that granted powers. After Scion appeared on [[Earth Bet]] in 1982, they began to more widely test those vials on terminally ill patients. [[Hero]] and [[Doormaker]] both triggered in the founders' first batch of ten vials.<ref name="I29" /> This process could also cure subjects of their illnesses, and Cauldron subsequently provided vials to [[Alexandria]], [[Eidolon]], and [[Legend]].<ref name="I27">[[Interlude 27.x|27.x (Interlude, Eidolon)]]</ref>

Cauldron expanded its operations throughout the 1980s and established a headquarters that spanned several dimensions. During the mid-1980s, it recruited the [[Number Man]] and [[William Manton]] as full-time staff. Alexandria stayed with them for two years after she gained powers and helped to implement Cauldron's plan for integrating parahumans into society by forming the [[Protectorate]] alongside Hero, Legend, and Eidolon.

William and Balminder's separate betrayals changed their operating protocol.<ref name="II5.x eDefections" />

Cauldron also created [[Gray Boy]], and it allowed him to exist as he was the most viability as an anti-Scion contingency after Eidolon. When the [[Slaughterhouse Nine]] began killing more parahumans than Gray Boy was theoretically worth, they manipulated [[Glaistig Uaine]] into killing him and taking his power so it could be used later if needed.<ref name="SB1">Cauldron permitted Gray Boy because he was the closest thing to a weapon they had against Scion since Eidolon. When the S9 started picking up and more parahumans started getting removed from the fiend{sic}(field) than Gray Boy was theoretically worth, they moved in. Maneuvering Glaistig Uaine into taking him over, so the power would still be in play. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/13172170 Comment by Wildbow on Spacebattles]</ref>

Cauldron was targeted by [[The Simurgh]] during her attack on [[Madison]], Wisconsin in 2009. The Simurgh used [[Professor Haywire]]'s technology to [[Portal|break into]] one of the dimensions Cauldron was located in, costing Cauldron a stock of formulas and releasing several Case 53s. The [[Travelers]] triggered using the lost formulas, and [[Noelle Meinhardt]]'s rampage in [[Brockton Bay]] led to Cauldron being publicly outed and the creation of the [[Irregulars]].<ref>[[Migration]]</ref>