Editing Entity (section)

=== 3,000+ Cycles ===
As the ancestors replicated and spread, the cycle repeated over three thousand times, and they grew more powerful each time. A collection of safeguards and protections were developed, conceptualized from previous failures, such as in the second cycle, to make sure they would never happen again.

At some point relatively recently, the Warrior's ancestors began replicating and traveling in pairs of entities. Each entity in the pair had a subtly different role in the cycle, such as attacker/defender, warrior/thinker, and builder/destroyer. These individual roles allowed for their shards to be shaped in different ways, allowing for more variation when they came back together at the end of the cycle.<ref name="I26" />