Editing Scion (section)

===Precognition===
Scion can look forward in time to observe countless possible futures.<ref>The shards retained memories, motivated, pushed.<br><br>The entity looked to the future, looked to possible worlds, and it saw the ways this could have unfolded. It burned a year off of the entity’s life, but he had thousands to spare anyways.<br><br>There was a scene where the entity stood over the broadcaster’s corpse and ruminated on what had driven the male to such extremes. The shard wasn’t a particularly aggressive one.<br><br>A scene where the man died, and years passed, the entity slowly coming to the same conclusions as it observed the rest of the species. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/10 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 26]]</ref> He can learn what actions he must take to achieve a specific future or goal, similar to [[Contessa]]. Unlike Contessa, he can use this power in any situation,<ref>“Scion sees the path to victory?”<br><br>“Or something close.”<br><br>“You’re sure?”<br><br>“The evidence, his attitude, as far as he has any attitude at all… yeah.  None of the limitations like Contessa has, I don’t think.  No blind spots.  Just… yeah.” - [[Cockroaches 28.6]]</ref> but it drains from his lifespan, so he uses it sparingly.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="29.2">[[Venom 29.2]]</ref>

[[Khepri]] believed that although his use of [[Precognitive|precognition]] lacked imagination compared with [[Contessa]]'s, he set up contingencies to automatically dodge physical threats such as [[Foil]]'s charged projectiles.<ref>I was already moving the group to safety when Scion evaded the incoming projectile.<br><br>His future sight power wasn’t like Contessa’s.  Narrower, lacking imagination, but he’d set up ''contingencies''.  If X happened, then the power would automatically kick in.<br><br>Apparently the cost of being hit by Foil’s power was worse than whatever it cost him to use that power.<br><br>Not a magic bullet, but it was a good fucking thing to know.  Could I break it?  Abuse it? - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/speck-30-5/ Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.5]]</ref><ref>Why had ''this'' barrage worked when the others didn’t?<br><br>Had to buy time, make space.  I opened doorways, siccing capes on Scion, driving him out of the building.<br><br>What was different?  I hadn’t added anything to the group.<br><br>I ''had'' taken something away.<br><br>I looked at Foil. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/speck-30-5/ Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.5]]</ref> However, he has no contingencies against psychological threats; humanity employed a successful and effective short-term psychological warfare campaign to bully him to death.<ref>So Gold Morning doesn't happen because Scion doesn't throw a tantrum. His lack of motivation and vulnerable, undeveloped humanity are his biggest weaknesses and the introduction of Superman to the setting counteracts those. Scion as an Eden-less entity as a mirror to a family-less Superman should get the input and reference points he needs to develop more as a human being and figure out how to manage being bullied to death, and having a Superman around gives him a job to do. - Wildbow on Reddit, [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/77707099 archived on Spacebattles]</ref>