Editing List of Shards (section)

==The Broadcast Shard==
Given its true use, reduced aggression compared with the typical shard,<ref name=":5" /> and how [[the Warrior]] intentionally crippled his Broadcast shard before handing it out,<ref name=":3" /> [[Glaistig Uaine]] would presumably consider it as [[Shard#Noble Shards|noble]]. When deployed during a [[cycle]], the Broadcast shard in the [[shard network]] is analogous to an executive officer or CEO for all other shards.<ref name="reddit eOfficer">For an analogy, think of boomers trying to use an app a bizarre sci-fi megacorp designed to kill an executive officer of that megacorp's company. ''And'' that megacorp is monitoring them ''and'' they control their internet, the data they see, and you're tracking them. The boomer, for whatever reason, can't ditch their phone (In setting, it's stuck to their brain).<br>[...]<br>The way it works is that you want to rely on someone who isn't using the megacorp's tech or who isn't tracked and monitored by the megacorp. Anything else is going to see the executive officer getting a courtesy phone call and your tech guys are going to do everything they can to mess with your potential threat.<br><br>Anything else is liable to be a "Gee, why can't I use my app from megacorp to destroy a megacorp executive officer?" - [https://redd.it/nt15eg Comment] by Wildbow on Reddit</ref><ref name="reddit eCEO">Because they're boomers they don't really understand the tech and a lot of it is screened off from them, right?<br><br>Boomer has an app that mail orders feral bears? "I guess we have to deliver, but let's just order some really shitty bears and have the driver honk his horn to alert the CEO, and if our boomer makes any mistakes in the ordering and isn't focused then we'll just empty the truckload of bears right in front of him." - [https://redd.it/n4p5pe Comment by] Wildbow on Reddit</ref><ref name="reddit eSabotageApp">App to get someone killed? They hook it up to your boomer's pacemaker and reserve the ability to stop his heart when his lifespan (going by compiled insurance data from up to 150 providers) is halfway up, in exchange for giving him data to call in accurate hits. He just made that install and your tracking indicates he's intending to call a hit in on your CEO? Use just the two providers that give the shortest lifespan, cut that in half, (he should be in 4 minutes, according to sketchy companies A and B? hit that button to stop our boomer's pacemaker!) Or lean on your megacorp's subsidiary companies and track what he's doing on the internet to slow him down. Mess with his head. - [https://redd.it/n4p5pe Comment by] Wildbow on Reddit</ref> It was the second-to-last Shard released by the Warrior.

Handing out this shard is standard procedure because it gives [[Scion]] and [[Eden]] the opportunity to see how the host species interact with a [[Jack Slash#Shard|seemingly unbeatable secondary power]].<ref name="Reddit experiment">This isn't a controlled, everything-in-isolation 'fair' experiment. This is very much a hot mess, everything-playing-off-of-everything type experiment. They're looking for interplay, interactions, invention in response to specific stimuli, and to pit unreasonable forces against others. If you have something as important as executive function and communication, or your best version of invincibility, or a '[[perfect]]' set of powers that should be unbeatable? You can throw it out there into the wild, with a species given strong incentive to hack, test, or break your best, and find the holes that need to be patched (or the tools/combination of factors that can unravel something you thought was decided/perfect). Push comes to shove, you've got a Scholar and a Warrior ready to step in to fine-tune or wipe the slate clean, so to speak.<br><br>So it's fine to have a Jack out there, as a chaotic pollutant, especially when his cape kill count isn't ''that'' high, all considered. - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit, archived [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/72724278 on Spacebattles]</ref><ref>The others hurried to confine the broadcaster.  They were apparently aware of what he could do.<br><br>''Interesting''. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/10/interlude-26/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 26]]</ref>

===Known Hosts===
*[[Jack Slash]]

===True use===
How the [[Entities]] manage communication between them.<ref name="26ze1">All around the entity, there were shards in varying states of maturation.  The female’s was among the most mature.  Seasoned by conflict, heavy with information, lessons learned, tactics, applications, organization.<br>[...]<br>A confrontation had started between [[Golem|a young male]] and an older one.  A fragment of a shard against a very mature shard.  The most mature shard in this area, at a glance.<br><br>The more mature power was unleashed.  A wavelength power, a kinetic transmission.<br><br><span>The entity watched, and it recognized the shard at work. </span>The broadcast shard. One that had been crippled, just like the shard of [[taylor|the female]] that floated before the entity now. The same shard that had managed communication between the entity and its counterpart. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/10/interlude-26/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 26]]</ref> Even after its crippling, this shard still retains its executive function for communication between shards.<ref>Broadcast is executive function. It ''is'' communication between shards, by definition and by name. Breadth and depth, as stated by Bonesaw in her interlude, are factors where a longstanding parahuman develops a closer connection to their shard. More experience = more leeway. Jack's been at it long enough to have a really good arrangement going, and they get more interesting stuff through Jack staying active than they do through letting him die. - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit, archived [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/72724278 on Spacebattles]</ref>

===Possible powers===
*Transmitting the cutting force of handheld edged weapons, giving the host practically nigh-infinite range.<ref>'''Jack Slash''' – Leader.  The man who will set the end of the world in motion, according to Dinah Alcott.  Has the ability to extend the effective cutting edge of held knives and blades to horrendous distance, while maintaining consistent cutting power.  Using this ability, he can cut through crowds or slice an enemy’s throat at any range.  A capable reader of people and manager of sociopaths and other monsters, Jack Slash has managed to maintain command of the group for some time, despite a somewhat underwhelming power.  He dresses rather casually and maintains a trimmed beard, and wears a belt with various knives. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/cast-spoiler-free/cast/ Cast Page (In depth)]</ref> Coupled with a [[Jack Slash#Shard|secondary power]] that prevents any [[parahuman]] from killing the host [[Jack Slash#Vulnerabilities|without outside interference]].<ref>'''A)''' Broadcast would reach out to the shard well before the point of that other shard triggering. His very shard interacts with others to dissuade things that would target him. Parahumans don't kill Jack, as a firm rule. This isn't an arbitrary protection. It's an in-story protection that got a fair bit of time and focus in the narrative, toward the end. - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit, archived [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/72724278 on Spacebattles]</ref><ref>You can qualify, you can quibble, you can tack on extra powers, but ''Jack doesn't lose to parahumans''. - Wildbow on Reddit, archived [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/73903345 on Spacebattles]</ref>