Editing Coil (section)

==History==
===Background===
Thomas was a part of the PRT's special forces. When the PRT received reports about [[Nilbog]], his team was sent in to deal with the situation. He was one of the only two survivors of the following incident, the other being [[Emily Piggot]].<ref name="16.x">[[Interlude 16.x]]</ref>

At some point, Thomas found out about and approached [[Cauldron]] before he bought a superpower. It was expensive, forcing him to postpone his plans and spend years gaming the market in order to pay it off.<ref name="I8xe2">Perhaps worthy of a celebration. Coil maintained his own vices. It would be unfair to expect more of himself, when he had the unique talent he did.<br><br>It had certainly been an expensive talent. Even with his ability to game the markets in a way that clairvoyants and precognitives couldn’t detect, it had taken him years to pay it off. A maddening, frustrating endeavor, when he had already been thinking of plans he wanted to set in motion, having to postpone them. And he still owed a favor, even now, up to a week’s services. He couldn’t be sure if he was powerful and secure enough to fight back if they demanded too expensive a price, or too much of his time at a point critical to his plan. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/31/interlude-8/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 8.z]]</ref> 
===Story Start===
Attended the meeting at [[Somer's Rock]] by himself.<ref name="5.1">[[Hive 5.1]]</ref> Offered money to make sure the mercenaries of the city were committed to the fight against the [[ABB]]

Following [[Battle at the Bank|several]] [[Battle at the Gallery|successful]] jobs by the [[The Undersiders|Undersiders]] he revealed himself to his employees.

When the Leviathan came to Brockton Bay, Coil hunkered down and waited for everything to blow over.
===Post-[[Battle against Leviathan|Leviathan]]===
Began making moves to secure territory in the devastated city through his employed villains.

===Post-[[Slaughterhouse Nine]]===
His plans so close to fruition, Coil now had to deal with [[Dragon]] and [[Colin Wallis|Defiant]] deploying their new mechanical suits to Brockton Bay. After paying a hefty sum to the [[Dragonslayers]] his hirelings were able to drive the suits out. He was then able to enact his endgame.<ref name="SV82">''Peanuckle said: I think Coil's biggest failing here is his desire to monologue, a classic villain mistake. If he had just ordered his men to shoot without bringing in Tattletale, then there wouldn't have been a problem. Then again, his claim to be able to deal with the PR hit was probably a bluff to destabilize Skitter. Being outed about his criminal career would probably cost him his position as PRT director.'' <br> <br>There's a balance to be found. Haste makes waste, and just pulling the trigger and destabilizing things without stopping and touching ground involves risks. If Taylor's deadman's switch was real, for example, that would make rushing headlong into a disastrous scenario for Coil. He's spent all this time building up and securing his position, and he doesn't want to stumble at the last second. <br> <br>Stopping and having a short discussion means you get to decipher just why things fell apart so you can manage things better in the future. Too easy to get into a situation where you're just doing damage control and you hastily plug a hole only to find that more of your subordinates are getting restless and entertaining the wrong sorts of thoughts. <br> <br>Maybe not in this specific situation, but it would be Coil's overall mindset and personality. <br> <br>As compared to the 'just about ego' monologue (though I imagine a smidge of ego was involved). <br> <br>''Peanuckle said: Even though Coil admits to torturing members of the Undersiders. I wonder if he tortured Lisa, but she toughed through it? More likely he grabbed Taylor or Brian since they're closer to the issue. <br>Why not all of them?'' <br> <br>This would be why you compartmentalize the plan to take down the reality-splitting overlord. Talk it out, give everyone the key points, but don't tell Brian what Tattletale is doing, exactly. <br> <br>Aside: I imagine if Tattletale got tortured in a Coil reality, she'd know it was a Coil reality and adjust accordingly. - [https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/posts/3136604 Comments By Wildbow] on SufficientVelocity</ref>

Faking his death in an attack at the mayoral debate he was able to disgrace [[Director Piggot]] and take over for her as Thomas Calvert.<ref name="169PF">''First reports from the site report allegations of sabotage on the part of a [[Chariot|known double agent]] within the group of junior heroes.  No members of the Brockton Bay PRT, Protectorate or Wards teams were available for comment, but sources inside the organization report that Director Emily Piggot, manager of the city’s PRT and government sponsored hero teams, is being put on leave pending a full investigation.''<br><br>“''Filling in for the interim is Commander Thomas Calvert.  When asked about this new placement, the PRT reported that Commander Calvert served as a PRT field agent before an honorable discharge.  For the past several years he has offered his expertise to the PRT as a paid consultant in parahuman affairs for New York, Brockton Bay and Boston, later serving as a field commander for the PRT strike squads.  The PRT expresses full confidence in Commander Calvert’s ability to handle the daunting task of Brockton Bay’s parahuman-''” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/12/22 Excerpt] from [[Monarch 16.9]]</ref> He did not account for Skitter being there in her civilian identity. Skitter found out about his identity and confronted him. Calvert was prepared and made a clumsy attempt to [[Coil's Betrayal|kill Skitter]]. He almost turned Skitter's teammates against her, but failed due to Grue's power allowing them to uncover the deception. In the final meeting, Tattletale revealed that she bought out his mercenaries. Skitter then took a gun and prepared to shoot him. Coil assumed she wasn't a killer. Skitter bluntly told him "No. But I suppose in a roundabout way, you made me one." She then shot him in the head.<ref name="16.13">[[Monarch 16.13]]</ref>

As his final act of spite, Coil made sure that [[Noelle|Noelle Meinhardt]] heard his death over the phone. Her last hope of being cured gone, Noelle would break out of her cell and rampage across Brockton Bay, setting out to kill the Undersiders for what they had done.<ref>We stopped when we reached Tattletale. She stood facing the vault door. The one that was used to seal Noelle within.<br><br>There were two vault doors, one set behind the other, and both were ruined, the one closest to us nearly folded in half, hanging by one hinge.<br><br>“A final act of spite,” Tattletale said. She looked at the phone in her hand. “He made sure she heard our conversation.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/05/monarch-16-13/ Excerpt] from [[Monarch 16.13]]</ref>
<!--coil was part of terminus? what was terminus? thought it was evacuation plan. Actually the parahuman rule plan? take this and more material from here: https://redd.it/55dgky/

Wildbow: <br>''The Travelers did have their own pre-Worm story. I think Wildbow meant that he powered them up after someone pointed that out.''
No. They were originally conceived of in response to the commentary about me doing weak powers. <br>Doing Science would have helped him with the city, and with preventing the end of the world (which contained the city). <br>He was already managing the city well enough. Had he taken power, he would've put the rest of it into motion.

So [Coil] could run as many parallel tests as he could set up with a single binary trigger as long as he could remember the results...
I've seen arguments from this sort of angle before, mostly in the wake of EY's recommendation (author of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality); missing the forest and the trees while looking for the 'gotcha', kind of? -->

===Legacy===
His murderers would take everything that was his, including his place in the expectations of the organization that had secretly backed him.<ref name="20.ye1">Accord nodded, once. “As well as we might hope. We lost Coil, but the Undersiders may serve as a model in his absence.” <br> <br>“Good to know. [[The Number Man|I’ll]] inform the [[Doctor Mother|Doctor]].” <br> <br>The gateway closed. Accord sat down on the end of the bed, then lay back, staring at the ceiling. <br> <br>Coil had been the focus of the test, unaware. The man had also been Accord’s friend, the one who’d sold him the PRT databases. His death had been a tragic thing, on many levels. There were few men Accord considered worthy of being his friend. <br> <br>Now it hinged on the Undersiders. They’d taken up Coil’s legacy, after a fashion, and just like Coil, their ambitions fell in line with Cauldron’s. The organization’s hopes rode on them and their decisions. Accord’s hopes rode on them: his twenty-three year plan, saving the world from the worst kind of disorder. In the end, they were responsible for billions. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/06/interlude-20/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 20.y]]</ref>