Editing Gold Morning (section)

== Plot ==
In his obliteration Scion followed a very specific pattern of reversing the way he had helped people in the past. <ref name="DoctorMother">“(He's) Following a very distinct formula. He’s reversing what he did at the outset. Saving children, stopping fires. The man who initially gave him the orders is hospitalized, or we’d ask about the instructions he provided. It might give us an idea of what Scion is going to do and the patterns that might emerge in the course of this… experimentation.” [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/17/extinction-27-2/ Doctor Mother Excerpt] from [[Extinction 27.2]] </ref>
Following his Eastern Seaboard attack he targeted all adults on the coast of Africa, leaving behind 430 000 orphans. <ref name="Africa"> He left… what was the number?” (...) “Four hundred and thirty thousand orphans.” [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/17/extinction-27-2/ Excerpt] from [[Extinction 27.2]]</ref> 
In Russia he began trapping groups of people in a ring of fire that slowly burned inward.<ref name="Russia">“In Russia, his beam started fires.  He cut off every escape route, then began setting fires from the outside in.  It took him thirty-five minutes to start the fire, and he waited for fifteen minutes while the flames spread and everyone within was cooked.  Heroes that attempted to stop the attack were killed.”[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/17/extinction-27-2/ Excerpt] from [[Extinction 27.2]]</ref> 
Within a few hours, the total estimated death toll from his rampage went up to 500 million.<ref name="27.3e1"> "Japan hit.  V. little left.  Most evacuated.  22m est. dead.  Total est. toll 500m." [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/20/extinction-27-3/ Excerpt] from [[Extinction 27.3]]</ref>

=== Parahuman Response ===
Immediately following the attacks, parahuman forces organized to minimize the damage and provide civilian evacuation out of Earth Bet.

The first meeting to discuss the situation between various parahuman factions was organized by [[Cauldron]] in a similar fashion to the [[Khonsu Meeting]].

The meetings served to inform everyone present of the Scion's actions, organize preparations for evacuation and provide a discussion forum for possibilities of stopping Scion. <ref>[[Cauldron Meeting]] [[Extinction 27.2]]</ref>

At the meeting, it was decided to release parahumans from the birdcage, because they needed more powerful parahumans.

The first, and most notable, battle was the [[oil-rig battle]]. Afterward, roughly half of all the civilians and parahumans on [[Earth Bet]] were dead, and Scion began attacking other worlds as well.<ref name="28.1">I sighed a little.  “How bad is it?”<br><br>“We lost just about half of everyone,” Tattletale said.  “Maybe more, but communicating’s hard right now.  Don’t exactly have an infrastructure.”<br><br>“Everyone being-”<br><br>“The capes, the civilians.  Everyone.  Half of Bet’s onetime population is gone, just about.  Good news is he’s traveling between possible Earths, hitting major population centers, so the individual incidents aren’t doing so much damage on a relative level.  Bad news is he’s traveling between possible Earths.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/31/cockroaches-28-1/ Excerpt] from [[Cockroaches 28.1]]</ref>

=== Cauldron Compound ===
Scion discovered the [[Cauldron Compound]] containing his comatose, gutted [[Eden|partner]] and destroyed it, ending his former partners' life.

=== The Final Battle ===
Scion was eventually defeated by thousands of capes under the command of [[Khepri]], with the conflict shattering several landmasses on multiple worlds and rendering several uninhabitable.