Editing The Yàngbǎn (section)

==Structure==
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|[[Null|Null (Zero)]]
|Shares powers among the Yàngbǎn.<ref name="30.3e2">Just below the dais were three more Yàngbǎn members.  Null, One and Two.  The key components in their power structure, the ones who divided the powers, controlled the squads and gave them the strength to be effective, respectively. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/19 Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.3]]</ref> Null's power is not shared.
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|[[One]]
|Controls Yàngbǎn squads.<ref name="30.3e2"/>
|Too valuable for field missions.
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|[[Two]]
|Magnifies nearby powers.<ref name="30.3e2"/>
|Too valuable for field missions.
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|Three
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|Led the [[New Delhi]] mission
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|Four
|Shallow flight<ref>''Fourth path.''  Shallow flight. [...] Their flight depended on proximity to a solid surface.  It involved hovering five to ten feet off the ground while moving at fifty or sixty miles an hour.  They had another means of flight, but less controlled, one that risked putting them above the skyline, obvious targets for a lightning strike. - [[Interlude 23]]</ref>
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|Nine
|Accelerates using nearby metal<ref>''Ninth path.''  Short range electromagnetism.  They skated off of the little exposed metal that was available around them, car hoods and pipes, gaining speed to augment their flight.- [[Interlude 23]]</ref>
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|Thirteen
|Forcefield constructions<ref name="I23">[[Interlude 23]]</ref>
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|Fourteen
|Vacuum generation<ref name="I23"/>
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|Sixteen
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|Interrogated [[Lung]]
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|Seventeen
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|Killed by [[Behemoth]]<ref>There were forty-two paths in all.  Forty-two powers.  No, he corrected himself, there were forty-one now that Seventeen was dead. - [[Interlude 23]]</ref>
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|Twenty-Three
|Enhanced perception, particularly awareness of others and the threat they pose. Enhanced reflexes, particularly when fighting hostile enemies.<ref name="I23"/>
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|Twenty-Seven
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|Interrogated [[Lung]]
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|Thirty-One
|Powerful cutting lasers<ref name="I23"/>
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|Thirty-Two
|Nullification waves<ref>Thirty-second path.  Nullification waves.<br>
The effect was short ranged, and he could see the shifting in the air as it extended, passed through the gaps in the forcefield where the magma and heated air were only just beginning to leak through miniscule gaps.<br>
The waves generated by thirty-two served to stabilize.  It stalled things in motion, warmed up cold things, cooled warm things.  It silenced, stilled.<br>
The magma cooled with surprising rapidity, but then, the power was affecting the inside at the same time it affected the outside, rather than trying to cool the outside to a degree that would extend inward. - [[Interlude 23]]</ref>
|Not Chinese
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|[[Cody|Thirty-Six]]
|Time reversal
|Protagonist of [[Interlude 23]].
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|Forty-Two
|Slow teleportation<ref>Reluctantly, still stewing with anger, he obeyed, kneeling by the body.<br>The forty-second path.  Teleportation.  He could see the destination in his mind's eye, like an annoying spot of light in the center of his vision, gradually getting more detailed and focused.  Each person that joined his side to assist sped the process along.<br>The wounded hero flickered and disappeared.<br>[...]<br><br>The process took a minute at the best of times, with help.  His destination couldn't be a distant one, and he couldn't hope to behead the Yàngbǎn on his own, not with the members they'd kept in reserve, the precious ones, with powers they couldn't afford to lose, like Two's.<br>He nearly lost his concentration as a massive crash knocked him off his feet.<br>''The fight's only beginning,'' Cody thought.<br>The teleportation took hold, and he found himself back at the building the Yàngbǎn had just left, three stories down. - [[Interlude 23]]</ref>
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They also kidnapped three [[India]]n [[Garama]]; a [[brute]], a [[thinker]] or [[tinker]] with a focus on guns, and a thinker with x-ray vision.<ref name="I23"/>

Other abilities demonstrated by Yàngbǎn members include invincibility at the cost of immobility,<ref name="I23"/> blurry illusions, invisibility, slow-moving projectiles, energy blades<ref name="28.4">[[Cockroaches 28.4]]</ref> instant teleportation and heat generation.<ref name="30.3"/>

In addition to their normal members, there were several allied individuals who had not been made a part of the whole.<ref name="I23e1"/>
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|[[Tōng Líng Tǎ]]
|Environmental manipulation.<ref name="I22.y"/>
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|[[Shén Yù]]
|Strategy [[thinker]] that ensured group effectiveness.<ref name="I23"/>
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|[[Jiǎ]]
|A Simulation [[tinker]] who helped with the groups training.<ref name="I23"/>
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===Appearance===
All Yàngbǎn wore gem-like masks that covered their faces and ears.<ref name="27.2">[[Extinction 27.2]]</ref><ref name="I22.y e1"/><ref name="28.1">[[Cockroaches 28.1]]</ref> Their costumes were colour-coded and varied depending on their task.<ref name="28.5e1"/>

The Yàngbǎn who showed up to the [[New Delhi]] Endbringer battle wore flowing costumes with loose sleeves and pants, somewhere between a martial arts uniform and a military uniform, crimson with a black design of horizontal and vertical lines at edges of the sleeves and pants.<ref name="23.5e1">They were lined up like musketeers, rank and file, each a set distance apart from the others.  The ones in front were kneeling, the ones behind standing.  Each wore a mask that covered their faces, flowing costumes with loose sleeves and pants, somewhere between a martial arts uniform and a military uniform, each crimson with a black design of horizontal and vertical lines at edges of the sleeves and pants.  There were nearly thirty of them.<br>
All together, they directed lasers at him, aiming for his one red eye.  He blocked the concentrated laser-fire with one claw, and the flesh at the base of the obsidian claw began peeling away.<br>[...]<br>"Excepting diplomatic functions, this is the first time in over a decade that any of the Yàngbǎn have set foot outside of China," Defiant said.  "We've tried to arrange for their aid in the past, but relations between our side and theirs are sour.  For years, they've alleged that the PRT and the Protectorate are fundamentally corrupt, the source of the problems currently plaguing the world." - [[Drone 23.5]]</ref> They had red masks.<ref name="30.3"/>

The ones that interrogated [[Lung]] wore red masks, jackets and pants, each with their number embroidered on the shoulder.<ref name="I22.y e1">They appeared, descending from above, floating.  Two of them this time.  They made no mention of his lack of clothes or his shaggy hair.  Both wore identical uniforms, red jackets and pants, their red masks turning their faces into overlarge, featureless gemstones with coverings over their ears.<br>At each of their shoulders, there was a number.  One-six and two-seven. - [[Interlude 22.y]] </ref>

The group that attended the [[Gold Morning]] meeting with [[Cauldron]] wore similar uniforms to those of the [[New Delhi]] group, although possibly in different colors.<ref name="27.2>[[Extinction 27.2]]</ref>

The infiltration team that attacked [[Earth Tav]] wore black costumes with bodysuits beneath, and dark blue masks.<ref name="28.4e1"/>

Three teams defended the Imperial palace during [[Gold Morning]], wearing masks of white, purple, and yellow respectively. A fourth squad with jade green masks guarded the Imperial family inside the palace, and a small group with red masks were hidden by holograms.<ref name="30.3e1">I could see the Yàngbǎn in full force.  Three groups of sixty to one hundred and thirty capes, arranged on broad, square platforms of stone that had been raised off of the ground, each facing outward, their backs to the palace. Every one of them was in a matching outfit, their masks white, purple, and yellow, in turn.  They were tending to wounds, and the gaps in their number suggested they’d taken heavy losses.<br>[...]<br>a fourth squad of Yàngbǎn ringing the group in concentric circles rather than in rows and columns.  This squad wore masks like the others, multifaceted gemstones large enough to cover their faces, but the gems were a jade green.  The bodyguards, thirty in all.  The scariest capes in their group.<br>[...]<br>There was another contingent of Yàngbǎn within one of the revealed partitions.  Red masks, like the ones I’d seen in New Delhi.  A small squad of throwaways. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/19 Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.3]]</ref>