Editing Galvanate (section)

=== Background===
While Galvanate's [[trigger event]] is unknown, [[Wildbow]] speculated that it was in response to a single, indirect parahuman threat to a group of individuals around Galvanate, and involved some form of machinery. A hypothetical trigger Wildbow outlined was that Galvanate, back when he was a mafia enforcer, was with his people fighting a tinker from an enemy group, who was bombarding their area with an endless barrage of incendiary shells and missiles. As his men, friends, and family faced increasing danger as fires spread and sections of buildings started to come down, he triggered.<ref name="trump">The question is essentially, 'What part of the Trump's trigger event determines the nuances of the resulting power?'<br>In short, what was the relationship to powers at the time of the trigger event?<br>[...]<br>Galvanate grants invincibility, a brute effect, and an electric touch. Not so different from Usher; we can note that the power granted is consistent (one threat), but isn't a direct response/counter to the power (ie. isn't nullification/power resistance, so the triggeree isn't directly being affected by powers). It's possible that the enemy was a parahuman actively using their powers, but the trigger/threat was more indirect, and the threat was to multiple individuals (can grant power to many people). The involvement of electricity suggests a theme or context element. Machinery, perhaps? I picture a mob enforcer and his people fighting an enemy from another group, who is bombarding an area with incendiary shells and missiles. A tinker in a mech suit, firing off an endless barrage. Galvanate's group, his men, friends, maybe family, are all in danger as fire spreads and sections of building start to come down. Trigger. - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/32wcj1/_/cqfixbf/ Wildbow on Reddit] </ref>

In the early-to-mid-nineties, Galvanate operated as a parahuman mafia enforcer. One day, he decided to become the leader, soon becoming notorious for creating unstoppable squads of soldiers empowered with invincibility and electricity.<ref name="release">Galvanate appeared.  He’d been one of a number of players that had supplanted the local organized crime in the early-to-mid-nineties.  A mafia enforcer with powers who had decided he had what it took to be a boss.  He’d done well, rendering entire squads of his soldiers effectively invincible, simultaneously capable of electrocuting someone to death with a touch.<br /><br />Nothing short of Alexandria or an Endbringer would stand up to Scion’s sustained laser beam for even a heartbeat, but there was hope that Galvanate would render some people capable of surviving a glancing blow. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/20 Excerpt] from [[Extinction 27.3]]</ref> He was eventually captured and imprisoned in [[the Birdcage]], where he became a cell block leader.<ref name="intro" />