Editing S-Class (section)

==Historic Examples==
At the beginning of the story, there were six recognized class S threats:<ref name="18.3.1">There’s six class S threats active in the world at large.  The Endbringers make up three of them.  The Slaughterhouse Nine as a group are a fourth. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/queen-18-3/ Exerpt] from [[Queen 18.3]]</ref>
*[[Behemoth]]<ref name="18.3.1"/>
*[[Leviathan]]<ref name="18.3.1"/>
*The [[Simurgh]]<ref name="18.3.1"/>
*The [[Slaughterhouse Nine]] (collectively)<ref name="18.3.1"/>
*[[Nilbog]]<ref name="18.4.5">Week I had clearance, I watched all the video we have of the class S threats.  Leviathan, Simurgh, Behemoth, Slaughterhouse Nine, Nilbog, Sleeper. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/29 Exerpt] from [[Queen 18.4]]</ref>
*[[Sleeper]]<ref name="18.4.5"/>

Other class S threats emerged over the course of the story, including:
*[[Echidna]]<ref>“This is a critical situation,” Myrddin said.  “We’re on the brink of another potential conflict with an S-class threat.  If the Undersiders have information we can use, information that could be sensitive, we need you to clear out.” - [[Scourge 19.4]]</ref><ref>“There are rules, Dragon,” I said.  “Expectations.  I fought Leviathan, I fought the Nine.  I was there for the fight against the Class-S threat downtown.  I don’t want to sound arrogant, but I think maybe I deserve to, a little.  I’ve done my share.  You don’t turn around and reveal my identity in front of a crowd.” - [[Chrysalis 20.5]]</ref>
*[[Khonsu]]<ref name="II10.x e1" />
*[[The Twins]] ([[Tohu]] and [[Bohu]])<ref name="II10.x e1" />
*[[Scion]]<ref>He’d asked about ‘him’.  Scion.<br><br>“We thought it was industrial contaminants, but it may be deeper than that.  Some of it might be how Scion decided to use his power.  More of it is the sheer damage he did to the planet itself.  There’s a degree of it that’s impossible to know for certain, that has to do with the Class-S phenomena.  Portals to other worlds, tinker tech left to molder.  It’s not only the radiation either.  Methane levels are rising, food stockpiles on that side are dwindling fast, and the people there are getting sick for a variety of reasons.  We’re facing some immediate sacrifices if we want to keep the remaining people in Bet alive,” Jeanne said. - [[Interlude 5.x II]]</ref>
*[[Khepri]]<ref name="II6.8 eGoddess" /><ref>“She can do this,” my voice didn’t sound like me.  “Change powers by changing the host’s physiology.  She made the Class-S threat that took control of everyone, bringing them to the battlefield.  ''That’s'' who’s going to be at the meeting today.” - [[Gleaming 9.1]]</ref><ref>Confirming what had been a lingering suspicion.  A link they didn’t want us to know about.<br><br>Between Chicken Little and Skitter, who had become Khepri, who had become public enemy number one and a legitimate class-S threat when she had taken over the minds of thousands of parahumans in the final confrontation against Scion. - [[From Within 16.7]]</ref> <small>(In combination with [[Doormaker]] and [[Clairvoyant]])</small>

Furthermore, [[Ash Beast]] had the potential of being an S-class threat but moved slowly enough to be avoidable.<ref name="30.5">I reached out to Ash Beast, a living force of nature.  It had originally triggered in Matruh, Egypt, and had been roaming since, making its way across Africa.  All of the destructive power of any class S threat, tempered by the fact that it usually traveled on foot, and people could see it coming from miles away.  When it reached a settlement, that settlement was usually evacuated. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/speck-30-5/ Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.5]]</ref> [[Blasto]] had a "high risk" of becoming S-class.<ref name="I19">Note: High risk of Class-S classification.  Should creations self-propagate, kill orders are pre-authorized.<br>[...]<br>No big surprises on the possible kill order.  He’d been made aware of it some time ago, and had grumbled, groaned and grudgingly avoided making any lifeforms that could breed in the years since. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/02/28 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 19.x]]</ref> [[Mama Mathers]] was also a possible S-class threat.<ref>Leadership figures with exceptional powers and following.  Include Fallen A-listers and one possible S-class threat (Christine Mathers) - WD Organization: Fallen</ref><!-- https://docs.google.com/document/d/12LtYsBEGUbngNPJRoAiL_QZyR_h__8hFO57bBVSDAAA/edit --> [[The Number Man]] referenced the non-human<ref>Take stock. Who didn’t I have? I didn’t have Contessa, who I couldn’t see. I didn’t have the Blasphemies, who hadn’t even registered to me because they weren’t human, even if they had powers, I didn’t have Sleeper and… - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/speck-30-5/ Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.5]]</ref> [[Three Blasphemies]] as a force on par with Sleeper, the Slaughterhouse Nine, and the Ash Beast, but they were not among the established S-class threats listed in discussion prior to the [[Battle against Echidna|Echidna incident]].<ref>“No,” the Number Man said, and he managed to sound only a little condescending.  “I’m saying that parahumans as a whole are chain reactions waiting to happen, and we were already approaching a critical point.  Every year, the percentage of parahumans in the population increases.  At that same time, the odds of a cataclysmic event happening somewhere are increasing steadily.  Imagine a situation like the Echidna event that turned out more unfavorably, or a Nilbog who wasn’t content to stay in one place.  We have the blasphemies, Sleeper, and the Ash Beast, even the Slaughterhouse Nine, all as living examples of this concept at work. The world already stood on a precipice, and I’m not even mentioning the Endbringers in all of this.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/17 Excerpt] from [[Extinction 27.2]]</ref>

Most threats outside of North America were believed to be destroyed in [[Gold Morning]].<ref>“That’s about it, for North American quarantines.  A lot of the unquarantined Class-S threats died in the fight against Scion.  Uh.”<br><br>I could have elaborated on motivations, but I felt like that might have spoiled our little hero-villain truce here.<br><br>“Yeah,” Tattletale said.  “Intentional, I think.  As much as anything was, then.”<br><br>I had so many frigging questions on that subject, but… no.  Again, it would have spoiled things.<br><br>Khepri had let them die while fighting Scion.  Tattletale agreed with the hypothesis. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/10/29/sundown-17-9/ Excerpt] from [[Sundown 17.9]]</ref>

There were threats of a similar level that were not widely known and were dealt with by organizations such as the [[Thanda]].<ref>[The Thanda fight] the class-S threats that aren't so obvious as [[Sleeper]], [[Nilbog]] or the Blasphemies, and the villains who don't take the spotlight.<br>[...]<br>Perhaps it would be better to say Class-S level? Not necessarily known & classified, but arguably as dangerous in their own right? - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/13648119 Wildbow on Spacebattles]</ref> Or contained in PRT [[Quarantine Sites]].

Other class S threats that would appear over the course of [[Ward]] include:
*[[Goddess]]<ref name="II6.8 eGoddess">“There’s a cape by the name of Goddess.  Also the Blue Empress, Blue Lady, the Woman in Blue.  Once situated on Earth Shin, she was brought here for the fight against Scion by a strange, unnamed player who has since been classified as a threat on par with any Endbringer.  Or with Goddess, as it happens.  Unfortunately, this anonymous figure didn’t put her back.”<br><br>“A strange, unnamed player?” I asked. - [[Pitch 6.8]]</ref>
*[[The Tower]]<ref>“My phone,” she said.<br><br>“The Wardens,” Dialback said.  “They said their thinkers read the situation here as critical, and want to know if there is any news.”<br><br>“What they want is ''good'' news.  Let them know I’m busy, and that we’ll contact them shortly with that good news.” - [[Interlude 9 II]]</ref><ref>“Staying sane and on the level is part of that mission, so we don’t betray what we stand for.  That means acknowledging the shittiness of it.  You hear me?”<br><br>“I hear and understand,” she said.<br><br>“It also means taking a break.  Return to the city.  Rest, unwind.  You’ve fought an army of ghosts, staved off a potential world-ender with the atmosphere gun, hunted down and dealt with an exponential class-S threat that had gone exponential, you had a week off where you were ''supposed'' to be resting, but you decided to hunt down the breaker assassin instead, and you went straight from ''that'' to this, a dog with powers.” - [[Interlude 9 II]]</ref>
*[[Machine Army]]<ref name="II10.x e1">There were other things.  News.  Status of Class-S threats…
:''Sleeper; active''
:''Machine Army; 4.83% growth since last check, active''
:''Endbringers; one dormant, one active, others dead or unknown locations.''
Active Endbringer.  She zeroed in on that.  A few mouse clicks brought her to a site that tracked the Simurgh. - [[Interlude 10.x II]]</ref>
*Mayor of Killington's [[Broken Trigger]] <small>(Called a problem rather than threat)</small><ref>I beat her to the punch.  “March got to one of the time effects.  It was the Killington Mayor, in an area that was folded into Brockton Bay.”<br><br>“What happened?” Brandish asked.<br><br>“Broken trigger,” I said, my voice soft.  I could remember the last one I’d been present for.  The construction worker’s rally.  It had been bad.  This was apparently worse by orders of magnitude.  “It incapacitated everyone in the ruins of Brockton Bay and left them defenseless while the initial effects took place.  They’re calling it a Class-S problem.  Not a ''threat'', because that implies a consciousness, but…”<br><br>“Everyone on duty offworld and internationally has been pulled to assist,” Harbinger One said. - [[Heavens 12.2]]</ref><ref>“What’s happening?” Colt asked.<br><br>“March released something bad,” the Fallen boy said.  “They’re calling it Class S.  She’s going to release more.” - [[Interlude 12.e II]]</ref>
*The [[Titans]]<ref>“Yup.  Roman now.  Little bastard did something very familiar, recently.  Put his life on the line to save someone’s life, in the middle of a class-S threat.”<br><br>“Like his brother.” - [[Infrared 19.f]]</ref>