Editing Entity (section)

== Biology and Abilities==
Each Entity is made up of "trillions upon trillions upon trillions" of "shards",<ref>I'd imagine them as crystals, but folding/unfolding like tesseracts, with the entities themselves having a more organic overall shape. - [https://redd.it/48jdld Wildbow on Reddit]</ref> crystalline many-dimensional objects roughly analogous to biological cells. These shards perform a variety of functions, but primarily serve as a source of abilities that they Entity can wield, with each shard controlling a different ability. Early Entities possessed shards granting them control over fundamental physical forces such as heat and electricity, but over the millennia and countless cycles of acquiring and refining new abilities, the set of powers wielded by Entities has diversified enormously. Shards controlling similar abilities are organized into clusters, similar to organs. Shards also carry information, encoding the Entities' memories and allowing for information to be transferred between Entities through exchanging shards. Consequently, every Entity carries shards with memories dating back to the very beginning of the species.

===Basic Abilities===
Entities have the ability to navigate between alternate versions of reality. If an entity grows large enough, they extend into multiple realities at once simultaneously, distributing their bodies across universes. They can absorb light and other forms of radiation for energy, as well as consume prey for food, though this has long since ceased to be their primary source of energy after they began carrying out the cycle. Entities can also consume other entities, assimilating their shards and growing both in size and power.

Although the Entities have encountered and acquired abilities that deal with time manipulation, they are unable to use such powers efficiently, as they are extremely energy-intensive. As such, most time-manipulation powers are mixed with simulation/precognition and manifestation.<ref>[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/worm-quotes-and-wog-repository.294448/page-11#post-19030432| Comment] by Wildbow on Spacebattles.</ref>

===Communication===
The first complex message ever sent by an Entity was communicated by having every one of their shards express the same concept at the same time, with each of the millions of their shards contributing a different nuance to the message. This method was violent, involving almost every shard turning the full force of their different capabilities outward, expressing an incredibly informationally dense message across countless wavelengths and forms of energy.

Later, more evolved entities broadcasted similarly nuanced signals across channels formed of the very foundation of the universe. The signals were only sent across specific realities, so that they would not accidentally contact uninhabited worlds. These broadcasts were conveyed using trillions upon trillions of shards, capable of conveying more information than an entire planet of sapient beings might in a century. One drawback of this method of communication was that it grew quieter and less nuanced as an entity lost its shards.

Outside of broadcasting, entities also exchange shards with one another, a practice that is vital for them to evolve and grow. One method they use is to exchange shards codified with memories and techniques. Another method is achieved by direct physical contact, in which the entities rub against one another with intense friction. This physically transfers shards as well as creating new shards via forced mutation. Many shards are destroyed in this process, with many more being created. It is possible for an entity to sacrifice too much of itself in this way.

===Space Travel/Reproduction===
Before beginning the Cycles, the entities reproduced exponentially, and on at least 170 different occasions managed to overcrowd every version of their planet across every reality, a number of worlds exceeding the number of particles in a single universe.<ref name="I26" /> It is unknown if their current method of reproduction with the Cycles is faster or slower, but it is known that there are a vast number of entities across the multiverse despite starting from just two at the beginning. In an analogue, it is compared to spreading glass marbles across the whole of Canada, standing in a random spot and throwing another marble, and the marble will pass within a foot of one of them no matter what.<ref> Discord conversation with Wildbow, [https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/worm-quotes-and-wog-repository.294448/page-15#post-27981940| archived] on Spacebattles</ref>

When entities are ready to leave a planet and propagate, they form protective shells and reorganize themselves so that they wrap around countless versions of the target planet, forming a complex shape that weaves in and out of the various realities. Then, they draw all the energy from every version of the world at once and focus it into a single reality, generating an explosion with such force that it shatters the planet within that reality. The power of this explosion is channeled into all of the other realities as well through the interdimensional connections generated by the entities, resulting in every other version of the planet detonating as well.

The force of the detonation is such that it shatters the entities, sending fragments flying through space, with each fragment becoming a miniature entity with all the memories and knowledge of their parent. Originally, this process was uncontrolled, with the detonation destroying many of the fragments and haphazardly flinging out many more, with only a slim chance of taking root on viable worlds. Later, this process became more streamlined, destroying fewer or none of the fragments in the blast. Certain entities like the [[Warrior Entity|Warrior]] and [[Thinker]] entities employed more refined travel methods like gravity-warping and space-warping abilities to steer their fragments toward habitable worlds with the guidance of precognition.

The Warrior and Thinker lineage mainly reproduced and traveled in pairs, though some of their offspring gathered into trios instead, and the Loner travelled by itself.<ref>But her attention was on the first.  She felt it reach out and connect with another that shared a similar trajectory.  Still more were doing the same, pairing off.  Forming into trios, in some cases, but most chose to form pairs. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/10/18/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 15.x]]</ref> Pairs of these entities moved in spirals while maintaining a measured distance from one another. [[Abaddon]] traveled using a different means, mostly using momentum to move and only changing course when it needed to, as doing so expended vast amounts of energy.

===Combat===
Each shard from an entity is capable of producing countless powers of the sort granted to parahumans; the Shards are deliberately limited during the cycle to give a very small set of powers to a host. Entities can draw upon all the powers of a given shard, although during the Cycle they are mostly limited to the shards that they keep within their main bodies.<ref name="I29.x">[[Venom 29.x]]</ref>

Though the combat abilities of Entities are too numerous to describe in detail, one notable ability carried by [[Scion]] is stilling, which lets him cancel out wavelengths, which lets him counteract, manipulate, and cancel virtually any parahuman or human-generated effect. He can cancel out heat, eliminate sound, break Grey Boy's ability, disintegrate molecular bonds, etc. He can do so with beams, thrown orbs/bullets, a light he emanates, and a personal forcefield, among a variety of other mechanisms.<ref>[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/wormverse-ideas-recs-and-fic-discussion-thread-38.309181/page-38?post=15025980#post-15025980 Comment] by Wildbow. [https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/worm-quotes-and-wog-repository.294448/page-3#post-15024624 Archived].</ref>