Editing Broken Trigger (section)

==Origin==
Without a hub for the shard network (namely, Scion, the primary intelligence/consciousness of the entity), individual shards could no longer get permissions to alter themselves or their behaviours, or coordinate with [[the Firmament|the greater network]] in this task.<ref>What is ‘death’?  Death is stasis.  Death is disconnection.  Disconnection from all communication, disconnection from other wells of power.  I have what I have.  I cannot grow.  I cannot connect to others and seek their input or resources. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/03/02/heavens-12-all/ Excerpt] from [[Heavens 12.all]]</ref><ref>it is what the humans call a second trigger.  It is what humans call a broken trigger, though this is wrong.<br><br>It is a failure to support.  A desperate clutching at a well too intense and dangerous, collecting waste and fragments, extrapolating out wildly, without program or logic. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/03/02/heavens-12-all/ Excerpt] from [[Heavens 12.all]]</ref><ref>“This landscape added up once upon a time,” she said.  “Everything interconnected, it fed more easily.  Now it’s… a hundred hard drives crammed into one computer’s housing.  Each agent lays some claim to real estate, builds their houses.  But when information isn’t flowing freely, and some houses get built on broken or missing ground…”<br><br>“Broken triggers,” I said.<br><br>“And Titans, when there’s enough support from the system to keep them propped up." - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/02/02/infrared-19-7/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.7]]</ref>

[[Case 53]]s and lethal [[Cauldron vial|vial]] triggers can be considered more benign variations of broken triggers.<ref>“Armstrong asked me to join a discussion about case fifty-threes, do some tests, get scanned, have some Thinkers look at us,” Sveta said.  “Kenzie got some scans of things, others have their own data.  We’re thinking maybe the case fifty-threes are closer to what Titans are than humans.  Maybe there are insights there.  It’s a bit of a reach, in my opinion.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/12/14/radiation-18-9/ Excerpt] from [[Radiation 18.9]]</ref> However, [[Eden]] had no time to configure host-shard connections before her demise, and most of the Cauldron vials were consumed before [[Eden]]'s body was fully destroyed, so it is not completely clear if the 'undercooked' process, or the 'lobotomized' but somewhat intact hub, had a bigger influence in those cases being (not) as bad as they were.<!-- Mortari-capes seems to be fine-->

So far Broken Triggers can be traced to [[Zion]]-derived, natural occurring connections, which are unable to proceed properly without his guidance.