Editing Broken Trigger (section)

==History==
===Pre-[[Gold Morning]]===
When [[Scion]] was alive, broken triggers still kind of happened, though they were a little more controlled from Scion's side because he could manage some of the mess. However, the loss of the Thinker-hub meant some screwed up results happened from [[Eden]]'s side.<ref>'''Faceless Dude:''' Broken triggers could only happeb after worm?<br><br>'''Juff:''' yes. they didn't happen while scion was alive.<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' They kind of did, but a little more controlled; Scion could manage some of the mess, but you got some screwed up results from Eden's side. - Comment by Wildbow on Cauldron Discord</ref>

===Post-[[Gold Morning]]===
While odd triggers and strange powers were a fact of life for parahumans,<ref name="SB1"/> they were generally following an internal logic. With the death of Scion, the shard network lost the ability to maintain itself.

A broken trigger occurred in the nascent city, getting in the way of a domestic dispute that [[Bitch]] was resolving; it consisted of a parahuman who spread black ooze with each injury, gradually damaging himself before he died and spread it to a second host.<ref name="e.4 e1">She could see the capes fighting, down below.  A man was at the center of it.  He’d swelled in size until he was twice the height he should be, almost breaking apart, like a statue that had been dropped, only the biggest chunks preserved, hanging in mid-air in a vague human shape, high above the street.  Black ooze gushed from foot-wide cracks and divides in his body.  His flesh was dark brown, the edges of the cracks raw and bloody.<br><br>Even from her vantage point on the rooftop, she could hear his screams.  It was muffled, despite the volume, as though he were screaming while underwater, the effect amplified. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/teneral-e-4/ Excerpt] from [[Teneral e.4]]</ref> [[Miss Militia]] stated that it was the fourth such trigger known, possibly twenty percent of the triggers since Gold Morning.<ref name="e.4 e7">“Shit happens,” Rachel said.  “World makes a lot more sense when you accept that.”<br><br>"This is a little different from the everyday sh-tuff,” the man said.<br><br>Miss Militia nodded, her eyebrows knit together in concern.  “This makes four.  Almost a fifth of the regular triggers we’ve heard of.  Two in three days.  One’s still loose, the others died or destroyed themselves.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/teneral-e-4/ Excerpt] from [[Teneral e.4]]</ref>
===[[Glow-worm]]===
Several instances were recorded across multiple worlds, though information about their origin was unclear among the public, with some comparing them to [[Case 53]]s and the [[Endbringers]].<ref>Silence isn’t an option. Things are heating up, people are scared and we’re scared for a justifiable reason. Powers came out, and we started seeing broken powers. People with mutations, people with no off switch. Monsters who needed to be quarantined. Endbringers.<br><br>Now we’ve got a different kind of broken power.<br><br>It keeps getting worse. It gets worse in a linear and steady way. These things follow from one another. There is a visible pattern and there is a sense to be made of things. The new broken powers follow from the people made monstrous by their powers. If Weld knows something we have to ask.<br>[...]<br>every week we get a handful of reports of people triggering with broken powers. They burn bright and burn fast and they do a lot of damage.<br><br>on the smallest level we are quiet and still because we are afraid to disturb the peace. but on the big level our new neighbors aren’t focused 100% on us. we’re important. we’re a powerful few even though we lost 1000000000s. the tyrant queen is looking at us but also watching over her shoulder for the war world and the monsters and the broken triggers. the war world is wanting to venture out but maybe an expedition is hard to field and they get broken triggers too. they’re getting more regular triggers. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/11/04/glow-worm-0-8/ Excerpt] from [[Glow-worm P.8]]</ref>

===Early-[[Ward]]===
Broken triggers had become a common part of life in [[The City]]. One of the worst such incidents occurred as a riot brewed among local construction workers, until another broken trigger ensued.<ref> It had been ten days, now.  Ten days after the broken trigger with the citizen workers.  One of the worst we’d seen for citizen casualties and damage. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/12/19/flare-2-4/ Excerpt] from [[Flare 2.4]]</ref> Despite the efforts of the heroes on the scene to help those affected, numerous people intentionally entered the affected area to try and get powers, while those who were affected were killed by powers or the triggers themselves; ultimately, ninety-two people died as a result of the incident.<ref>“How many?” Rocketround asked.<br><br>“Ninety two, if you include the ones in houses,” she said. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2017/12/19/flare-2-4/ Excerpt] from [[Flare 2.4]]</ref>

Six of the victims of the riot incident were citizens of [[Earth Cheit]], straining the relationship between Earth Cheit and Earth Gimel and causing the former to threaten war on the latter.<ref>“Six of Earth Cheit’s citizens are dead.  Five godly men and a woman, all with their families.  By all accounts, they died in a terrible, protracted way.”<br><br>“Because of a broken trigger,” Jeanne said.  “Outside of our control.  Surely you understand.”<br><br>“These ‘triggers’, as we understand it, are the result of strife and upset.  Your people were upset because of how Mortari and RBR have handled your subordinates.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/01/02/flare-interlude-2/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 2 II]]</ref>

===Post-[[Goddess' Takeover]]===
With assistance from [[Cradle]], [[Speedrunners]] and her [[March's Megacluster|personal army]], [[March]] was able to breach two time traps and in passing produce three broken triggers, two of which immediately merged together.<ref>[[Heavens 12.all]]</ref>