Editing Abaddon (section)

===Impact===
[[Contessa]]'s shard has a unique ability to maintain some degree of autonomy while not being explicitly linked to any entity, which is probably a residual effect of the unfinished transfer.<ref>It looked at the female, and it saw a shard that wasn’t its own, but wasn’t dead. - Excerpt from [[Interlude 26]]</ref><!--
    outdated by 18.z
    ref>They can alter the shards they put out there, before the shards hae[sic] mature, because a connection is maintained. No connection = 'dead' shard. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/14727588 Wildbow on Spacebattles]</ref
--><ref>She stood utterly alone and completely still.  For all intents and purposes, she was the only one of her kind. [...] Every other gift lay dead and disconnected, fruit on the branches of a dead tree, with little in the way of parting words or guidance.  Every other connection to the Loner was gone.  The Pair too distant to reach. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/12/21/interlude-18-z-radiation/ Excerpt] from [[Radiation 18.z]]</ref>

[[Doctor Mother]] mentions that the shards Eden obtained during the exchange, a "foreign element", tended to yield powers without standard restrictions when administered to [[Cauldron]] subjects.<ref>“There is a foreign agent in them.  The entity altered each power he granted to give them certain restrictions.  No power would be able to truly affect him, no power would cross the boundaries he set in dimension, or in affecting other powers.  There are no alterations to the elements in ''these, ''only to the accompanying abilities, or complimentary powers.  The powers granted from ''these'' vials don’t cause the recipients to forget the visions they see.  Eidolon was one such case.  The extreme deviant cases on the special containment floor make up much of the remainder.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/03/venom-29-7/ Excerpt] from [[Venom 29.7]]</ref> These may have been unincorporated shards from Abaddon. According to [[Harbinger V]] none of them were "viable".<ref>“She’s not a part of the rest of us?” I asked.<br/><br/>“There were a few like that, that stood out,” Number Five said.  “None were viable.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/02/04/infrared-19-8/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.8]]</ref>