Editing Gray Boy (section)

===Shard===
According to [[Scion]], Gray Boy's [[shard]] creates legitimate sinkholes of distorted time.<ref>A shard flared to life, and the entity saw an effect take hold around it.  It reached out and found a barrier it could not penetrate.<br><br>''Cell''.<br><br>Its hand was moved back to the previous position.  It was caught in a sinkhole of distorted time.  Over and over again, it moved in a steady loop.<br><br>''Snare''.<br><br>A trap. - [[Interlude 26.x]]</ref><ref>Its physical body continued to loop in time.  It didn’t matter. - [[Interlude 26.x]]</ref> Note that temporal powers are expensive for the [[Entities]] to use,<ref><Shemetz> [08:26] <Ridtom> Just... how does his power work with Entities? I mean, I get how most powers could (Vista and Legend could push them into FTL speeds, Aegis and Crawler apply better recovery and adaptions, all the thinker powers), but I stuggle to think of how Phir Se (or any time-power really) works on a survival level or on the Entities scale exactly. It seems like it'd solve a lot of<br><Shemetz> energy or redundancy issues for them.<br><Shemetz> [08:27] <Ridtom> *Issues that these two have in canon to be exact<br><Shemetz> [08:31] <@Wildbow> It doesn't solve energy or redundancy issues if it costs more than it preserves.<br><Shemetz> [08:31] <Ridtom> Ah<br><Shemetz> [08:32] <Ridtom> It's the engine problem I see<br><Shemetz> [08:33] <Ridtom> Have access to a new material/source of power, but the engine itself isn't proper for handling the source/material<br><Shemetz> [08:34] <@Wildbow> Most of the time they hobnob it with simulation/precognition and manifestation - Conversation with Wildbow on IRC, archived on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/19030432 --> and are thus extremely limited for them. Although Gray Boy's shard can create a time distortion effect that spans a few seconds between loops and affects everything in its localized area by holding them in a kind of drastic superposition, extending the time between loops to say a minute or a day is effectively not possible due to its sheer cost.<ref>The way I have it in my head, if you're working with a localized area or a span of a few seconds, you can hold everything in a kind of drastic superposition.<br>[...]<br>But if you extend that to a minute?  Or a day?  That's a lot of things to hold, say, copies of, or calculate around.<br>Similarly, if you're looking into the future, then you're only working with information.<br>Which can then be passed around and accounted for. - Comment by Wildbow on Discord, archived on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/92037354 -->