Editing Shard (section)

===Dead & Damaged Shards===
A Shard can be disconnected from [[The Firmament|the larger shard network]], and by extension the Entities or the hubs; these Shards are considered by [[Scion]] to be 'dead'. This can happen as a result of damage to the Shard.<ref>Disconnected would be a better word than 'dead', but in Scion's parlance, he favors 'dead'. - [https://redd.it/94a4fz Wildbow on Reddit]</ref><ref name="SB963">They can alter the shards they put out there, before the shards hae mature, because a connection is maintained. No connection = 'dead' shard. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/14727588/ Part of a Comment] by Wildbow on spacebattles</ref><ref name="RED567">dead damaged shards are disconnected from the greater entity network that allows living shards like Zion's to function. - [https://redd.it/2xpn06 Comment by] wildbow on Reddit</ref> These Shards still remain viable for connecting to a host and granting them powers, however.

Large numbers of Eden's Shards were damaged, corrupted, or dead.<ref name" SB1643534">Some shards are damaged. Or 'dead'. Which isn't saying he's Cauldron.<br><br>But I've digressed/derailed enough. Bob's thread. No more on that subject. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/13876925/ BobTheNinja reacts to Worm - The Final Countdown (Interlude 26) >> NO FREAKING SPOILERS!!] ([[Wildbow]], SpaceBattles.com, 2014-04-11)</ref> This meant there were more parahumans than either the Warrior or Thinker Entities had intended, with many of them useless to [[The Cycle]]. [[Vikare]]'s Shard was such an example, though it was still able to grow properly as long as its host was alive.<ref name="I26">[[Interlude 26]]</ref>

Scion would generally destroy them on sight as he saw them falling.<ref name="I26">[[Interlude 26]]</ref>

Disconnected Shards are unable to ask the network for any assistance or permission to alter themselves,<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> including in a way that would safeguard hosts and limit power over-expression, e.g. lead to [[broken trigger]]s.<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>