Editing Titans (section)

===[[The Ice Breaks]]===
When Fume Hood [[broken trigger]]ed into a Titan near a [[portal]] the cracks that formed into Shardspace intersected with the Shin portal, causing them to propagate wildly as the pressure on reality finally found an outlet. This is further exacerbated by a crack intersecting with Contessa, whose power's sheer reach and global connectiveness allowed cracks into [[The Shardspace]] to spread even wider. Cracks spread and formed around regions where powers had caused significant damage, and other spacetime faults such as the portals, while stimulating the conversion of many parahumans into Titans as well, many of which immediately began to attempt to formulate a network between themselves. [[Fortuna]] became a hub for the [[Ophion]], [[Cinereal|Ashen]], [[The Strange Titan|Stranger]] and [[Nemean Titan]]s. Eve joined to [[Kronos]], and [[Auger]] to [[Oberon]].<ref>Lines connected titans. One between Dauntless and Eve. Then Titan Fortuna with lines of varying strength to the Ophion, Nemean, and Ashen Titans; to Bough, Victor, and Cinereal, respectively. Another line seemed to connect Titan Oberon to the unnamed new Titan, Auger. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/11/19/radiation-18-2/ Excerpt] from [[Radiation 18.2]]</ref><ref>The Stranger Titan from the Northeast, with a vague marker that showed the likely area and a guess at the distance.<br><br>By the connections we’d observed, all three appeared to be linked to Titan Fortuna. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/12/24/infrared-19-1/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.1]]</ref>

Eve began approaching Oberon with the goal of subsuming him. The two fought. [[Breakthrough]], [[The Undersiders]], [[The Major Malfunctions]], [[Deathchester]], and [[Rooftop Champs]] attempted to stop them, with a mixed success.<ref name="II18.4">[[Radiation 18.4]]</ref>

Ophion was initially forced into retreat by the [[Dragonflight]]'s artillery,<ref name="II18.5"/> but shortly resumed his attacks.<ref name="II18.9">[[Radiation 18.9]]</ref>

Auger started processing [[Machine Army]] into tinker-tech, and submitted [[Skadi]], who helped Oberon to fight off Wardens and Eve.<ref name="II18.5">[[Radiation 18.5]]</ref>

Kronos took a guard near [[Fortuna]], preventing other titans from reaching her. He was being reinforced by [[Wardens]].<ref>“Dauntless is fighting off any of her Titans that try to get close to her, so they can’t connect or do whatever Moose and Prancer did.  Some of the Wardens are going to see what they can do to make him stronger.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/12/14/radiation-18-9/ Excerpt] from [[Radiation 18.9]]</ref>

[[Arachne]] continued being tied with [[Shin Defense Initiative]]. She stayed the last un-networked titan.<ref>Lab Rat was digging his heels in, using the giants my sister had helped create to protect Shin from Arachne. Hunter.<br><br>Now the only Titan who hadn’t joined one of the networks.- [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/12/14/radiation-18-9/ Excerpt] from [[Radiation 18.9]]</ref>

On [[Antares]]' advice the Wardens sent unpowered saboteurs into [[The Shardspace]], in an attempt to communicate to the Shards that humanity had the capacity to critically damage them. This immediately attracted the attention of Oberon's and Fortuna networks, as well as [[Ziz]].<ref name="II18.10">[[Radiation 18.10]]</ref><ref>Ophion coming from the East.  Nemean from the West.<br><br>The Stranger Titan from the Northeast, with a vague marker that showed the likely area and a guess at the distance.<br><br>By the connections we’d observed, all three appeared to be linked to Titan Fortuna. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/12/24/infrared-19-1/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.1]]</ref><ref name="II18.z">[[Radiation 18.z]]</ref> Two titan faction attacked each other.<ref name="II19.2">[[Infrared 19.2]]</ref>

[[Valkyrie]]'s [[Flock]] involvement with Auger had unintended consequences, as Auger decided to let the Machine Army past the portal to tie them in.<ref name="II18.z"/>

The Shardspace was successfully bombed, temporarily shutting down powers and weakening Titans. Skadi was cut off from Oberon's network by [[Rain]]'s efforts.<ref name="II19.2"/>

Fortuna moved towards [[Earth Shin]] [[portal]] together with [[Ophion]] and [[Nemean]], and started propagating dimensional tears with the help of defending heroes.<ref name="II19.4">[[Infrared 19.4]]</ref> It led to creation of five new titans: [[The Impaler Titan]], [[The Flowing Titan]], as well as [[Drillbit]], [[Custodian]], and [[Pouffe]] Titans. All of them immediately joined Fortuna network and started attacking heroes, with [[The Ashen Titan]] on her way to join.<ref name="II19.5">[[Infrared 19.5]]</ref><ref name="II19.z"/>

The Fortuna network went into passive defense following [[Rain]]'s message to Contessa through [[The Firmament]]. However, one of the homing cracks still reached [[Valkyrie]], turning her into a Titan.<ref name="II19.6">[[Infrared 19.6]]</ref>

The Nemean Titan was shoved down into the reality cracks by [[The Shepherds]]<ref name="II19.d">[[Infrared 19.d]]</ref>

The Fortuna's Titans regained activity. Heroes shifted to defense, attempting to protect other titans from Fortuna's network.<ref name="II19.7">[[Infrared 19.7]]</ref>

Oberon shifted to [[Dauntless]]' network, while Auger joined Fortuna's. Two networks resumed fighting, with Dauntless slowly losing.<ref name="II20.1"/>

Pouffe and Cinereal were badly maimed by [[Dragon]] and [[Defiant]].<ref name="II19.z">[[Infrared 19.z]]</ref>

Four new titans arrived and joined Fortuna: [[Morgana]], [[Yakshini]], [[Ghast]], and [[Ashoka]]. The last one was relatively quickly disabled.<ref name="II20.1">[[Last 20.1]]</ref><ref name="II20.a">[[Last 20.a]]</ref><ref name="II20.a"/>

Titan Fortuna prepared defenses against the final attack of The Simurgh, with four drill-titans running interference by destroying the segments of the [[The Shardspace]].<ref>The Titans had gathered and stood as a defensive line, spaced apart like each one’s position mattered on some fundamental level.  Four of the Titans had powers that drilled, dug, or carved.  Titan Amenonuhoko, Titan Auger, Titan Drillbit, Titan Ghast.  All four Titans were tearing up the crystal landscape below them, aiming for specific paths and locations. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/03/28/last-20-a/ Excerpt] from [[Last 20.a]]</ref> Dauntless focused his attacks on the Endbringer.

[[Antares]] contacted [[Contessa]] and traded complete [[Dauntless]]' assistance against [[The Simurgh]] for the transport for [[Riley Davis]]. Titan [[Valkyrie]] delivered Riley, the parahuman plague, and the remainder of remote cape-volunteers to The Wardens' HQ. Dauntless joined Fortuna's network and with some assistance from [[Defiant]] throws the Simurgh into [[Sleeper]]'s power-storm, defeating it.<ref name="II20.a"/>

At the moment of [[The Simurgh]]'s defeat there was 35 titans in total, with 14 unnamed ones, and more steadily being created.<ref name="II20.a">[[Last 20.a]]</ref>

The deployment of the parahuman plague placed Fortuna into a stalemate; humanity now had the means of corrupting any information from the cycle through the plague.<ref name="II20.b">[[Last 20.b]]</ref> During his plague dreams, Chevalier discovers that Fortuna's network was drilling as a method of communication into shardspace, of sending a message; the message being "answers". Tattletale believes that Fortuna wasn't drilling, but "etching" something into Shardspace, and she interprets Chevalier's dream to mean that the message contains answers Fortuna believed important enough that that she would damage Shardspace in order to tell the rest of the Entities about it.<ref name="20.e1">[[Last 20.e1]]</ref> After this, Fortuna "crumbles", possibly with all other Titans.