Editing Eden (section)

===Legacy===
Eden did not immediately die; she was effectively left in a coma.<ref name="29.x eConnectionCut">There was only the ''thing'', hanging in mid-air, struggling to form itself and failing. It breathed in rapid huffs, in obvious pain.<br><br>It wasn't dead, but it wasn't alive. A connection had been severed in a moment where the godling was most vulnerable.<br><br>The woman spoke.<br><br>"Again? The heart?"<br><br>But Fortuna was sure this was it. They'd carried out the last step. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/12/interlude-29/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 29]]</ref> As she was in an interim state where she had not distributed or discarded nearly enough of her powers, [[Cauldron]] could harvest her body as a source of [[Cauldron Vial|serums]] to give people powers by connecting them to Eden's [[shard]]s.<ref>Ten vials, to start. Five hours to prepare each vial. To saw off the body part, to find a way to break it down, then to package it. Each vial correlated with a specific map coordinate and they took photos to record every step of the way, to ensure no clue was missed.<br><br>Then they'd found ten patients, who had downed vials in separate rooms. People who'd been terminally ill.<br><br>Six made it out.<br><br>Contessa watched them, saw the beaming smiles on five faces. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/12/interlude-29/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 29]]</ref> By 1982, this harvesting process truly killed Eden<ref>"I can. I've been thinking about it. What is the key thing about the one we killed?"<br>[...]<br>"I felt the hostility. I felt how the one we killed, in the vision it had of the future, it almost enjoyed doing what it was doing. If the golden one is similar at all, then all it takes is an accident."<br>[...]<br>"So our solution... it's going to take one of two forms. Either we break him, somehow, or we find something we can use in the broken parts of the one we killed."<br><br>"Feeding it to people." - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/12/interlude-29/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 29]]</ref> as Cauldron took away the powers she needed to survive.<ref>"''He's killing it''."<br><br>"It's already dead," the Number Man said.<br><br>"''He's killing it deader,''" I said.<br><br>"Granted," the Number Man said. He sighed. "There's nothing left in it. She took powers it had probably planned to give to others, distilled them. Then she dug in other places, and she took powers it needed to subsist. It died and went still." - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/05/venom-29-8/ Excerpt] from [[Venom 29.8]]</ref>

Although the Thinker focused on holding its [[shard]]s in reserve<ref>They are more engaged now, as they close the distance. They negotiate who can place shards where, and this entity now holds its shards in reserve.<br><br>The Warrior is focusing on refining the shards, and this entity is, in turn, focused on refining the future. A set goal, a reality.<br><br>Too complex to convey to the other. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/12/interlude-29/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 29]]</ref> to deploy them as needed to make the [[List of Possible Futures#Eden's Perfect World|optimal future]] a reality, the [[entity]] did discard some shards to avoid dwarfing the planet upon arrival.<ref name="29.x eOptimalDeploy"/><ref name="I29 2"/> In 1982, [[Scion]] initially destroyed many of these shards on sight as they were [[Shard#Dead & Damaged Shards|dead]] and would fail to provide usable results.<ref>It can see its shards showering down from above like meteors traveling the void. The first to arrive.<br><br>It can see the shards of the counterpart.<br><br>Not all are intact.<br><br>Dead shards. Damaged ones. Vital shards, even, going to hosts.<br><br>The entity destroys these on sight. They are corrupt, ruined. They will fail to provide usable results. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/10/interlude-26/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 26]]</ref> However, he soon stopped bothering once he found out that his partner was truly dead;<ref>Extending its perception over the world and other realities, the entity can sense everything at once. It can sense conflict. Wars.<br><br>It remains aware of its limited lifespan. Three thousand and six hundred revolutions. To search like this costs a tenth of one revolution's time. There is more than enough remaining before the cycle concludes.<br><br>Or there ''should'' be.<br><br>The entity abandons the search. Enough information has been obtained for it to know.<br><br>The counterpart is dead. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/10/interlude-26/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 26]]</ref> his partner's death left him emotionally crushed and deeply depressed.<ref>In seeking to understand the host creatures, the entity had coded shards to emulate them. It is those same shards that experience the entity's first ever emotion.<br><br>''Crushed''.<br><br>The entity comes to experience a deep, profound sadness, for the very first time. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/10/interlude-26/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 26]]</ref> Thus, it is possible for the rare [[natural trigger]] to have an Eden shard, such as [[Vikare]]<ref>The entity sees a shard already taking root in one of the vehicle's passengers. One of the dead shards, damaged. The entity's vision allows it to see the man's inside, the damage. He is dying of a systemic issue in his body, producing the wrong type of cells in the wrong places.<br><br>The entity reaches out, feels others touch his hand before the male finally makes contact. A simple wavelength serves to kill specific cells.<br><br>The shard will grow now, damaged as it is. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/10/interlude-26/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 26]]</ref> and [[Leet]].<ref>'''Wildbow:''' 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. - Wildbow on Spacebattles</ref><!--https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/32822594--> [[Valkyrie]] notes that some of these triggers had shards with a more malicious design intended to break their hosts; an example is the man forced to create [[the Tower]].<ref name="II9.i eScholar"/>