Editing The Simurgh (section)

====Silent Scream====
Acting as her passive sonar system, the Simurgh's 'silent scream' constantly collects low-feedback information about the environment, even when she is in her hibernation state.<ref name="28.x e7">Her hibernation state serves to allow for collection of low-feedback information about the environment.  Feedback that cannot be tracked or sensed, collecting information over a series of passes.  The stone can be a series of billiard balls instead, one striking another, striking another in turn.  Diminishing returns with each target struck.<br><br>With study and careful precision, each ball can find its pocket.  Spheres of synthetic resin meet the furthest point of a ledge covered by woven wool, perching on the edge as they spend their momentum.  Almost, they remain there, not enough energy to pass over the precipice.  Then they fall.  Three disappear into oblivion in perfect synchronicity. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/interlude-28/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 28]]</ref> Although it lacks planetary range,<ref name="SB massEvacuate" /> its range (i.e., radius) is at least 315 km and presumably covers a large area of the Earth's hemisphere while she is in [[Space|low Earth orbit]].<ref name="10.5 eThermosphere" /> As her silent scream is inaudible, it cannot be tracked or sensed by most individuals,<ref name="28.x e7" /> allowing her to subtly gather information without being detected.<ref name="28.4 e1">No scream from the Simurgh.  At least, not one I could detect.  It would fit her to keep it beyond our notice, influencing us, the sort of card she would keep up her sleeve.  To make the psychic scream ‘audible’, for lack of a better word, purely for spreading fear, then use it subtly at a time when she wasn’t attacking. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/cockroaches-28-4/ Excerpt] from [[Cockroaches 28.4]]</ref><ref name="Reddit eVersusJL">As I see it, the Endbringers have the attacker's advantage. Assuming the two sides don't have prior knowledge of one another, the Simurgh can use the same tactic she used in Lausanne. Be ''benign''.<br>[...]<br>Lay groundwork for maximum amount of time allowed, psychic scream not audible, read the future, turn a city of people into individual rube goldberg devices. More time = more people and more complex machinations. - [https://redd.it/2sju2u Wildbow on Reddit]</ref>

Unlike her active scream, her silent scream does not exert a psychic pressure.<ref name="II20.1 eHide">She swept her wings out, and across this stage she’d created inside the ring of broken buildings, snow and dust picked up, with a gravely sound as it pulled free from ground, debris that hadn’t been picked up clattering back down to earth.<br>[...]<br>The tracker Dragon was providing me with fritzed, going dark, showing a vague Simurgh silhouette in the cloud, then another, a hundred feet away.<br><br>After that second guess, there was nothing.  Only the cloud of cover she’d made, labels and indicators for where people were being tracked by the phones or other devices they carried, and alerts for distant battlefields.<br><br>The battlefield went still, quiet.  A few powers flickered and flared, but the dust hung in the air.<br><br>The screaming I’d come to take as steady background noise ceased.  My brain felt like my body did in the stillness after a hard workout, blood pulsing through it, shaky, and a bit vulnerable.<br><br>I flew down to be closer to my team.  Just in case. - [[Last 20.1]]</ref> It is also slower and much less effective at gathering information,<ref name="28.x e7" /> which weakens its predictive power.<ref name="II20.a eOutsideRange" /> For example, the Simurgh would require a series of passes<ref name="28.x e7" /> (over days, weeks, or months) to thoroughly scan and really understand a subject.<ref>'''Kyakan:''' (for full context, this is for an AU where Morrigan was viable and able to save Blasto from Bonesaw in his interlude)<br>[...]<br>'''Pointy:''' Morrigan could probably use her powers to help [clean up a Bonesaw infection], too.<br>'''Fib:''' [...] I don't see how Morrigan could help?<br>'''Wildbow:''' I don't think I could see how she could help either.<br>'''Kyakan:''' even if her power allowed her to clean off Blasto magically, would the PRT trust that?<br>'''Wildbow:''' Keep in mind she'd need to do as Simurgh does and scan thoroughly (over days, weeks, months) before really grokking a subject - and would likely have limited range, focusing more on dimensions and energy/material/effect transfers between shardworlds and the real world. - Conversation with Wildbow on Discord, archived on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/77267853 -->