The Firmament

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<infobox> <title source="name"><default>The Firmament</default></title>

<image source="image"><default>File:Placeholder location.png</default></image> <header>Basic Information</header> <image source="map"></image> <label>Type</label> <label>Location</label> <label>Teams</label> <label>Inhabitants</label> <header>First Appearance</header> <label>Worm Debut</label> <label>Ward Debut</label> </infobox>The Firmament or The Shardspace<ref name="II18.z">Radiation 18.z</ref> is the dimension that serves as a representation of shard-connections.

Geography/Description

The Shardspace is a dimension full of fractal dark-red crystals that are borderline incomprehensible to the human mind.

It is at least a semi-virtual space where real distances are inconsistent with distance traveled. How much of it is physical, and the degree of interaction with the real physical space is questionable.

The Shardspace is divided into islands over bottomless darkness. Each island represents a specific shard and its host, and houses Endbringer-like shard-avatars. Islands can be merged or bridged by power interactions in real-space. Presumably, the crystals forming each individual island is the real body of a shard.

Interaction with Parahumans

When a group of capes entered the shardspace through a dream room of the Mall Cluster, they were de-powered and constantly sent out visible pings of light to the avatars of their agents. The intensity of pings seems to vary depending on distance or their mental state. After reality broke, cracks opened into the world that allowed anyone to enter the shardspace. When entered this way, the capes in question retained some of their abilities, though they were significantly weaker. The hosts and agent-avatars, presumably, can voluntarily merge when nearby.

The hosts are also semi-immortal while inside the shardspace, since they always can get a new, memory-based "body" from the crystal surface. However, fatal wounds still can sever the connection and render them brain-dead in the real space.

Notable Residents

• Grasping Self
• Fragile One

History

Background

The Shardspace is an important part of the Cycle, being created when Scion and Eden distributed their shards into multiple different dimensions.

Post-Gold Morning

Suffered extensive, but unspecified damage, that impedes its functions since that event.

Post-Time Bubble Pop

Teacher had uncovered a portal to the shardspace.

Post-Attack on Teacher

Breakthrough alongside Tattletale, Decadent, Syndicate, Chicken Little, Love Lost, Colt, and Damsel of Distress III broke into the Shardspace through the Mall Clusters dream room. There, they witnessed several shard entities including Grasping Self and others from the Mall Cluster, several shard entities from members of the Taught, Tattletale's shard, the Wretch, and Teacher's shard entity itself.

Post-Ice Break

When the ice broke, dimensional rifts opened up throughout the City and other Earths. Through these dimensional rifts, the Shardspace was visible.

Ten patrol officers with dormant Corona Pollentias, including Gilpatrick, were tinker-linked by Lookout to Rain, allowing them to invade the virtual side of The Firmament. <ref name="II19.b">Infrared 19.b</ref>

On Victoria Dallon's advice the Wardens organize a mass incursion into the Shardspace. It instantly agitates the nearby Titans, <ref name="II18.10">Radiation 18.10</ref> and Ziz<ref name="II18.z"/> The sabotage succeeded in temporarily weakening Titans.<ref name="II19.2">Infrared 19.2</ref>

Trivia

• Black and red are common as colors of power manifestations in the story. A lot of villains also favor those colors in their costumes. It may be that this aesthetic is a default influence of shards in some form.

References

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