Talk:The Bronze Sector/@comment-5782071-20170506054249/@comment-5782071-20170506060036

Must have been a nasty shock to the Regents when the person they wanted to preserve crumbled away into nothing... I wonder if the person could feel that? I mean, Claudia felt herself sort of going numb, but that was before the damage got too extensive. Yikes...

As for the third point, yeah, both would be hard to figure out. But I wonder if the first person ever Bronzed, ever, would have been a really big deal, or a relatively small deal that was used more as a guinea pig than anything. Paracelsus might have gone through a few methods, some with varying degrees of success, and may or may not have let those test subjects die. But the first person to be successfuly Bronzed with his method was either yet another simple test subject, or, after he discovered the right method, a really big deal. There are many potential factors, such as:

Was Paracelsus permitted by the Regents to use people or other criminals as test subjects? If the Bronzing test was unsuccessful, would they remain Bronzed until death, or set free and detained otherwise? Did the Regents still Bronze people even if they knew the Stele was unstable and utimately fatal? Once Paracelsus figured out the right method, did he figure it out in a study or a test, and if the latter, was that subject a criminal that they kept Bronzed, or a subject they let go and he then tried it out on a real threat?

If he tested it on a subject, let them go, then on a real threat, then technically that threat wasn't the first person Bronzed with the successful method. But if he figured it out during a study rather than application, then a big threat would have been the first successfuly Bronzed person.