Super Saturation

Super Saturation is the name given to an event that happened during World War I. 
During World War I, the British floated mines into the Sphere of Quintessence (AKA the aetherosphere) in order to restrict German dirigible supply runs and communication. Several of these mines accidentally detonated, causing the sphere to explode and setting quintessence (AKA aether) and massive amounts of radiation free. 
Because it was no longer trapped far above, quintessence permeated the atmosphere and the people living in it. Supernatural, preternatural, and other abilities changed and evolved, some supernatural creatures were killed, others became extinct. 
All dirigibles traveling within the aetherosphere at the time of detonation were destroyed. 
A secret society known as the Order was aware of the impending explosion and waited for it to happen in order to chronicle the resulting catastrophe. It's possible they actually wanted to return quintessence to general use and disseminate it throughout the atmosphere. 
== Trivia ==
*Prior to the Super Saturation, all shifters were made. Afterwards some shifters could be born (for the werewolves these were called omegas). 
*After Super Saturation shifters became much more common, and genetic testing allowed them to predict who would survive being bitten. 
*After Super Saturation, quintessence misfires put guns out of favor. 
== Quotes ==
* "It was so long ago, but he still didn't like to think about it. Very few did. All those deaths. And what was left A world without. Without the Sphere of Quintessence, without airships, without the thousands who'd been traveling the Sphere the day they accidentally blew the whole thing up." (The Sumage Solution, Chapter Sixteen)
* "After Saturation we were twitchy in our skins, scared of new power and new limits. Living with quintessence all around us, all of a sudden like that - made some of us sick and some of us crazy. The rest of us just had to muddle through." (Judd, The Enforcer Enigma, Chapter Nine)
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