2 adjectives to describe shard

The Administrator is a broken shard; the British will summon him home for inefficiency.

Such a computation is impossible when we read of entire towns destroyed not once but 6, 8, and 10 times; of crops swept away by the tempest's fury, and the subsequent starvation of untold thousands; of whole fleets of ships swallowed up by the sea with every soul on board, and of hundreds of others cast on shore like coco shards.

2 adjectives to describe  shard