In the cosmological history of the Outer Deep pit, stars didn’t simply burn out of their own accord. Many were murdered.
The Void Broodmother Nihil-Kraken met a vibrant star system during its eons of migration. Then, it didn’t waste time engaging in protracted sky-high sieges. It didn’t trade blows with defending fleets or duel ancient stellar gods. It simply drifted into high solar orbit, gathered the tightly packed breakdown of thirty dead galaxies within its central skull kiln. Then it let loose its signed name extinction protocol: the Star-core Obliteration Beam.
It was an attack designed not merely to break stone or melt metal, but to delete the concept of physical existence from the map point grid of reality. Where the beam struck, core bonds didn’t shatter. They ceased to remember that they had ever been bound. Iron cores crumbled into gray static. Sky envelopes dissolved into exact empty pocket. World-size spirits were put out without a ripple.
Now, that very beam was aimed at the Azure Cloud Realm.
High in the upper stratosphere, the Broodmother’s giant stone eye had tightly packed into a sky-slit of impossible, blinding darkness. The negative mass swirling within the focal point became so dense that light itself was pulled into an inescapable spiral. It warped the surrounding starry backdrop into an ugly, rippling swirl of colors of black and violet rings. The gravity drag pulled the upper ionosphere into a roaring whirlpool, stripping away clouds and exposing the raw, unprotected curve of the planet…
