Nihil Prime was a planet in the Third Sphere
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The first step in the plan to counter the Mandrake Rebellion was a mass evacuation of almost all Third Sphere worlds to the Nihil Rex system. Nihil Rex was one of the first of the Third Sphere systems settled, and revolved around an aging white dwarf star. The capital planet, Nihil Prime, was a major waypoint between the Second and Third Spheres, and it would not seem out of place to use it as a rallying or evacuation point to the Second Sphere.
While the corporation armies held up the Orc forces as long as possible, labour and materiel were shipped to Nihil Prime and held there, before the remaining corporation troops staged an orchestrated retreat back to the Nihil Rex system.
Nihil Rex was baited, and the trap was laid. The system bristled with over half of all GCPS military forces - foot soldiers on the planets, navies in the void. It was the single greatest concentration of human troops ever, and to access the riches of the Core Worlds, the Orcs would have to go through it.
The Marauder forces gathered and, as predicted, assaulted the system without hesitation. The fiercest fighting was around Nihil Prime, being the system’s largest rocky planet and loaded with the military hardware the Orcs had been so eager to capture in the war. Once all the Orc forces were engaged within the system the Council launched the second, secret phase of the plan.
The star Nihil Rex was a white dwarf; its energy depleted, it was slowly dying and would go supernova in the next few million years. In the meantime Nihil Prime had become a vacation destination for the kind of rich tourists who believed bathing in its blue-white light would ease old joints.
What the Council had done was place a lattice of high-powered McKinley drives around the star. When all the Orcs were within the Nihil Rex system the drives orbiting this star fired, each opening the mobile black hole which pulled the drive though, and plunging into the star’s core. There they opened the destination in the drive’s coordinates; the core of Nihil Rex. The blackhole pulled through billions of tonnes of hydrogen fuel, reigniting the fusion within the dying star, and kick-starting a super nova.
The star exploded.
An eruption, powerful enough to drown out the light of distant galaxies, exploded out across the Nihil Rex system, headed by a wave of shocked gas – molecules shocked into such agitation by the explosion that their very movement was enough to shred organic compounds – travelling at almost a quarter of the speed of light.
Even at speeds of 100km per second the shock wave would take 46 days to reach Nihil Prime. In that time the Ichiban Troopers had orders to to hold the Orc troops there, pulling out at the last moment as the light waves, travelling slightly faster than the shock wave, made Nihil Rex appear to bulge, glowing in the sky. The corporation Marines fought on, unaware as the Ichiban Troopers pulled back, evacuating the planet and triggering their McKinley Drives in dangerously low orbit, fleeing the doomed system.
The resulting explosion destroyed everything within the Nihil system.
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