1 minute.
Stargates into the system are disabled
Survived. More in a few minutes.
… I’m okay. So, sitting at 20% hull integrity. My anathema’s pretty fragile so probably anyone behind a good set of defenses (shields, armor) took a beating but made it through. It looks like the anchored structures survived okay, and the ones that were under construction got obliterated.
Word is gates are down. … Okay, were down. They’re back up. No ride to Pochven today.
Transmuter’s gone, completely destroyed.
Word is … Turnur I is ash.
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Can you confirm this?
It was temporary.
Everyone is at 20% strucure doesnt matter waht ship your in…
If you would have ben in a titan you would have had 20% struc left
The Fortizar and Raitaru that were anchoring were destroyed.
First station in the system is badly damaged. Turnur I… Didn’t do so well either.
At a quick check, all other stellar bodies and stations seem to have survived the event with minimal damages at least on visual verification.
Edit: Additionally a quick capture of ship log:
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Getting reports also that while some established Upwell structures in the system did survive, others were destroyed.
Some definitely did survive.
The Stimulus fortizar, successfully onlined and looking cheery. … Only, also not in Pochven. I’d say “better luck next time,” but hopefully that won’t happen.
Ivy League also gets to keep their not-aimed-at-a-moon, not-in-Pochven lowsec athanor.
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Went to silent running for a while; someone’s been using a device to break cloaking. Came back to find …
Looks like Turnur’s back to its old self, more or less. I’d say something like, “Well, that’s good at least,” but …
… yeah.
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Disappointing.
Given that it does not destroy the channeled star and only damages the first planet in the system in which it is deployed, it would seem that the Prototype Stellar Transmuter is an inefficient weapon. Since first planets are usually Barren or otherwise low population, the transmuter would leave almost all of an enemy’s resources and population intact.
Had the transmuter destroyed the Turnur star, I would have commended Anti-Empress Catiz and implored her to immediately deploy another transmuter against Pator and complete the job of proving herself a worthy predecessor to the coming True Emperor. However, it is now apparent that such an attack would only destroy the worthless lava planet of Istinn, leaving the rather more important planet of Pator IV intact.
This failure has thus instead provided further proof of Anti-Empress Catiz’s incompetence and shown that the Throne is Vacant.
Final Thoughts
I stopped by Turnur I on my way out of the system.
It is … if it’s not a total loss that would seem to be because someone’s probably going to be harvesting silicon from the oceans of molten glass within a week.
Actually I don’t know for sure how bad the damage is, aside from … well, as you see. How long will it take the surface to cool? Is this a temporary scar or self-perpetuating in some way?
I don’t know. I don’t have the heart to ask right now.
The orbiting parliament station is in better shape, if only in the sense that the seas of molten glass aren’t visible from outside, much less from 10,000 or so kilometers away.
(Is it just me or is there something a little obscene about that Divinity Social ad playing on a burning station?)
I’ve made it home to the Mehatoor 24IC. The Inkstone (my anathema) took the blast from around 400k km. Systems reset okay, but it seems the chasis is hot.
Physically, but, also radiologically. The blast and radiation tore through the shielding and armor and nearly broke the structure down. My capsule’s fine, but … it’s about all that is.
I’ll need to decide what to do. Whether to repair her or just get, like, a lead-lined hangar container and keep her as a sort of personal monument or something.
Which seems … appropriate, maybe.
Insufficient, though.
I went to Turnur fully expecting to die, maybe even so quickly that my consciousness wouldn’t copy. A reverted backup of myself, another branch of my timeline, would wake up in a clone bay, and I, the person writing this, would be dead. I was ready for that.
I didn’t die. As usual my defenses, the technology surrounding me, held. Other people, people with only a single life to lose, did all the dying.
I don’t know yet what to do with all this. It’s a lot.
And it feels like the beginning of more to come.
For now, it’s time for me to get out of this pod, find some real food and an actual bed. Privileges. Such privileges.
In any case, good night, pilots.
Until next time.
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You did a great job reporting the events within that system, you might wanna consider applying for a job with Scope… 
glad you made it home, you earned some threats after that interstellar trick.
they are checking a might have changed the tech inside of the transmutter to have this happen
Seems the skeleton crew lacked the resources to control the fire, much of the outer structure has failed as a result.
Docking services are still available but besides from basic necessities the station lacks any operational services even now. With the system still under Amarrian control, I doubt any plans for repairs are underway.
Two days later and the planet is still scorched, molten surfaces cover approximately half the surface, it appears that a thin atmosphere still persists however so some survival on the shadowed side or deep underground might have been possible.
I just hope the republic sees sense and shuts down the other devices, some of the other planets are much closer to their respective stars. Egmar 1 would be at significant risk, at only 0.2 au.
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That thin atmosphere might just be outgassing from the superheated rocks. I don’t think anything that left parts of the surface so hot as to be still glowing days later across the entire subtropical-subtropical range left any useable O2 in more than trace amounts.
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Hard to say without samples, it is possible that other non-flammable gasses that contain oxygen atoms such as O3 or CO2, could remain within the atmosphere. Could any survival gear separate those into O2 on the surface?
At a certain point though we have to accept that this is only speculation, currently we are still unable to scan the surface.
Cound any survival gear survive on the surface? If those rocks are still glowing that brightly, they’re molten for a long way down.