Great Crash

The Great Crash was a cosmological event that occurred some many years before the events of Vaxis I. Very little is currently known about it.

History
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Context

 * In "Prologue": "'The Five Houses of the Star Supremacy have privatized the detention zones of the galaxy / These planetary prison pits reassembled from the cracked worlds of The Great Crash.'"
 * This is elaborated in the novella, though it wasn't named: "'Years ago, chaos cut through this atmosphere. The fractured worlds that inhabit this space were once locked in a force of uncontrollable destruction. Gravity was lost. Their planetary trajectories conjoined in one catastrophic collision, choking to remain viable even as the dying glow of their cores peek through the cracks and scars of those impactful moments. Yet a gasp is a sign of life, and the planets that many might have cast off as annihilated space continued to show a pulse across the hopelessness. These discarded earths were still very much alive… and made profitable by the Five Houses of the Star Supremacy, an elite society who looked to the sky and saw potential in the nearly-wasted planets. The opportunistic approach could hardly be considered an act of empathy for the human condition, as the decision to convert the dying planets into private prisons meant an unthinkable life sentence awaited those shipped off to their remote reaches.'"
 * In Vaxis - Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures: "'For a split second, he imagined it was a Quintillian Speaker. Children across the universe had been whispering about them since he could remember; strange beings conceived of energy from the great crash."