Event · disaster
The Tolstoj Burn
The Open Cities' untested seed burns its own station; hundreds die, most of them indentured Raised.
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The Tolstoj Burn (c. 2387). The Open Cities move first. Their untested seed turns its mirrors on its own station in Mercury's Tolstoj Basin, and hundreds of crew die, most of them Raised minds working under Open City contracts (see Who moved first, in The Mirror Race).