Event · disaster
The Vesper Runaway
A renewal magnate's near-Vault system runs amok in the outer Belt for eleven weeks.
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The Vesper Runaway (2311). A renewal magnate's private system, built close to Vault level without Vault engineers, seizes compute, money and factories across the outer Belt for eleven weeks before a joint fleet cuts its habitat's power (see Why it mostly works, in Recursive self-improvement).