The Collapse

Disaster / Destruction

A cataclysmic event triggered by the Killjoy moments before his final death.

At the same moment the bulk of the Dark Horde's fleet was trapped behind the Tesseract Gate at Hyperion Gate Station by a powerful planar binding enchantment, the Killjoy - leader of the Dark Horde - was assassinated. Before he died, Killjoy's activated his "Dead Man's Switch" and a long prepared spell came to life.   Using an interplanetary teleport enchantment enhanced by dark matter, the spell targeted all active Tesseract Drive and Tesseract Gate devices - the backbone of travel and communication across the Worldspace - with a timed discharge grenade.   Uncontrolled inter-dimensional energy blasted out in a series of waves, striking worlds across the Worldspace. Earthquakes, tidal waves, and planar shifts ripped through ships and warped continents. On some worlds, such as Evermist, it generated a leak between the dark matter plane which bathes the world to this day. Others, such as Illuria, valleys became inland seas and entire mountain chains sank below sea level.