Pallas Tycho Complex
The Tempest erases evacuated Pallas while mobile Tycho and its refugees flee with the union's surviving industrial future.
Story so far
The Pallas-Tycho complex is emptied under Anton Trejo's ultimatum. Tycho Station detaches with the people who lack private craft, leaving behind Pallas's refineries, shipyards, and the half-built Assurance of Peace. A few defiant holdouts may remain, but the strategic evacuation succeeds before the flagship's closest pass.
With eleven seconds left on the deadline, the Heart of the Tempest fires its magnetic projector. Pallas Station vanishes like a blown-out candle, reduced to hyperaccelerated dust. The blow destroys decades of future shipbuilding capacity and one of humanity's oldest Belter settlements, while the surviving people and mobile Tycho structure carry away what Laconia could not annihilate in place.
Appearance
An ancient nonspinning asteroid station, refineries, and exposed shipyard structures seen alone after Tycho's departure, then abruptly dispersed into an expanding cloud of accelerated dust.
Role
Pallas-Tycho is the evacuated industrial homeland whose destruction demonstrates that Trejo's surrender deadlines are enforced even after civilians flee.
Relationships
Sources — 2 recorded facts, by chapter
- Sol's essential refinery-and-shipyard complex is evacuated under Laconian ultimatum, sacrificing decades of future construction to preserve civilians and the fleet's single attack.
- The Tempest erases evacuated Pallas while mobile Tycho and its refugees flee with the union's surviving industrial future.