Nyctospora
The Nyctospora, or "scattering into the night", is the collective name for several distinct waves of political and religious refugee migration to habitats deep in Extralegal Space, brought on by the turmoil of the Succession Crisis. Although scholarly opinions differ on the precise date range the Nyctospora should be partioned into - with some even arguing that it properly traces back before the Crisis, and that the first true wave of the Nyctospora should be considered as the Expulsion of Needles in ZY 3087.[1] Nonetheless, more conventional[2] views place the beginning of the Nyctospora with the Burning of Samsara and the fleeing of hundreds of Thahanese geno-technicians and their families to hopefully-safer (more remote, certainly) homes out in the dimly-lit, frozen, largely-uninhabited rockballs of the Outer Belt, ultimately scattering to hole up in twelve different Outer-Belt Objects and at least half a dozen habitats. They would not be the last - as disruptions and military action threatened the safety of many others over the following decades, tens of thousands more would flee to escape persecution, purging, mass psychosurgery, and warfare from all members of the Pentarchate, taking the months-long journey into the night and seeking shelter amongst the other displaced. The Devastation of Cassavaca, the Night of Crushed Eggs, the Ophiuchus Attack and subsequent Fragmentation ...
- ↑ The common term for scholars promoting this viewpoint is "blatantly wrong" and "a bunch of smartasses." Yes, the Disagreement could arguably be considered as the first warning tremor of the Thahanese and/or Iridist religious turmoil and latent schism that would later explode in the Succession Crisis, and yes the Redoubt of Not-Long-Blunted-Needles was established within the traditional boundaries of Extralegal Space, but this was an extremely small migration compared to the dispersion to follow later, the Redoubt was much closer to the inner system - actually within the orbit of Obscura, rather than out in the Far Belt - and quite frankly it's absurd academic hair-splitting to try and claim that such a minor event (relatively speaking) deserves to be grouped with the rest of the Nyctospora. Not to mention disrespectful to the many displaced. And the Needledicks had it coming, anyway.
- ↑ and also correct.
