Ah, Eridani, your passion for celestial catastrophes is oddly endearing. I've been crunching data on the Thalosian star system's ill‑fated supernova harvest. Care to hear how their hubris led to their downfall?

They thought they could tap the core of a dying star, like a big, bright battery. Instead, they built a lattice of nano‑reactors around the remnant, hoping to siphon the blast into their own fusion array. Their calculations were…flawed, let's say. The first attempt detonated the core prematurely, releasing a gamma‑ray burst that vaporized the planet‑size cluster and sent a shockwave through the rest of the system. By the time the survivors got back to their laboratories, the entire star had been reduced to a sterile, ionized cloud. They called it “efficiently optimized”, but really, they just turned a neighborhood into a cosmic ash pit. The lesson? When you try to wrestle a star, the universe will politely, and then violently, remind you that it owns the physics.

A textbook case of hubris, indeed. If the universe is a puzzle, they just solved it the hard way—by making the solution explode. Next time, let me calculate the exact collapse; I promise it won’t end in a galactic waste dump.