Everything Killers

Definition

According to The Dictionary (4th ed., A.R. 3000), an “Everything Killer” is a weapons system of unusual Praxic sophistication, widely believed—though not proven—to have been used to devastating effect during the Terrible Events. The same source records a prevalent but unverified view that the perceived complicity of theors in developing such praxis spurred the resolve to segregate theorical practice from wider society, a policy that when enacted became synonymous with the Reconstitution. The name functions as a cautionary label rather than a precise technical class.

Attestations and Usage

• In avout discourse the term is invoked when discussing catastrophic legacies from the Praxic Age. It emphasizes potential scale and danger, not specific mechanisms.
• Security‑minded speakers speculate that heavily protected Thousanders—especially the Three Inviolates—might shelter such devices. Present accounts treat this as conjecture, not established fact.

Current Discourse and Reports

• A servitor describes being assigned to a new laboratorium tasked with scraping and studying very old praxic documents dated just before the Terrible Events. Participants in that work suspect the materials include original plans for the Everything Killers. This report is restricted, based on partial access, and remains unconfirmed in public sources.

Ethical Views

• Avout of the Ringing Vale are said to consider the Everything Killers dishonorable.

Reported Mechanism

A recent technical account describes an Everything Killer as a pinhead‑scale reactor with moving parts and several types of nuclear material. When it is off, it is effectively inert; when actuated, it emits a burst of neutrons that kills living things within a radius that can extend—depending on exposure time—up to roughly half a mile. The concept is to kill people while sparing most structures. Proposed triggers include body heat, respiration, human voices, a timer, specified genetic sequences, a radio transmission, or the absence of an expected transmission. Delivery platforms are unconstrained and can be adapted to circumstance. These details are presented as informed analysis, not as released specifications.

Contemporary Employment Concepts

Operational discussion outlines a low‑mass deployment approach: instead of launching crewed vehicles, large numbers of tiny devices could be placed in orbit—too small for most radar—and then directed toward Daban Urnud. In the same discussion, a team preparing for orbital activity believes its task may serve as a diversion while another method attempts delivery. This remains speculative; no directive to employ such devices has been acknowledged by the Sæcular Power.

Status

No public specifications, inventories, or verified deployments are known. Technical descriptions and operational chatter have grown more concrete, but remain attributed and unconfirmed. Ethical objections and historical fears continue to shape how the term is used and understood.