Big Nugget

First Appearance and Context

Avout refer to the Big Nugget as a widely remembered near‑impact scare in which a large asteroid was believed to be on course for Arbre. The episode is often cited in recollections and technical lore as the period when enduring sky‑watching practices took hold at starhenges and related observatories.

Course of Events

Accounts within the mathic world describe a sequence in which a substantial mobilization was mounted to respond to the perceived threat. As the story is told, many were assembled and a mission was prepared to meet the object; later calculations indicated the rock would miss, and the effort pivoted toward observation and study rather than deflection. Specific details are preserved in community retellings and institutional memory rather than a single canonical chronicle.

Relationships and Affiliations

• Convox trigger: It is named among the rare episodes that prompted a Convox, underscoring its exceptional status in mathic memory.
• Coordination with authority: Recollections emphasize coordination between Avout efforts and the Sæcular Power during the response.
• Observational legacy: The period is linked to upgrades and add‑ons at rooftop observatories such as the Starhenge, leaving lasting instrumentation and practices.

Descriptions and Tone

The name functions both as history and shorthand: “a Big Nugget scenario” is invoked—sometimes half‑humorously—to mean an imminent‑impact situation posed by a natural, heliocentric object. The emphasis in retellings often falls on the mobilization it spurred and the procedural habits it embedded, as much as on the celestial object itself.

Current Status

The original object is remembered as a near‑miss subsequently studied rather than deflected. The term persists in everyday mathic speech and in technical discussions, while the observational measures attributed to that period remain in use.