Degeneracy force referred to a repulsive force produced when certain particles, such as electrons, neutrons, and protons—fermions—could not occupy the same position in space due to the Pauli Exclusion Principle in Quantum Mechanics.
Neutron degeneracy pressure specifically referred to this repulsion between neutrons.
When neutrons were compressed extremely close together, their inability to occupy the same quantum state produced a repulsive force that resisted further compression.
And the only thing capable of generating such force between neutrons was the immense compression of gravity.
Neutron degeneracy pressure was the hallmark of a Neutron Star and the force that maintained its volume and density. Without it, a Neutron Star would collapse directly into a black hole.
Thus, Neutron Stars had an upper mass limit: the Oppenheimer Limit.
When a Neutron Star's mass exceeded the Oppenheimer Limit, the gravity generated by its mass would surpass the maximum limit of neutron degeneracy pressure. The neutrons would be crushed together, creating a black hole.
From the perspective of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory, this process meant that the wave crests of two fermionic excited states in the quantum field had overlapped. After the overlap exceeded the force capable of stabilizing spacetime, spacetime was like matter had punched a hole through it, and it leaked.
Of course, the Divine Matrix Civilization was creating a Neutron War Star. Naturally, they would not allow the Neutron Star's mass to exceed the Oppenheimer Limit.
The twenty-two stars in the Void continued orbiting the forming Neutron Star. Their matter was pulled by the gravity of the planet between a Neutron Star and a White Dwarf Star, stretching into long tongues of flame, while their rotation gave those flames their own shapes.
From humanity's perspective, it resembled a Fire Wheel Large Turntable. The surging stellar flames spun in a manner