To understand the One Star Gate and the Two Star Gate, one first had to understand the Crimson Wheel Rift.
The Crimson Wheel Rift was the burial ground where the Lord of Zhanhe had dragged countless gods down with him, and the birthplace of endless Evil Poison.
Because of the peculiar way it had formed and its fluctuating mass, it had brought ceaseless disturbances to the Han Guang Star System from the moment of its birth. Those disturbances had never stopped.
Some less charitable accounts even claimed that the spreading Evil Poison had formed because the Lord of Zhanhe's Destiny Furnace had never fully gone out. Contaminated by the Six Heavens God Calamity, it had continued to dissolve the bodies of the Myriad Heavens Gods and even the rules of the Abyssal Spirit Net.
Whatever the truth, once the Crimson Wheel Rift took shape, the spacetime environment of the Han Guang Star System was thrown into constant turmoil.
According to the course materials and records Ronan had at hand, during the first millennium of the Calamity Era, the Crimson Wheel Rift had used the aftershocks of the God War to warp the surrounding spacetime. It formed a "super accretion disk" that swallowed vast quantities of nearby planetary and interstellar matter. Through the Abyssal Spirit Net's hyper-configuration framework in particular, the reach of its pull and influence extended nearly ten thousand light-years.
The upheaval was so great that, at several points, the Crimson Wheel Rift appeared to be approaching the mass needed to become an unusual star. The Han Guang Star System had nearly gone from a single-star system to a binary one.
No one knew what would happen if the Crimson Wheel Rift ignited.
But at the time, no one, inside or outside the star system, could bear the unforeseeable