Heli blinks heavily and looks around, partially to make sure his eyes aren't playing tricks on him. "What the hell was that?" He takes a step back from the statue.

The Statue doesn't respond... it's eyes did stay open though. Maybe Hornfels will have some idea.

Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. He keeps a wide berth from the statue and goes looking for Hornfels.

"Are you okay?"

"I think so, but I think... the statue made me rethink the last few minutes?"

"Weird"

Hornfels is easily found looking through the telescope on the upper level.

They look over upon hearing them come up. "Something very strange is going on."

"What kind of strange?"

"The sun has grown by about 10% in the last two minutes and there's a significant number of supernovas occurring."

"What? Where? How?"

"You can check my measurements on the sun if you like... the Supernovas I just started to notice. They keep happening and they seem to be happening more frequently. I.... have no idea what could be causing that, maybe Chert would know but... I doubt it. As I said something strange is happening."

Heli checks the measurements on the sun.

They seem accurate.

"This makes no sense." Heli says, checking the equipment and then looking for super-novas.

The equipment seems to be working. It takes a minute or so but just there is a supernova...

"Huh, is there something that causes supernovas or something?"

"Nothing we've ever seen. Supernovas have been pretty rare maybe one every few million seconds. This many this often.... it's unprecedented."

"...That can't be a coincidence, but what could cause anything like this?"

"I wish I knew... I can't help but worry that our star is going the same way."

"Can we evacuate then?"

"Maybe... but unless we find some new Nomai tech we'd just be choosing between annihilation in the supernova or slowly dying from running out of food and air in overcrowded ships, assuming we'd even get far enough away if we tried."

Gabe pulls Heli from his slump. "Okay, let's try starving slowly. Better than just..."

"I'll try to get in touch with the other astronauts. Ask them to fly their ships back.... and ask if they have any ideas. I'm not sure if it makes sense for you to wait or if you should try to use your new translation tool to get the gravity catapults on Brittle Hollow or the Ember Twin working, those could help us get far enough away."

Heli takes this as his cue to get a grip. "I-we will go try to do that." He grabs Gabe's by the wrist and pulls him to the nearest gravity catapult.