Violent Unknown Event

A Violent Unknown Event (or VUEs) was a type of high-order chaotic effect.

It was beyond the normal limits of catastrophe theory, affecting those present and sometimes even those who might later investigate.

The Great Houses considered them too unstable to utilise as weapons, though it was believed that the enemy was able to engineer them.

Before the War, Chatelaine Thessalia tried to learn more about VUEs, going to Zo la Domini after one had occurred there. She encountered a Faction Paradox team from the future, after the War had started. This should have been impossible due to the Protocols of Linearity, but may have been a side effect of the VUE. Later, whilst attempting to relay more information to the Homeworld, she and those with her were destroyed by another VUE (PROSE: The Book of the War) in the form of a babel attack. (PROSE: Newtons Sleep)

The Book of the War referenced an entry about Violent Unknown Events as part of its explanation of the Enemy; however, there was no such entry in the book, suggesting that it had been unwritten by Enemy action. (PROSE: The Book of the War)