Slingnova: one pull

You get a comet and one pull of the sling. Gravity does everything else. Drag anywhere on the field, watch the dotted line trace the first second and a half, and let go. The comet leaves the pad in the opposite direction and starts weaving between dwarf stars. A close pass heats one. At a hundred percent it shudders, melts and goes supernova. From there it is out of your hands. The shock ring does three things at once: it kicks the comet onto a new course, hands neighbouring stars half their heat, and burns the dust in its path — worth more the deeper the chain runs. Neighbours catch, their rings chase the comet, the comet threads between overlapping fronts, and the sector takes itself apart. You do not steer it. You choose where it starts. HOW IT WORKS • A star heats from a close pass — the closer and longer, the faster • At 100% a fuse burns under a second, then the supernova • The…