Red Star

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For other uses of the term, see Red Star (disambiguation).

The Red Star is a mysterious heavenly body which appeared at the culmination of the Week of Nightmares in 1999. Known as Wormwood to vampires, Anthelios (the anti-sun) to werewolves, the Red Star most supernaturals as being a sign of the End Times. It was initially unable to be seen by mundane forms of perception, but as the end neared it brightened enough to be viewed by everyone.

[edit] Background Information

A WTOJ news item declared that the Red Star was referred to by NASA as stellar object 2001KX76, which was theorized to be a comet heading for Earth. That designation suggests that it was discovered by mortal scientists in the second half of May, 2001, and was the 1,923rd object discovered in that time.

There was, at the time, an actual stellar object with the provisional designation of 2001 KX₇₆, which is a trans-Neptunian Kuiper Belt object. It is, in fact, reddish in colour, although far too small and distant to be seen with the naked eye. Coincidentally, it has since been named 28978 Ixion, after Ixion, the Greek equivalent of Caine. Ixion (in the form of the Ixoi and the Knife of Ixion) is relevant to Ascension's main scenario.