Stellar Converter: Chapter 1

A year ago, the Council learned a humiliating truth: humans weren't weak, just restrained. So one species decides to test the limits. They erase a human colony from orbit, call it "containment," and wait for the Council to bury it in procedure. The Council does nothing. Humanity answers by waking a project no one was supposed to finish. Project Stellar Converter: a device built for one purpose. Turn a sun into a nova. The Council wanted humans to know their place.