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Pretty major Firefight spoilers, hence the topic's presence in the spoiler board. You have been warned. In Firefight we learn that Calamity, that wicked red star visible even through Nightwielder's smog, is actually an Epic. From Chapter 41: And in the same chapter, David sees it almost up close, and could have sworn he saw a pair of fiery wings. So here's my question... how is Calamity's true nature not common knowledge? We are told in the prologue to Steelheart that there was a full year between Calamity's first appearance and the dawn of the Epics. We are told in Firefight, in the passage quoted above, that it is brighter than any star but far dimmer than the moon; that puts Calamity at an apparent magnitude somewhere between -1.46 and -12.7. Therefore, there was a full year for NASA and every other astronomical organization and amateur stargazer to view a mysterious glowing object that appeared without warning and is brighter than Halley's Comet. This isn't the sort of thing people ignore; it seems to me that scientists should have learned of Calamity's true nature long before Epics began to appear. It should have become common knowledge. At the very least, David shouldn't have been nearly surprised at the revelation as he was. In summary: if Calamity hung over modern Earth for a full year and can be viewed with a telescope, why in Calamity's name doesn't everybody know what it is?
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