Hork nodded slowly. 'I think I understand. This is how the Star-fount was made.' He traced the wormhole with a fingertip. 'See? When you hauled on your levers, Dura, this wormhole must have opened up. It took matter from the heart of the Star and transported it to the Crust. The Core material must have exploded at once in the lower pressure, releasing immense energy.'
Dura felt odd; she seemed to see Hork as if at the far end of a long, dark corridor.
'At the North Pole there must be huge engines to exploit this energy — the discontinuity drive engines Karen Macrae spoke of, which propel the Star itself.' His gaze was distant. 'Dura, some day we must reach those engines. And I wonder how the Colonists fared, when that wormhole belched...'
-Flux, Ch. 27