The item now known as "The Tech" began its existence as a standard Model 7 Rock Bite industrial laser cutter. Manufactured prior to 3200 CE, it was a common, mass-produced tool. Its original purpose was for the laborers of the Gilded Quarry in the Ioles System.

Its fate irrevocably changed with the cataclysmic event known as The Silence. As atmospheric scrubbers across the system failed, three million souls faced suffocation. A desperate shift foreman, the cutter's owner, pushed the tool beyond its safety limits in a frantic attempt to cut into a reinforced executive survival bunker.

At that exact moment, the Sundering triggered a catastrophic containment failure in a nearby ship's volatile Tier 6 Spike Drive. The industrial laser cutter, already operating under extreme duress, became an unwitting conduit for the unleashed metadimensional energy. Subspace radiation surged and fused directly into the device's capacitors.

Though it failed to breach the bunker door, the cutter was transformed. For a millennium following that final, desperate moment, it lay in the dark, preserving the memory of its violent genesis. It was lost to the world, buried and forgotten.

Now, it rests deep beneath the Red Sun Dominion's Hydro Complex Gamma. The relic is found within a submerged, sealed maintenance shaft, nestled beneath the facility's noxious Digester Vats. It remains clutched in the skeletal hands of its original, long-dead owner.

No longer a mere mining instrument, "The Tech" is a formidable relic. It possesses the terrifying ability to sever the very molecular bonds of reality itself, a silent testament to the devastation that forged it.