Leddumu Station

Leddumu Station was the primary antimatter processing plant in orbit of New Xindus.

During the Xindi Conflict, it was the only overt target of the Interstellar Coalition's Operation Gluttony, the direct disruption of Xindi materials and assets in and around New Xindus.

In 2156, during the weekly parts of rotation of the station's primary refining node, using several defective electromagnetic field generators produced and shipped from the Xindi-Arboreals to be installed along the antimatter production line. Since antimatter annihilates with regular matter on contact, the electromagnetic field generators were necessary to prevent this. Antimatter in the form of magnetized particles were suspended using the electromagnetic fields in near-perfect vacuum before being exported to waiting Xindi warships for use in their power production plants.

While it was intended to merely render the antimatter inert and useless by allowing itself to be destroyed at prestages of subatomic particle formation where they would only cause minor damage, a miscommunication in the rotation cycle caused the defective electromagnetic field generators to be installed in the final stages of the production line, when the particles were completed and being moved towards mass storage and exportion.

A matter of seconds into the first antimatter production cycle, the primary refining node on Leddumu Production Station detonated with enough force to vaporize the entire complex, 12-thousand workers and 21 surrounding vessels, including four warships. While it had the desired effect of taking out the largest Xindi fuel depot for the entire New Xindus Cooperative, the resultant death toll was far higher than intended. Only the fact that Operation Gluttony had to remain secret and the accident had to appear as just the installation of defective parts, kept a formal apology from being issued.

Dolim’s reaction was to begin another round of purges of New Xindus, resulting in 40-thousand Xindi-Arboreals being put to death.