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A few months(?) passed between the Blinding Purge and her arrival in Xerxes, and she was in control for about two years(?) (enough to rebuild some infrastructure and get through the famine). The disparity can probably be explained away by saying 'well, turns out that grafting bits of dead god onto a couple of stragglers takes longer than expected'

'...and the guy we put in charge of it just so happens to be the skeeviest motherfucker in the entire city.'
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This calls for some maths.

We have 5000 Cosmic Knights if I remember correctly. Say we have 50 chambers for brewing these Cosmic Knights, such that 50 Cosmic Knights can be made simultaneously, meaning that 100 batches will have had to be run. Say it takes a week to convert a person into a Cosmic Knight. This means that it would have taken two years to build this army. Add some time for training too.

Most of those numbers are semi-arbitrary though, so you can adjust them to get whatever number you want. Say 100 chambers but 2 weeks per Knight would give the same result. 70 chambers and 2 weeks per Knight would give about 3 years.

So yeah, building an army of Cosmic Knights would probably take longer than a year, so you should be fine there.

P.S. Been researching a bit about core collapse supernovae, for reasons. Some of the figures are terrifying.
[quote=Wikipedia]When the core's mass exceeds the Chandrasekhar limit of about 1.4 M☉, degeneracy pressure can no longer support it, and catastrophic collapse ensues.[9] The outer part of the core reaches velocities of up to 70,000 km/s (23% of the speed of light) as it collapses toward the center of the star.[10] The rapidly shrinking core heats up, producing high-energy gamma rays that decompose iron nuclei into helium nuclei and free neutrons via photodisintegration.[/quote]
Something the mass of the Sun collapsing at a speed of 23% of the speed of light.
Gamma rays so powerful they literally destroy atomic nuclei- a literal disintegration ray.
Additionally, the majority of energy transfer, the mindbogglingly massive amounts of energy, are transported in a not-insignificant part by neutrinos, which are normally comparable to a butterfly's wing-flap against a mountain when it comes to interactions with matter.

Supernova are scary-big.