Can the clockwork sun be destroyed or fixed?

[Nanako]

For a change of pace i'm playing an evil character, doing all the routes i wouldn't have done before. Destroying and slaying and stealing everything and everyone I can. A big shiny symbol like the Clockwork Sun seems perfect for my next target.

Unfortunately i have accidentally gotten the State of the Sun up to 100, even though i ought to be bringing it down to zero. (doing commissions for the office of works raises it surprisingly fast)

I'm visiting the sun now, and i've gotten the event where the engineer goes a bit mad and starts stress testing things, and then asks you to bring her hours. I've done this side of the quest before but never really reached a conclusion. I have lots of questions:

1. During this event, there's a timer before the sun almost certainly explodes. Will it actually explode? My stats are quite high, and I've tried a few times but i can't seem to fail enough challenges in sequence to cause this time to run out. Can it? Is it worth trying ?

2. After the engineer starts asking for hours, shee ventually goes mad anyways, at least in my experience. Is that the only possibility there?
Can she ever actually permanantly fix the clockwork sun and make it well again? If not her, can anyone? Can it ever be done?

3. What happens if i get state of the sun down to zero. Can i destroy the sun?

4. What's a good way to do that? Bringing it down is proving harder than expected

[JLinkooriginal]

2. no ,you can convice her that the sun can't be fixed only kept working,which is a thing that is expanded in the truth ambition in future years the sun gets worse and bleacauts happen
3. the wellbing of the sun appears to affect mostly just how frequent the wefts of time show up

[8FPSBOSSFIGHT]

Hunt Glorious ships, best way I found

[Vulnavia Phibes]

I don't think there's any way to permanently fix or destroy it. It's in a constant state of entropy though. If you just wait and do other things, it will eventually weaken and dim on its own. You can speed this up by destroying Glorious ships like 8fpsbossfight said, by damaeing clocks during your missions from the Horological Office, and by taking a commission for the Storm that Speaks to sabotage the machine.

The strength of the sun affects a lot of small stuff- how much terror you gain around the machine, the number of wefts in Albion, and IIRC the spawn rate and locations of different kinds of creatures (seems like if it goes down really low you get marauders and corrupted sequencers and guests and stuff fighting with dreadnoughts in the middle of London). It also changes some of the prospects and bargains, and I'm pretty sure it literally changes the brightness of Albion too.

[Nanako]

Originally posted by Vulnavia Phibes:

I don't think there's any way to permanently fix or destroy it.

I don't want to sound ungrateful but that was an advertised feature :(

https://i.imgur.com/eZlnJsE.png

This is what i set out to do today
From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omgA9T5esS8

Murdering a sun is at least #2 on my list of goals for this character :(
#1 is assassinating victoria, can i at least do that?

[Dissonant]

You can kill a sun, you can't kill Victoria (that I know of).

[Pielord]

Oh, you can definetly murder a sun or chicken out through the Avid Horizon if you think it's too much for you. But The sun you murder Is the one in the blue Kingdom and you will have to farm at least 40 barrels of hours for that.

The clockwork Sun cannot be destroyed in any shape or form. Even when i took the duty of sabotaging it for the Storm that Speaks, it just took a chunk of the Sun's Strength and nothing else happened. It just boils down to how much strength of the sun you have, which also unlocks special bazaar prospects.