Formic's Home Planet
After the Second Invasion, which the humans narrowly won, the International Fleet built and sent the "Third Invasion" to their planets. In order to fight, the I.F. decides to use child commanders and pretend that it is just a fantasy simulation. After a number of grueling battles that causes three of the children to collapse, the fleet arrives at the homeworld. Mazer Rackham tells Ender that this is the final battle. Ender, tired of battling, simply decides to use the Molecular Disrupter Device to destroy the world to try to get himself kicked out of school. Apart from the cocoon Ender later found, all the Hive Queens were present at its destruction, which effectively wiped them out, until Ender revived the last Hive Queen on Lusitania.
A few seconds after its destruction, the planet's own gravity pulled its particles back towards itself, making a new, smaller planet.
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