Moved
Catastrophe is ordinary
This argument is made once now, on the page carrying the rest of the case that the calm is the odd stretch rather than the ordinary state.
Where it went
Two pointers, and nothing else here.
Planets thrown out of their systems, tidal locking around the commonest kind of star, atmospheres reworked by flares, two planets caught colliding, a star caught swallowing a planet, and the white dwarfs carrying eaten planetary material.
All of that sits in one table on the calm. The precession figure, about 25,800 years for the pole to travel a full circle against the sky, is a row in the numbers.