The Red Star

On the eve of Mardi Gras 2005, a bright red star was visible in the night sky right under where the Milky Way would be.
The Star was illuminated brightly over the entire Crescent City, giving off a red ominous hue to the night sky.
Surely this was a bad omen.
Not only that, but it seems that the star was only visible for Kindred and other supernaturals. A bad omen indeed.
Some members of the city's Kindred population are in a panic over this sight, especially those that belong to Clan Ravnos. Prince Rex is now looking into this matter and is doing his best to try to deal with the growing fear among his princedom.

 The Red Star is bad Omen indeed, for the last time such a star was shown over head was during the  apocalyptic events that occurred during the Week of Nightmare, in 1999, 6 years earlier. Such a event was said to mark The Awakening of the Antidiluvian Zapathasura.

 When the original A Red Star visible only to supernatural creatures appeared in the sky 6 years ago, It marked the coming of the end.  It is known as Anthelios, or the "Eye of the Wyrm", to the Garou, who see it as a sign of the Apocalypse. Kindred come to call it Wormwood and see it as another sign of Gehenna. The Kithain know it as the Eye of Balor, and mages dub it Telos. Those with advanced supernatural senses (Auspex of at least level 2, for example) see it as brighter than Venus, surrounded with a halo like a comet. All who are able to see it know instinctively that it was a evil omen.
The star did not vanish until Zapathasura was destroyed, but this leaves the question "Is this the same Star ? And if so why has it reappeared?"

It has been suggested that the Technocracy's bombs, capable of disrupting the spirit worlds, contributed to the instability of the Tempest, and therefore the Sixth Great Maelstrom later that year. After the Week of Nightmares there is no longer any Umbra where the "spirit nukes" went off, suggesting the level of devastation from the weapons was catastrophic. The Veil between realities folded in on itself, letting all manners of creatures cross over into this reality.

Zapatharusa's death blasted open long-sealed trods in the Dreaming, releasing the Denizens, the Adhene, to once more walk the Autumn world. The Naraka, an Adhene that made their home in the Dreaming around Bangladesh, were transformed utterly by the cataclysm, reborn as embodiments of destruction, with all memory of what they had once been lost to them.

It is also suggested that the Technocracy's bombs were directly responsible for opening the cracks in the Abyssal prison crafted to hold Fallen Angels

Needless to say the world itself had become a much darker place.