Stars and Constellations

Children of the Universe

Stars are direct children of all three Celestial Progenitors, and embody more complex concepts than their parents, both metaphorical and factual. Though new Stars are born very rarely, none have ever died, and thus there is a countless number of them in existence at time of recording. They possess transformative powers over existing matter, energy and void (See Power Type B, page 53). Throughout the eons, they have sorted themselves into generational and interest-based internal factions called Constellations, and one Star can belong to multiple Constellations at different times or simultaneously. Some Constellations, or more rarely individual Stars, have chosen comets, planets, star systems, or even galaxies and imbued them with life, using their transformative powers to combine matter, energy and void into the various forms of life inhabiting said hubs, also known as Biocores (page 10). Because matter and energy already interact throughout the universe, regardless of life in their vicinity, they are governed by universal rules (page 33) made by the Progenitors. Void, however, only interacts with the other elements through the interference of conscious will, and so the responsibility of making its rules was given to the Constellations that made mortal worlds. Because of this, the ruleset, or 'astronomy', of any given mortal, including the rules by which their mind, matter and soul interlace, could be different from the next, based on the decisions of the Constellation that created them. Generally, Stars are curious but uninvested, tending to let their creations develop as they watch with little interference, and are happy to let the mortal population they have created believe in whatever deities they would like, whether or not those correspond to the members of the Constellation in the slightest. This is not a hard rule- there are Stars who become incredibly invested in a world, a specific subset of a world, or even specific creatures or people, though their position as wholly immortal and mostly unchanging results in an utter lack of understanding of social rules and morality as established by whatever mortal population they are attempting to interact with.

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