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world help: stars

Stars.
What are they?
Why do they exist?
"A star is a luminous ball of gas, mostly hydrogen and helium, held together by its own gravity. Nuclear fusion reactions in its core support the star against gravity and produce photons and heat, as well as small amounts of heavier elements. The Sun is the closest star to Earth."
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Stars, on Cosmic Rage, are very large, very nasty, balls of gas that will draw your ships in if you are not careful.
The art of star studying, or star research as it was originally called, was first developed in the early 24th century by a man called Adam Smith.
Adam was a bright young man who made the mistake of trusting the government.
Star studies at the time was a very controversial subject, resulting in both him, and his fellow researcher Gallia Black Designation, being shot.
In later years, developments were made that allowed star studies to become a useful asset in both plasma generation and easy-charging for starships.
What is liquified Solar energy?
Stars are made up of lots of things. The most notable of these, however, is hydrogen, helium and heavier elements. By combining hydrogen and plasma together and then cooling at a rapid speed, drones are able to create a type of liquified hydrogen compound that has been referred to as liquified solar energy.
What are solar contlats?
Solar contlats, like germs, are tiny, microscopic organisms that ride off of the solar flairs that stars produce. They feed off of stars and in turn, store up small bursts of energy for the star later on. Some theorists argue that the star itself produces the contlats, but this has never been proved.
Contlats and/or solar energy have dropped into the negatives, why is this?
If contlats or solar energy drop into the negatives it means one of two things:
1. The star has changed from a red star to a blue star.
Blue stars are cold stars, and will be of no use to a harvesting pilot.
2. It means someone else harvested the star too much and drained it. Draining does not mean the star is necessarily any different, it simply means the number of that resource has dropped below the extremely careful levels set out by the Galactic Senate.
This can result in high pull amounts while the star regenerates, as well as larger than normal solar flares. This does not affect planets or stations much, although before the star disaster when stars would be drained to extreme amounts, stations did have active watchers for powerful solar storms or flares that would, and did, damage the station frame.
Mechanically however, the one thing to know about stars is that if you go within their coordinates, they will pull you in and you will likely explode.
Stars have two sets of coordinates: a min and a max. Stay out from between these coordinates unless you either are:
1. Star studying.
2. Know what you are doing.
3. A person who wants to destroy his or her ship.
I don't want to blow up! what do I do?
Don't worry! On all ships there is a star safe feature you can enable that will retroactively navigate your ship around stars so that you don't get pulled in. Simply enable it by typing systems in your ship's control room.
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