Orbiting an Orange Giant, Nexus of Interpenetrating Cosmoi
Sorq has a wide, wide orbit around its primary, Bale, the Usurper, a sullen and inconstant orange giant, but a refuge from the transformations of other local stars into compact objects. Bale was once of a pair with a blazing minor giant, the Old King, that Old One the Child. The Old King's transformation into a true giant was observed by the dominant sophonts of the system, and they shaped a moon of modest size but extraordinary mass of minerals, metals, fissionables into an orb that could bear their civilization and species well away from Old King's terrible light, changing its orbit in mere decades with no damage to structure, able to deflect and manipulate objects within several planetary radii, spread wings and stretch forth its grasp. That move accomplished, the originating civilization, the Children of the Old King, discovered talent for ontological translation, and quite soon ablated to minimal occupation and corporeal involvement with this cosmos . 1.5 billion years ...