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The Bright Star

Towards the end of YC 109 an unusual 'stellar object' begins to be noticed, dubbed 'The Bright Star' by Capsuleers.

Professor Kral Sangan, a stellar physicist from the University of Caille who chaired a conference about the 'the biggest astronomical conundrums in recorded history', outlined the nature of the problem. 'We have no idea what it is,' he said, 'we have had a much easier time determining what it is not. The true nature of the phenomenon is truly baffling.'

Doctor Hanno Brokkenheim of Hedion University continued the debate by examining some of the observational data in more detail. 'There is no discernible physical structure in the vicinity of the object'.

Professor Heins Yans of Caldari State University, another speaker at the event, put forth his theory that this might be humanity's first observation of a white hole, the theoretical physical opposite of a black hole. 'There really can be no other explanation for the level of energy being released by the object,' he said, evoking controversy and criticism from his colleagues.

Doctor Yeldrem Bane of Renyn College of Astronomy was prepared to go even further. 'The laws of thermodynamics may not be the only physical laws that are being violated by this object,' he conjectured. 'If this object is two-hundred light-years away it would take two hundred years to reach us in the Federation, with a variation of several years depending on which system you are in. For its light to appear in every system in known space at the same time simply doesn't make any sense. We've witnessed a physical impossibility!'

The conference closed without consensus, although all in attendance were agreed that the phenomenon is highly unusual and warrants detailed and protracted study by the academic community. The uncertainty however does play into the hands of armchair theorists and fringe groups, many of which see the new light in the sky as some kind of omen or portent.

Saynen Grulliver shaman of the Vherokior Tribe was reported to be assembling an expedition that shall venture beyond the galactic rim towards the object. "This strange bright star that has appeared in the skies of all New Eden is a gateway leading to the spirit world of our ancestors" and "The road ahead is long, but we Minmatar have never shirked from an arduous journey."

When it disappeared as mysteriously as it appeared threea months later in March YC 110, the mystery was intensified.

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