Overview
Caphitis
Caphitis is one of the most extreme stellar objects in the entirety of the Eoch Pruae. It is the most massive and brightest (bolometrically speaking) star in the entirety of Eoch Prua. It is also one of the most unstable stars in existence, which results in it having one of the most significant pulsations in the entirety of Eoch Pruae. One pulsation lasts around 20 years.
Properties
Caphitis's star class cannot be clearly described. It can be called a massive hydrogen-rich Wolf-Rayet star, or a Luminous Blue Variable. Whatever it is, it's big, hot, bright and not pleasant to be around.
Its solar wind, despite not being very fast, is very powerful and gives Caphitis one of the highest mass loss rates ever recorded. Caohitis has lost a heavy level of its mass. Due to this extreme solar wind, it has a planetary nebula around it. Caphitis's solar wind is also extremely opaque and makes the surface and radius hard to define.
Owing to its stupidly large mass, Caphitis has a lifetime of less than a million years, and sadly it is already dying.
Variability
Being a Luminous Blue Variable, Caphitis is bound to have extreme pulsations. Here is a table that records several minimums and maximums observed.
| Status |
|---|
| Medium (observed 2613) |
| Minimum (observed 2616) |
| Deep minimum (observed 2619) |
| Maximum (Observed 2632 CE) |
| Deep maximum (Observed 2640) |
To conclude, we can see that Caphitis has clearly defined minimums and maximums, and many things change during those minimums and maximums. However, they are irregular.
History
Caphitis started its life as a hot O0 V star, that collapsed from a single large molecular gas cloud, floating around in the low sector region. A mere 400,000 years later it developed signatures of heavy elements in its spectra which indicated that it was evolving, and getting brighter and cooler.
~100,000 years ago, or 500,000 years into its lifetime, enough nitrogen was present in Caphitis for it to become a WNh Wolf-Rayet star, similar to R136a1 when it was first discovered by humans. It was slowly moving off the main sequence.
Discovery
At 2606, Caphitis was discovered by USC-Titan's Remedy as it was immediately noticed from afar due to its extreme brightness. It was given the designation EP-DSO 1-93984754, the first Wolf-Rayet star discovered in Eoch Pruae, due to its immense brightness, being bright even through a giant cloak of dust that surrounded it.
Over the millenia, Caphitis would cool and enlargen and continue to lose mass, transforming it into an LB V, and this is where it is right now. (Caphitis could not become a red supergiant as it was too massive to expand this much) The increased brightness of Caphitis started to ionise all of the recently ejected matter to create a giant wind-blown bubble around it.
Future
Caphitis only has around 30,000 years left as a LB V. After that it will quickly contract into a hydrogen-free WN Wolf-Rayet star, which will slowly contract and heat up. 250,000 years into the future, Caphitis will explode in a hypernova, sterilising everything in a 450 light year radius, fortunately, Settled parts of Eoch Pruae are safe from its wrath. The explosion site will most likely become a rich stellar nursery, with many forming stars. All that will remain in the center will be a Gravitational Well.