"Look at what you have done. Entire planets die, trillions of individuals die, bright futures with no wars die. Now, entire stars die. What has our galaxy become, at the hands of you tribalistic entities which fuel pointless conflicts which cause nothing but useless bloodshed!?" - Olerga Enir Salne, a major advocator of peace in the region
Eye of Conscience
The Eye of Conscience is a planetary nebula near the border of the Kormin Empire and the Union of Narenna, in Lareas. It has existed for only around 2,000 years, created by a test weapon produced by the Kormin Empire, amidst the countless years of war which ravages the Outer Paleas Arm. It was an important turning point in the war, which may one day help the 3 warring nations to peace.
Properties
The Eye of Conscience is one of the youngest nebulae in Florathel, at around 2,200 years old. It is also the only instance in the galaxy where a weapon has accidentally killed an entire star. As it is so young, the nebula is small, just over 1.4 light years across and glows a brilliant blue, from the large amounts of ionised oxygen present in the nebula. The nebula is also surrounded by a cocoon of dust, the remnants of the destroyed worlds of the system.
Origin
The Eye of Conscience was created when the Kormin Empire's test weapon, the Koler MK-15SE v3, capable of driving mass away from stars easily, making them less massive and destabilising entire systems, went awry and flew into a nearby red giant. The weapon fired and the entire red giant ballooned and its outer layers quickly escaped the gravitational pull of the core and became a planetary nebula. By the time this was happening, it was too quick for the Kormin Empire to stop it. As the original star formed with a lot of oxygen, the Eye of Conscience glows a brilliant blue-green, from oxygen ionised deep in the core of the nebula near the remains of Gisettho.
Today, the Eye of Conscience serves as a reminder of the utter destruction and pointlessness of the Forever War.
Central Star
Gisettho is an anomalous star in the outskirts of Florathel, in the Eye of Conscience. It is very hot, yet small, not small and hot enough to be considered a CSPN, but too small and hot to be a blue subdwarf. So what is it?
Formation
Gisettho is the exposed, slightly shrunken core of a red giant that has just entered the second ascent phase (the AGB phase), and was rapidly expanding, while its core contracted under the immense weight. This process was interrupted by the Kormin Empire testing out their new weapon in the famous Battle of Gisettho, which was supposedly capable of quickly starlifting a star to destabilise its system of orbiting worlds. The weapon was planned to cause massive damage to its adversaries, by destabilising key sites.
The red giant Gisettho briefly lost much of its gravity, as the abberant forces caused by the Kormin weapon destablized it. Its outer layers were flung off, blasting its planets into dust and forming the beautiful Eye of Conscience. Gisettho's core slowly cooled, and today it retains much of its internal heat and its blinding blue glow.