Ovumus

Ovumus is a A0III early white giant in the Ovumus System. Due to its high rotation rate, Ovumus is highly oblate, a rarity among stars. Its also the home star of Nel, a habitable planet where none were expected to form.
== Physical Characteristics ==
Ovumus has roughly 2 stellar masses and 7 stellar radii, placing it in the subgiant category. Unlike most stars, Ovumus has a comparatively fast rotation at ~19 hours. It has a luminosity of ~305 solar luminosities and is 1.1 billion years old.
== History ==
Ovumus is among the brightest stars in the Terallan sky and visible across the Verdan Federation. Shortly after the first Orbit around Teralla, exoplanets began being discovered, but Ovumus was mostly ignored due to its low probability of hosting habitable planets. When someone finally decided to point something at it, they found that its spectrum indicated that it was highly oblate and rotated once every 19 hours.
This telescope also found a set of two transiting planets, Uona and Kilt. These two planets were thoroughly uninteresting gas giants, and everyone believed that they were the only planets present due to their orbit beneath the habitable zone having likely thrown everything else out of the system. However, further studies found three more planets: Kvul and Londa, which were both hothouse worlds and suitable for little except mining, and Nel, a potentially habitable planet. Once the first FTL probes went out, Nel was confirmed to be habitable.
At the formation of the Varbudian Union, one of the precursors to the Verdan Federation, Ovumus, one of the nearest stars to it, began to be colonized. Today, Ovumus is one of the major systems in the Verdan Federation.
== Lighting and Stucture ==
Due of the high mass of Ovumus, its surface temperature is around 9400 kelvin, making it emit blue-white appearing light and a large amount of UV radiation. The only reason Nel is habitable is because of its very strong magnetic field and large iron core. 
Ovumus also is not fully convective due to its large size. Thus, it cannot use all of its fuel, decreasing its lifespan to ~1 billion years, and forming a radiative layer inbetween the surface convective layer and the core.
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