Star Ring

The **Star Ring** is the name of the ring used by Celestia and Celestio. It is a thick white ring with a black stripe and the words "Ad Astra Per Aspera" engraved inside the ring. The ring holds the spirit of the white dwarf star Stella, who communicates to its wearer.

## History

### Origin and The Orb

The Star Ring was formed from Stella, a sentient white dwarf star that grew tired of retirement and condensed themselves into a small circular object that landed on Earth millions of years ago. This impact, unfortunately, led to the death of the dinosaurs. For millions of years, the ring, still in the form of a small orb, observed humanity and humanity engaged with it as well. Periodically, groups of people who came upon the orb would worship it, there was even a war about the orb that killed off the entire race.

In the form of The Orb, the ring was a symbol of knowledge, and occasionally fertility depending on the culture. After the fall of Rome in 395 AD, The Orb's cultural importance disappeared as well. It was abandoned in modern day Italy and seen as nothing more than a weirdly smooth rock.

### Becoming the Star Ring

After thousands of years, Stella slowly came to understand humanity and learned to communicate with them. It wasn't until Giordano Bruno discovered the orb that Stella changed into the form of a ring. While wearing the ring, the user could communicate with Stella. Bruno was an open and welcoming student of astronomy and was excited to learn and share the knowledge give to him by Stella. Unfortunately, he was considered a heretic and was burnt at the stake.

After this horrible incident, Stella decided to bring to develop different abilities to protect her users, starting with invulnerability to fire and other intense forms of heat. With every user, Stella developed new abilities to enhance the experience of the ring and better fit the user. Stella's voice would also adapt based on the last user of the ring.

For the next five hundred years, Stella was secretly passed around by astronomers who used it to learn about the stars. Eventually, the user of the ring passed away suddenly and the ring was pawned off. Having now jewels or noticeable value, it was ignored and never sold.

### Creation of Celestia

The Star Ring found its way into a pawnshop in Dover City, New Jersey and remained there for six years never having been bought. It was purchased by Seymour Ross as a birthday present for his daughter Ramona. It only cost him $5. Ramona found the ring boring so she didn't wear it.

After Ramona's father is killed, she puts on the ring for the first time and discovers the spirit of Stella inside the ring and the powers the ring grants her. She immediately believes she can use the ring to become a superhero and seek vengeance for her father's murder. Stella is uncomfortable with the idea initially, but as Ramona helps them adapt the powers of the Star Ring, creating the costume, attacks, and defensive moves. As the Star Ring developed, so did Ramona and Stella, each coming to terms with the intense power they created together and understanding what kind of hero Celestia would be.

The Star Ring became notably "non-lethal", meaning it's powers could not be used to kill someone, and Stella, who was the one granting the powers, would withhold the abilities if the user ever tried to use the Star Ring to kill. Celestia would exist as the Star Ring's user for the next two decades, continuing to develop its powers with Stella. The Star Ring would come into the possession of Ramona's son, who would take up the mantle as the hero Celestio.

## Abilities

The Star Ring grants is user several powerful abilities. While the original purpose of the Star Ring, Celestia helped develop several powerful moves that could be performed with the ring.

Many of the abilities had been developed long before Celestia came upon the ring as Stella advanced the ring with each new user to meet their needs. The Star Ring's adaptive abilities are impressive but challenging to develop.

#### Fire Immunity

Developed after the death of Giordano Bruno, the user of the Star Ring is impervious to any kind of fire or intense heat.

#### Flight

Self-explanatory. Grants the user power of flight.

#### Enhanced Durability

The enhanced durability came after the gift of flight in response to one of the users horribly breaking their legs after a botched attempt at landing. The body becomes much more durable than the average human, able to take on greater hits and crashes than most.

#### Oxygen Supply

In order to allow users to fly into the upper atmosphere, the ring provides oxygen to the lungs and cycles out the carbon dioxide. This allows the star ring to function like space suit. The Star Ring does not properly heat the body, so traveling can be dangerous if in unlit cold areas. It can also be used underwater, but is not equipped to deal with the intense pressure from deep underwater travels.

#### Psychokinesis

A mild form of psychokinesis, where only one object can be moved at a time. The heavier the object, the more challenging and difficult to control. The object will be absorbed in an aura of white light when the ring is in use.

#### Textile Manifestation

Textile Manifestation refers to the rings ability to manifest the Star Ring's suit onto

#### Identity Masking

Identity Masking is a psychic ability that masks the identity of the ring's user by tampering with others ability to recognize key features of the user. This includes the voice, face, and even silhouette. It was developed by Celestia as a way to protect her identity.

### Offensive Moves

#### Star Blast

Star Blast is rather self explanatory. An attack ray blasts from the ring towards someone the user is attacking. The blast is nonlethal, and acts as a hot blast that will repel objects or rivals away.

#### Supernova

The Supernova attack is similar to the Star Blast but exerts its energy in all directions from the user, and is spawned from the user's body and not the ring. It takes more energy from the user, and if used for a prolonged period of time, can cause damage to the user. If don't in short, singular blasts, the Supernova attack is harmless to its user.

#### Planetary Nebula

Similar to Supernova but condensed into a specific sphere space to focus the energy.

### Defensive Moves

#### Orbit

Orbit grants the user the ability to create a dense center of gravity that will lead objects nearby to approach and orbit the user. The longer the attach is held, the more intense it becomes. This move can be used to create a shield around the user by collecting hard objects around them and having them revolve around the user.

#### Flare

Flare casts a bright light to distract and temporarily blind an enemy. It can also be dulled down to serve as a light source or a traditional flare to attract allies.

#### Nebula Disperse

This disperses nebula clouds in the surrounding area, effectively shielding the user from dangers. The clouds will be bright and colorful, so if trying to stay incognito, it isn't a safe cover.