Hesteral Cluster

*Cluster of Dread*

Hestreal cluster with all of its dreaded glory.

## Other

### Notable Members

Faukus, Gallia-Gallius, Daui, Neeal-Neeuasi, Gigial (red giant), Losi (white dwarf), Neutronai (neutron star).

## Overview

The Hesteral Cluster or more rarely called the Hesteral Overdensity is a small open cluster existing in the void between galaxies. It has very few stars and a very good view with the Silky Way galaxy. Seemingly, the cluster is mostly concentrated at one of the edge of the cluster where distances bettween unbound stars are around 3 ly.

It is belived that a H II region existed where the stars are but has since been depleted although the death of Gigial might form a new H II region where stars can form again.

## Formation

It is belived that the Hesteral cluster used to be a ejected A or higher class star (now called Hesteral star, orignial name is unknown) from a unknown galaxy. It soons died and its nebula resulted in the current stars. The evidence for said hypothesis is a neutron star at the center of the cluster. A cluster that formed in nowhere will not have enough mass to even form a star that its dying core will become a neutron star.

## Members

The Hesteral Cluster mostly hosts red dwarfs as they are the most common stars in the universe. There is a few orange dwarfs similar to **Altara** as they are pretty common and 3 yellow dwarfs similar to **Verda**. Strangely it has only one confirmed brown dwarf of **Willer** and mabye **Faukus** despite brown dwarfs having even lower masses than red dwarfs and should be more common. It has 2 exotic stars in the form of Losi, a white dwarf and the remains of Hesteral star or whats called Neutronai, a neutron star.

## Future

The Hesteral Cluster future is a strange one for open clusters. Unlike most open clusters, there is basically no disturbing force other than the stars inside the cluster but strangely it hasnt ejected a single star in a very long time. It could eventually eject every single star in the cluster and the "cluster" will be left with a single star that will evertualy encouter the **Silky Way** and then be ejeced from it into a trajectory that will result in going to the middle of absolute nowhere. Or the whole cluster survived the ordeal and encoutered the **Silky Way**, speeding by before leaving into the void of intergalatic space, never to encounter a new galaxy ever again

## Life

Life in the Hesteral Cluster only evolved three seperate times, the first at Titoalu and using methane as a solvant and giving rise to the Hesteral Republic that has since conquered the cluster and is attempting to escape it. Hoepi has life but it is primordial and is barely multicelluar. Lastly but not least is life at Alania where its photosynthec organsime is colored red by a pigment.

## Astrogeography

The Hesteral Cluster barely have any structure, being little more than a conglomiration of stars held together by their mutual gravity. It is also very sparce, which each star's average distance to each other being roughly ~4 light years. Defining a boundary for The Hesteral Cluster is impossible in a meaningful way as it does not have a shape, but it legally agreed to be 30 light years from Neutronai. The aformentioned Neutronai is the *De jure* center of the Hesteral Cluster, as defining a center for the Hesteral Cluster center in any meaningful way is impossible.

## List of stars

### Faukus

Arguably the most important star in the entire cluster, Faukus is the one of the smallest stars around, being ever soo slightly larger than Glau. Despite of that, it has given rise to a star system with the most planets of 6, one of them hosting a moon that developed not just life, but intelegent life that has spread all over this cluster

### Malius

Unremarkable orange dwarf hosting one Horos-like jovian and a large dust belt extending to around 100 au. Both the star and the jovian is being mined for fusion fuel and the asteroids are being mined for whatever it contains. Surprisingly the dust belt dosn't contain as much independents as the other places normally do.

### Gallia-Gallius

One of the more interesting systems, Gallia-Gallius is a close binary of a G8V main sequence star similar to Verda, Gallia, along with a M0V, the largest type of a red dwarf named Gallius. If its even slightly more massive it would be classifed as a orange dwarf and isn't a flare star. Four planets orbits both stars at once making them have twin sunsets. The first and third ones are relativly boring desert worlds. Between the third planet and the fourth one exist a belt of dwarf planets and asteroids. The last one is a gas giant that is a Jevethra massed Glau but the second one is a habitable super-Terrallia with a single small moon.

The first and third worlds only contain minor settelements, while the second world (named Alania) is being surveyed to view the progress of the (primordial) life present and has been quarantined in the case of a foreign organisme invading the young ecosystem. The final world and its moons are nothing spectacular to note but its trojan clouds are large enough to act like a mini asteroid belt and contains some asteriod miners.

### Willer

Medium massed brown dwarf with absolutly nothing to distingush it from any other brown dwarf. It also has a single small planet orbiting it and lots of asteroids which are being mined for resources. Being isolated from the Cluster, the asteroid belt became a pirate's haven and the small planet has become a "capital" of the independents present on in the cluster. It is the closest thing to a different nation the Hesteral Republic has ever experienced in its time in the stars after uniting the interstellar colonies.

### Daui

One of the few Verda like stars in the cluster, Daui in of itself is pretty boring other than it being VERY close to Gigial. It has one single jovian orbiting in a quite wide orbit, placing it in the methane habitable zone. Its singular moon, Uniil has methane oceans and is being colonized. The jovian's L4 and L5 point's asteroids nearly have all been converted to O'neill cylinders.

A project to move Daui is currently being planned to dodge the incoming supernova by the material present on asteroids and outside of the system.

### Trianila-Uania-Iansain

The only trinary star system in the whole cluster, Trianila-Uania-Iansain is a system that hosts three red dwarfs of the spectral class of M4V, M6V and M8V repectivly in that order. The smallest of them, Iansain is nearly as massive as Faukus aka not much, while the largest of them is pretty standard in red dwarf masses. Sadly it dosn't host any planets tho a few dwarf planets circle each star repectivly. Nothing noteworthy about the people who live there exist other than it is one of the most recent colonies of the Hesteral Republic.

### Laineua

Litearly just a red dwarf, nothing more, nothing less.

### Gigial

The only red giant of the whole cluster, Gigial in the few stars visible in interstellar distances as it is one of the few points of light in the nearly all consuming blackness that is the intergalatic void. It is expected to die in around 100 million years.

### Neeal-Neeuasi

System of two orange dwarfs, K1V and K7V respectifly. Each star isn't really interesting tho Neeuasi flares are pretty powerfull and nearly striped Deseer's atmosphere off, the planet orbiting it. Neeal has a single planet orbiting it, Hoepi. It is one of the few worlds that is currently hosting life in the whole cluster.

### Losi

Lonely white dwarf with a dust cloud orbiting it

### Guali

Litearly Gallia without Gallius or the planets, the peak of boringness. Being relativly isolated from the republic, it is being currently turned into one gigantic colony ship, filled with the brim with colonists exicted to go to the Large Dim Gas Thing in The Distance. Fleets of colonial and military ships orbits the star, being dragged on by the gravity of the soon to be isolated star.

### Neutronai

The only neutron star in the entire cluster, it is well, a ball of nearly pure neutronium very close to the middle of Hesteral Cluster. It is often named and used as the center point of the cluster.

### Quarala-Quarli

Two medium sized red dwarfs (M3V and M4V repectifly) orbiting a close binary. It has a single planet, Calenaim which is the closest thing to hell in the cluster. It has mutiple large lava lakes and some pretty insane tidal effects.

## Powers

There are two powers within the cluster which are:

* The Hesteral Republic, being the united goverment that controls all but one star, said star being Willer. It is also the cluster's first power and the strongest, it's rule being near absolute to every star.
	+ While each system exercises a small amount of autonomy, they are not considered a power as they can't act with independence other than doing the most basic things a goverment should do.
* The Independents, while technically not united, controls Willer. Every single one of them do not fully follow the rules of The Hesteral Republic and lives a free life. Some of them abide the rule of "Might makes Right" and their own personal rules, while others are more lawful. This often result in the independents fighting themself and turns the spaces they occupy into a chaotic battleground. While not their existence not appreciated by the vast majority of Hesteral Republic, some more... dubious make a living by selling weapons and other equipment to them (which is completely legal if you have a licence, just a bit shady).
	+ Quite a long time ago, a large number of Independents united to fight the Hesteral Republic and formed the polity with the name of The United Great Democratic People's Commonwealth of The Hesteral Cluster, which was a short lasting, but extremly dictatorial nation present in the Willer system and elsewhere in the voids between stars.