Mure's sun

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## Mure's sunzibâtimurû

**Mure's sun** (Sith: **zibâtimurû**, "star of Mure") was an unnamed K-type T Tauri star that sat in close proximity to the western flank of the Galactic Barrier and served as the primary star of the Mure system.

## **Description**

Mure's sun was an orange K-type T Tauri star with an age estimated to be around under one million standard years. A young star that had not yet entered the main sequence, Mure's sun was primarily powered by the release of gravitational energy rather than by hydrogen fusion. As a result, the star commonly exhibited variable and unpredictable behavior, emitting high levels of X-ray and radio radiation and generating intense stellar winds that ballooned outwards from its outer atmosphere for dozens of astronomical units.

Murese astronomers believed the star had once possessed a protoplanetary disk rife with both dense metals like gold, cobalt, tungsten, platinum, and iron and lighter elements like carbon, oxygen, phosphorus, and hydrogen. The contents of this disk were believed to have been used by the prehistoric Celestial civilization in their artificial construction of the planet Mure. However, the Celestials' assembly of the Galactic Barrier, a line of hyperspace disturbances erected west of the Deep Core to slow the advance of the Rakata Infinite Empire, was believed to have resulted in the dispersion of the disk's remaining material across space, leaving only residual traces of iron and larger collations of rock and dust that constituted the system's asteroid fields.

## **History**

A denizen of the western edge of the galactic bulge, Mure's star was believed to have begun life during a particularly volatile period of starburst in the core, an event that occurred every half billion years on average. A number of concurrent Type II supernovae in the western core were believed to have been responsible for providing the young T Tauri star's protoplanetary disk with uncommonly dense metals like gold, cobalt, tungsten, and platinum, elements heavier than the more common iron, carbon, oxygen, phosphorus, and hydrogen that generated naturally in such disks. As a result, the planetary cores of the nascent worlds accreting in orbit around the star were uncommonly dense in comparison to most burgeoning terrestrial planets found in protoplanetary disks elsewhere in the galaxy.

The prehistoric Celestial civilization was believed to have discovered the Mure system sometime prior to their civilizational apex in 100,000 BBY. As was their practice elsewhere in the galaxy, the Celestials were thought to have interfered with the natural accretion process occurring in the system, applying their hyperspace tractor beams and stellar engines to the development of a world suited to sentient habitation. The hundreds of moon- and dwarf-planet–sized celestial bodies accreting in the

## **Behind the scenes**

As the author was unable to develop a satisfactory proper name for the star in question, the article's title was given simply as "Mure's sun" per Wookieepedia's naming conventions for nameless stars.

## **Notes and references**

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2. ↑ "Stellar populations in the Galactic bulge: Modelling the Galactic bulge with TRILEGAL"—*Astronomy & Astrophysics*