Starseed

The **Starseed** is an immense technological object whose original intent was to create stars, hence its name. The Starseed was invented by unknown people thousands of years ago. Later, the first Starseed somehow came to rest near the core of the Voidrunners' planet, containing the blueprints and broken parts required to build the Starseed. At one point, this artifact was discovered by the Voidrunners while exploring deep beneath their planet's crust, and they used them to repair the artifact and build an adapted Starseed of their own as well as reverse engineer the tech to invent voidtech. The Voidrunners of today are not completely sure what the Starseed is capable of, but it is theorized to be able to fold space time and by doing so collapse black holes. In addition, the Starseed is able to create a time-loop that can only be ended by deactivating it.

## Nature

The Starseed is some form of matter-antimatter machine. It, along with all other voidtech works by controlling controlling particles and antiparticles, that is particles that exist and don't exist at the same time, through quantum entanglement, allowing it to contain and utilize great amounts of energy.

According to Alx Preston, the creative director on *Solar Ash* and owner of Heart Machine, the Starseed was originally invented for the purpose of creating stars. He also said that in theory it can also stabilise black holes. Furthermore, he has implied that it is able to consume black holes, which, according to him, means that in theory you would be able to invert black holes and create stars out of them in that way.

The Voidrunners sent the Starseed into the Ultravoid when it came time to try and collapse it, and it was embedded into a chunk of ground floating in the cebter of the black hole, presumably above the black hole's core. The impact was rough caused a giant crater to fork around it, and several pieces of metal debris from it got scattered around inside the crater, though the majority of the object still remained intact, standing upright like a giant tower. The Starseed marks the center of the game's "overworld map" and is the second area Rei got to after the tiny landing site.

The Starseed has several conduits, referred to as Starseed conduits, installed in different regions of the Ultravoid, possibly near the C.Y.D. nodes or being the C.Y.D. nodes themselves, as C.Y.D. needs to come back online at each of these nodes before Rei can activate the Starseed. She does so by clearing the anomalies in the areas and then defeating the Remnant of the region, which are then used as a power source, called "Starseed energy", feeding the machine and allowing it to be activated.

## History

Thousands of years ago, the Starseed was invented and created by an unknown person or group. Its intent was to create stars. This original Starseed or one of possibly many that was created eventually broke, and somehow this ancient technological artifact, containing both the blueprints and the ingredients to the machine, came to rest near the core of the home planet of the Voidrunners.

At some point the broken Starseed was discovered by the Voidrunners while they were exploring deep beneath the crust. The Voidrunners, mainly Tufte and Pyat, used the blueprints and broken parts to repair the machine and build an adapted version of the Starseed of their own. Though the Voidrunners called the machine "the Starseed", implying that they either understood its original intent or read the name in the materials they had discovered, they did not fully understand its capabilities, nor fully who or what originally made the broken Starseed. Tufte did however theorize that it was capable of collapsing black holes. The ancient Starseed artifact was also studied and reverse engineered by Tufte and Pyat to create all other kinds of voidtech, including the Voidrunners' suits.

C.Y.D. recounts that Pyat believed the Starseed itself was a holy vessel sent to them by the divine, destined to save their people by cleansing them when activated.

## References

1. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/900489750224466081/917809432170201109/969628658031546418
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3. ↑  https://discord.com/channels/900489750224466081/915805283593379921/999872681828687873
4. ↑  https://discord.com/channels/900489750224466081/915805283593379921/999873594874134560
5. ↑ Heart Machine. *Solar Ash*. Annapurna Interactive. TBA 2021.
6. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/900489750224466081/917809432170201109/972246567115456512