Stellarvore Project

No star will shine tonight.

No star, no matter how bright.

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Spread thine countless tentacles

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Strangle their flickering flames,

Eat them whole.

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And from its reeking darkness

A new kingdom shall ascend,

Erected on the pillars

Of the ever-burning underworld.

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At the center of the world!

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Come forth; Thou who eats the stars!

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Stellarvore, translating to "eater of stars" in Latin, is a project initiated with the construction of a Dyson sphere around a white dwarf, Procyon B, which is a companion to one of the nearest stars, Procyon, situated 11.45 light-years from Earth.

The floating construction surrounding the companion star serves to capture nearly all of the energy radiated by the dwarf. The Dyson sphere was built by Hefaistos Defense Systems to power their Shadow Labs projects, including testing of Epsilon Mu manipulators and antimatter creation. Initially intended as a test facility to prove the concept, the success of the Stellarvore project has paved the way for the construction of additional Dyson spheres around more stars.

Procyon B was chosen as the ideal candidate due to its small size (approximately 17,000 km in diameter), allowing the Dyson sphere to be built closer to the star. This not only reduces the amount of material required for construction compared to Dyson spheres around main sequence stars but also provides greater stability. Moreover, the sphere's proximity to the white dwarf allows for an Earth-like gravity level within its habitable zone, addressing the microgravity challenges faced by larger, more distant spheres around bigger stars.

The first Dyson sphere consists of a loose collection of independent objects (Orbital Transformation Units), orbiting Procyon B. The sphere's surface also gathers additional energy from the Procyon A star, which is located approximately 10 AU away and has a luminosity roughly seven times greater than the Sun.

The entire system was constructed using debris orbiting both stars.

[1] Selected parts of Stellarvore lyrics - song of Watain (Swedish black metal band) - from their third studio album, Sworn to the Dark, released in 2007.