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Betelgeuse of the Ebon Star
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“Before there was life, there was the Force. And before there was the Force, there was the Ebon Star” - Common beginning for stories about Betelgeuse
The stories usually take veering plots, but typically feature two planets orbiting the what is called the Ebon star. Both planets are inhabited with primordial life, with one of the planets creating the beast Betelgeuse to destroy the other. However, the beast ignores its orders and proceeds to consume the matter of several nearby stars, dooming their orbiting planets to eternal darkness.
"And so it flew across the void, immune to the laws of reality themselves. Where it once was, it still is, and where it has gone to, it already was there. What it has eaten is still being consumed, and what will be eaten has already witnessed its own demise. The stars, aligned in Betelgeuse's maligned eyes, fell before his hunger, and the worlds that encircled them cried out at the otherworldly night that came upon them."
Some of the stories end with the life forms on both planets then revere the beast as a deity, who only then consumes them as well. Other stories end with Betelgeuse returning to the Ebon star and subjugating the life on both worlds to lives of slavery to build a mate. And finally, some stories remark that Betelgeuse simply returned and observed the planets as both species gave into madness and destroyed themselves. However, almost all stories end with the same line:
"And so, done with its work, Betelgeuse returned to the ebon star, and waits inside, contemplating its next action it had already taken."
Ideas of what Betelgeuse is and what the Ebon star is are as varied as the stories themselves. The most popular image of Betelgeuse is a draconic-worm like being of some kind, big enough to swallow entire star ships, but some place him similar to a sentient black hole, a living embodiment of a Force Wound, or a star weird with no limitations of power. The Ebon star has been painted as either a brown dot in a sea of black, or something like a black hole, with its accretion disk providing a tiny amount of light around it. Madmen and small cults have tried to map the galaxy to find the Ebon star over the centuries, but to no avail, usually disappearing outside of the known galaxy.
While most scholars consider stories of Betelgeuse to be works of fiction, recent discoveries have left many unnerved. Old stories from Devaronians tell of a great dragon swallowing entire stars. Several stories from different cultures across the galaxy evolving have nearly identical stories of Betelgeuse, with no indication that the cultures have been cross-contaminated. A treasure seeker on Roon discovered pictures of what looked like Betelguese fighting the image of the Starbird. Historians are unclear if this was a historical recording or a prediction of an event to come. The Gree even mention Betelgeuse a few times in their own personal texts that are basically bedtime stories.
A recent incident relaunched stories of Betelgeuse into popular culture: The Star Seeker is a ship that crashed into Coruscant a few years ago. While there were no survivors, the corpses were identified as members of a cult seeking the Ebon Star, but on a different ship as far back as 456 BBY. All over the walls as well as on the corpses bodies were wildly inaccurate star charts painted in blue ink, as well as the words “Leave it be” tattooed on their arms in the same ink.
Intent
As a Lovecraftian fan, I want to introduce possible concepts like Eldritch gods to the star wars lore, much like how Aboleth was portrayed in star wars legends. The myth of Betelgeuse can be explored by anyone at their own pace, or simply used as flavor.