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here in the Rigel system, the colour blue is a hot colour, associated
with war, while coolness and peace are personified by the universally
honest tone of blood-red. The inhabitants of the Rigel system,
although they are blue skinned, have blood that is maroon, just
a shade darker than any human's. Their genetic code is also
similar, albeit separated by 700 light years and at least ten
millennia of evolution.
The Wyvenian blood, being darker than that of humanity, seems
to have been tainted slightly purple by the brilliant blue of
beautiful Rigel, a star many times brighter than little old
Sol. Earth's Sun is a mere candle by comparison, flickering
lightly on the other side of the Pleiades. The Pleiades, of
course, is that well known group of blue giant stars at the
center of the local stellar-cluster, commonly known as Orion.
Right in the middle of this family of over 5000 stars, is mighty
Alcyone, Queen of the Seven Sisters, most majestic of them all.
Not too bright, considering her massive stature, Alcyone's gift
is her ever-powerful gravity, keeping all the local celestial
bodies moving in a slowly swirling whirlpool of stellar suspense. |