The First Seven Stars

Overview

The first seven celestial bodies that became the foundation of the Fusion Continent. In ancient times, these stars collided and fused to form the primordial core, thereafter becoming the gravitational center that drew countless stars. The seven stars were merely the beginning - the true Fusion Continent is an aggregation of innumerable worlds.

Records of the Seven Stars

The First Star: “Primordial Blue”

The star that first became the core of fusion. Said to have been mostly covered in water, shining blue.
The peculiar designation “Third Planet” also remains in ancient texts.

The Second Star: “Cradle of Iron”

Said to be the birthplace of mechanical life forms. The entire land was covered in metal, where a civilization of gears and steam flourished.

The Third Star: “Crimson Prayer”

A star of religion and faith. Countless cathedrals and temples stood in rows, becoming the prototype for later machine worship.

The Fourth Star: “Spiral of Knowledge”

A star whose civilization was obsessed with collecting and preserving all knowledge. It is said its inhabitants resisted the fusion until the very end.

The Fifth Star: “Silent White”

Also called the star of the dead. The dead outnumbered the living, and massive cemeteries covered the continent.

The Sixth Star: “Dreaming Black”

A star perpetually shrouded in night. Its inhabitants had an ambiguous boundary between waking and sleeping, making no distinction between reality and dreams.

The Seventh Star: “Golden Terminus”

The last star to fuse. Through this star’s collision, the seven stars became completely one.

Lost Names

Interestingly, only for the First Star do multiple alternative names appear in various texts:

“Sphere of Earth” (Terra Sphere)
“Blue Homeland” (Blue Home)
“Third Planet” (Third Planet)

The last designation particularly suggests this star was once the third planet of some stellar system.

Process of Fusion

Primordial Seven Star Period

The fusion of the seven stars progressed over thousands of years:

First Period: Primordial Blue and Cradle of Iron made contact
Second Period: Crimson Prayer joined, becoming a three-star fusion
Third Period: Spiral of Knowledge and Silent White collided simultaneously
Fourth Period: Dreaming Black slowly approached and fused
Fifth Period: Golden Terminus’s collision completed the seven-star fusion

Great Fusion Period

After the seven stars became one, their enormous gravity began drawing countless stars from across the cosmos. This period is called the “Great Fusion Period” and is said to have lasted for tens of thousands of years:

Over a hundred stars collided in the first thousand years
Over a thousand worlds fused in the next ten thousand years
Eventually, countless stars became one massive aggregate

The majority of the current Fusion Continent is composed of the innumerable stars that joined during this later period. The first seven stars were merely the initial core of a giant snowball.

What Remains

Traces of the first seven stars remain in the deep layers of the Fusion Continent, buried beneath countless other stars:

Confirmed Ruins

Blue strata sleeping deep in the eastern coastline (remnants of Primordial Blue)
Deepest mechanical city ruins (legacy of Cradle of Iron)
Ancient cathedral complexes buried underground (traces of Crimson Prayer)
Base of the Spiral Tower of Madness (crystallization of Spiral of Knowledge)
Massive cemeteries in the lowest layer (strata of Silent White)
Eternal darkness of the northern regions (influence of Dreaming Black)
Temple of Fate at the continent’s center (focal point of seven-star fusion)

Intermixing with Later Stars

The majority of ruins and structures visible on the current surface belong to the countless stars that fused later. To find the legacy of the first seven stars, one must dig deep underground. Hence, these are called “Basal Ruins.”

Fragments of Ancient Texts

A passage from a stone tablet excavated from the deepest layer:
“Our star was third from the sun. Now even that sun lies buried among countless suns.”

Inscription from the basal ruins:
“Seven words, seven letters, seven prayers. Yet the resonance flowing beneath was one.”

Record from the primordial period:
“The first peoples could not understand each other. But the taste of tears and the color of blood were the same.”

Observation record from the Great Fusion Period:
“Today again, three new stars appeared in the eastern sky. Tomorrow they will become part of our earth.”

Unsolved Mysteries

Why Seven?

Among all the stars, why did seven stars fuse first? Was it coincidence, or was there some law at work?

Path to the Basal Ruins

Very few explorers have reached the ruins of the first seven stars. The deeper underground one goes, the more space itself warps, ruled by different physical laws.

Identity of the First Star

Only for the First Star, called Primordial Blue, do many records remain that differ in nature from the other six. Was this star alone special, or are there simply more records because it fused first?

Fusion Continent
Great Fusion Period
Basal Ruins
Mystery of the Third Planet
Late Fusion Star Groups