Devouring Stars and Consuming Worlds

A stable single-star system possessed a yellow dwarf with three times the Sun's mass, along with a gaseous giant thirty times the mass of Jupiter.

The powerful gravity of the star and planet intertwined, forming an extremely stable celestial structure that would not easily be captured by stars from other stellar systems.

Yet today, the tranquility within the stellar system was shattered as an outsider entered from elsewhere.

An immense radiance spread outward. Its source was nearly the size of a low-mass red dwarf; at first glance, it seemed as though a small white dwarf had abruptly appeared within the stellar system.

The outward-radiating light pressure even overwhelmed the yellow dwarf's solar wind, diverting it, while tens of thousands of tons of gaseous matter from the gas giant drifted into space.

The radiance vanished in an instant, revealing an enormous structure. It was flat in shape, with the faces of two disks positioned on the same plane and connected by two elongated gravity rings.

The elongated gravity rings ensured that the two disks would not collide with each other due to gravity.

Viewed from above, the two circular faces and the pair of connecting elongated gravity rings formed an overall outline resembling the oval shape of a running track.

This was the star-devouring megastructure constructed by the Collectors. It had now been completed and was undergoing a star-devouring test to assess its actual performance.

A powerful electromagnetic radar wave was emitted from the star-devouring megastructure, scanning the environment within the stellar system.

Then, the star-devouring megastructure locked onto the gas giant as its target, the planet with thirty times Jupiter's mass.

The star-devouring megastructure abruptly began moving. In a very short time, it accelerated to an extremely high speed. Barely a few minutes had passed before the immensely massive structure