The Shroud Storm first approached the Interstellar Human Military Junta's border systems.
Energy howled and psionic power surged as the vast tide of energy first approached a dim star system.
A yellow dwarf lay there, giving off a subdued yellow-white light.
Vast waves of psionic power, tainted by the Shroud's eerie substances, poured into the star. Within just a few days, this Sun-like yellow dwarf rapidly swelled with energy.
Before long, its form underwent a dramatic change.
Its yellow-white light became a brilliant blue-white, its mass rapidly increased, its rotation accelerated, and it emitted far more intense radiation.
The strange Shroud Storm had turned this yellow dwarf into a stable A-type star!
A-type stars were extremely luminous. Most of the stars we saw when looking up at the night sky shone with their light.
They would eventually become enormous, slow-spinning red giants.
Shroud Storms had the bizarre ability to alter a star's form. They could even turn a neutron star or pulsar into an ordinary star.
Behold the divine might of psionics!
Remember, in the Stellaris or Warhammer universes, psionics could explain everything. Whenever in doubt, just blame psionics.
The wondrous technologies of Stellaris and Warhammer, their universe-specific laws, the all-purpose might of psionics, and the omnipotent, bizarre fluctuations of subspace could always solve the vast majority of problems.
This Shroud Storm seemed to be heading straight for his ring world. Xi Yan was somewhat worried that its psionic power might have unpredictable effects.
For instance, it might spawn a whole bunch of Zarqlan's followers among the ring world's population.
[Teacher], however, believed that the psionic power carried within the Shroud Storm could greatly strengthen their people's faith, making psionics ascension easier to complete.
They did need to beware of certain entities within the Shroud, though. On that front, [Teacher]