Story — Starmaker

"Calculating probability of self-termination: 99.8%."

"She's not going to shake apart," Elara muttered, though her throat was tight. She dipped a nano-brush into a vial of distilled gravity. "She’s just... spirited. I need to increase the mass of the core without suffocating the reaction." starmaker story

Elara watched as the magnetic field dropped. The two stars shot upward, tearing through the atmosphere shield, streaking into the velvet black of the cosmos. To anyone looking up from a planet a million years from now, they would just be another point of light in a crowded sky. "Calculating probability of self-termination: 99