Morbid Star

Spectral class: Be

The Morbid Star is a Blue Giant star beyond its main sequence phase, located in the Gamma Quadrant. It has sometimes been referred to as a "hypergiant", and is surrounded by a massive dust disk that contains silicates and stretches in a distance of 120 to 2500 AU from the star.

The life span of such a giant is admittedly much too short for the forming of real planets. Nevertheless this discovery shows that the basic modules for planets can exist around virtually every star, even those with enormous strong stellar winds.

In Bacterian culture

The star is referred to in an ancient Bacterian battle chant:

Morbid star of the abyss

The ancient god of the light, my force

Morbid star, light of the abyss

The hell light of the storms

Attack... Attack... Attack...