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Its story

In the body of the Centaur burns an orange giant whose light took 545 years to cross the dark ocean. When it left, the Byzantine Empire was falling to Mehmed II and Constantinople was changing its name and creed, marking the end of an era. A class-K sun, cooler and older than ours, swollen to several times its size, its coppery glow blurs into the thousands of stars that populate that southern corner.