Star

Stars are categorized by mass and life-cycle stage, and are divided into sixteen ranks which fall into six distinct varieties. Though they're based on stars in the real universe, stars in the Stelliferous universe are composed of made-up elements and so have made-up names.

"Degenerate" stars are stellar corpses left over from the deaths of "depleted" stars.

z: zeron degenerate (neutron stars)

y: negaton degenerate (white dwarves)

x: late (black dwarves)

"Depleted" stars are "main-sequence" stars which have burned through their "hydron" (hydrogen) and have puffed up due to "helion" (helium) fusion.

w: red titan (red supergiant)

v: red giant

u: blue dwarf

"Helion burning" stars are the most massive main-sequence stars. They are short lived and mainly generate in the arms and arcs of "spiral" and "lenticular" galaxies.

(deep blue)

t: 16-32 (solar masses)

s: 8-16

"Catalyst cycling" stars are unstable and often exhibit "variable" behavior which is useful for determining inter-galactic distances.

(whitish-blue - deep blue)

r: 4-8

q: 2-4

"Hydron burning" stars are the most common star variety in young galaxies and includes sun-like and dwarf stars.

sun-like (orange - bluish-white)

p: 1-2

o: 0.5-1

dwarf (red - orange)

n: 0.25-0.5

m: 0.125-0.25

"Planetars" are the smallest objects capable of fusion and represent the transition between planet and star.

(deep red)

l: alkalum (lithium) burning

k: hydron2 (deuterium) burning