The Seven Great Stars

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Mythology
It is believed by the majority of Humanity that they are watched over and guided by extremely gifted and powerful beings called Great Stars. These stars are actually the remnants of seven space faring humans from ancient times who, while traveling in seven different directions away from Earth, simultaneously reached the boundaries of our own native sun’s “soul pull”. As their respective crafts crossed into this region, the men and women were suddenly filled with the knowledge and emotion of the entire universe. This in turn causing their minds to literally expand and explode outward, transforming them into stars themselves. Now they are believed to guide the progression of Humanity outward into the galaxies.

The stars themselves are not actually stars in the traditional sense. Their physical makeup is not widely understood, and they seem to move randomly through space, without being bound to traditional forces like gravity. This makes it impossible to determine their course, and explains why humanity has assigned sentience to them.

Religion
While most humanitans put very little thought of the Great Stars into their day-to-day lives, many are devoutly religious and yearn to be as close to the stars as possible. Since it can be very difficult to get to one of the stars (as they are always moving randomly) some people make it their only goal to visit at least one Star in their lifetime. Since Teslans can live for nearly a thousand years (and potentially visit multiple stars), they make up the majority of the organized Great Star religion. Millions of people try to visit the Temple Cities built on planetoids that surround the stars.