Hollow Star

A little star is hollow. Somewhere inside it there's a home with the lights on, and someone you'll never see left a note on the wall that says: hold the small things. Strangers keep showing up at the door. A Voidwalker who doesn't speak much. A Solarian who cooks like he's trying to remember a fire from a long time ago. A tiny Terralith with a forest growing on his back. You can let them in, or you can turn them away. Turning them away makes the star a little colder. If you let them in, you build them a room. Voidwalkers want it dark. Luminos want crystals. Aquarians want water nearby. You talk to them, you give them small gifts, you send them on expeditions to the galaxies you've found so far. They come back with stardust and sometimes with a memory you didn't know was lost. The whole thing runs on warmth. Not coins, not XP — warmth. When enough souls are home and they're warm enough, the star moves up a stage: Ember, Glow, Radiant, Brilliant, Stellar. At the top the Heart Chamber opens and shows every resident the door back to wherever they came from. Some go through it. Some don't. There are 13 races to meet, 15 rooms to wake up, 12 galaxies on the map, and a quiet story you piece together from notes left by the keeper who was here before you. The day-night cycle just keeps going, the walls hum at night, expeditions take real time to come back. Nothing here is in a hurry.