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Mure Prime, variously known as the North Star and as Murûwotok in the Sith language,[2] was an F-type main-sequence intergalactic star that sat some 15,750 light years directly above Galactic Center, a supermassive black hole that lurked in the Deep Core. The star was orbited by the ruins of its former solar system, the Mure system.

The star was believed to have begun its life in the Deep Core as the smaller sibling of a larger B-class main-sequence star in a binary star system. A close encounter with Galactic Center resulted in the destruction of the larger star and devastation of the system's five nascent worlds. The speed at which the system had orbited the black hole during the latter stages of its decay, a sizable fraction of the speed of light, propelled Mure Prime out of the galaxy as the last vestiges of its larger sibling slipped into the black hole's maw.[3]

Propelled out of the galaxy at an angle perpendicular to the galactic plane, Mure Prime became a hypervelocity star and came to rest some 15,000 lightyears above Galactic Center,[4] joining the millions of stars that lay outside the galactic plane.[5] Its positioning, though near-exact, was further adjusted to lie directly over the black hole by the Celestials, who were believed to have been the first species to visit the system. The star was thereafter used as a useful navigation index to aid in galactic traversal, even into the Golden Age of the Old Republic.

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  1. As the North Star is based on the real-life F-type star KIC 8462852, its estimated radius of 1.58 R provided the figure upon which the North Star's diameter is based. As 1 R = 695,700 km, 1 D = 1,391,400 km. 1.58 x 1,391,400 = 2,198,412 km.
  2. "Speak Like a Sith"—Star Wars Insider 134
  3. "Rogue stars ejected from the galaxy found in intergalactic space" from Vanderbilt University
  4. "Hyperfast Star Was Booted From Milky Way" on NASA.gov
  5. "Lost in Space: Half of All Stars Are Rogues Between Galaxies" from Space

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