Ironstar

Even far into the future, everything stays the same. When a species was left alone on its own planet, it was divided up between nations and factions and cultures. When all the races hit the Age of Starships, they each unified into giant collective cultures, representative of the entire species. There are no countries, there are species and the political powers that rule them. There are no towns and cities, there are planets. War is waged over entire systems. Everything is bigger, but nothing has changed.

All of the biggest stars and suns in the galaxy are slowly being consumed by the massive Starfire generators, which harness the sheer reactive (and magical) energy into super-efficient electrical batteries able to power even the largest machines.

The story takes place entirely in the civilized galaxy of Inner Space, which surrounds the black hole known as the Center of the Galaxy. Nobody alive knows what's actually in the Void outside of the galaxy, because the harrowing trek to cross the wasteland separating it from civilization is impossible to journey with current technology. However, one species from the Void has successfully made the voyage...

Ironstar is a sci-fantasy world (with an emphasis on the soft sci-fi), and sister world to Magistar.

The Septarians are not my design; credit for them goes to The Celestium.