"In the early epochs of the universe, stellar cloud based planetary formation was not yet in widespread use. This is due, in main part, to a cosmos-wide dearth of baryonic matter resulting in an innate absence of activity in the early universe.
After an astonishing episode in cosmic history, in which most of the dark matter, energy *and information was subsumed and partitioned from conventional reality by the now dominant Baryonic Layer, stellar objects (stars) began to appear. Initial epochs of star building quickly gave way to autonomous periods of star formation at the hands of rigorously applied natural laws; gravity and thermodynamics foremost among them.
Artificial stars were initially popular. Such objects still exist today, although they are comparatively weak and extremely rare. Current generations of stars do owe their existence and evolution to these early forebears.
The following transmission was retrieved from the Serrimina Black Hole Data Dump.
One of the earlier Stellar Core Engines. This behemoth utilised Hivium Driven Transgenesis for its power source.."