History remembers many people of exceptional and unusual talent; people from the arts to the military, from science to politics and in fact from all walks of life. I wondered if these high achievers, the people who have been responsible for much of human achievement such as Galileo, Rembrandt, Einstein, and the list goes on, could be thought of as prototype pre-Stellars. These being people with a some Stellar ability but in a narrow area, the best of our best.

And what about some of the worst throughout history, those names we loath to mention, the cruel and evil, the darkly charismatic, the megalomaniac and the monster utterly twisted; are they examples of a pre-Stellar (and it pains me to put them into that category)? We can look back on them and ask ourselves: just how did they cause that to happen? When the scale of destruction they brought about is considered, things that the human race just does not seem capable of yet has happened and seemingly because of just one person, the worst of our worst.

What creates these few people of high achievement? Why have the vast majority of mankind who in so many cases had as many if not more opportunities not managed to achieve to the same extent?

For these people of unusual ability, why was, and is, their ability so great in their own chosen direction(s)?

This is where the concept of the Stellar was born, the concept of evolution taking mankind to the next step, creating a ‘throw forward’ genus as it were. The true Stellar taking everything to a new level leaving behind the one-dimensional and mere increment in ability of the pre-Stellars, then turbocharges thousands of years of evolution into one person, one personality, one single person in the human race.

Simply, the Stellar is the eventual evolution endpoint of the human race that we may aspire to, millennia in the future.

The life cycle of the Stellar begins when they are born as a normal human being, a person of no perceived great ability or talent.

Perhaps they are a little more ‘something’ which is different for all the Stellars; a little more social, a little more quiet, a little more abrasive, a little more studious, a little more integrated, a little more… something, depending upon the individual Stellar.

However they are growing internally. The person building internally to be a Stellar takes years to mature. For years the hidden seed grows slowly and delicately, is fed by the environment and external influences that may promote it to being a full Stellar or fade to leave the person as a pre-Stellar and remarkable in their own right–but not quite Stellar.

Then at the time in their life as the child normally begins to fade into the young adult, assuming this ‘seed’ is allowed to prosper, the pressures build till an ‘awakening’ occurs, the moment of transition from homo-sapien to homo-stellar. The moment of becoming a Stellar.

The effects on the person are as profound as would be imagined, the gradual stresses building up each year but kept hidden or subdued, denied by the subconscious till they overcome, then flood out to be apparent in the awakening when the person suddenly realizes that life has changed.

From this moment till their passing the cycle repeats. Each year the Stellar develops until a change occurs when the internal pressures flood through to create a new version of the Stellar, a new integration into the whole.

The changes and particularly the first after awakening can be life threatening in intensity, like a rebirth, but akin to being born into a fire, an inferno of capability and emotions enveloping the current personality then integrating it into a new whole.

A serious problem for the Stellars is that in their early years they are fragile such that they may not survive in the era they are born into. Crime, random violence, socio-religious-economic pressures may make them non-viable such that only into an era conducive and accepting of change will they be able to be born into then survive.

For example, a person awakening to be a Stellar in the middle-ages would at best face distrust and persecution if they were to reveal their new nature. Worse, the trauma of their first change after that may not be survivable due to its intensity and the absence of the support required.

The way the Stellar perceives everything and experiences life is a key part of being Stellar, but equally it is so different as to defy definition in a simple or previously understood manner. To some who interact with them, the Stellar may appear to be composed of many personalities, each seeming to take control as circumstances require. To them, this would be extremely confronting such that the mental stability of the Stellar would be called into question. The logical solution of performing a psychological evaluation would in itself be ‘amusing’ if it were not so confrontational.

… to almost glow in the intensity. “Doctor Grumman, you cannot begin to understand just how difficult it is to hold everything in. After a day of appearing to be xxxxxx and presenting that image I am nearly exhausted. When I entered this building I was giving just the smallest hint of this. Now you see most of the real me. The piece I hold back is the dangerous part that manipulates and dominates. This is most of the real me, Doctor.”

Then some time later another comment…

“Doctor Grumman, you felt just the edge of the real me then, the side lobe that you were able to detect. If I concentrated it, pushed into you, the effect is indescribable, I could kill you with it, with the pain which is a pain I’ve experienced every time I go through a change. It was not an attack, not a demonstration, it is just me very nearly relaxed. Let’s sit.”

And much later…

“Thank you doctor Grumman, but since we last met I have changed, grown. In the years to come I doubt you could be in the same room as me if I relaxed like this. You just would not believe how difficult it is to keep it all covered up. At night I’m exhausted from the effort.”

The life cycle of the Stellar completes when they pass after a lifetime of effort, of challenge and achievement. They choose the time of their passing but ensure their their legacy is passed on in full.

To be a Stellar is to be a person born of change, like the Phoenix, rising from the flame and pain of change and created into a new persona time and again.