Editing Gunstar Chandrasekhar (section)

== Biography ==

Born over and over, as befalls those of the Line who are Celestials, Chandrasekhar unwittingly stepped into a Destiny she would not have chosen for herself.

When the Beast ravaged the Singing Cavernous Concentric Hearts, Nebula was the only one left alive, bleeding from eyes and ears - the others had dug out their hearts with anything that came to hand. The Sages noted the stars burning in her eyes, and brought her into their fold.

She was the first to the Plaza of Gentle Caresses when the alarm sounded, only to find the lamps dark, the streets strewn with corpses which had coughed out first their lungs and then their hearts. Compassion and a sense of deja vu drove her on; she waded into the darkened plaza through sluggish, torpid blood, flowing softly -

- a vicious blow, turned aside - blows given and received too fast to comprehend - waking to stale air and missing ring fingers, yet clutching the smoky strands of the Beast's hair.

These she had forged into thin needles, and injected her own Compassion into them on the theory that the Beast projected its own lack of love and induced tainted essence and suicide in its victims; if so, she was willing to sacrifice her own ability to love to protect others, by grafting her compassion onto the Beast.

When murder-suicides via the victim's own ribs began to break out in the lower section of the Populate, she stalked the Beast, tracking it into the neural-nodes connecting the Populates together -

Missing Compassion felt worse than expected, but that was not all that was sacrificed - for this time, when Nebula stumbled out of the innards of the City, he was no longer a she. Through training, his compassion has begun to regrow, but to his horror, his memories have begun to distort, such that he has caught himself thinking he was always a he, and not a she. The Fate-Weavers complain that his Destiny reshapes itself when they turn to other issues, attempting to somehow fade out of the tapestry.

Nebula is left with few options - to continue the fight, as best s/he can, and to find the Beast - for while the Sages can't foresee the outcome, it is painfully obvious that the Beast's Destiny and Nebula's are tightly intertwined.

Nebula has done past missions with Pion, also of Raiton Flight