Blue Star Era Year

When the G-type main sequence star they called the "parent star" began to expand, I was sitting in the dust clouds of the Andromeda Galaxy, weaving new planetary rings from the remains of the supernova. Thirty million years of civilized history shrunk into a single point of light in the flames of a helium flash - just like you humans using a match to light a piece of paper filled with formulas. Later I learned that the last pulsation of that star was recorded by their quantum computer as the "Ω-7 event", and I was just...