Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-26975268-20130407222910/@comment-188432-20130408170232

Uh, no. We're not going to allow words to have absolutely no meaning. A planet doesn't just mean "something that looks like a planet". Alzarians look like humans but they're not.

We may not know what Akhaten is, but we do know that it's not a planet and it's not a god, despite the fact that various people call it that at different points of the story. The best we can say is that it is a "unique entity" that had some properties that made people think it was a planet, but, ultimately, it didn't behave like a planet at all.

Besides, you're quoting Choice out of context. That was a dream, remember? Cold stars aren't real in the DWU.