Moving outside the core, atomic activity lessens and the light emitted does likewise. In this first outer ring we see the commercial and residential areas of the middle classes. This is the main reserve of fuel that ensures the core will continue to burn.
The next layer sees another decrease in luminescence. Here lie the main industrial areas and residential sections reserved for (or, more correctly, allocated to) the working classes. Electron exchange here is sparse and largely redundant. The star has already taken most of what is valuable.
There is a darker layer still. Here reside the non-functional, the broken and useless. Shanty towns hide the darker components of the stellar body, all but forgotten on the outskirts of geography and society.
But wait. If you look closely, and in the right conditions, you will see one last layer. The vast estates of the ultra-wealthy form yet one final outer circle. The corona is visible rarely, and surrounds the star, confining it, controlling it. It disassociates itself from the body that gave birth to it, but ultimately, without the gravity of the star it would be lost and alone in the vacuum.
The people of the corona, in their freedom and abandon, have forgotten something. When conditions are so desperate, when fuel is scarce, when there is nothing left to eat and nothing left to burn…
Stars expand.
