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Lore question: Could the Empire of Stars actually have come from the Stars?

When I played vanilla DS, I walked around in Ehb and the Utraean Peninsula, references were made to the bygone "Empire of Stars", and that's about the extent to which the game world was fleshed out I guess.
I was intrigued by the idea that this glorious empire might actually have had more to it than just the name. It certainly invoked a kind of astrological magic, Merik's staff is also named after the stars for example. In some lore document then I've read that the name had been chosen basically because it sounded inspiring, and I thought that was a real bummer; I'm not sure that was canon tho.

LoA then fleshed out the lore of the continent of Aranna. I haven't played DS2 or DS3 but as I understand, the stories are all sequels, not prequels. How much lore did they add that predates the events of DS1? Elves for example.

So my question is: If you were to make a map or other fanfiction where the Empire of Stars actually went to other stars, came from other stars, or even just had contact to other stars - is there anything in the lore that hints at this idea or contradicts it?