Heracliad

The Heracliad is the overmyth of the people of Hyperion. It is an epic tale set within Solverse itself, split into three parts, each detailing the Travails, Sojourn, and Conquest. It was penned by the epic Hyperion poet, Hephastion the Great.
== Synopsis ==
Heracles is a spacer born on Ariel, Uranus. He grows up in a rough, savage life of a Rimmer-born spacer just like any other. He falls in love with the Black Queen, who is a wanted war criminal though very beautiful in appearance She is captured by the Sons of Andromeda to face justice, and Heracles pleads for her life. The great and benevolent despot of the Sons, Manus, will allow her to go free under the condition that Heracles live up to his name and complete a series of tasks. Manus makes it a point that he is casting the collective guilt of the Rimmer people upon Heracles's shoulders for these tasks.
=== The Travails ===
# Destroy Noveautrea
# Annihilate the Soldiers of Charon
# Take Vesta
# Take Ceres
# Clean a cycler of green slime in one standard cycle 
# Freeboot six spacecraft
# Liberate the bones of Vinaii 
# Capture the spacecraft of the Dryatt Space Yards in the orbit of Neptune
# Bring a single piece of unspoiled fruit from Earth.
# Kidnap and defeat the self-styled King Ptolemy Serapion, Governor-Militant of Pluto, who leads the Children of Chthonia Warband.
Manus presents the above list to Heracles as a jest, however Heracles takes it quite seriously. Manus is quite surprised, however, when, in less than a standard cycle, Heracles returns to Manus with a piece of the Noveautrean space station to corraborate the just-months-earlier report of the freak explosion of the self-sufficient colony.
Manus then takes Heracles quite seriously, realizing that he is capable of such incredible feats. They have a conversation about the second item on the list. Heracles learns of the deep-seated hatred for the Soldiers of Charon, and is able to use that as leverage to secure her release to accompany him in his travails. But the conditions still remains: everything on the list, or the Queen faces justice.
The Sojourn
The Conquest
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