Hyperion: A Space Adventure

***Hyperion: A Space Adventure*** is an epic space-opera series created by EDStudios. Set largely in the Whirlpool Galaxy, it takes in the late 29th Century and early 30th Century and follows the exploits of the CS *Olympus*. The series is currently in the process of being entirely rewritten as ***Hyperion: A Space Adventure* Redux** for 2023.

## Story and Setting

### Setting

*Hyperion: A Space Adventure* is set in an alternate future in which the Dark Ages never occurred and J.F.K was never assassinated, and therefore the Apollo Space Program led to an ushering in human space exploration and technological expansion, which ultimately resulted in a far more advanced humanity exploring other solar systems and colonizing new worlds. Technology such as jump drives and terraforming ships were commonplace, with humanity able to terraform a planet to habitable status in just a few decades. Humans eventually encountered aliens from other worlds, and, with the aid of another intelligent life form, the Gekoids, developed faster-than-light travel and colonized the entire Orion arm and other planets throughout the Milky Way.

Alien species from across the galaxy formed the Federated Galactic Alliance, a co-operative coalition of planets and star systems; Earth was given one of the seven seats on the Council of the Golden Worlds.

By the start of the series, both the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy have been successfully colonized, with the millions of races of both galaxies setting their sights on the resource-rich frontier of the Whirlpool Galaxy. All three galaxies serve as main settings in the series, with the FDF's mission to create an independent republic in the Whirlpool forming a secondary plot.

### Story

After discovering a wormhole that leads to the Whirlpool Galaxy, the Federated Galactic Alliance launches the Gaia Program to begin colonizing the Whirlpool. Over the course of hundreds of years, the Whirlpool is successfully colonized by the inhabitants of the arks, massive starships with colonization and exploration purposes.

#### Part I: A New Frontier

In 2896, the Olympia Colony on the planet Hyperion-b is destroyed by the ANS *Monroe*, an ark that disappeared twelve years previously. Three human survivors - Erron Rayes, Ashley Briggs and Weldom Krieger - are rescued by the crew of the CS *Marauder*. Its captain, Errol Welles, introduces the survivors to the Frontier Defence Force, a network of planets who rebelled against the Colonial Management Division of the FGA-government. With the *Monroe* having returned, its signal is drawing in Alliance Navy ships, which are crushing the Coalition fleets. Welles gifts the Olympia survivors a restored Ranger-class starship recovered from the ruins of Hyperion-b. Erron is named the ship's captain, and the ship is christened CS *Olympus*. The crew explore the galaxy, tracking the *Monroe*'s signal, and seeing the real impacts of the oppressive colonial government.

#### Part II: The Shield of Asgard

Four years after the Battle of Harmony, most of the southern Whirlpool galaxy has fallen under the jurisdiction of the Protectorate of Asgard, a republic of freed colonies under the protection of the Frontier Defence Force. The Federated Galactic Alliance and the FDF have signed a ceasefire treaty, the Asgard Accord, forbidding attacks on one another's supply trains. Ever since the formation of the first Breach, many others have spontaneously opened through the Whirlpool, emitting an extraordinarily powerful energy source known as Breach Energy. These Breaches threaten to enable the Titans to escape the Prison Dimension and permanently distort local space-time.

Erron, Weldom, Quarin and the many other crew members of the CS *Olympus* has formed their own cell within the FDF, the Hellhound Corps, which monitors the Whirlpool for Breaches in order to close them, while also combatting the space-time anomalies known as "bulges", parts of space-time that allow other dimensions to leak in, including foldspace, threatening to tear space-time apart. All the while, the crew of the *Olympus* are still trying to find a way to rescue Ashley, who sacrificed herself to close the first Breach.

#### Part III: Leviathan Falls

In the upcoming *Part III*, following the collapse of Asgard, the newly-formed Frontier Covenant guard the Keystone Systems, the last remnant of Asgard not under the control of the indoctrinated FDF. Seeking allies from Andromeda and the Milky Way, the Covenant will face a final battle against the Titans which will change the entire Universe forever.