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Explosion (Song)

**"Explosion"** is a song by heavy metal band MechaSkull Jockeys. It was released in 2417 as the third single from their second studio album, *Black Body*. Recognized as one of the band's best known and most popular songs, the song has become a staple in their live performances.

## Background

Following the release of their first album under the name MechaSkull Jockeys, 2411's "*Cold Fire*", and the subsequent success of their single "*Agony*" in 2412, the Jockeys were given complete creative control over their work. They spent three years touring and developing new EPs until they began writing their new album, "*Black Body*". To convey their new anti-corporate message, Platinum and SlimeEye began writing a new song that would serve as a ballad for their message; this would ultimately result in "*Explosion*".

The song's title had two inspirations; the first was the intro, which consists of three strums of an Em chord combined with a series of fuzz peddles to simulate an explosion; the second was the Jockeys' message of a violent uprising against the Board and their control over the citizens of Dark City. They also included references to the story of Prometheus and the Eagle, relating the story to the fact that the people of Dark City would fight back no matter what the Board threw at them.

## Lyrics

(Instrumental)
Spit fire in my torn throat
And Brimstone in my lungs
The Eagle is tearing at the youth
And all their talking tongues
The Agony awaits those who
Feed the Eagle more
But we're gonna lift the stone now
And starve the Eagle's gore
(Instrumental)
[Pre-Chorus]

Come on, bring it down
Come on, bring it on
Come on, bring it on down
Come on, come and up and feel the
[Chorus]]

Terror and the fire
Endlessness of rage
Feel the explosions
And break out of your cage
Come on, feel the fire
Burning through your lungs
It's always been hell on Earth
So feel the explosions
[Bridge]

(Solo 1)
Bullets, blades, grenades and flame
A stream of death and pain
The world's no longer good and tame
There's just too much to gain
(Solo 2)
Come on, feel the fire
Burning through your lungs
It's always been hell on Earth
So feel the explosions
[Outro]
Ambrosia Galaxy

* Ambrosia
* Antennae

The **Ambrosia Galaxy** is a massive spiral galaxy over 55 million light-years from the Milky Way. For centuries, the galaxy was viewed from Earth as two interacting galaxies referred to as the **Antennae Galaxies** that had collided to form Ambrosia by the 4000s. It is home to the Ambrosia Alliance, a member-state of the Intergalactic Commonwealth. At over 192,000 light-years from tip to tip, it is the second-largest spiral galaxy yet discovered, but at the same time has one of the smallest size-to-mass ratios in the known Universe, with a mass only just beyond that of the Milky Way.

Ambrosia came to intergalactic attention when the Scourge, a nefarious force from deep space, began an all-out attack on numerous planets across the galaxy, beginning on the major planet of Haven, that quickly threw the entire galaxy into chaos.

## History

### Early Observations & Exploration

For most of their history, humans viewed Ambrosia as two colliding galaxies which they dubbed the Antennae Galaxies due to their tails resembling the antennae of Earth-based insects. However, by the time that humanity first recorded the collision, the two galaxies that already coalesed into Ambrosia, a massive spiral galaxy almost twice the diameter of the Milky Way.

Ambrosia was one of the first galaxies reached by the early expeditions through the Nexus; a single colony ship arrived at its western arm in 2925 and settled on an Aquila-like planet called Byzantium. Once a conduit was built in Byzantium's star system, the galaxy was connected to the fledgling Nexus Network.

Among some of the more notable planets discovered in Ambrosia was Astralia, a dead planet whose surface was covered by a single, planet-spanning city. Exploration of the planet seemed to pinpoint Astralia as the original homeworld of the Remnants, or that it was at least one of their earliest colonies; it was thus declared one of the strongest candidates for the Remnant homeworld.

## Structure

Ambrosia is one of the largest spiral galaxies in the observable Universe, a composite of two individual spiral galaxies plus several dwarf galaxies. From tip to tip, it measures more than 192,000 light-years, almost double the diameter of the Milky Way.
Fall of Haven

### Result (Outcome)

Scourge victory* The entire population of Haven is either killed or transformed into Scourged, leaving only the survivors on the *Unreliable*

The **Fall of Haven** was a cataclysmic attack on the planet Haven by the Scourge, led by the Forerunner and its flagship, the *Darkened Heaven*, that marked the beginning of the Assault on Ambrosia. Within minutes, the entire planet was engulfed by the Scourge; millions died either to the Scourge or the destruction of the cities, and only the crew of the *Unreliable* are known to have survived before they fled towards Amaranthine to warn galactic society of the attack.
Consequences

**"Consequences"** is the upcoming fifth episode of *Part III: Age of the Scourge*, the third instalment of *Hyperspace: The Cosmic Gospel*. It will be written in the second half of 2022.

## Plot

*With Harkon in tow, Anvil and the* Unreliable *investigate a mysterious battleground, where they finally encounter a brand new threat. Ryzen and Young debate a battle plan, and Kera grows closer to someone.*
Heterodyne: The Edge of Space

―Teaser for *Heterodyne: The Edge of Space*

***Heterodyne: The Edge of Space***, also known by the working title ***Project H***, is an upcoming space opera story and the fourth instalment in the *Hyperion* Saga. A sequel to *Hyperspace: The Cosmic Gospel*, it is in the earliest stages of development.

Ten thousand years after the events of *Hyperspace*, a new force threatens to doom civilization: itself.

## Plot

*A corporate longship explores the edge of space, only to discover something both revolutionary...and terrifying.*

## Story & Setting

### Setting

*Heterodyne: The Edge of Space* is intended to be the fourth instalment in the *Hyperion* Saga, after *Hyperion: A Space Adventure* and its sequel *Hyperspace: The Cosmic Gospel.* It will be set 10,000 years after the latter, in the 15,000s, during a time referred to as the "Second Eon".

In the 10,000 years since the Battle of the Great Attractor, settled space has divided into a number of neo-feudal societies. Two civilizations dominate settled space: the Laniakean Collective, a confederation of galactic societies; and the Imperium, a human-ruled intergalactic empire born from the conquest of entire galaxies. Other, smaller, factions also exist with varying relations to the two dominant groups.

The population of settled space is almost equally divided between organics and inorganics; the latter, known as the ecumene, are a mechanical race of sentient machines created by the Calculator at the end of the First Eon. In the Collective, organics and ecumene live side-by-side; in the Imperium, they are hunted down as the "Old Machines" by Inquistors, masked warriors of the Imperial Legion.

The story follows Jean-Luc, an employee for an unnamed megacorporation, who glimpses something at the edge of space and uncovers a new threat to the entire universe.

## Characters

### Main

* Jean-Luc: a human male employed by a powerful corporation
* Schrödinger: an ecumene pilot
* Shani: a human female
* Reya: a tarsi female
* Lanius: Lord Commander of the Imperial Legion
* Kai-Sar: a human male
Dark Industries

**Dark Industries**, founded as **Dark Planetary Engineering** and now known as **Dark Group** or **Dark Corp**, was a corporation founded and led by Archibald Dark, a human male who specialized in planetary engineering. Dark Industries was instrumental in the terraforming both Mars and Venus and was involved in the colonization of the asteroid belt of the Sol System. Dark Industries was eventually granted ownership of an entire planet in a distant star system, upon which it began building a planet-spanning city known as Dark City. The corporation eventually went bust when the construction of Dark City overwhelmed them, and its assets were purchased by several other corporations in the same system who shared ownership of Dark City, known as The Board; as a result, Dark Industries now exists in name only.
Archibald's Moon

**Archibald's Moon** was a massive space station that served as an artificial moon of Venus, constructed by Archibald Dark via his company Dark Industries. It was used as a major industrial port, the second largest in the Sol System after Ceres, but was mostly used for growing GILs for service on Venus. The moon was destroyed in the GIL Uprising during the Sol Secession War.
Frontier Defence Force

FDF High Command

* Coalition Army
* Coalition Navy

First Whirlpool War

* Attack on Archangel Station
* Battle of Harmony

―The motto of the FDF

The **Frontier Defence Force (FDF)** is a loosely governed alliance of militias, homesteaders, bandits, smugglers, mercenaries, terrorists and pirates all rising up as citizen soldiers when the need arises against the Federated Galactic Alliance and the corporations they allied with, most notably the New Eden Corporation. Founded in 2881, they operate throughout the Whirlpool Galaxy, concentrated in the Hydra Arm, and are widely viewed as the successor organization to the Andromeda Coalition. Their rebellion resulted in the creation of the Protectorate of Asgard, of which they serve as the *de-facto* armed forces and collective Head of State.

Following the beginning of the Titan War, the FDF has split into two factions: the main body of the FDF largely under the indirect control of Orcus, and the Frontier Covenant, led by Erron Rayes and the Hellhound Corps who fight against the Titans.

## History

### First Whirlpool War

#### Battle of Harmony

> *Main Article: Battle of Harmony*
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#### Ceasefire Accord

> *Main Article: Asgard Accord*
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## Organisation and Structure

As a non-professional organisation, the FDF's structure has traditionally been loose and divided into units as large as entire fleets to as small as individual terrorist cells. In the wake of the Second Andromeda Wars, the FDF has since been restructured to more resemble a professional, organised fighting force, equipped with its own impressive navy and ground forces.

Following the Battle of Harmony and the establishment of the independent space-state of Asgard, the FDF has expanded greatly, bringing in new militias and paramilitaries to keep control and resembling a more organised military force.

## Technology

As a non-professional organisation, the FDF's structure has traditionally been loose and divided into units as large as entire fleets or as small as individual terrorist cells. The FDF largely rely on stolen and scavenged technology to make ends meet; many warships are, for example, simple civilian vessels with ad-hoc modifications to suit military needs. These include Ranger-class starships such as the CS *Olympus*, to gigantic freighters such as the CS *Marauder*.

The FDF's current headquarters is Maeltorm Station, a space station built of a preserved stellar engine orbiting a dead neutron star.

## Members

* Errol Welles - leader, lieutenant-colonel of the Marauder Corps
* Erron Rayes - former colony scientist, captain of the CS *Olympus*
* Ashley Briggs
* Weldom Krieger - scientist on the CS *Olympus*
* Hue Mashall
* Tauren Solt
* Quarin

## Established Settlements

### Planets Under Control

* Harmony
	+ Serenity
CS Marauder

The **Coalition Ship *Marauder***, call sign **AVENGER**,is a modified freighter and the flagship of the Marauder Corps, the core organised military unit of the Frontier Defence Force. It is captained by Errol Welles.

## History

### Construction and Acquisition

The *Marauder* was once a New Eden supply vessel, most likely built in an Andromeda shipyard. It was taken in the 2880s by the growing Frontier Defence Force and modified with illegal upgrades to make it fit for military service.

### Saving Olympia

In 2896, the *Marauder* detected a signal belonging to the long-missing ANS *Monroe*. Tracking the signal, the *Marauder* discovered the gigantic vessel destroying an entire planet: Hyperion-b. As the planet broke apart, rescue vessels descended to the Olympia Colony, saving only a few survivors, including Erron Rayes, Ashley Briggs and Weldom Krieger. As the planet broke apart, the *Marauder* lightfolded away into safer space.
Graviton Loop Array

The **graviton loop array** is a revolutionary warp drive designed and built by Constellation specifically to be used in their Intrepid-class exploration starships. The array's specific mechanisms are a closely-guarded corporate secret and they are only divulged to active Constellation employees, although it presumably utilizes gravitons to produce enormous warps, allowing a ship to travel beyond the speed of light.
Amaranthine

**Amaranthine** is a terrestrial planet in the Amaranth System, located 1.03 AU from its star. It is the capital of the Ambrosia Alliance, making it one of the most important worlds in the entire Intergalactic Commonwealth. The planet was destroyed approximately three weeks after the Fall of Haven, bringing the status of the Ambrosia Alliance into question.
Grounders

The **Church of All Steps**, colloquially known as the **Grounders**, is a religion originally formed on Nexus Station that has expanded to become the fastest-growing religion in the Settled Systems as of the 53rd Century. Founded by a rogue branch of the True Faith, the Grounders believe that civilian space travel should be banned and that every civilian must remain on whatever planet they were born on, similar to how entire species once existed before they were capable of interplanetary travel.
Battleworld Games

The **Battleworld Games** is a competition hosted on Battleworld that involves the participation of around 100 contestants in a series of land, air and sea battles to determine a final winner, who is then granted a prize of their choosing. They are often described and advertised as the **Modern Olympic Games**, but are shrouded in conspiracy and secrecy.

## Organization

### Teams

At the beginning of the games, contestants are separated into a Red or Blue team.
Crossroad

The **Crossroad** is an artificial construct, or cavity, within foldspace that was built by the Remnants to connect their vast network of foldholes. The Crossroad sat abandoned for hundreds of millions of years until the *Unreliable* entered it after acquiring a key from Astralia, allowing them to return to the Nexus. Following the Battle of Nexus Station, the Key was installed in the new *Unreliable*, allowing the crew to maintain access to the Crossroad.
HIGGS

**HIGGS** is an intelligent robot of the Aldrin class built by Constellation for service on the *Marco Polo*. Under the direction of the ship's VALIP Wallace, HIGGS co-manages the ship's systems alongside its twin BOSON. HIGGS is responsible for the *Marco Polo*'s navigation through Unchartia by tracking signals left by probes in unexplored planetary systems.
Diesel Plague

The **Diesel Plague** is an ongoing outbreak of diesel-metabolising bacteria that is ravaging colonies along the frontiers of New Eden VI. The disease spreads in diesel fuel and seeps into the skin of diesel workers. The plague is concentrated in the colony of Forefront.

As discovered by the Stargazer and his new partner Paraskevi, the plague is being caused by Forefront Solutions as a method of population control.
Eden Prime

**Eden Prime**, also known as **Gaia Two** andformerly known as **TRAPPIST-1e**, is an Earth-like rocky planet that serves as one of the four core worlds of the Human Interstellar Network and was the first exoplanet settled by civilian human colonizers. About 2% of the human population in the Milky Way lives on Eden Prime or the space stations in its orbit. It was the subject of intensive terraforming efforts due to being tidally locked to its parent star, and now experiences artificially-induced rotation.

## Gallery

A NASA advert for vacations on Eden Prime, then known as TRAPPIST-1e
Exotic Matter

**Exotic Matter** is matter that possesses characteristics beyond the bounds of normal physics or are composed of non-baryonic matter. Depending on the type of exotic matter, it can have negative mass, dark mass or imaginary mass. Negative mass matter causes strange distortions to the local space-time field and can be used as fuel for starships. Dark matter mass does not absorb, reflect or emit electromagnetic radiation and is used in offensive and defensive technology. Imaginary mass matter cannot travel below the speed of light but instead can travel instantly to any point in the universe.
C.

**C.** is a human male who wakes up on a wooden raft in the middle of an endless sea alongside two other men, A. and B., that are identical to him. Together, the three of them try to find out the truth behind their situation and survive on the ocean. Like A., C. believes that they are true humans but is violent and confrontational.
Dust Lung

**"Dust Lung"** is the colloquial name for a relatively common respiratory disease that arises due to an allergic reaction to the heavy iron oxide dust that covers the surface of Mars, even after extensive terraforming. It is only known to affect martians, of which around 30% of the population is affected. The disease begins as a long-term period of severe reaction that can last for months or even years, with those who survive being afflicted with recurring allergic reactions throughout the rest of their lives. Infection can begin at any age, but is much more common in youngsters.

## Signs and Symptoms

Dust lung is, as its name suggests, only known to affect the lungs of martians. General signs and symptoms include extreme breathing difficulties, chills, night sweats, loss of appetite, extreme weight loss, and fatigue. Long-term, recurring dust lung gives rise to infrequent allergic reactions that cause breathing difficulties.

## Notable Patients

* Ketch Jaeger
* Vaarin Obi
Curse

The **curse** is a nanoscopic artificial organism created from the tissue of the First that converts organic material into synthetic material, transforming living creatures into mindless cyborgs known as Scourged. It has been repurposed by the Calculator as a bioweapon capable of overwhelming entire planets and building up its Scourge army into a force of millions. A modified strain created by the Rising Tide, codenamed "Tsunami", has also been created so as to no longer affect humans.
Hendrix

*Hyperspace: The Cosmic Gospel*

* *Part I: Darkened Heaven*
* *Part II: The Battle of Borealis*

**Hendrix** is a Mark VI artificial intelligence inhabiting a synthetic body, named and modelled after human rock musician Jimi Hendrix. He was designed and activated for commercial advertising on an Andromeda space station, HELIOS. At some point, he entered the service of wanted outlaw Howard Immunos. In 2903, he encountered Erron Rayes - Immunos' son - and helped him escape imprisonment, subsequently joining the crew of the CS *Olympus* and beginning a relationship with his fellow AI on the vessel, HIE.

More than 2500 years after the Battle of Keystone, Hendrix resurfaced alongside HIEdi and joined the crew of the *Unreliable* after rescuing Elijah during the Fall of Haven, beginning a new adventure. Over the course of the crew's adventure to Sithniatt, Hendrix grew closer to Elijah and became his adoptive father; as a result, he was devastated two years later when Elijah was killed in action while defending Everest Station. When Hadron infiltrated the *Unreliable* while posing as Elijah, Hendrix was one of the first to grow suspicious and helped expose Hadron as a doppelgänger.

## Biography

### Activation

When Hendrix was activated was unknown, but it was likely in the 2880s; he is programmed to be male. Due to his role as an advertisement system, he was modelled after pioneering human rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix, who had died on Earth over 910 years earlier. He was then placed in a synthetic body also modelled after Jimi Hendrix.

### Preparing for the Future

Months after Erron's sacrifice, Hendrix helped his friend Ashley give birth to Erron's son. Tragedy struck, however, when the child was stillborn. Knowing the potential that the child carried, Hendrix and HIEdi took a tissue sample from the boy and spent the next 2500 years modifying and perfecting it, eventually naming the boy Elijah. The two AIs then entrusted the boy to a commune on Bancroft and would watch over the boy as he grew.
Artificial Intelligence

An **artificial intelligence** (AI) is a self-aware computing system capable of learning and independent decision making. Creation of a conscious AI requires adaptive code. Mark IV and above AI are designed to become sentient, with Mark V and above even able to choose feelings over logic; when such an AI inhabits a synthetic body, they are near-indistinguishable from people.
Borealis

Borealis and the Nine Moons

**Borealis** is a terrestrial planet located in the Euclid Galaxy that serves as the political capital of the Confederacy of the Great Attractor. Located 1.06 AU from its star, Alramech, it was the first planet in the galaxy to be permanently colonized by Nexus explorers, who reached the planet in 2909 after years of travelling. A warm planet with a climate very similar to Earth, the planet's surface is an almost exact fifty-fifty split between land and ocean.

Borealis was the site of the massive Battle of Borealis, the largest clash so far in the War of the Armadas, where a Scourge Armada attempted to destroy a strain of curse codenamed "Tsunami", which the planet's ally, the Kingdom of the Great Veil, planned to unleash upon its surface. With the *Unreliable* at the head of the defence, Borealis was saved from destruction largely thanks to the fold weapons built inside its Nine Moons.
Artemis

The ***Artemis*** was an unclassed experimental starship designed to investigate and repair a series of mysterious temporal anomalies throughout the Settled Systems. Fitted with the experimental temporal drive, allowing it to enter hyperspace without the Nexus Network, the *Artemis* was assigned a crew consisting of the finest scientists and engineers at the time. Discovering that the energy source responsible for the anomalies matched that of an isolated planet, the *Artemis* disappeared while *en route* to investigate, and has not been seen since.

## Crew

* Weyland Holter - captain
* Nolan Monroe - chief scientist
* Korith Sable - SpecOperA agent
Andromeda Galaxy

The **Andromeda Galaxy**, also known as the **Magni Oculi** *("Great Eye" in Xenzo)* or simply the **Oculi**, is a spiral galaxy located 2.5 million light-years from Earth. Following the complete colonization of the Milky Way, the Federated Galactic Alliance initiated the Andromeda Program, commanded by the Gekoids, to colonize Andromeda. Using wormholes and lightfolding, Andromeda was quickly reached, and several native intelligent species were encountered; two of them, the Relvians and the Croytians, were selected to join the Council of the Golden Worlds. The Andromeda Age marked a period of some of the greatest advancements in culture and science in the Alliance's history, which resulted in Andromeda experiencing a population boom that ultimately led to Andromeda becoming the societal capital of the Alliance, with the Milky Way remaining the political capital.

Andromeda is linked to the distant Whirlpool Galaxy by the Bifrost wormhole, making it the staging point of the Gaia Program. Andromeda is also known as the former home of the Coalition, which would eventually evolve into the Frontier Defence Force in the Whirlpool Galaxy.

## Trivia

* Andromeda first appears in *Hyperion: A Space Adventure Part II*.
A.

**A.** is a human male who wakes up on a wooden raft in the middle of an endless sea alongside two other men, B. and C., that are identical to him. Together, the three of them try to find out the truth behind their situation and survive on the ocean. Like C., A. believes that the three of them are true humans, and is an intelligent and natural leader.
Demeter (Luna)

**Demeter**, founded as **Intrepid Base**, is the capital city of Luna, the moon of Earth. The first human settlement on another celestrial body, Demeter is a major human colony by the late 21st Century, serving as an adminstrative capital for the United Nations Security Council. It is the core of the Demeter Ecumenopolis, a city that covers almost the entire dark side of Luna.
Constellation Initiative

The **Constellation Initiative** was a private hedge fund made up of former scientists and engineers of NASA that acquired all of NASA's assets and contracts before its dissolution after the First Magellanic War. The Initiative subsequently formed the private space exploration company Constellation, named for NASA's Constellation Program.
GILs

**GILs** *(Grown In Lab)*, colloquially known as **Gills**, are cloned organisms, most often humans, that have been grown in laboratory conditions and genetically modified to work in a specific post, be it laboratory work, agriculture, infrastructure or long-period exploration. Many Gills are treated as second-class citizens or are sometimes not even considered members of society at all.

## Known GILs

* Elijah
* MIL-013
* Sasha Rex
* Solomon
Fēng Atmospheric Complex

The **Fēng Atmospheric Complex (FAC)**, colloquially known as the **"Fack"**, is a floating spaceport and resort located in the habitable upper layer of Fēng's atmosphere that serves as the headquarters of Stellar, Inc in the Aschere System. The company's distilleries are located on the FAC, drawing chemicals from the planet's atmosphere.
Council of the Golden Worlds

The **Council of the Golden Worlds** was one of the six principal organisations of the Federated Galactic Alliance, charged with ensuring intergalactic peace and security, accepting new members to the FGA and approving any changes to its charter. There were seven planets that were members of the council, each of which were considered "Golden Worlds", highly technologically advanced and cultured worlds.

## Members

* Earth - represented by humans
* Solvron - represented by the Tarsi
* Gek - represented by the Gekoids
* Tyto - represented by the Quill
* Relvicon - represented by the Relvians
* Phaton - represented by the Gordyops
* Aquila - represented by the Croytians
Great Hydrogen Wall

The **Great Hydrogen Wall (GHW)**, **Great Wall** or the **Wall** is a region of hydrogen plasma that stretches across dark space, forming a rough natural border between the territory of the Intergalactic Commonwealth and the Confederacy of the Great Attractor, while the Alliance of the Great Wall is located within the bounds of the Wall itself. It is located approximately 190 million light-years from the Local Group, and can only be crossed with the help of the Nexus Network due to the immense gamma-ray bursts spread all across the Great Wall.
Great Attractor

The **Great Attractor**, also known to some races as **The Well**, is an immense dark matter anomaly that forms the central gravitational point of the Laniakea Supercluster. It is the namesake and core of the Confederacy of the Great Attractor and was formerly the core of the Ecumene, the mighty intergalactic empire of the Remnant Race.
ALFIE

The **Autonomous Logistics and Flight Intelligence Entity**, or **ALFIE**, is a Mark IV artificial intelligence installed on the *Love Machine*, controlling the navigation and communications systems of the ship. He is able to adapt and learn from the ship's crew to be able to better anticipate their needs.
Aschere Collateral

**Aschere Collateral (A.C.E)** is a private military company operating in the Virgo Stellar Stream and headquarted on the dreadnought *Ivan the Terrible*. They are a prospective member of the Virgo Holdings Board.

## Overview

A.C.E is a private military who provides security and military force to all of the constituent corporations of the Virgo Holdings Board. Under the leadership of CEO Don Laser, A.C.E has little care for collateral damage or the lives of colonists who die in their operations.
Colonial Management Division

The **Colonial Management Division (CMD)** is the branch of the Federal Bureaucratic Office responsible for the management of the FGA's numerous colonies, predominantly in the Whirlpool Galaxy. It is split into three sects: Economical Division, Societal Division, and Political Division, which handle economy, class, and elections respectively in every FGA-controlled colony. Its military enforcement comes in the form of the Colonial Reserve Corps, known to some colonies as the "White Death" due to their armour and oppressive ideology. Because of the vast distances at which the CMD operates, they often enforce their own laws and regulations, with some becoming totalitarian fascist states.

The CMB is at war with the Frontier Defence Force, having fought an open conflict that ended with the Asgard Accord, which outlawed CMD operations in the Whirlpool. The CMD operates its own fleet of ships, the Colonial Division Navy.

## History

### Formation

#### True Purpose

In truth, the CMB was created to prevent civilian uprisings similar to the near-successful Andromeda Coalition which fought the Alliance in the Second Andromeda War.

## Structure

### Societal Division

Perhaps the most secretive sect of the CMD, the Societal Division is responsible for colonial civil services, but in truth primarily conducts social experiments on their citizens.
Big Arma L-4560

The **Big Arma L Series-4560** is an energy revolver manufactured by Big Arma. Like most weapons of its type, it converts background radiation into thermal energy "shells" that surround its projectiles. A special addition made by Big Arma's subsidiary Special Assault Technologies, the **L-4560 S.A.T Edition**, comes with a reinforced barrel and chamber that allows it to fire explosive bullets.

In the series, a S.A.T Edition L-4560 is the favoured weapon of Elijah Rayes, who took ownership with his when he found it on the *Unreliable*. Other users of this particular gun include its original owner Mercer and Amphear, who notably used the gun to kill the Forerunner.
Brake Beam

A **break beam** is a high-frequency, faster-than-light signal carried by tachyons through dropspace that instantaneously decelerates a starship out of hyperspace and back into realspace. An essential component of the Nexus Network, a brake beam is fired by a conduit or from Nexus Station shortly before a ship's arrival. It is the only way for a ship to slow down into realspace, as conventional inertia dampeners are unable to handle the strain of these reality-breaking speeds.
Aquila IV

**Aquila IV** is the largest and only habitable natural satellite of the gas giant Gwaegile in the Moss-Duke System. Despite being a moon, Aquila IV is planet-sized and may be a captured body. The moon is the capital planet and namesake of the Aquila Collective, one of two organized governments in Unchartia established by Constellation. The entire surface is covered in an ocean with an average depth of 3 miles, within which colonists have constructed immense underwater cities, including the capital Atlantis.
Federation of Lactea-Oculi

The **Federation of Lactea-Oculi**, also known as the **Local Alliance**, is an intergalactic superpower that governs the Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy, the Triangulum Galaxy and their various satellites. It is the legal successor to the Federated Galactic Alliance, which dissolved following the Split of the Alliance, and is a member-state of the Intergalactic Commonwealth.

## Appearances

### EXILES: The Interstellar Gunslingers

#### Part I: A Chronicle of Space Cowboys

* "Shoot to Thrill"
* "Blinding Lights"
* "Purple Haze"
* "Eruption"
* "Should I Stay...?"
* "...Or Should I Go?"
* "I Got A Name"
* "Paint It, Black"
Big Arma

**Big Arma** is a manufacturer of firearms and offensive technology that is headquartered on Dark City due to the lack of regulation, and by the 32nd Century it is a member of the Virgo Holdings Board. They are the largest producer of firearms in the Milky Way and is one of the oldest surviving corporations, having been founded in the late 20th Century.

## Trivia

* Big Arma's name is a play on the phrase "Big Pharma", a conspiracy theory "that claims that the medical community in general and pharmaceutical companies in particular, especially large corporations, operate for sinister purposes and against the public good, and that they conceal effective treatments, or even cause and worsen a wide range of diseases for the only purpose of profitability".
ANS Avenger

―Ivan's comment about the Avenger

The **Alliance Navy Ship *Avenger***, formerly known as the **Colonial Division Ship (CDS) *Avenger***,was a Mothership-class starship and the principal vessel of the Colonial Management Division, serving as their mobile headquarters. Following the Battle of Harmony and the declaration of the Protectorate of Asgard, the *Avenger* served as a transportation vessel - one of the few such authorized - for Alliance forces into the Whirlpool Galaxy to maintain the ceasefire with the Frontier Defence Force.

## History

### Construction

The *Avenger* was most likely built in an Andromeda shipyard to the standard design specifications of a Mothership-class starship.

## Crew

* Ivan Rayes - captain
* Laura Namara - chief officer

## Technology

### Size

The *Avenger* is a massive, imposing vessel that is infamous for the fear it places in the hearts of those that see it. It measures just over 1.3 kilometres, making it large even for a Mothership-class ship, and weights more than 1.6 million metric tons.
Exiles

―Motto of the Exiles

The **Exiles** are a team of adventurers, outcasts and former criminals who primarily serve as mercenaries and bounty hunters with an extremely varied success rate. They are headquartered on the *Quicksilver*, formerly on the *Prydwen*, and serve as the eponymous main characters in *EXILES: The Interstellar Gunslingers*.

## Members

* John Astro - leader
* Celeste
* Jax Dupree
* Jar
* Starman
Brigands

**Brigands** are colonists of the Aschere System who had become addicted to, and subsequently driven insane by, corp-produced psychostimulants, causing them to act on animal-like instinct.

## Overview

Colonists that have lost their minds due to excessive use of psychostimulants meant to increase worker productivity, brigands are violent individuals with very little in the way of comprehension or compassion. From mechanics to doctors, individuals from all walks of life joined their mindless ranks.
Human Galactic Calendar

The **Human Galactic Calendar (HGC)** is the standardized calendar used in human-dominated systems and in the entirety of the Whirlpool Galaxy, used for the vast differences in dates that arise due to the distances between planets and systems. The full details of the calendar are not yet known, other than it is a standard average of the dates on the most important human colonies based on the rotation of Earth, humanity's home planet, around Sol. Each individual colony possesses its own unique calendar, with the HGC used in cases of interstellar or intergalactic travel.

In *Hyperion: A Space Adventure*, the calendar is currently in the 30th Century.
Andromeda Coalition

The **Andromeda Coalition** was a loosely governed alliance of militias, homesteaders, bandits, smugglers, mercenaries, terrorists and pirates all rising up as citizen soldiers when the need arose against the Federated Galactic Alliance. Founded just twenty years after the foundation of the first colony in the Andromeda Galaxy, the Coalition aimed to create independently governed space networks outside of the control of the Alliance. While it was never correctly organized, the Coalition claimed many victories in the Second Andromeda War, culminating in the creation of the proto-state known as the Free Sectors. The Coalition eventually suffered too many loses and disbanded themselves, leaving only a force of a few hundred soldiers, the Hanza, left fighting the cause.

The Andromeda Coalition have been spiritually succeeded by the Frontier Defence Force in the Whirlpool Galaxy, which revolted against the Alliance's Colonial Management Division - which was created specifically to prevent an uprising like the Coalition in the Whirlpool - to create the Protectorate of Asgard.
Gek

## Biology and Population

### Life

4.7 million different life forms (Unicellular, Multicellular, Terrestrial, Ariel, Subglacial)

### Government

Gekoid Core Territories

**Gek** is a rocky planet located in the Gregretka System and is the homeworld of the Gekoids. It, alongside Aquila, serves as the capital of the Gekoid Core Territories and represents the Gekoids on the Council of the Golden Worlds.
Constellation

―Slogan of Constellation

**Frontier Exploration Technologies**, doing business as **Constellation**, is a private space exploration company that employs scientists, engineers, cartographers and miners to explore new regions of space. One of the last remaining independent exploration companies in the Settled Systems, Constellation is so vast and powerful that some consider it a micronation. Founded in the last days of the First Magellanic War, Constellation has since grown into the largest private corporation in intergalactic history, with more than half a billion employees across at least five galaxies as of the 55th century.

The company is in direct control of the galaxy Unchartia, where it sponsors the Aquila Collective and various outposts in the Bridge Systems.

## History

### Founding

The origins of Constellation's name and purpose as a space exploration company began with NASA's Constellation Program, a crewed spaceflight program. The program's logo, still used by the modern Constellation, reflected the three stages of the program: the Earth, the Moon, and finally Mars.

Constellation itself was founded by a private organization known as the Constellation Initiative, a group of scientists, astronauts, engineers and mathematicians that worked with the human space exploration agency NASA until its collapse in the 23rd Century near the end of the First Magellanic War. As a result, the fledgling Constellation inherited all of NASA's assets, programs and contracts, including the Space Launch System and humanity's early FTL-capable spacecraft.

## Hardware

### Engines

#### Graviton Loop Array

The graviton loop array is a new form of warp drive developed by Constellation specifically to be used in their ships. The array's exact mechanics are a closely-guarded corporate secret; all that is currently known about the array is that, as its name suggests, it utilizes gravitons to create "warps" in spacetime, allowing the ship to travel faster than light.

### Intrepid-Class Starships

Most of Constellation's ships are part of their patented Intrepid-class of exploration ships. Designed for long-haul expeditions across unmapped areas of space, Intrepid-class starships are designed to be maintained by a single organic occupant, such as a cartographer, and a crew of robots managed by a central A.I. These ships also carry all the equipment needed to start a new colony, including seeds, water, fertilized eggs and small-scale terraformers. As of the 37th century, the Intrepid-class is in its third generation, which includes vessels such as the *Marco Polo*.

## Members

### Employees

#### Robotics and Artificial Intelligence

* BOSON
* HIGGS
* Wallace

## Appearanes

### Hyperspace: The Cosmic Gospel

#### Part II: The Battle of Borealis

* "Superluminal" *(mentioned)*
* "Parabellum" *(mentioned)*
Hades Anomaly

The **Hades Anomaly**, also called the **Galaxy of Blood**, is an unstable anomalous cloud of interstellar dust or potential dwarf galaxy located within the Great Wall. It is the source of a form of exotic radiation dubbed "Hell Energy", used by the Scourge. It is named for its distinctive red colour, caused by this radiation but also by the vast number of red stars within its bounds.

The Anomaly first appeared soon after the conclusion of the Great Wall-Commonwealth Cold War. Prompted by its emission of bizarre energy, the Commonwealth dispatched the *Artemis*, an experimental starship, to investigate, a mission from which it never returned. The Anomaly is the homeland of the typhon, as well as a stronghold for the Scourge, which prompted Anvil to investigate the region in 5410.
Battleworld (Episode)

**"Battleworld"** is the ninth instalment in the *COSMOS* anthology series and the second instalment in Collection III.

## Plot

*Contestants from across the cosmos are given the opportunity to earn their fortune by partaking in the brutal Battleworld Games.*

## Characters

* Mercer, a former soldier fighting to earn the Games' top prize
Dimension

In the universe of the *Hyperion* Saga, the term **dimension** has two meanings. The first is used to refer to a particular plane of existence defined by the minimum number of coordinates needed to specify any point within it; for example, foldspace is referred to as an alternate dimension as, unlike three-dimensional space, it is four-dimensional. The second is to refer to a distant or remote area of three-dimensional space; for example, the Prison Dimension is not actually a separate plane of existence, merely a vastly remote area of the Universe far away from the Settled Systems. In the context of the series' universe, the term "dimension" is typically grounded in mathematics and physics and does not refer to alternate realities.

## Known Dimensions

### Defined by mathematics:

* Continuum: 0-dimensional (no physical space)
* Realspace: 3-dimensional (length, width, height)
* Foldspace: 4-dimensional (length, width, height, spacetime)
* Hyperspace: combination of 0-D, 3-D and 4-D
Ashley Briggs

New Eden Corporation *(formerly)*

Soldier for the FDF

―Ashley to Erron following their reunion, 2903

**Ashley Briggs**, referred to as **Ash**, was a female human scientist selected by the Gaia Program to help colonize the Whirlpool Galaxy. One of 6,000 out of 500,000 colonists on the *Odyssey* sent down to Hyperion-b to establish the Olympia Colony, Ash was one of the few to survive Paul Monroe's attack on the colony and the destruction of the planet. She joined the Frontier Defence Force and the crew of the CS *Olympus* to hunt down the *Monroe* and bring peace to the Whirlpool.

Ashley sacrificed herself to close the Breach by piloting the Grim Reaper's Anti-Matter core into the Prison Dimension, seemingly trapping herself in the Continuum in the process. In 2903, four years later, the crew of the *Olympus* were still searching the galaxy for a way to rescue her. Thanks to the efforts of Weldom, the crew opened a Breach to the Continuum that enabled Erron to rescue her from the preserved antimatter core. Having been trapped in a foreign dimension for four years, Ashley discovered that her exposure to Breach energy had granted her strange abilities that could turn the tide against the Titans and those under their control.

## Biography

### Early Life

Ashley was born on a poor jungle planet in the Milky Way the early 2860s, but her family moved to Eden Prime in the Andromeda Galaxy when she was young. Ashley grew up idolizing the space explorer Paul Monroe, the creator of the Monroe Formula, and aspired to eventually work alongside him.

### Joining the FDF

#### Battle of Harmony

> *Main Article: Battle of Harmony*
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Gekoid

* Gek Subspecies
* Aquila Subspecies

**Gekoids**, originally known to humans as the **Visitors**, are a sentient, bipedal, insectoid race from the planet Gek and one of the most naturally intelligent races in the Milky Way. The gekoids, the tarsi and the quill were the founding races of the Federated Galactic Alliance. The gekoids are now spread across multiple galaxies and hundreds of millions of systems, but all of them consider the Gekoid Core Territories in the eastern Milky Way as their home.

## Culture

Gekoids are a vast and cultured species with a wide range of religions, tribal histories, and scientific knowledge. They are often praised by other races for their ability to meld their differing cultures into one civilization, one that has proven to be one of the most successful in the known Universe.
Choices

**"Choices"** is the upcoming fourth episode of *Part III: Age of the Scourge*, the third instalment of *Hyperspace: The Cosmic Gospel*. It will be written in the second half of 2022.

## Plot

*Anvil meets their benefactor, while Kera experiences life as an outlaw. Admiral Young seeks allies for both himself and Elijah, only to find aid in the most unexpected of people.*
David Young

―Young to Elijah shortly before the battle commences, *The Battle of Borealis*

Admiral **David John Young** is a male human who served as the Executive Officer of the Human Nexus Navy and a member of the HIN's delegation to the Intergalactic Council before heading the secretive Project Piller. In his position as XO, he was partly responsible for securing the Nexus and Nexus Station from potential threats. As part of his duty, he formed a strained alliance with the crew of the *Unreliable* in 5405 by helping them escape Nexus Station to pursue the Green World. Later, he led the station's security forces in fending off the *Darkened Heaven* and its fleet of Scourge. With Young's recommendation, Elijah Rayes was inducted into SpecOperA.

Two years later in 5407, Young was sent to the Euclid Galaxy and assigned the task of apprehending the AWOL *Unreliable*, only to discover that Elijah, believed to have been killed in the Attack on Everest Station, was alive and searching for his crew. Discovering that another Elijah - secretly his doppelgänger Hadron - was roaming the galaxy, Young began efforts to track and apprehend Hadron. Upon Elijah's public return to Borealis, Young worked with him to assemble a massive civilian fleet to defend the planet from the Scourge Armada, emerging victorious in the Battle of Borealis.

Three years later, Young had been promoted to the rank of admiral. No longer in charge of the Nexus' defence, he was assigned the task of overseeing SpecOperA's secretive Project Piller. Shortly after the death of his cousin Kendra Young, the *Zeroeremento* began their siege of the Nexus, forcing Admiral Young to form a resistance with the aid of Lara Porter and Ryzen's Apostates.

## Biography

### Early Life & Background

Not much is known about Young's early life. He is a descendent of John Young, a legendary human astronaut, and the cousin of politician Kendra Young, who would eventually be elected as the Imperator of the Human Interstellar Network. At some point, Young joined the Human Nexus Navy, humanity's naval delegation to Nexus Station, and became the captain of the dreadnought *Righteous Judgement*. In this capacity, he was also XO of the entire Human Nexus Navy.

## Overview

### Personality

A career officer and decorated soldier, Young commands an air of respect and authority, yet rarely finds himself listened to in critical situations. Although he has dedicated himself to the military heirarchy, Young is not afraid to diverge from given orders as shown when he allowed the *Unreliable* to escape Nexus Station and begin their quest.

## Appearances

### Hyperspace: The Cosmic Gospel

#### Part I: Darkened Heaven

* "The Piece of Junk"
* "Quarantine"
* "Forlorn Hope"
* "The Green World"
* "Homeworld"
* "Darkened Heaven"

#### Part II: The Battle of Borealis

* "Nomads"
* "Indigo Dawn"
* "War Never Changes"
* "The Battle of Borealis"

#### Part III: Age of the Scourge

* "The Sands of Tethys"
* "Choices"
* "Consequences"
Breach Energy

**Breach Energy** is the term used for the unique energy source emitted from breaches, a type of energetic wormhole leading to the Prison Dimension. Since the closing of the original Breach, smaller breaches have been detected around the southern Whirlpool, all of which emit this energy.

In 2903, it was revealed that the Alliance knew of the existence of Breach energy before the Whirlpool was even colonized and subsequent colonization efforts were to create an entire galaxy filled with workers to harness, process and deliver Breach energy to Andromeda and the Milky Way.