Under the various Hoyt's papacies, Father Duré was considered as an Antipope that nearly killed the Church. When Hoyt died, he was resurrected again and again, and Father Duré never again appeared to the public eye. Assisted by the immortality, the Church grew steadily and with help of its military forces, called Pax filled the void left by the Hegemony after the Fall, as the government of all the galaxy's mankind. The Church had developed a new technology that improved the results of the Resurrection, so the believers who had accepted the cruciform were virtually immortal. Two new Sacraments were introduced, the Acceptance of the Cruciform and the Resurrection.

With Lenar Hoyt as the new Pope Julius IV, with the help of Cardinal Lourdusamy, the Church took a new direction. When he died unexpectedly, he was reincarnated as Lenar Hoyt, due to the remaining cruciform on their shared body. His papacy was determined to rejuvenate the Church.

Before the fall, he had farcasted to Pacem, the dying Catholic Church's planet, and had been elected as the new Pope, under the name of Teilhard (a reference to Teilhard de Chardin). Silenus hid his home and began cryonic hibernation to wait for her return.įather Paul Duré was the only pilgrim not in Hyperion. When Aenea was twelve years old, she entered the 'Time Tomb' and disappeared. Lamia died when Aenea was still a girl, and Silenus took care of the child. Brawne Lamia, pregnant from the first John Keats technological reincarnation, gave birth shortly after to a daughter called Aenea. The Consul left shortly and joined the Ousters. However, the loss of the WorldWeb infrastructure also resulted in the collapse of civilization on most planets.īrawne Lamia, Martin Silenus and the Consul were the only surviving Pilgrims that stayed on Hyperion. The story opens 274 years after the Fall of Hyperion, in which Hegemony CEO Meina Gladstone ordered the destruction of all farcaster singularities to stop the TechnoCore from eliminating humankind.

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