[2] 274 years ago, Hegemony CEO Meina Gladstone ordered the destruction of all farcaster portals to stop the TechnoCore from eliminating humankind.

Brawne Lamia, pregnant by the first John Keats cybrid, gave birth to a daughter called Aenea.

With help of its military forces (the Pax), the Catholic Church filled the void left by the Hegemony after the Fall.

On Hyperion, a hunting guide named Raul Endymion is given a mission from Martin Silenus: rescue Aenea, who is about to emerge from the Time Tombs; find Old Earth; destroy the Pax; and stop the TechnoCore.

Cardinal Lourdusamy, the Vatican Secretary of State, assigns Rhadamanth Nemes, part of a new officer corps, to De Soya's guard.

Aenea, Raul and Bettik travel to Sol Draconi Septem, a barely terraformed, frozen, high-gravity planet.

They meet and befriend Father Glaucus, an exiled priest, and the Chitchatuk, primitive humans who are adapted to Sol Draconi Septem's conditions.

When they farcast to God's Grove, de Soya secretly gives the ship instructions to resurrect the crew in only 6 hours instead of the safer 3 days.

Believing that she has three days before De Soya is resurrected, Nemes takes the Raphael's dropship and prepares an ambush for Aenea.

She suggests that the Technocore is responsible for the disappearance of the people in Hebron and Qom Riyadh and that it is behind the Church's resurgence and search for them.

Aenea guides the ship to Fallingwater, Pennsylvania, where she will study with a cybrid of architect Frank Lloyd Wright until she is ready to fulfill her mission.

Kirkus Reviews praised its intriguing ideas and characters while criticizing it for an overly detailed and complex plot.