MorningLightMountain believes that it is necessary to eliminate all other life in order to achieve immortality.įollowing the capture of the two crewmembers, MorningLightMountain discovers wormhole technology. Upon learning of the Commonwealth's existence, the dominant immotile grouping, MorningLightMountain, makes it their primary objective to destroy the Commonwealth. The war continued until the barrier was erected around the stars.Īfter capturing two crew members of the Second Chance, one of whom was Dudley Bose, the Primes eventually discover the location of the Commonwealth. They also broke away from the control of Alpha's Primes and this started a war between two systems.

They started to routinely alter themselves through genetic manipulation and mechanical augmentation and therefore were referred to as alienPrimes.

Primes has colonized Dyson Beta and enslaved its native inhabitants in a process. The few immotiles constantly vie with each other for territories and resources. They consist of intelligent immotiles that breed and control vast armies of semi-sentient 'motiles' via electronically extended neural interfaces. Inside the first imprisoned star system is an incredibly warlike and aggressive species, a race that come to be called the Primes. Using a self-generating wormhole for propulsion, the Second Chance travels to Dyson Alpha.Īs they arrive and begin to explore what appears to be an enclosure generator, it is shut down by an unknown mechanism and the barrier around the star disappears (the cause of the shutdown is revealed in Judas Unchained). To investigate, the Commonwealth builds its first interstellar ship, the Second Chance. This raises the possibility that extraterrestrial intelligences were responsible furthermore, did the Dyson Aliens enclose themselves, or did some other force enclose them? Was it for protection or to protect those outside the spheres? The theory is that they have been enclosed inside Dyson spheres.īose's investigations reveal that it is unlikely that the enclosing of Dyson Alpha and Dyson Beta (as the stars become known) was a natural occurrence. Two stars, located roughly 1,000 light years from Earth (750 light years from the edge of Commonwealth space), seemingly disappeared some time earlier. The Saga begins in 2380, when astronomer Dudley Bose performs the first detailed observations of an astronomical event known as the Dyson Pair Enclosure. PagesĘ82 (UK hardcover), 1,152 (UK paperback)

Publisher Pan Macmillan (UK) & Del Rey (US)

Judas unchained