In 2050, a strange meteor crashes into the moon and catalyzes the next step of sentient evolution for all the dreaming animals of Earth. In 2300, homo sapiens galacticus has spread into the Milky Way, establishing a Thearchy that rules over 100 worlds. In a supernatural society, where rulers call themselves "Gods", the struggle for freedom and equality is far from over.

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BACKGROUND: When the Prometheor struck the moon, it changed the evolutionary destiny for the animal kingdom. Animals that can dream were suddenly walking upright and talking. For humans, this meant a certain percentage of us are born with one of five dreaming gifts. Lucid dreamers are telekinetic, prescient dreamers see the future, cybernautic dreamers are inventors or A.I. specialists, remote dreamers are astral projectors, and dreamweavers are illusionists. Many people who went to the moon to study the Prometheor decided not to return. This was the beginning of the "loonie" society, so-called because of their lunar lifestyle. Eleven families, known for producing the most powerful dreamers, conceived the House of Gods to organize mankind's efforts and resources. The House of Man was conceived to give voice to the common people and the Sovereign Blackdawn positioned herself in a place of power above it all. This will exaggerate America's militant oligarchy and examine its flaws with hints of Dune, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Highlander.

OUR STORY STARTS in the city of Askahuila, on the planet Koanoa. Leonardo Davici Chibu is a young, down-on-his-luck inventor with dreams of making it big. He works a dead-end job at a tech firm producing hardware for the Lockguard royal family, who own and control the atmosphere and everything below it. The story jumps back and forth to a point when Leo is kidnapped and forced to work in a cell creating a mysterious device. One day, Leo meets Fabian Eastriddle, an agent of chaos hunted by the gods. Fabian's influence is corrosive and Leo begins to see the inherently unjust society he lives in.

Elliot Grandmore was an infant political exile, a powerful lucid dreamer with a price on his head due to his destiny, who grew up alone and isolated on a faraway world called Obos. Halcyon, a prescient "loonie", absconded with the baby there and plotted the boy's future before dying a few years later. Obos was once home to a race of advanced tool-users which created a system of A.I. built from plant-based tech. This system of alien A.I. continued to grow and evolve for millions of years after the extinction of its creator. By the time Halcyon arrived with the baby Grandmore, every inch of the planet in one way or another served the greater intelligence, the Oborian Machine.

Fabian introduces Leo to Judith, a beautiful young cybernaut who honeypots him into Fabian's schemes. When Leo gets wise to their relationship, he begins to learn everything he can about Fabian Eastriddle, allegedly the greatest sword fighter in the galaxy. At some point, Fabian and his crew (and everyone in the galaxy) is humbled by the dream of a man named Elliot Grandmore, who somehow sent three warships back to their ports of origin instantly with a thought. As Leo's involvement with Judith comes to a head, Fabian kidnaps him and forces him to build a beam-of-light sword using the soul of a 250-year-old sentient tiger named Nini. He creates a copy of Nini to make his own weapon and escapes into a city at war.

Elliot is now a man, a wild thing of Obos. He has never been touched by any human culture. He wanders the world populated only by wildlife. At some point, he swallows a seed and becomes the default command operator for the Oborian Machine. Suddenly, the memories that make up his personality are but a tiny fraction of the overall data in his head. It takes many days to adjust, to remember who and what he is. He becomes aware of an ancient plan, contrived millions of years ago, a plan with geologic timescales and cosmic repercussions. When three warships enter orbit, he wraps them in pocket universes: an infinite number of wormholes leading back to the source. He delivers a warning and sends them back home.

On the day Leo escapes Fabian, the galaxy erupts into chaos as Elliot Grandmore uses wormholes to remove all military hardware in orbit around the three galactic capitols, the House of Gods, the House of Man, and the Throne Supreme. Rioting is prevalent everywhere as prescient dreamers are no longer able to see the future, such is the macro-quantum uncertainty waveform that Elliot Grandmore represents. Leo must navigate a city at war to stop Fabian from altering the mind of everyone on Koanoa. Along the way, he meets Tet, a "loonie" who grew up with Fabian and is now tasked with bringing him back to the moon. Leo and Tet formulate a plan: Leo would distract Fabian long enough to disable his arcblade, then Tet would sneak in and hit Fabian with a tranquilizer dart. Tet, however, does not show up on time, and Leo is forced into hand-to-hand combat with Fabian. At some point, Fabian's Nini is able to bypass Leo's remote overrides and Fabian's arcblade works again. Leo must allow his Nini to possess his body in order to survive a duel with Fabian. Leo, controlled by Nini, is able to best Fabian, but just before the death blow, Leo suffers a neurological episode and collapses to the floor.

Elliot uses the collective processing power of a planet-wide system of artificial intelligence to open wormholes and walk from world to world, earning him the moniker, "Worldwalker". He has discovered a secret space station the size of Earth's moon which houses hundreds of millions of clones of the Sovereign Blackdawn. The Sovereign has cloned herself into effective immortality by seeding the galaxy with billions of clones. Elliot learns the cloning program was heterosexual, producing both male and female clones in the hope of breeding a pluripotent clone (a dreamer with all the gifts). Elliot arrives via wormhole which expands at the speed of light, displacing all the clones into outer space, killing them. It is then we discover that Leo is one of these clones, that his neurological episode was a result of this very event. All over the galaxy clones of the Sovereign, only a small percentage of which actually know they're a clone, suffer the same thing. The upper echelons of galactic political administration experience a devastating catastrophe.

PART ONE ENDS WITH Tet rescuing Leo and bringing him to a safe place to recover. The voices in Leo's head (a telepathic connection to the billions of clones left alive) precludes a normal life and soon, he embarks on a quest to find and eliminate the remaining clones in...The Hunt.

After taking steps to minimize the fallout following the dissolution of the Houses of Gods and Man, Elliot comes to terms with the fact he's too powerful to be human. He makes a plan to leapfrog through humanity's future history by stepping through wormholes which don't "exit" for hundreds of years. In each cosmic age, he helps mankind through the most difficult trials it faces before stepping into the future again in...Worldwalker, Timestepper.

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