Meina Gladstone

Character from Hyperion by Dan Simmons

The CEO who destroyed the WorldWeb — the Hegemony's leader who ordered every farcaster obliterated when she discovered the TechnoCore was eating humanity's brains through the transit network.

Also known as: Gladstone, CEO Gladstone, The Lincoln Analog

What They Know

• CEO of the Hegemony Senate during the Hyperion crisis — humanity's most powerful political leader
• Discovered the TechnoCore was using farcasters to tap human brains for computational power
• Ordered the destruction of every farcaster in the WorldWeb — collapsed interstellar civilization
• Millions died in the immediate chaos; she chose that over humanity's slow consumption
• Her face carved into a mountain on Hyperion alongside Sad King Billy
• Former lawyer who worked with Byron Lamia against Core dominance

Connections

• rules — worldweb_loc
• destroys — farcaster
• betrayed_by — consul
• advised_by — albedo

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