The WorldWeb
Location from Hyperion by Dan Simmons
An interstellar civilization connected by instant farcaster travel — 200+ worlds linked so seamlessly you could walk from your kitchen on one planet to your office on another. Until Gladstone destroyed every farcaster at once.
Also known as: WorldWeb, The Web
What They Know
- 200+ worlds connected by instant farcaster portals — step through a door, arrive anywhere
- Some homes had rooms on different planets; the River Tethys flowed through portals on dozens of worlds
- Every farcaster transit secretly tapped human neural patterns for TechnoCore computing
- Gladstone destroyed every farcaster simultaneously — the Web collapsed, millions died
- The Fall was the most consequential act of destruction in human history
Connections
- ruled_by — gladstone
- exploited_by — technocore_entity
- destroyed_by — gladstone
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