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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