Endymion

Nearly three centuries have passed since the Fall of the Great Network. Null-portals no longer work, and there’s no trace left of the once-great Hegemony. But a sacred place is never empty, and so the revived Catholic Church took the place of the Hegemony—its power and influence now reaching truly universal scale. Trillions of its followers across a multitude of inhabited planets adopted cross-forms as a symbol of the new faith and resurrection. Only a few local communities on remote backwater planets refuse its rule.

One such person, Raoul Endymion, a resident of Hyperion, is entrusted by poet Martin Silen, author of the legendary "Songs," with saving Lamia Bron’s daughter, Eneya—a girl who in the future will become the messiah and herald of the new era: The One Who Teaches.