"Eos at the Gates of Dawn"
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| Author | Peter |
| Genre | Science fiction |
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| Timespan | 462 CE |
"Eos at the Gates of Dawn" is the final instalment of the Ascendancy Saga, and also serves as the introductory prologue of the Eos Saga. It features Black Opal, Carbonado, Sakamoto Sakura, and others as they untangle the mystery of Eos, Black Opal's two bodies on two different worlds, and the looming threat of a Theian intervention.
Synopsis
Immediately after committing suicide in the previous book "Guinevere Lacrimae", Black Opal awakens in the Realm of the Forgotten, an afterlife where lost souls reside. He realizes that his soul must have escaped this place, unlike others, which barred his transportation to Eos when it was created. He realises that this is the fate Lazuli must have experienced. After a short moment in a transitory limbo, he is reborn on Eos, a planet created by the godlike Guinevere to give the dead a second chance. There, he reunites with former enemies - Carbonado, Hecate, and Aldren Tremar - who now live peacefully.
Black Opal realises that because he had escaped the afterlife before, his memoria being that he hid back on Theia must still be alive. He learns that he can switch between the bodies at will, being both alive on Theia and on Eos. Through his Theian body, he reunites with his allies on Theia (Samnsonite, Sapphire, Psychotria) who themselves discover Eos through a neural implant in Black Opal. Fearing its resurrected population (including dangerous figures), they infiltrate Eos, but Black Opal dissuades them, compelling them to "die" and join Eos permanently.
The TERAPRO facility learns of Eos through a spy that assumed Psychotria's being. They petition to the Theian Federation for help, who see it as a threat and eventually bombs the planet, disabling its protective firmament. Black Opal escapes back to Theia, recruits Sakura (a former ally), and devises a plan: digitize Eos using a digiverse bomb to move it beyond Theia’s reach.
With help from Wisteria, who resides in the Empyrium world of San, Black Opal triggers the bomb, freezing Eos in digital stasis. The Theian fleet that arrived to secure the planet is heavily damaged as a result, but prepare to fire on Black Opal's ship. The arrival of an Empyrium flotilla, commanded by Wisteria herself, rescues Black Opal, who escapes with the digiverse prism that contains Eos. With the people of Eos in safe hands, they prepare to warp out of the system to bring the planet to a new home in the Empyrium.
