Once settled, the humans have returned to some of their old, destructive ways. Then there is Night, the zone of perpetual darkness and frigid cold where a rebel leader named Aidoneus Okoni is building an army to take over the planet.
These are Dawn, a center for farming where people live in small villages – and Diedra’s home, and Dusk where most of the humans have settled, especially in its major city of Oros. Day is a scorching desert where solar farms produce electricity for the population that lives in the two habitable regions. There are four unchanging zones on this planet that always faces its sun.
The moment is significant because it is the last time they will see each other for many years and sets in motion the long search by the mother for her daughter lost to a dark world. Calling herself Cate (Hecate?), she enters human experience at a point ten years in the past where a mother, Diedre, and her daughter Cora (Koré) are doing simple chores in the kitchen of their house. She is meant to be only a program but has willed herself into existence as a thinking and feeling being for whom past, present and future are indistinguishable. The story opens from the point of view of a seemingly ethereal being who spins her way out of an electronic Lattice that surrounds Eleusis. They are marked by a special eye color that sets them apart and later becomes a basis for discrimination. During the centuries-long journey, scientists performed genetic alterations on many of the humans as they slept in their pods to better prepare them for a harsh life on a planet with a narrow habitable zone lacking seasons or diurnal cycles.Ī select few received abilities comparable to those of the krestge, allowing them to shift out of three dimensions and linear time.
The remnants of the human race, following a devastating attack by the krestge, an alien species that transcends three dimensions, have traveled to the tidally locked planet of Eleusis (name of the ancient Greek city that was home to a religion devoted to Demeter). The background of Destroyer of Light is a bit complicated but unfolds gradually through the drama of each scene.
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