In the short story, The Way of All Ghosts, soldier Olmy ap Sennon is sent to close a lesion that formed out of a wayward gate into perfection. In 2007, CGSociety organised a 'CG Challenge' based upon Eon Eternity

The Hexamon itself is at war with an alien race known as the Jarts from further down the corridor still. The Hexamon includes several alien species who have come to live with humanity's descendants. The high technology of this civilization, known as the Hexamon, has control over genetic engineering, human augmentation, and matter itself. Its presence threatens to cause the Death to occur on the current timeline as well.Īn expedition is sent down the seemingly infinite seventh chamber (The 'Way', as it is known) where it encounters the descendants of humanity. The Death occurred at approximately the same time as the appearance of the Thistledown in the present time. In their timeline, human civilization was nearly destroyed by the 'Death', a calamitous World War involving nuclear weapons.

The human inhabitants of the Thistledown come from an alternate timeline, approximately 1000 years in the future. The seventh chamber appears to stretch into infinity. A startling discovery is that it is bigger inside than outside. The asteroid is called the Thistledown by its builders. Two of the chambers contain cities long abandoned by human beings who seemed to come from Earth's future. It is hollow and contains seven vast terraformed chambers. The two nations each try to claim this mysterious object, which appears to be a virtual duplicate of Juno. In that tense political climate, an asteroid appears out of near space after an unusual supernova and settles into an extremely elliptical orbit near Earth orbit. In the early 21st century, the United States and Russia are on the verge of nuclear war. Eon chronicles the appearance and discovery of the Thistledown, and its subsequent effect on humanity.

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