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The UI are also powerful enough to feed on quasars for snacks. Dure disappeared into one of the cave tombs whose entrance disappeared after he entered, leading now to the labyrinth on Hyperion like 9 other worlds that are usually empty. Instead now they contained mummified human corpses numbering suspected in the billions from the future, here he meets the shrike who takes his cruciform off leaving only Hoyt’s.

To create this UI it is revealed that the AIs intentionally destroyed old earth and killed brawne lamias father and killed Keats’ cybrid. As well as this lamias Keats persona lover is killed by Ummon, an AI that has been behind many of these decisions Brawne lamia now returns to the present

It is revealed that in the far future when ‘yellow suns are red’ the AIs managed to create their UI while a separate human UI evolved comprised of a trinity of empathy, intellect, and the void that binds and are fighting a war. During this war empathy separated itself and is hiding among the web while the AI UI sent the shrike back in time to find it and to finish the war while removing the Hyperion variable

Martin is on the tree of pain and sees Billy there as well, M. Severn watches as the first and second web worlds are evacuating while the shrike cult preach their prophecy and Gladstone and force prepare to sacrifice first wave world for an offensive attack against the ousters before they reach gods grove

3 Ships were blown up that were heading towards the time tombs unclear if they were the consul or ouster forces or others. Sol offered Rachael to the shrike as Rachel wished and now the time tombs have opened

The shrike seems to come when people are alone. The consul crashed his hawking mat and masteen revealed that the templars had been colluding with the shrike cult and that he and the erg were supposed to lead the tree of pain (the big metal tree) through space-time then he died. Dure has disappeared and brawne lamia and the metallic umbilical have also disappeared leaving only sol and his one day old daughter left.

While brain dead, lamia is now jacked directly into the datumplane with Keats also free with her ready to fully dive into the cores secrets. Kassad has been transported to a future Hyperion who’s atmosphere and sun are gone, sand turned into glass and the cliffs melted away with the time tombs still there and he has charged to fight the shrike who now numbers in the thousands protecting the metallic tree, holy shit

Het still hasn’t told his story. The consul brought the flying carpet and there is some non linearity to the story which seems to reflect the time tides which is awesome also kassad briefly travelled into the future to see the ouster ground invasion which was described awesomely

Brawne is not dead but only brain dead with a metallic lead coming out of her shunt and leading into the sphinx, het masteen disappeared when he released the erg originally which is supposed to be the only true ally against the shrike but the shrike stopped him. Het also seems to share some beliefs with the shrike church as the Yggdrasil was sacrificed in ‘atonement’ with some tie to the cybrid

It is also mentioned that the techno core was asked to choose the pilgrims because their wishes were the ones that would impact the outcome of the war between the hegemony and the ousters and Gladstone also threatened to declare war against the techno core for betraying humanity. This book is awesome