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There is lot going on in this second installment of the Noumenon trilogy that covers thousands of years. The story splits into three main parts that will converge in the end. Convoy Seven tasked by Earth to return to the Dyson Sphere (Web) star and finish the completion of the Dyson Sphere and learn how to harness its energy eventually splits in two when a group within the convoy votes to take some of the convoy ships to investigate remnants of the alien race they call the Natare who appeared to have been the last race to work on the Dyson Sphere. Expedition Seven-Point-Five calls itself Noumenon Ultra and heads off on its century's long investigation. Meanwhile the original Convoy Seven over many generations works to complete the Dyson Sphere and will be horrified to discover what happens when the Dyson Sphere is completed and activated. The third part of the story deals with small Convoy Twelve, made up of both clones and non-clones, tasked to stay near Earth's solar system and research finding other subdimensions in order to find ways to speed up space travel. A subdimensional accident destroys some of the ships and sends the rest of the convoy approximately fifteen kiloparsecs from Earth and over one hundred thousand years into the future. Before the survivors run out of supplies a strange alien race they name the Luhng surrounds their convoy with ships and provides them basic help but does not appear to be very interested in interacting with the lost humans. As with the first book the story is character driven and follows the various iterations of clones and non-clones as the countless generations pass. Societal changes and problems as well as other strange occurrences round out this very imaginative story.
There is lot going on in this second installment of the Noumenon trilogy that covers thousands of years. The story splits into three main parts that will converge in the end. Convoy Seven tasked by Earth to return to the Dyson Sphere (Web) star and finish the completion of the Dyson Sphere and learn how to harness its energy eventually splits in two when a group within the convoy votes to take some of the convoy ships to investigate remnants of the alien race they call the Natare who appeared to have been the last race to work on the Dyson Sphere. Expedition Seven-Point-Five calls itself Noumenon Ultra and heads off on its century's long investigation. Meanwhile the original Convoy Seven over many generations works to complete the Dyson Sphere and will be horrified to discover what happens when the Dyson Sphere is completed and activated. The third part of the story deals with small Convoy Twelve, made up of both clones and non-clones, tasked to stay near Earth's solar system and research finding other subdimensions in order to find ways to speed up space travel. A subdimensional accident destroys some of the ships and sends the rest of the convoy approximately fifteen kiloparsecs from Earth and over one hundred thousand years into the future. Before the survivors run out of supplies a strange alien race they name the Luhng surrounds their convoy with ships and provides them basic help but does not appear to be very interested in interacting with the lost humans. As with the first book the story is character driven and follows the various iterations of clones and non-clones as the countless generations pass. Societal changes and problems as well as other strange occurrences round out this very imaginative story.