This is a list of characters that appear in the Commonwealth Universe. All characters are listed alphabetically and each will have an indication of where they most prominently feature, [PS] for Pandora's Star, [JU] for Judas Unchained and [CS] for those characters that feature in both books of the Commonwealth Saga; Similarly [DV], [TV], [EV] and [VT] for the Void Trilogy and [AB], [NW] and [CF] for the Chronicle of the Fallers. Anna Kime (before marriage with Wilson, Anna Hober) [CS] Wilson's wife and his Chief of Staff (former Sensor officer, Second Chance). Starflyer Agent on board the Second Chance. Catherine Stewart (The Cat) [JU] Convict Navy Trooper, wetwired armament and member of the Cat’s Claws When the Second Chance arrives and begins to explore what appears to be an enclosure generator, an unknown mechanism shuts it down and the barrier around the star disappears. Formerly imprisoned inside is an extremely warlike and aggressive species, a race that comes to be called "the Primes". They consist of intelligent "immotiles" that breed and control vast armies of sub-sentient "motiles" via electronically extended neural interfaces. The few immotiles constantly vie with each other for territories and resources, and by the time of the story, the strongest uses the technology gleaned by analysis of the human's wormhole-generation techniques to destroy all the other Prime immotiles and thus become the only one remaining Prime: MorningLightMountain. These passages probably reveal more about Hamilton’s assessment of existing 21st-century human civilization than they do about what a 24th-century posthuman civilization would look like (if we can get there), but that’s not a criticism; the future’s inherent unpredictability usually ensures that science fiction is more about critiquing the present than describing what’s to come with much reliability. Hamilton’s preoccupation with this debate is engaging and useful despite its heavy-handed presentation.

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. I’ve seen what societies like ours progress into. I’ve walked on their worlds and admired them firsthand. This Commonwealth is only an interim stage for a species like ours; even your Socialism will be left behind in true evolution. We can become something wonderful, something special. We have that potential. (259) Find sources: "Commonwealth Saga"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( January 2014) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Campbell Sheldon [CS] Direct great-grandson of Nigel Sheldon with a high position in the Family DynastyOrion [CS] Parentless teenage boy from Silvergalde and Ozzie’s companion during his search to find the adult Silfen The Commonwealth Saga is a series of science fiction novels by British science fiction writer Peter F. Hamilton. This saga consists of the novels Pandora's Star (2004) and Judas Unchained (2005). Hamilton has also written several books set in the same literary universe. Misspent Youth (2002) takes place 340 years before the events of Pandora's Star. The Void Trilogy, consisting of The Dreaming Void (2008), The Temporal Void (2009), and The Evolutionary Void (2010), takes place 1,200 years after the events of Judas Unchained; several of the main characters from Judas Unchained and Pandora's Star also appear in the Void trilogy.

McClain Gilbert (Mac) [CS] Forward crew chief at the CST exploratory division on Merredin , member of the Second Chance mission and later a Navy captain of the starship Moscow Brown, Eric (20 November 2014). "The best science fiction novels in October – review roundup". The Guardian . Retrieved 10 March 2018. The PandoraStar is a powerful, portable and user-friendly tool – used for healing, the attainment of deep trance states and many other positive effects. Thousands of people around the world are already benefiting from lasting improvement of their overall well-being. Samantha McFoster [JU] A clan member in the Guardians of Selfhood , technician for the planet's revenge

As the war rages, the human forces begin to build much faster, better armed ships and fitting them with new "quantumbuster" weapons that can destroy an entire planet. Later on, a more advanced quantumbuster is deployed, which is capable of inducing a main-sequence star to go nova. Despite the original plan to use it on the Dyson Alpha star and thus kill the entire prime race, a modified field version of a normal quantumbuster is eventually deployed on the Dyson Alpha forcefield generator, destroying the mechanism that was interfering with the generator's systems. This allows the mechanism to reactivate, trapping the Prime aliens inside and avoiding genocide. On a distant planet, astronomer Dudley Bose performs the first detailed observations of a mysterious astronomical event known as the Dyson Pair Enclosure. Two stars, located roughly 1,000 light years from Earth (750 light years from the edge of Commonwealth space), disappeared some time in the past. The theory is that they have been enclosed inside Dyson spheres.

Some PandoraStar programs last a few minutes, others several hours. We know that brainwave activity is influenced by a synchronized activity of neurons firing in the brain. This allows the user of the PandoraStar to effortlessly dive into various states of consciousness, and to explore them to his heart’s content. Holistic healing with PandoraStar light sequences PandoraStar Light Machine For Naturopaths, Meditators and Yogis Hoshe Finn [CS] Detective for the Darklake City Police working for the ice division/criminal investigation departmentUsing LED lights arranged in a sacred geometrical pattern, PandoraStar can be programmed to produce high frequency light for the brain to decode in unique ways. The light is often used for entering meditation, hypnosis, and trance states for personal and spiritual development. It can help users achieve deep states of relaxation, enhance creativity, improve focus, and facilitate personal transformation. For all the changes and undeniable improvements automation and consumerism had brought to the proletariat’s standard of living, it hadn’t changed the financial power structure that ruled the human race. A tiny minority controlled the wealth of hundreds of worlds, bypassing, buying, or corrupting governments to maintain their dominance. (795-6) Eventually, the human forces decide that there can be no other solution to the conflict than to commit genocide and destroy the Primes entirely. However, it is revealed that the Primes are planning a much larger invasion, which humanity will be all but powerless to stop.