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This is a personal full-spoiler reading companion for Peter F. Hamilton’s 2024 novel Exodus: The Archimedes Engine — a space-opera set in the far-future Centauri Cluster and a narrative prequel for the Exodus game universe. It covers people, places, factions, technology, timeline, and plot.
Start here
- Book overview — premise, publication facts, and major threads
- Plot summary — full-spoiler arc structure
- Chapter summaries — reading-order chapter guide
- Timeline — ordered events with cross-links
- Finn Jalgori-Tobu — Uranic protagonist
- Thyra — Congregant who rises to power on Wynid
- Terence Wilson-Fletcher — detective on Gondiar
Browse by category
- Characters — the full cast, grouped by ship, court, and faction
- Locations — systems, worlds, and named ships
- Factions — Celestials, Dominions, Uranics, Travelers, liberation
- Technology — engines, mindlines, drives, livestone
Two roster pages give the wider picture behind the named figures:
- Celestials roster — how Celestial double names work, plus every named queen, consort, and archon
- Dominions roster — what a Dominion is, and which royal houses sit inside the Crown
About this wiki
Articles are encyclopedic original summaries written for this wiki. Long novel quotations are avoided. Secondary topics may appear as short stubs until expanded. The Timeline years and the chapter divisions are reconstructed working labels rather than the novel’s own dates and table of contents — see Sources and provenance for what is verified and what is not. Header search works best when the site is opened through a local static server (see the project README).