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The Reality Dysfunction is a science fiction novel by Peter F. Hamilton; the first book in his The Night's Dawn Trilogy. It is followed by The Neutronium Alchemist, and The Naked God. The paperback version was broken into two parts, Emergence, and Expansion.
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Omuta-Garissa conflict
Rival star systems Omuta and Garissa have been fighting over the development rights to a nearby mineral-rich star system. The fighting has escalated so that planetary bombardment is a real possibility. The Garissan navy are attempting a devastating preemptive strike on the Omuta system with the Alchemist, a terrible weapon which can destroy stars. However the attack is foiled and Dr. Alkad Mzu, the physicist who invented the weapon, is left stranded in a disabled spacecraft. With the Garissan navy defeated, Omuta antimatter-bombs Garissa, killing nearly everyone on the planets surface.
Ly-Cilph
We next receive a history lesson about the Ly-Cilph, an alien race who, in the course of their evolution in a harsh moon environment, have learned to transcend their physical boundaries and become incorporeal at the end of their lives.
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The story moves to Saturn orbit to introduce the Edenists. The Edenists are humans who use biotechnology as their main source of technology. Their space habitats are cylinders, kilometres-long, made of polyp (artificial coral). Most of their life-support systems are biologically-based, and their ships are also grown biologically. The Edenists use affinity bonds (essentially telepathy induced by artificially-grown symbiont neurons) for private and communal communication with each other and the sentient habitats and ships (voidhawks). The Edenists also use servitors (genetically engineered chimpanzees and so forth) as workers.Syrinx and Oenone
From the habitat Romulus, we observe the natural death of the voidhawk Iasius, sadly watched by her captain Athene. When voidhawks die, they make a mating flight. This mating flight results in several voidhawk eggs, including Oenone and her captain Syrinx. Oenone is special because her 'father' voidhawk is Udat, a blackhawk.
We follow the childhood of Syrinx and Oenone on Romulus until Syrinx's eighteenth birthday, when Oenone is well-enough developed to take their first flight together.