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{{image|Skyward UK Hardcover.jpg|side=right|width=250px|Cover of the British edition of ''[[Skyward]]''}}
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The '''Cytoverse'''{{wob ref|13771}} is the setting of ''[[Defending Elysium]]'' and the [[Skyward (series)|Skyward series]].{{wob ref|11965}} It is our own world, albeit in the far future; as such, it is not part of the [[cosmere]]. Alongside [[Earth (Skyward)|Earth]] and humanity, it contains numerous spacefaring species, all of which share a magic system known as [[cytonics]], which is what the universe is named after.
== History ==
=== Discovery of cytonics and First Contact ===
Across the known universe, all sapient species developed [[cytonics|cytonic]] abilities prior to discovering advanced technology; as such, they would often abandon further pursuit of conventional sciences in favour of the psionic powers. Humanity is one exception to that. Earth was already advanced technologically by the time the [[Phone Company]] began developing cyto, a cybernetics-based method of telepathic linking. Those early experiments were unsuccessful, but they were enough to attract the attention of the spacefaring [[tenasi]]. After a misunderstanding led to the tenasi scout being shot down by [[United Governments]] military, the Phone Company negotiated more peacable relations, and, as a result, became the sole point of contact between humans and aliens.{{book ref|elysium}}
From then on out, humanity spread across the Solar System, watched over by the Phone Company. Some of its employees believed that the other races of the universe needed to be protected from humankind and its barbaric ways until the time was right for them to join the truly civillized societies. However, it eventually became apparent that the aliens' peace came at a cost -- they would imprison their dissidents and cut them off from cytonics. In the aftermath of this revelation, a PC operative named [[Jason Write]] decided to share the FTL technology, which the Company had developed, but kept hidden, with the rest of the populace.{{book ref|elysium}}
=== ''Defending Elysium'' ===
Brandon created ''[[Defending Elysium]]'' in 2003; it was the last story he'd written prior to selling ''[[Elantris (book)|Elantris]]'' and thus kickstarting the [[cosmere]]. Though ''Defending Elysium'' won a honorable mention at the Writers of the Future contest in 2003, it wouldn't see the light of day until 2008, when, after substantial re-editing, it won the first prize at [https://renoir.upc.edu/brgf/cficcio//premi_upc/angles/2007/dades_edicio.php UPC Science Fiction Award] in Spain. It was subsequently published in [https://www.asimovs.com Asimov's Science Fiction]'s October/November 2008 issue, and then released publicly on Brandon's website in 2009.{{bws ref|/short-fiction-non-cosmere/#DEFENDINGELYSIUM|About Defending Elysium|date=01-01-2020}}
=== The travels of Spensa, space pilot ===
The following are confirmed upcoming works set in the Cytoverse:
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* '''[[Sunreach]]''' and '''[[ReDawn (novella)|ReDawn]]''' - novellas that will accompany the release of Cytonic
* '''Skyward 4''' - the fourth and final book in the Skyward series.
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