The Hybrid has gained strength, has redirected human minds, and now they worship it. Florida, Aline's daughter, has been the instrument of the new world governance. A galactic federation rules the earth. A hybrid land just like its ruler. How long will it last? Is that being what they call antichrist?

For decades, astronomers have imagined advanced extraterrestrial civilizations, classifying them by the amount of energy their inhabitants could conceivably be able to harness and use.

Such hypothetical worlds are classified into three types according to a scheme described in 1964 by the Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev. A Type 1 civilization could manipulate all the energy resources on its home...