 "Orphans of the Helix" won the 2000 Locus Award for best novella.It is set more than 481 years after "The Rise of Endymion"; the Pax is long since defeated, and the Aenean movement has been helping various groups colonize unknown space.One of the groups is the "Amoiete Spectrum Helix", which after their persecution by the Pax has been reconstituted.