Hegemon of Earth

In the Ender's Game and Shadow series by Orson Scott Card, the Hegemon is the ruler of the planet. Even though the planet is still divided into countries, the Hegemon has power over them all.

Peter Wiggin, Ender Wiggin's brother, becomes the Hegemon at the conclusion of Ender's Game. The Shadow series covers the years that Peter serves in this position. In the novel, the position of Hegemon was the political leader of Earth. The Hegemon, along with the positions of Polemarch (responsible for the International Fleet of space warships), and the Strategos (responsible for the overall command of solar system defense), was one of the three most powerful people alive. The defeat of the Formics by Ender changed this position. Bean was given the title of Strategos by Peter Wiggin after he assumed the Hegemony.

The Hegemon is also the title of a fictional book written by character Andrew "Ender" Wiggin about his brother Peter, usually published with The Hive Queen by the same author. Both works are a result of Ender's turning into a Speaker for the Dead after the end of the Formic War.

Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series
Ender's Game series
Books
  • Ender's Game (1985)
  • Speaker for the Dead (1986)
  • Xenocide (1991)
  • Children of the Mind (1996)
  • Ender's Shadow (1999)
  • Shadow of the Hegemon (2001)
  • Shadow Puppets (2002)
  • First Meetings (2002)
  • Shadow of the Giant (2005)
  • A War of Gifts: An Ender Story (2007)
  • Ender in Exile (2008)
  • Shadows in Flight (2012)
  • Earth Unaware (2012)
  • Earth Afire (2013)
  • Shadows Alive (TBA)
Short stories
Original short story
  • "Ender's Game" (1977)
First Meetings (2002)
  • "The Polish Boy"
  • "Teacher's Pest"
  • "Ender's Game"
  • "Investment Counselor"
InterGalactic Medicine Show
  • "Mazer in Prison"
  • "Pretty Boy"
  • "Cheater"
  • "A Young Man with Prospects"
  • "The Gold Bug"
  • "Ender's Stocking"
  • "Ender's Homecoming"
  • "Ender in Flight"
Comics
  • Gold Bug
  • Ender's Game: Battle School
  • Ender's Shadow: Battle School
  • Recruiting Valentine
  • Ender's Game: Command School
  • Ender's Shadow: Command School
  • War of Gifts
  • Mazer in Prison
  • The League War
  • Ender in Exile
  • Speaker for the Dead
  • Formic Wars: Burning Earth
  • Formic Wars: Silent Strike
Film
  • Ender's Game
Video game
  • Ender's Game: Battle Room
Characters
Ender's family
  • Ender Wiggin
  • John Paul Wiggin
  • Peter Wiggin
  • Theresa Wiggin
  • Valentine Wiggin
Battle School
  • Alai
  • Petra Arkanian
  • Bean
  • Ender's jeesh
  • Achilles de Flandres
  • Han Tzu
  • Other students
Other
  • Anton
  • Sister Carlotta
  • Descoladores
  • Fleet personnel
  • Formics
  • Hive Queen
  • Jane
  • Pequeninos
  • Poke
  • Han Qing-jao
  • Stilson
  • Volescu
  • Si Wang-mu
Concepts
  • Ansible
  • Anton's Key
  • Descolada
  • Fantasy Game
  • Hierarchy of Foreignness
  • Hegemon of Earth
  • Molecular Disruption Device
  • Organizations
  • Outside
  • Park Shift Theory
  • Philote/Philotic Web
  • Planets
  • Starways Common

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