The novel begins with Dreyfus being sent out on a routine assignment to lock down a glitter-band habitat for polling violations. They were not sapient; however, in order to supervise and control the process of xenocide, they were capable of forming a sapient overseer from many less-than-sapient machines. Dan Sylveste Edit. Dreyfus speaks with one of them about the Clockmaker, an alien machine which formerly lived in a Glitter Band research centre, creating, as its name suggests, clocks, before it began a violent killing spree and was destroyed with nuclear weapons nine years prior to the novel. "Please let me go now. A giant computer network runs thousands of polls everyday to decide the general actions of the Glitter Band as a whole. I'm in the bottom of the chasm. The right to vote and access abstraction for each inhabitant is policed by the Glitter Bands’ security force, Panoply. Release me.". ‘But he’s been here thousands of years.’‘Yes. This page was last edited on 7 December 2019, at 12:07. The site may not work properly if you don't, If you do not update your browser, we suggest you visit, Press J to jump to the feed. The Conjoiners predict a future devastated by what is implied to be the Melding Plague, and Aurora has been planning to respond to stop it (use of the Exordium creates a new timeline which can be changed to avoid the future the Exordium describes). Warren Clavain is Nevil's older brother, who is introduced in the short story The Great Wall of Mars. Initially an organic race, or group of races, they later made use of extensive cybernetics to enhance themselves, and eventually discarded their organic forms entirely to become wholly machine. That sort of spells out the plague's origins (by way of its temporary antidote). While it's not out of the question that Lascaille could in some way be responsible, I think unintentional contamination of Yellowstone/Chasm City is more in keeping with the story. The Glitter Band is a group of ten-thousand orbital habitats orbiting Yellowstone with a population of 100-million humans. It is encountered in The Prefect. However, when they had no choice, they would commit acts of xenocide in order to prevent life from spreading further. Calvin Sylveste, son of Lorean Sylveste and father to Dan Sylveste, is a character that is referenced often in all books of the series, but is most prominent in Revelation Space. Revelation Space is a 2000 science fiction novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds.It was the first novel (but not published work of fiction) set in Reynolds's eponymous universe.The novel reflects Reynolds's professional background: he has a PhD in astronomy and worked for many years for the European Space Agency. At Chasm City, she participated in Shadowplay, being the hunter and then killing or mortally wounding the participants. Add to this the fact that The Clockmaker used art to communicate with the sculpture artist inside Ruskin-Sartorius and it seem to become quite compelling. Explore buildings around town and meet new characters. One of the workers moved to catch it in a flask.At the other end, a high, shrill squeal sounded from his mouth parts.‘I guess he isn’t making Dream Fuel like he used to,’ I said, feeling sickened. It is the fifth novel set in the Revelation Space universe, and takes place prior to the four previously released Revelation Space novels, but after some of the short stories. This eventually drives Prefect Gaffney to assist Aurora, the antagonist, in her takeover bid. ‘He brought the Melding Plague here, after all.’‘Brought it?’ Zebra said. I've recently been chewing my way through the RS universe, and just finished The Prefect last night. Triumvir Ilia Volyova of Nostalgia for Infinity is an implant-free Ultra, and a major character in both Revelation Space and Redemption Ark. Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect (and later a Senior Prefect), an agent with an elite investigative police force around the Glitter Band known as the Panoply. It takes place prior to the four previously released Revelation Space novels, but after some of the short stories. He admits to his role in the weevil outbreak and informs the Prefects that Aurora is responsible. The Revelation Space Universe is the setting of a series of epic hard sci-fi space opera novels written by Alastair Reynolds. Build a town on a tropical island. Believing him to be truthful, Dreyfus and his deputy, the hyperpig Sparver, decide to investigate the matter further. Dan Sylveste is the son of Calvin Sylveste and one of the central characters of Revelation Space. The combination of compulsive and randomly repetitious artful rendering is a theme explored both during Sylveste's visits with Lascaille during Revelation Space as well as in descriptions throughout the series on the effects of the MP. The ultra-secret Panoply unit, Firebrand, was established to research it. The Cerberus object around the neutron star Hades was one such object, and it was inadvertently activated by Dan Sylveste, thus triggering the events that led to the Human-Inhibitor War. Dan Sylveste is the son of Calvin Sylveste and one of the central characters of Revelation Space. As the Clockmaker was the only intelligence in the Glitter Band capable of defeating Aurora, she attempted to destroy it. Chasm City is policed independently, and most habitats have their own internal constabulary forces to police other crimes. The Inhibitors were a post-intelligent machine race left over from a massive war—the Dawn War—that occurred between the first civilizations that arose in the Milky Way galaxy. Ana Khouri, an ex-soldier from Sky's Edge, was accidentally placed aboard an interstellar lighthugger and brought to Chasm City. Usually working from an office, they still retain field status. Have you read Chasm City? Set a century before the devastating effects of the melding plague, the book is able to showcase the golden age of mankind alluded to in earlier books. Clepsydra is taken into isolation, whilst Dreyfus explains the situation to the Senior Prefects. Also, the Grubs show no inclination whatsoever to artistic expression, which seems to form an integral part of the MP somehow. Revelation Space Wiki is a FANDOM Books Community. Glάdstonos, 85-403, 3032, Limassol, Cyprus, Solitaire Cruise Game: Classic Tripeaks Card Games, Hiddenverse: Dream Walker - Hidden Object Puzzles, Magica Travel Agency! They return to Panoply to find that the weevil attack has collapsed; the Clockmaker has uploaded itself into the Glitter Band's data network and is fighting a digital war with Aurora. Be the hero of the Clockmaker story and help Uncle rescue the townspeople from the evil curse of the Maleficent Clockmaker. It incapacitates him and leaves. His earliest memories indicate that he was once part of the crew aboard a pleasure craft. Dreyfus tells the Clockmaker what is happening. They functioned on unknown principles speculated to be femtotechnology or "structured" spacetime and were capable of self-replication. Sky discovers that he is not in fact his father's son, and was an infant 'momio' awakened by Titus secretly after the death of his own son. Dreyfus confronts members of Firebrand, who confirm Aumonier's theory, but reveal that the Clockmaker was not in fact destroyed; Firebrand became aware of the attack in advance and moved the Clockmaker. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Revelation Space Wiki is a FANDOM Books Community. Unbeknownst to him, however, Gaffney kills Clepsydra and frames Dreyfus. In this regard, Panoply can only exist if the populace is happy for them to proceed, which defuses much potential tension in this particular society. If Panoply feels the need to use heavier weaponry, this must be voted on by the entire Glitter Band in an emergency poll before any action can be undertaken (although Panoply command ignores this limitation in the novel, and uses heavy weapons in spite of a vote against it). By confining sapient life to only a few planets, they made the process of moving stars and systems—for collision avoidance during the crisis—far easier and more centralized, thus preserving life. She and some of the survivors of the last habitat take refuge in its polling core tower, barricading the entrance. A sequel, Elysium Fire, was released in January 2018.[1]. It seems to me to be very likely that the Melding Plague was/is a manifestation of The Clockmaker, emerging victorious from the battle with Aurora and finding something he could influence.

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