They have also secretly begun the production of a new fleet of starships for that purpose. With that knowledge, the Night Council direct Skade to make plans for an evacuation of the Mother Nest to far distant parts of the galaxy.
Skade can reach Galiana’s personality and learns more about the Inhibitor invasion. When they encountered the body of Galiana, suspended in a reefer sleep casket, they did not kill her but instead penetrated her mind. She finds that the Inhibitors, in the form of small black cubes, had invaded the ship, formed larger special purpose units and killed the crew in terrible ways. The story opens as Skade, who is a key instrument of a secret Conjoiner governing group, the Night Council, examines Galiana’s recently returned starship. Centuries before the start of the book, Galiana had set off in a starship to search for a new home, but had never returned until now. Their origin goes back billions of years to the Dawn War that convinced an ancient alien civilization that the only way to preserve intelligent life was to prevent it from achieving the sort of power it could turn to destructive wars on a vast scale. The message detailed the ruthless destruction of human civilization by the wolves or Inhibitors, semi-sentient machines that were planted throughout the galaxy to throttle civilizations as soon as they reached the star-faring stage. During her experiments to probe the linkage of human minds with quantum states, she found that entanglement related all mental states from the full spectrum of time and showed her a terrible vision of the future. This group of humans with implants that link all their minds and memories dwells in a complex structure within a hollowed out asteroid known as the Mother Nest. The events of the story are dominated by a message received from the future by Galiana, a founder of the Conjoiners. The second is Delta Pavonis with Resurgam and its human population of 200,000 centered in the city of Cuvier, where the destructive work of the life-destroying alien Inhibitors is about to begin. The human mind-linked Conjoiners are at war with another human faction, the Demarchists, for control of this volume of space, and the Conjoiners are winning. One is Epsilon Eridani with its major inhabited planet of Yellowstone, where the once great Chasm City and its orbital habitats known as the Glitterband, have fallen into decay because of the nano-scale Melding Plague. Redemption Ark weaves together several key story lines, taking place in two star systems, which were also the centers of action in the first novel of the trilogy, Revelation Space.
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