He ponders this as he leaves on a mission, during which he rescues Antoinette Bax as she buries her father in the gas giant Tangerine Dream. Ten years later, Nevil Clavain is facing problems in the Conjoiner mother nest he is struggling to find answers as to what happened to Galiana (he is unaware that she is still alive) and about Felka, who he believes may be his daughter. Galiana requests that Skade kill her, but Skade only places her in suspended animation in the hope that she can be helped in the future. In space, she encountered the Inhibitors, who have unleashed an agent into her ships which has taken control of it and killed her crew. In the ship, she discovers Galiana, the original founder of the Conjoiners, who left Conjoiner space decades previously on an exploration mission. It is revealed early on that Skade is a Conjoiner woman who appears to be in touch with secret circles of control within the theoretically egalitarian Conjoiners society. The novel begins in the year 2605, where Skade has been tasked with investigating a Conjoiner ship that has returned to the Conjoiner headquarters, the Mother Nest. The novel takes place around the planets Yellowstone and Resurgam, in two story lines which converge near the climax of the novel. It continues the story of Nevil Clavain begun in the short stories " Great Wall of Mars" and " Glacial". Redemption Ark is a 2002 science fiction novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds set in the Revelation Space universe.
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