Warren Clavain

These are major characters from the various novels and stories that make up Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space universe.

Ana Khouri, an ex-soldier from Sky's Edge, was accidentally placed aboard an interstellar lighthugger and brought to Chasm City. At Chasm City, she participated in Shadowplay, a game in which she attempted to kill the clients so they could brag about the experience should they survive. After one Shadowplay event she was recruited by the Mademoiselle to infiltrate the crew of the lighthugger Nostalgia for Infinity. She was also recruited by the triumvirate of the Nostalgia for Infinity as the Gunnery officer (Triumvir Ilia Volyova's experiments having killed the previous officer), under the impression that she was heading back home to Sky's Edge. She has a small cameo at the end of Chasm City, although unnamed at the time and not revealed until Redemption Ark. She also has an important part in Redemption Ark organising the evacuation from Resurgam and again in Absolution Gap.

Possibly the oldest character of human origin in the series, he was born in the 21st century. A victim of the melding plague, the Captain becomes integrated with the lighthugger Nostalgia for Infinity, ultimately becoming one with his ship by the end of Revelation Space. Afterwards he exhibits erratic moods, attempting suicide with hell-class weapons, before eventually being coerced to convey the refugees from Resurgam and Ararat.

The Captain is a very mysterious character, hovering between wisdom and abject madness. He displays respect for Clavain and is the only other 'human' who can compare with him in terms of age, wisdom and experience, although the Captain states that he was already an old man when Clavain was born. The Captain at one point projects an image of himself from his oldest memories, in which he appears as a normal human in a spacesuit that is hinted at being very similar to those used by NASA astronauts, suggesting he originates from approximately our own time.

Throughout Redemption Ark and Absolution Gap, it is hinted that Captain Brannigan was responsible for many immoral acts in his very long, pre-plague life. Brannigan was also said to have been amongst the most extremely modified Ultras, likely able to survive prolonged vacuum exposure without a suit, such was the degree of enhancement. Prior to the time of the 'Eighty,' only Calvin Sylveste had the expertise to repair him, which he (or his beta-level) did on several occasions. Sometime before the events of Revelation Space the Captain was infected with the Melding Plague, but Ilia Voloyova was able to arrest the progress of the 'disease' by keeping him in a reefersleep casket. Eventually, the plague begins to consume the Captain, his casket, and nearby parts of the ship.

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