Redemption Ark - Redemptions

Redemptions

A number of characters in the novel have committed more or less terrible crimes, and express a desire to redeem themselves.

• John Brannigan tries to commit suicide because he does not want to live any longer with the memory of his past crimes. When he does not succeed, he permits his ship to become an ark for the refugees from Resurgam.
• Schuyler "Sky" Haussmann / "H" makes it explicit that he considers the help he offers to Clavain as an attempt to give back to humanity what he took from them.
• Ilia Volyova equally sees her final attack on the inhibitors as an act of redemption.
• The alpha-level simulation on the Storm Bird, a convicted criminal, sees his suicidal assistance to Ilia Volyova as equally redemptive.
• The Inhibitors, having done severe damage to the galaxy during the Dawn War, attempt to redeem themselves by shepherding life through the Milky Way's collision with Andromeda.