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The Prefect

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The Prefect	comment	The Prefect is a trilogy, of which two books Aurora Rising (2008), originally a standalone novel titled The Prefect, and Elysium Fire (2018) have so far been published, by Alastair Reynolds. It is set within his "Revelation Space" universe. Chronologically, it occurs before the main series and functions as a prequel, fleshing out the backstory of the fictional future history.It is the Belle Epoque, the peak of human society. Around the planet Yellowstone a ring of ten thousand orbital habits called "The Glitter Band" is known far and wide. Each habitat is a society unto itself, with its own rules and culture. Uniting them is the political philosophy of democratic panarchy, where the one and only universal law is that no citizen be denied the right to vote. Thus, the Glitter Band contains a myriad of possible human cultures, ranging from idyllic egalitarians who consciously limit the use of technology, Matrix-style worlds where everyone is plugged into a virtual world, and “voluntary tyrannies”, where citizens live under hellish regimes and have virtually no rights - aside, of course, from the right to vote.The closest thing to a governing agency is the Panoply, a quasi-police force whose main purpose is to investigate and prevent voting fraud. Despite having authority that’s limited by the voting will of the people, the Panoply wields enormous power in the Glitter Band, able to cut-off “abstraction” (Augmented Reality that most citizens rely on) to any habitat that decides to go rogue, neutering them. Though many Glitter Band citizens dislike the idea of the Panoply, most agree that the agency is necessary to maintain and protect the utter freedom that their democratic panarchy represents.During a sting operation on a vote-manipulating scam, Tom Dreyfus, a high-ranking Field Prefect, discovers a loophole in a habitat’s polling core logic. Realizing that other habitats could take advantage of the same loophole, he tasks his rookie partner Thalia Ng to install an emergency code fix across the Glitter Band. Meanwhile, he is dispatched to investigate the destruction of a habitat called Ruskin-Sartorious. Habitat destruction is a rare and serious occurrence, but it appears that Ruskin-Sartorious was hiding something. Something so monstrous, someone was willing to destroy the habitat to hide it.
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The Prefect / int_53e1f74c	type	Asteroid Thicket
The Prefect / int_53e1f74c	comment	Asteroid Thicket: Subverted. The Glitter Band is actually made of space stations and hollowed out asteroids and was constructed. Also, though it resembles a ring from a distance, the individual habitats are several kilometers apart from each other at the closest.
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The Prefect / int_5963b221	type	Eviler than Thou
The Prefect / int_5963b221	comment	Eviler than Thou: The Clockmaker vs. Aurora. The latter is evil, the former is just bad, insane and bent on vengeance... maybe.
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The Prefect / int_5cd6010b	type	Turn Out Like His Father
The Prefect / int_5cd6010b	comment	Turn Out Like Her Father: Thalia fights this perception. She’s had to face a lot more scrutiny that most Prefects because of her father’s infamous corruption charge and subsequent shameful suicide.
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The Prefect / int_625031f0	type	Never Sleep Again
The Prefect / int_625031f0	comment	Never Sleep Again: The scarab on Jane's neck, in addition to killing her if she gets within 10 meters of any person, will also kill her if she falls asleep. She's been forced to use powerful drugs to keep herself awake... for eleven years straight.
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The Prefect / int_62c1b7cd	type	Containment Field
The Prefect / int_62c1b7cd	comment	Containment Field: Used to keep The Clockmaker imprisoned.
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The Prefect / int_62cae28a	type	Losing Your Head
The Prefect / int_62cae28a	comment	Losing Your Head: Happens to Jane Aumonier, to get rid of the scarab. Luckily, with the future technology, she gets better.
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The Prefect / int_6651bba7	type	Bio-Augmentation
The Prefect / int_6651bba7	comment	Bio-Augmentation: A fact of life, along with cybernetic enhancements such as neural implants. Kept to a minimum, for the most part. Conjoiners, for example, have spliced in chimpanzee muscle fibers into their bodies to give them superior strength. The extreme end of this are the "Ultras", a society of merchants who perform drastic and sometimes grotesque modifications to their bodies, often purely for aesthetic reasons.
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The Prefect / int_66f69cd4	type	Invisibility Cloak
The Prefect / int_66f69cd4	comment	Invisibility Cloak: Used by Gaffney to hide a body after he frames Dreyfus for murder.
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The Prefect / int_72856b70	type	Godzilla Threshold
The Prefect / int_72856b70	comment	Godzilla Threshold: Panoply resorted to nuking habitats in order to stop their infestation by Aurora’s machines, killing hundreds of thousands of the Glitter Belt citizens.
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The Prefect / int_733e007a	type	Unwitting Pawn
The Prefect / int_733e007a	comment	Unwitting Pawn: Happens to Thalia, when her polling core upgrade turns out to be a virus that allows The Big Bad to take over several habitats. Slightly subverted in that Thalia, being naturally cautious, only installed the code in a few habitats as a test, as opposed to sending the update system-wide, as is standard procedure. This prevents The Big Bad from taking over in one fell swoop.
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The Prefect / int_77cdb390	type	Man in the Machine
The Prefect / int_77cdb390	comment	The Clockmaker, though it's later revealed to be a deranged Man in the Machine who was altered by the Eldritch Abomination Invisible Aliens.
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The Prefect / int_7c435220	type	Rushmore Refacement
The Prefect / int_7c435220	comment	Rushmore Refacement: in the abandoned Amerikano base, Dreyfus sees some scenic panoramas, including:
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The Prefect / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
The Prefect / int_851dda8f	comment	Humanoid Abomination: The Clockmaker
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The Prefect / int_87f943a7	type	Holding Back the Phlebotinum
The Prefect / int_87f943a7	comment	Holding Back the Phlebotinum: The Panoply has extremely powerful weapons, but due to their democratic ideals, will not use them unless they put it to a vote and the Glitter Band to allows them to use them.
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The Prefect / int_986dad9a	type	Killer Robot
The Prefect / int_986dad9a	comment	Killer Robot: The Clockmaker, though it's later revealed to be a deranged Man in the Machine who was altered by the Eldritch Abomination Invisible Aliens. The utility robots on board the habitat where Thalia ends up stranded, who start massacring the inhabitants wholesale to convert them into material to kick the factories into overdrive and create Aurora's tanks.
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The Prefect / int_9c842299	type	Weaponized Exhaust
The Prefect / int_9c842299	comment	Weaponized Exhaust: Ruskin-Sartorius is destroyed by an Ultra's ship exhaust.
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The Prefect / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Prefect / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: The Supreme Prefect, before Jane, committed suicide after "The Clockmaker Incident". Later, Jane and several senior prefects have this reaction after they start nuking habitats in order to stop the spread of Aurora's machines, killing hundreds of thousands of innocent citizens.
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The Prefect / int_c4240537	type	Moral Event Horizon
The Prefect / int_c4240537	comment	Though he passes the Moral Event Horizon when he murders a prisoner in cold blood because they were going to reveal his treachery, and his actions later in the novel paint him as quite the Smug Snake.
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The Prefect / int_c63e5338	type	It Runs in the Family
The Prefect / int_c63e5338	comment	It Runs in the Family: The general scrutiny of Thalia’s career is due to people’s fear of this. Her father was found guilty of corruption, and thus she’s had a particular tough time being accepted as a competent cadet due to this trope.
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The Prefect / int_d29d5184	type	Meat Puppet
The Prefect / int_d29d5184	comment	Meat Puppet: The Clockmaker does this late in the novel, controlling a recently deceased body and fooling several people.
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The Prefect / int_dd48b81d	type	Totalitarian Utilitarian
The Prefect / int_dd48b81d	comment	Totalitarian Utilitarian: Gaffney.
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The Prefect / int_dfcb2c08	type	The Evils of Free Will
The Prefect / int_dfcb2c08	comment	The Evils of Free Will: The ultimate cause of Gaffney's betrayal, after seeing how horrendous some of the voluntary tyrannies were.
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The Prefect / int_ec2d62b9	type	Cult Colony
The Prefect / int_ec2d62b9	comment	Cult Colony: These are a dime-a-dozen in the Glitter Belt.
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The Prefect / int_fa73ee9d	type	Explosive Leash
The Prefect / int_fa73ee9d	comment	Explosive Leash: Inverted: Jane Aumonier, the Supreme Prefect, must not get within 10 meters of anybody or the mechanical scarab on the back of her neck (courtesy of the Clockmaker) will kill her.
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The Prefect / int_fc52510	type	Brain Uploading
The Prefect / int_fc52510	comment	Brain Uploading: Common in the timeline of the story, though there are many references to "The Eighty"-as in, the first group of people to upload their consciousness, who all died when their scans were corrupted due to the infancy of the technology. The main antagonist, Aurora, turns out to be the sole survivor of The Eighty. She did not get corrupted, but instead her mind was warped by the process and she became something other than human....
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The Prefect / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
The Prefect / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Gaffney, who betrays Panoply but honestly believes what he’s doing is ultimately moral. Though he passes the Moral Event Horizon when he murders a prisoner in cold blood because they were going to reveal his treachery, and his actions later in the novel paint him as quite the Smug Snake.
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The Prefect / int_fdad625e	type	Was Once a Man
The Prefect / int_fdad625e	comment	Was Once a Man: Aurora and The Clockmaker.
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