Sky Haussman

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Sky Haussman is a character in the Revelation Space series of science fiction books by Alastair Reynolds.

Sky Haussman is the son of Titus Haussman, the head of security aboard the Santiago. Sky's story is told in a series of dreams as a counterpoint to the waking life that Tanner Mirabel experiences throughout Chasm City. The planet Sky's Edge was founded after the Flotilla landed there.

Sky Haussman is the center of a pervasive cult, and those who worship him do so as if he were a god. His greatest crime and the action he was known the best for was ejecting entire rings of reefersleep caskets full of "momios", or "sleepers", the colonists for the new world of Journey's End, in order to gain an advantage in speed over the other craft of the Flotilla.

The strategy worked, and because the Santiago was lighter than the other ships, it arrived at Journey's End ahead of the other ships. Sky Haussman was part of the original colonization of the planet, which they named Sky's Edge instead of Journey's End as a mocking reminder of his ejection of the reefersleep caskets just to get them ahead of the other ships in the Flotilla.

Eventually, Sky Haussman was crucified after they landed on Sky's Edge. The bizarre cult that has sprung up in his after-death footsteps has developed an indoctrinal virus that alters the infected's perceptions, often giving them thoughts or whole chapters of Sky's life as simulated experiences. The virus is designed to reprogram the victim, in a sense.