Is the ship an animal that can make its own choices or a transportation device the nuns have sole control over? If the former, does that mean it has a soul? If the latter, how to account for the creature’s feelings and behaviors? Does the possession of a soul even matter if the ship is dedicated to fulfill a specific duty? Or does it matter because then it means the ship was denied the choice as to whether or not it wanted to be consecrated? As Sister Lucia confided to Sister Gemma, “I-kept thinking about the ship. Their living ship has set a course toward a mate, something which has never happened before. When we first meet the nuns, they are in the middle of a heated philosophical debate. And not from void beyond, but from the nascent Central Governance and the Church itself.” When the order receives a distress call from a newly-formed colony, the sisters discover that the bodies and souls in their care-and that of the galactic diaspora-are in danger. Now, the sisters of the Order of Saint Rita are on an interstellar mission of mercy aboard Our Lady of Impossible Constellations, a living, breathing ship which seems determined to develop a will of its own. “Years ago, Old Earth sent forth sisters and brothers into the vast dark of the prodigal colonies armed only with crucifixes and iron faith.
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