<b><i>"Warp jump complete, all hands relax brace."</i></b>Came the tech priest's stern, synthetic voice over the overhead vox. Then, he shifted over to the captain's private bead once more,<i><i>"I shall return to my duties, and confide with the spirit of the core. Ring if I am needed." </i></i>And with that, he removed his hand from the communion port, and began his slow, laborous trek into the power levels of the ship, past where most people dared to wonder alone...<br/><br/>Few know it, but the inverted crescent cog on his ritualists staff was also a power axe, and for good reason. Nameless were the reeant horrors which wondered the darkened hold and unhollowed depths of the ship. Vermin and hitch-hiking pests, given generations to grow and evolve, mutait and monstrafy. As he wondered, alone of other fleshlings, he prayed not to the God Emperor, but to the spirits around him, the ghosts of steam and specters of hull. Under his breath, his spoke words of endurement and thanks, of plead and promise to the machinations of ages lost. These, were his 'people', the souls of steel, the ghost in the machine. He knew of the Emperor, and respecting Him and His graces. He had seem the wickedry and capacity of the Chaos Gods through the actions of their servants. Xeno and heritic alike were no mystery to him. But to him, it was to the Spirits around him, who filled their lungs with air and shielded their souls from the immiterium to whome he gave thanks.<br/><br/>He had been born upon this ship, as his father before him, and his father's father. It gave him a strange sense of comfort, walking the halls. A sort of reinforcing of will and faith. They hailed from a hive world, and so he imagined his ancestors knew much the same life... But what of D'crox? She to, was but the latest in a long line of captains, but from where did her heritage hail? What world did they call home? The metallic man shook his head, waving these computations aside, turing his focus back to algerithms and logistics. Spirits trapped by flesh were not his duty after all...<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>