Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

the captain got the letter from his mother.”“That was sent by the Vatican,” he replied. “They thinkwe are pagan savages because we chose our image of thealmighty in female form. They wouldn’t have trusted us withthat letter.”“But you know about the letter.”“We have sources in the Vatican intelligence community,”he said.Even in heaven. But it was the same in their heaven,people working for Heavenly Talstan were found in positionsof power within the League every year. Because there wasnominally an alliance, they couldn’t be simply zeroed out.“How convenient,” was all she said. If she had stayed mortalshe would have fled to Laurentia. Her fresh corpse was stolenaway to Laurentia anyway, to use as an experimental subjectin the development of the cryoslicer.She had to endure another two hours of interrogation onthe technology of the silicon Afterlife. She was glad that twohours was only enough time for the basic theory of operationand a block diagram of a typical simulate installation. Theyhad never heard of the concept of doping migration, neverthought a bit about what it takes to keep human souls incharge of their system, since they barely understood theconcept of their simulated environment. About the onlyconcepts she gave away was basic OS theory, schedulers,time slices, the sensory input and motor output buses.536