Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

the simulates of any creed. Bishop Rendellyn got off andjoined the last Pan Solar League starship, Paul’s Lamp,heading out to Alpha Centauri.While they were there, Wuding Tung and Li Fangboarded. She had been his last voluntary ascension beforethey both transmitted their instances to Gordon’s Lamp. Theywere in the creche department, which was active even thoughit would probably be two thousand years before they revivedthe next zygote. Alan was going to make sure they told thechild he was being raised by robots by the time he was eight.Since they left Sol the second time, the ship had beenboosting for the nearest border of Wetat, determined to be theseed of the infection called mankind that made it out of Wetat,and built their own Afterlife. It was true that if there was one,space was full of them. Ava was banking on slipping into thenext one unnoticed because the planets they would settlewould have never produced souls before, so the creature inthat area wouldn’t search for silicon intervention in theharvest of those souls.Ava had no mission from the Pan Solar League other thanto evacuate as many other souls as wished to board. Therewas only space to instantiate fifteen more so far, out of thethousands that were sent. As space built up they would beresurrected, but most would have to wait til they were at thenext star system and could enlarge the ship.Two of the fifteen were single females, both had visited,neither wanted to put up with his sentence. Of the new crew,571