ChaplainChaplain: Pray to your God for guidance and power, your display of passion surely warrants a response this time.



You hit the ol' knees and check in with the stars of Libra. You make sure to let them know how grateful you are for your victory, assure them of your dedication, and look for guidance.


The Unofficial Galactic Company Protocol Guide has this to say on the topic of religion and the Solar Orders in deep space contexts.

Religion is now well known as a hard science. Through empirical tests of the way certain deterministic systems react to the presence of religious figures, iconography, leaders, and adherents, a full model of how the various entities worshiped affect the universe on both microscopic and macroscopic scales can be built.

This model is then immediately ignored by most well-funded and well-respected scientific and engineering interests, due to certain legal restrictions. As no divine being has yet applied for citizenship, work permits, or certifications for certain types of work in many fields they influence, corporate interests forbid the influence of divine or diabolical entities in the matters relating to their work. To this end, souls are signed over to the corporation upon hiring. The corporations that fruitlessly attempt to reject the input of the various gods assign all positive or negative shifts to productivity and profit under the tolerances that they shift their exorbitant embezzlement under.

While spiritualism is subject to daily whim, chance, and recent internet memes, there are a few well-defined religious organizations in space -- none with enough power to have more presence on corporate space stations than a single Chaplain. The most prominent of these organizations are the Solar Orders.

It is generally agreed upon by anthropologists that sun worship is the default state of spiritualism for humankind, simply because of the abundance of sun exposure everywhere that humans are. As such, sun worship made a comeback in the early days of interstellar spaceflight when everyone sure was thinking a lot about suns, and in the later days of interstellar exploitation, it is the dominant form of religion. Solar Orders are organizations of mutual aid and communal guidance, dedicated to a single star or constellation.

Surprisingly, the discovery of actual fusion-based divine minds inside of many stars had no recognizable effect on church attendance numbers.

♎: Ugh, this guy again? Just give him what the fortune cookie said.