The Centauri Anthology

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And so we return again to the holy void. Some say this is simply our destiny, but I would have you remember always that the void EXISTS, just as surely as you or I. Is nothingness any less a miracle than substance?

Sister Miriam Godwinson

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Advanced Spaceflight

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Men in their arrogance claim to understand the nature of creation, and devise elaborate theories to describe its behavior. But always they discover in the end that God was quite a bit more clever than they thought.

Sister Miriam Godwinson

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Quantum Machinery

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Already we have turned all of our critical industries, all of our material resources, over to these . . . things . . . these lumps of silver and paste we call nanorobots. And now we propose to teach them intelligence? What, pray tell, will we do when these little homunculi awaken one day and announce that they have no further need of us?

Sister Miriam Godwinson

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Industrial Nanorobotics

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Will we next create false gods to rule over us? How proud we have become, and how blind.

Sister Miriam Godwinson

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The Self-Aware Colony

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And what of the immortal soul in such transactions? Can this machine transmit and reattach it as well? Or is it lost forever, leaving a soulless body to wander the world in despair?

Sister Miriam Godwinson

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The Bulk Matter Transmitter

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