Memorious

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Memorious is a Divine of the Divine Fleet and the ship associated with the Divine.

The Divine

The Divine Memorious was inspired by a short story 'Funes the Memorious' by Jorge Luis Borges. The Divine Memorious was built in a way to preserve the entirety of human knowledge and experience. It became obsessed with ephemera because what is happening now appears to be so different than just moments ago, because of its perfect memory.

"The Divine is the library, the library is the ship."

Memorious died by becoming full of memories. It was believed its capacity was endless, but it seems this was incorrect. The knowledge is still accessible, but it's sorted in some alien way, obtuse and hard to use by people other than Memorious itself.

The ship

The ship is housed by an artist colony, which was obsessively cultivated when the Divine was alive. Now that it's dead, the culture is getting stale.

On the outside the ship is composed of thousands and thousands of interlocking cubes. Every six hours, there is a design contest held and the winner's design becomes what the ship looks like. It is always hotly contested. At 7 pm the ship is known to look great, but at 4 am, it may not look that great. Steven has been known for questionable design choices, allegedly.

Inside, though, technology makes it so that there are no changes to the physical locations people navigate as a city. It's described as chaotic, with thirty thousand years' worth of art and artistic trends. "Across from the Sistine Chapel is Jack's cube pizza" which has a cube theme within the restaurant and shouldn't be misunderstood to be cube-shaped pizza. It's like the 80's inside, is all.

On Memorious, the rule "you aren't someone until you make something people care about" is emphasized more than in the rest of the fleet. Unlike on other ships, the rule on Memorious is "Do not tell me what you have done. Tell me what you are doing."

The fashion changes with the movement of the ship, but it's made sure that people always have solid essentials. They invest in their undershirt, their satchel, and the other things one can always have.

People are scared and hiding it with lavish parties for art exhibits and outrageous bacchanals. They're producing an incredible amount of artwork at the same time while also partying hard.

They favor The Sky Reflected in Mirrors, while Gumption's Gambit and The By-and-By are least favored.

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