Seance

Template:Infobox settlementSeance is the second-most populous city-ship in the Divine Fleet, and the only one with a surviving guardian, the Divine Empyrean.

Appearance

Seance is an octagonal prism in space with a large Victorian-style city wrapping around it on each side. With no physical barrier between the city and the space around it, pedestrians on its streets can look out to the perpetual sunrise/sunset tones of the Twilight Mirage. People can feel air on their face. There are lots of parks and lakes, slicing their way through space. The interior has ship controls and engineering necessities. One end of the ship has a large booster rocket and there are fins on its edges.

Seance's name comes from the fact that it was built with pieces and remnants of various now-destroyed Divines and their city-ships, such as Composure's Coliseum.

Culture

The tone of the ship is a sort-of resignation: its people had previously had lots of power, holding the keys to the virtual reality that everyone lives in. They were very influential, but there is a sense that maybe there has come a time for them to step away and let those with more active Divines step up—except that now theirs is the only Divine remaining. And now Empyrean is dispersed, creating the Twilight Mirage, so the people feel like their Divine is not there, even when it is.

Their most and least favored ship is the By and By. They think that ship should take over as leader but also hate the thought of it. They feel both they must rely on Anticipation's crew, and that the "good old days" have passed.

They have a rule on Seance, "Never perch where there is already a bird." Because of that, this ship has specifically never tried to colonize any other world that was not barren. Empyrean does not like the notion of displacing anyone else, but is also now in the position of being the last Divine.