Our Space Colony Is Hiding A Horrifying Secret | Sci-Fi

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A theocratic empire binds its war-barges bow to stern into a single, kilometers-long “spine” that crawls between stars, dragging a jump corridor in its wake and leaving stripped, dead systems behind. The spine’s secret is ugly and practical: the corridor only holds if the fleet’s minds hold. Belief acts as ballast, and widespread doubt creates corridor shear that can fold corridors into metal, strand barges in dark, or tear the chain apart. To keep reality coherent, every barge runs on ritual synchronization: sermons as system updates, hymns as navigation, and most crucially...