Pasqal"Permission to report, Lord Captain. Over the past few days, I received several messages from different decks, complaining about anomalous behaviours in the ship's cogitators and servitors. The machine spirits are restless and rebellious, and no tech-litany or ritual of pacification can rid them of this obstinacy. The Tech-Priests can deal with the vessel's systems, but the servitors... they make errors in their tasks, disobey orders, change the assigned rituals, or sometimes downright freeze as if in a trance."
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PasqalA click comes through the vox-channel followed by a weary sigh. "Lord Captain, occurrences such as these are caused by errors in cogitator calculations or have some other sensible explanation... I beseech you not to take after those who whisper about the ship being cursed or possessed."
PasqalIdira joins the channel and chimes in playfully, "Oh, don't start, old man! All these 'peculiar happenings' have long since turned into local legends. A door slams shut, a lumen starts flickering... Folk have grown used to all that, so our resident ghost has decided to up the ante. I'm telling you, things are only going to get worse from here!"
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Pasqal"The technomats inspected the servitors and concluded they pose no danger. According to the servants of the Omnissiah, such behaviour is caused either by the echoes of minds not completely eliminated or by manifestations of the machine spirits' will. Nevertheless, the faulty servitors make the crew's tasks considerably more difficult, and High Factotum Janris Danrok would like to discuss how he should deal with the defective property. He is awaiting your audience on the bridge."