The Dulanoc is a plucky AI in charge of a small colony ship of the same name. It carries a thousand passengers belonging to a small religious sect, an off-shoot of the Sons of Luna. When a chemical explosion takes out its primary life support systems, Dulanoc has to be inventive to preserve its human cargo. Over time, it manages to transcribe its passengers’ minds into a virtual world—but there’s a catch. The Sons reject existence in electronic form utterly, causing their virtual minds to degenerate. Dulanoc works tirelessly to prevent this, but it’s hard going.