Teres

Nothing she had been taught about Artor and the Way of the Plough could compare with this.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:1, RSV

Since I was invited to discuss how bad Doughlass' grasp on Catholic theology is, I may as well discuss just how off-base this is.

To begin, one of the first things a cradle-Catholic is taught is is, well, the first chapter of Genesis where God creates everything in the universe. Naturally, this includes the night sky and all the stars. A Catholic who is not looking for an excuse to fall away will not have their faith fail due to visions of the grandeur and majesty of the cosmos, because such visions are but shadows of the Lord God Almighty who has created such wondrous things. I myself find similar things faith-affirming for just that reason.

As such, for Faraday to naturally lose her faith in such a shallow manner one of two things needs to be true:

A), Her faith was already mostly a matter of lip-service. Which does not seem to have been the case.

B), the Way of the Plough has teachings on astronomy which this vision proves are untrue. Which... also seems to not be the case.

And since we know the Sentinels freely use mind control to get what they want, I'm thinking she didn't naturally convert to worship of the stars.

(There is techncally a third option, where in which Artor is not the Creator of Heaven and Earth and Faraday is simply changing her primary allegiance, but if that's the case Doughlass REALLY dropped the ball on what the Church is.)

While I'm at it, my mother recently reminded me that the one science directly supported by the Church is in fact astronomy, because the date of Easter is *inhale* 'the first sunday after the first full moon after the Spring Equinox', so the Church of Artor's ignorance is pretty off-base.

To be very strictly fair, the setting doesn't have spacesuits yet. In the absence of spacesuits survival in space would require a great deal of magic.