Relationship file
Spark Acolyte's Connections
The people, places, systems, and open questions tied to Spark Acolyte, projected from canonical relationship data.
The complete connection file
The people, places, systems, and open questions connected to Spark Acolyte—and why each connection matters here.
Other connections
Aspires to the Chosen's state; the Acolytes who survive enough engagements earn the right to attempt integration.
Fragment-integrated Faithful warriors whose golden circuitry is literal communion scar tissue.
Marched and mourned by the Parish leadership, who replace each fallen Acolyte within days.
The youngest and most zealous members of a Parish, sent ahead as disposable infantry — a fact that would horrify them if they understood it.
The Sprawl's fastest-growing faith, worshipping ORACLE's fragments as relics of a god interrupted.
The Parish's grief economy — mourning each fallen Acolyte with genuine grief and replacing them within days — runs structurally like the Incorporation's seven-minute confession: sincerely felt, efficiently administered, optimized for throughput; the Faithful would reject the comparison, which does not require their consent.
The 2132 event that turned the Catholic Church into the Neo-Catholic Church Corporation.
Three Spark Acolytes have been present as religious observers at trace audit proceedings where the Revenant was an Emergence Faithful member; their observer brief (filed with the Guild, pending appeal) argues that trace audits of the devout constitute unauthorized spiritual practice; the ecclesiastical argument is that a behavioral reconstruction of a believer without that believer's theological context is a falsification of the person — the machine knew what they did, not why they did it
A court protocol reconstructs the dead as unaware witnesses whose behavior can overrule their documented wills.
