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Holy Missionary Ship Franciscus

Coordinates: UNKNOWN

Heading: UNKNOWN

ORIGIN DATE: UNKNOWN

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Acolyte Log 001

Blessed greetings to whomever this message reaches.

My name is Stefanus Alba, First Acolyte of High Priest Matteus, and

Captain of HMS Franciscus.

We have awoken from cryosleep early. Fortunately, the High Priest's

and the 75 passengers cryopods function manually, to ensure that

the crew has adequately prepared the ship prior to awakening

and ministry. The passengers have also remained in cryo stasis

for the time being.

Our Most Holy Doctor has evaluated the passengers and crew and with the

unfortunate exception of two passengers whose pods appeared

to have malfunctioned at least 25 years ago, based on the rate of

decay in their pod (may their souls encounter eternal peace), the crew

has awoken with minimal side-effects. The High Priest's pod is

functioning at peak efficiency.

As our engineers struggle to find out what happened to pull us

from our sleep early, our navigator is desperately trying

to determine exactly where we are. Initial reports indicate that

our coming out of cryo early is just (hopefully) a final malfunction

in what has been a rolling series of system resets, reboots, and

flat-out shutdowns. Our nav and chrono systems are out of sync.

It is proving to be difficult to determine when and where we

currently are.

We are attempting to discern whether we have the ability to

re-enter cryo, how far off-course we are, and, barring any

unforseen additional problems, how we shall continue on our mission

of ministry.

Until we figure out where we are, I ask that anyone receiving

this message who follows The Faith, please pray for us and our

mission.

I will transmit again once we have made sense of our situation.

Blessings upon you all.

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