She caught a passing glimpse, brief but clear to her augmented vision, of the Cathedral ship's convocation. Concordance ships were controlled by an inner circle of clerical officers: a Hierarch, a Stellar Mechanic, the ship's Augur, among others. They sat in their elaborate robes at the heart of the ship, their faces an assortment of determination, calculation and alarm. Supposedly, the circles controlling each vessel were an analogue of the circle of First Augurs that sat in convocation at the God Star, directing events across the entire galaxy, translating and interpreting the will of Omn. The circles on the ships were responsible for implementing the instructions passed to them, although it was unclear how much autonomy the Hierarch wielded. Did they simply carry out the letter of Omn's
