Faith seems to be the last thing on peoples minds in this book. As for the relationship between characters, my last chapter was all about how apreciative the staff abord the Endeavor was for their Simps. Simps are (syntheticaly) geneticaly alter chimpansese who are are incredibly inteligent in different feilds of work. The four chimps names are Blackie, Blondie, Goldie, and Brownie. (These names are rediculess). The simps cook, clean, carry out routine jobs, even carry tools. They stand streight up and are "programed" to understand sertain words in english and reply only with sign language. There was someing about not being able to give them lungs. The simps can work 15 hour days and not get tired or bored even when carrying out a tedious task. Their amazing and the crew on board the endevour loves to have them. Chief Steward McAndrews was their handler because he could speak fluent "simplish". The simps were also affectionate and in my book it describes how people have their favorite simp. The problem with getting attached to a simp is if there was an emergency the simps were incapable of using a space suit and therefore some may die in case of a security breach. This also is dangerouos for the crew if one were to be attached to a simp and put himself and the crew in danger in order to save him/her. I still can't rap my mind around how this can be related to faith...A human attachment to an unhuman "animal" happends all the time. Maybe humans just like the fealing of being attached to something ...is that a sycological form of faith, to find comfort in a thing or object?