The Star Walk

Ships drift slowly through the void. The Nebula concealing them from outside notice. The Church of The Chronicler's followers make their way through the endless expanse of space, through a realm untouched and unseen, into a world unknowable, to a land of chronicles, to a land of knowledge.

— Writing about The Star Walk

History

It is a mystery why the Church of the traveller began this tradition, or how they learned of it. The Second Seerer was the one who started it, their ships flew through the void at the edge of the galaxy for three hundred days and nights until fuel ran out, the ships slowly drifted through the void. After three hundred more days and nights the food ran out, the left their ships and floated out into the void on their own. After three hundred more days and nights of floating in space, with their supernatural resilience beginning to run thin, they arrived back on their ship, and returned home. When they returned the ones that survived had changed, they became wiser and smarter. Every hundred years a group of one to three ships sets out from the church's homeworld and with a hundred members on each ship, they set out again along The Star Walk.

Execution

The Beginning

The first three hundred days aboard the ships is fairly regular travel. The ships are set to fly in a direction leading out of Tanari and beyond that no one touches the controls. The ships can hold enough fuel to fly exactly three hundred days and nights before the ships lose power and began drifting through space. This beginning is least hard of the three stages of The Star Walk, with everyone having access to basic substance and power, that all changes abruptly however.

The Descent

After three hundred days and nights the ship loses all power and begins to drift. The ships float through the endless expanse, no source of outside interference will occur at this point do to the ships being outside the known borders of Tanari, in what some call the Void of Transition. Three hundred days and nights later the ships run out of food and the remaining passengers set out into space with nothing but the clothes and their backs for another three hundred days and nights.

The Arrival

After three hundred days and nights in the cold void of space the bodies of the ones in space began to freeze and die. Due to the Church's members have supernatural resilients they can survive for long in space but everyone freezes eventually. After three hundred days they all lose consciousness and then, know one is quite sure what happens next. The Star Walkers wake up and the ships they took out as if they had never left, all power is online, all food replenished. The ships then arrive back were they left at the beginning of the journey. What the surviving few saw after they froze in space, know one knows, maybe they themselves don't even know.

Components and tools

Between one hundred and three hundred members attend each Star Walk. The three ships used to travel on The Star Walk with are The Star Walker, The Last Seerer, and The Great Arrival. All three of these ships are Escort Carriers in terms of design.

Death on The Star Walk

It is very possible for someone to die on The Star Walk. Because there is no way to bury them on the ships the dead on put in coffins which are ejected from the ship to drift through space. It is believed that those who are in the coffins floating through space become the stars which guide them through the abyss. Anywho die during The Arrival phase are left to drift in the void.