Sweet Gum maintenance log_burial_rights.

A little bit more about the ship the clones are traveling in, the Sweet Gum. Her mission and the will of her inhabitants are at odds. The corporation that chartered the Sweet Gum is searching for rare minerals deposited inside various nebula scattered throughout the known universe. The crew see the Sweet Gum as a vessel and increasingly as an entity capable of delivering them to the culmination of the one true protocol. The clones are seeking self realization. The corporation is seeking to thrive. With Charles' DNA inside of them, the clones develop unpredictable behavior. One of these quirks involves burial rituals. Clones are androids. They do not share the same life cycles as humans. For some reason this does not affect the clones insistence on periodically burying each other. The hull of the Sweet Gum utilizes a charcoal filtering system. The entire basement level of the Sweet Gum is filled with untold amounts of loose charcoal. The Clones have deemed this space as sacred ground and adequate for stuffing their friends inside of it, essentially creating a graveyard of "living" clones. The captain and sole human on board, Charles had made note but is not sure what to do about it. In communicating with corporate headquarters, Charles neglects to report the strange behavior and instead chooses to discuss the mission. Charles confirms the Sweet Gum's heading as still following in the wake of the Bread Crumb Nebulae, but neglects to inform corporate of his dismaying hunch. Charles suspects that the Bread Crumb Nebulae is not a tell tale sign of mineral depositing interstellar activity, but an exhaust cloud produced by the Sweet Gum's overburdened air handlers. Essentially Charles suspects that the Sweet Gum is chasing her own tail. Meanwhile on the weekly sitcom Odd Company, the commander suspects the clones of hiding a female clone amongst themselves.