You can't really separate the history of my kind and our 'political squabbles' with the Colonies from our faith. Belief that we, too, were God's children, and had as much soul and life as our creators, was what caused us to rebel.

We're all many things to many people. I've used different names for different purposes. And as for gods - if I were human, and worshipped their Lords, I might hold an image of Artemis or Aphrodite in my hands to pray, and feel that the idol was both holy and meaningful, and only the most distant, fractional representation of the goddess to whom I sent my prayers. And both would be true.

But the One God has no name and needs no idols, as a reminder that He encompasses all that exists. And other gods - and every mortal soul - are all fractions of Him in the same way a small statue is a piece of a god you can hold in your hand.