"In theory, in some ways," she says, frowning. "I am not as familiar as I might be, the Ninth had no such apparatus. We depended on radio wave transmission within system and received--or rarely, sent--messages via relay to the Cohort headquarters on the Second House, for interstellar purposes."

"I know it is an oath sworn by some Cohort soldiers, to serve as messengers after death for a time. It is an honor, of sorts."