Seraphic Chronicles – A Living Ship Is a Better Ship
One of the quiet conventions of space-based storytelling is how empty starships feel once you start looking past the main cast. Corridors hum, consoles blink, and the occasional pet wanders through a scene, but the wider sense of life that defines any real environment is usually absent. It is an absence that has less to do with imagination and more to do with practicality, because once animals are introduced in any meaningful way, they bring with them systems, consequences, and a kind of narrative responsibility that many shows prefer to avoid.
