From CGI's Mike:

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Thank you, K, for comment. That is appreciated.

If I might suggest a slight course correction to bring you into deeper temporal seas.

The watery realm of maritime law from which the office of King of Ship was let down to Earth to command the planet as a vessel and the populations, both willing and shanghaied, through overt and covert performance contracts is the pearl being examined.

The question is the source and validity of authority at the core of this pearl, shrouded in in untold and indistinguishable layers of opaque, lustrous legal expression.

It is true that the word ship can and is used in non-maritime expressions in the shallow waters of the present time, but consider that a dominant or conquering force would have historically impressed the words and trends of its language on a subjected population in the deeper past. Also consider that this force would commandeer the intent and meaning of the language of the subjected population for its own advantage. This is simply the ethics of dominance.

If you place the word "of" before those words of the list that end in "ship" you will have the strong suggestion of a culture oriented to existence apart from and independent of the concept of land as we understand that idea. If you incorporate the historical evidence regarding those who came from the heavens to the Earth into that suggestion the implication is a culture that exists in the interstellar oceans where solid matter is almost a non-existent fraction of the total volume. This culture would be grounded in ship. That grounding would be reflected in language of ship.

Happy sailing.