For the peoploe of the Canaan Project the void was a steady companion when they found a purpose after they had lost everything.
When they decided to move on with the little they had, their newly acquired ships were their home but their habitat was the void.
Day after day they spent their time thinking about what to come, not knowing if thir future will be bright or filled with dread.
When their leaders encountered the AI's of the Consenus, many thought, that those cold machines, lacking any emotions and feelings in general were merely just another part of the void.
It was after the NMR project that they started to understand, that the AI's are really stars in the void, that they could turn to if there were problems and trace them to travel through the void.
It was a difficult time to rely on blindly obeying an unhuman force, that noone would trust that easiely but after they got used to the new possibilities that the modifications done to their bodies offered to them, they started to comprehend.
No human will ever understand their special bond to the Consensus but now they have allies in the gigantic blackness that is the universe, entities to rely on and travel through the void with them.