Echoes of the Ancients

Lutéa is a stowaway on the cruise liner Tenzenai's Gift. She's also a robot, programmed for obedience, made with an expiration date, and desperate to see something of the greater universe before she goes. But she has to hide her nature, because her very existence is against the religion of many sapients. Lutéa is a sapient being who wasn't made by the Stargods, the source of all life in the galaxy...