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The Copernicus Expedition: A Public Briefing 

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From the Parliamentary Record of Albion Space, Educational Broadcast, House of Resources 

[The following is an excerpt from the public educational archives maintained by the House of Resources, recorded for general distribution across Albion Space and for Terra-side audiences. Transcript lightly edited for readability.] 

There are moments in the life of any civilisation when it becomes necessary to return to first principles. The Commonwealth of Albion was founded by people who understood that the circumstances which make a place habitable are not permanent, and that the capacity to move, when moving becomes necessary, is not a failure of commitment but an expression of it. 

This briefing concerns the Copernicus expedition: a proposal, now formally before both chambers of Parliament, to revive and implement the original colony mission for which the marcher-ships of Albion Space were built. 

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Hearts & Daggers: Everything You Need To Know Before the New Expansion 

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Transcript of a video by Lydia Bennet, posted to her channel on the occasion of the Midnight Carnival expansion announcement for Hearts and Daggers III 

[Transcript lightly edited for readability. Original video runtime: 10 minutes.] 

Alright so Maria told me that half her friends have never played Hearts and Daggers Two and are jumping straight into Three, and I have been thinking about this for three days and I cannot let it stand. You need context. You need history. You need to understand what you are getting into. So. Here we are. Franchise overview. You’re welcome. 

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The Member for Rosings: A Profile of Mrs. DeBourgh 

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The Albion Courier, Features Desk 

[Mrs. DeBourgh, Member of the House of Resources for Rosings Mining Company, agreed to speak with the Courier at Rosings. The interview was conducted on her terms, at her preferred time, and in a room she had clearly arranged for the purpose.] 

There are interviews where you feel like the one in charge of the conversation. This was not one of them. 

Mrs. DeBourgh received us in what her assistant, Miss Price, described to us as the smaller of Rosings’s two formal reception rooms.  It was not small. It was appointed with the kind of deliberate magnificence that signals not wealth exactly, though wealth is certainly present, but priority: this is what I have chosen to show you, and I have chosen carefully. Mrs. DeBourgh herself sat at the far end of a long table, which meant that you spent the first thirty seconds of the meeting walking toward her while she watched you do it. Whether this was intentional is a question she would almost certainly consider beneath her. 

She is, in person, exactly what her public record suggests: formidable, precise, and entirely comfortable with the impression she makes.  

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