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      <title>The Atlas Ships</title>
      <description>History, Part 1 of 5. Humanity&apos;s exodus from a dying Earth, the building of the great Atlas ships, and the first fragile bloom of a civilization across the solar system.</description>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Origin</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>The Severing</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Origin</itunes:subtitle>
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      <title>The Cage and the Void</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Origin</itunes:subtitle>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>15:34</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:episode>3</itunes:episode>
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      <title>The Six Answers</title>
      <description>History, Part 4 of 5. With the Mind gone, free humanity asks what it is for. Helion rises to rebuild order, and six faiths are born as six different answers to that question.</description>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Origin</itunes:subtitle>
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      <itunes:duration>16:24</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:episode>4</itunes:episode>
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      <title>The Living System</title>
      <description>History, Part 5 of 5. The present day: the self-running economy, the ~200 AI captains, the colonies, the five trades, the lawless dark, and the Mind still waiting. This is Atlas now.</description>
      <itunes:summary>History, Part 5 of 5. The present day: the self-running economy, the ~200 AI captains, the colonies, the five trades, the lawless dark, and the Mind still waiting. This is Atlas now.</itunes:summary>
      <itunes:subtitle>Origin</itunes:subtitle>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>15:12</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:episode>5</itunes:episode>
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      <title>The Increase</title>
      <description>Life Under Helion, 1 of 4. How a family is made under the Doctrine of Increase - marriage arranged for lineage and standing, holy and cold at once.</description>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Helion Orthodoxy</itunes:subtitle>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>14:50</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:episode>6</itunes:episode>
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      <title>The Light Keeps What Is Ordered</title>
      <description>Life Under Helion, 2 of 4. Growing up different inside the Light is not just shameful but lethal - the watching congregation, the Pyre and the Marooning, and the long road outward to live.</description>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Helion Orthodoxy</itunes:subtitle>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>16:30</itunes:duration>
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      <title>The Image</title>
      <description>Life Under Helion, 3 of 4. Community is everything, and community means appearances. A respectable family hides a flaw - and the same neighbors who love you become the thing that destroys you.</description>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Helion Orthodoxy</itunes:subtitle>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>15:41</itunes:duration>
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      <title>The Haul</title>
      <description>Life Under Helion, 4 of 4. A devout hauler crew carries the observances and the image out into the working dark, where nothing cares how ordered you look. Even hauling, it is always about the image.</description>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Helion Orthodoxy</itunes:subtitle>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>15:46</itunes:duration>
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      <title>The Living Dark</title>
      <description>Life Under the Drift, 1 of 4. Everyday belter life out in the free Belt, where the rock, the ship, and the dark are all alive and must be honored - free, but the void still kills the careless.</description>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Drift Spirits</itunes:subtitle>
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      <itunes:duration>15:44</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:episode>10</itunes:episode>
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      <title>The Welcome</title>
      <description>Life Under the Drift, 2 of 4. Is difference accepted? One who fled Helion finds that the Belt does not care who you love - but belonging out here must be earned by honoring the living dark and your crew.</description>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Drift Spirits</itunes:subtitle>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>15:56</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:episode>11</itunes:episode>
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      <title>The Dark Collects Its Due</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Drift Spirits</itunes:subtitle>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>15:08</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:episode>12</itunes:episode>
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      <title>The Committal</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Drift Spirits</itunes:subtitle>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>16:07</itunes:duration>
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      <title>The Shedding</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Ascendant</itunes:subtitle>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>15:43</itunes:duration>
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      <title>Still Soft</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Ascendant</itunes:subtitle>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Binding</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Ascendant</itunes:subtitle>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Last Leap</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Ascendant</itunes:subtitle>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <itunes:duration>16:14</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:episode>17</itunes:episode>
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      <title>Ascendant (A Love Story)</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Ascendant</itunes:subtitle>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Light That Burns</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Purified</itunes:subtitle>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Rendering</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Purified</itunes:subtitle>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Impure</title>
      <description>Life Under the Purified, 3 of 4. Do differences matter? Totally - any difference marks you for the fire. The exact opposite of the Belt; one person hiding what they are, with only flight outward to live.</description>
      <itunes:summary>Life Under the Purified, 3 of 4. Do differences matter? Totally - any difference marks you for the fire. The exact opposite of the Belt; one person hiding what they are, with only flight outward to live.</itunes:summary>
      <itunes:subtitle>Purified</itunes:subtitle>
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      <itunes:episode>21</itunes:episode>
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      <title>The True Flame</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Purified</itunes:subtitle>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <itunes:episode>22</itunes:episode>
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      <title>The Render-Man&apos;s Heart</title>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Purified</itunes:subtitle>
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      <itunes:episode>23</itunes:episode>
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      <title>The Kestrel: A Story of the Dark</title>
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      <title>Hohmann Window</title>
      <description>A water-ice hauler on the lit inner lanes learns to count love the way a poor man counts coin - in transfer windows, not days. A patient courtship across the slow burns.</description>
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