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The Argosy, Spliced is the New Earth Hegemony's central fleet in the Quire System. Achronological, it was launched over a period of several centuries, but due to the peculiarity of time around Quire and the Twilight Mirage, the entire fleet arrived en masse. The fleet is headed by the flagship of the final Hegemon, Our Profit: the Restitution of All Things.
At the end of Twilight Mirage, the fleet began to travel the galaxy, "'offering' new people access" to their "supposedly newly-egalitarian society". While Tenderness guarded the Splice, Open Metal and Sui Juris protected the ships themselves. Its ships were networked together in the Splice which, as time went on, were shaped by the efforts of Anticipation into a post-virtual state where the distinction between the real and artificial has been eradicated.
Although the Argosy, Spliced has not yet appeared in subsequent seasons, Austin has mentioned that its inhabitants "have lived for thousands of more years" than people in regular space (which means their time difference with the Twilight Mirage is even larger).[1]