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Interstellar Navigation Collegium

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Specialist education for travel between stars, with students and teachers.

Interstellar Navigation Collegium

Rome has a Collegium of Interstellar Navigation. Building inscriptions use forms of Collegium Artium Navigationis Inter Stellas, establishing a formal specialist institution concerned with travel between stars.

[E8] · Episode guide

Students and teachers

A student, a Roman teacher and a Greek teacher are identified at the Collegium. Interstellar navigation has learners and educators, while Roman and Greek cultural distinctions remain meaningful in education.

[E8] · Episode guide

Navigation as expertise

The institution and its students establish interstellar navigation as taught, transmitted knowledge. Propulsion principles, performance, distances and the interstellar capability of every spacecraft are not specified.

[E8] · Episode guide

Interpretations and open questions

Episode 8

The Augustus of the railway inscription is not securely identified or dated. Civic education does not prove compulsory assimilation, the veterans’ hall does not prove a state benefits system, and a Senate session does not establish a particular distribution of political power.

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  1. Frontier — Episode 8 · YouTube