Luciana “Lucy” Beaumont — investigative historian. In a December 2149 “Iron Orbit” episode hosted by Wesley Dvořák, she presented the most comprehensive public biography of Dr. Nathaniel Argus following his first public statement three weeks earlier. Her research traced AED’s founding capital to Raytheon, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin — “the last liquid capital of an industry that had run out of wars” — and reconstructed Argus’s personal history: born 2059 in Volgograd to a Jewish Russian mother who defected to Europe; raised French by his adoptive father Matthieu Argus; doctoral work at Luna University and time at Kosmograd; the 2096 death of his son and 2097 suicide of his wife, Dr. Gisa Argus. She advanced the theory, explicitly as speculation, that the Ark’s true purpose is to finish Gisa’s work on organic-brain cognitive embodiment outside UN jurisdiction.