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The Occupied Outward Realms Tour is, according to the Stewards of the Royal Household, a "rare opportunity for our darling Princess Royal to engage with her devoted subjects on the ground level, and to sample the varied cultures of the British Empire's proud outward territories."
According to the darling Princess Royal herself, the OORT scheme is so-called because "I ought to sample the insufferable delights of three dozen dim and distant worlds, but I'd much rather sample the beach-front bar and a light tan on the Julip resort moon." Her Ladies-in-Waiting have expressed sentiments along much the same lines. However, a Princess's duty is to the Realm and Star Territories, and Victoria the younger set out on her OORT campaign this past year, stopping first at Fort Lancaster to shore up our boys in red with a stirring speech before leaving the Albion Reach for the Crown dependencies. Far Acre brewed up some speciality jasalt mead for the occasion of Her Highness's visit, and the supernumerarily-limbed Kondiles of Tumbleblown Orbital greeted her with open arms (all nine of them). As the tour carried on, however, reports grew that Princess Victoria was not entirely adhering to her carefully-plotted itinerary, and was in fact making certain detours to sample even more varied aspects of the disparate planetary cultures. Reports of much carousing on the Wheel of Far Haven, and a drinking contest that drained the Peldooie rum distillery dry were reported in the ha'penny papers, but the Royal Household threatened legal action against any such accusations. In any case, the Outward Realms Tour continues to this very day, and indeed the Star Territories inwards of the Sentum Cynosure have made great noise about their preparations for the princess's long-awaited arrival. "Our cutlery has been polished beyond measure, our decanters are already steaming with our finest brews, and not a speck or spore of dirt will be found within a hundred fathoms of our embassy," according to Eustace Siwens, Master of the Household at the British embassy on Vorgak 3. Whatever her initial reservations about the Tour might have been, it is clear that on her next stop, Princess Victoria can expect only the warmest of welcomes upon setting foot on Vorgak soil.
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