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Isn't the naming of Star Bright Speakers as Speakers straight out of the Second Foundation of the Foundation Trilogy.

Asimov does indeed name the head of the Second Foundation as First Speaker. We actually were thinking of Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game," when Ender writes the book "Who Speaks for the Dead." Of course, Ender is their Speaker. Even then, there is no special implied meaning. We just like calling those who speak for us and the Star Bright Community "Speakers." And maybe we will have a First Speaker, which only confers the right to speak first.