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Ringleader Meeting I
3.12.302AA
0:13 - 08:34
Ringleaders present: Eleanora of The Council of Elders, Mi of The Association of Free Colonists, Ashban of The Collective, Hama of The Children of Dawn, Cassia of the Dreamers of Gaia, Samaritus of The Da Vinci Collaboration, Dash of The Initiative, Tyler of New Human Condition, Agama of Da Vincians, Chuang of The Outfitters, Rana of Floatbed Maintenance Crew, Tiki of Repair and Restoration Ring, Gosha of Central Matrix Compilers and Yuri of The Technocrats.
[i]Chair: Reneb of The Da Vinci Collaboration

Topics of Discussion

1. Establishing a regular meeting
It was generally agreed that communication between different rings is paramount to the success of the mission we all share. Thus, the ringleaders present decided to make the Ringleader Meeting a regular, monthly event. The time of the meetings is the third of each month, and the meeting begins at 0:00.

2. Establishing the authority of the meetings
There was a lot of discussion on whether the Ringleader Meetings should be purely advisory or whether it should hold some kind of authority over the individual rings. Samaritus of The Da Vinci Collaboration, as well as Dash of The Initiative, strongly supported giving the meeting a legal power that would bind the individual rings to its decicions. Different voting methods were also discussed. However, in the end, the idea didn't gain much support from the other ringleaders. After all, as Rana of Floatbed Maintenance Crew pointed out, there is no efficient way to control those not complying to the rulings. Fines of AP were suggested, but since TAU Surveillance Ring didn't send a representative to the meeting, nor was available to comment, that line of thought was not taken further.

3. Establishing the form of the meetings
It was decided that the meetings will be mainly between ringleaders or their representatives. A limited number of audience questions will be accepted after the ringleaders have finished discussing each topic.  Every ringleader was given equal opportunity to speak.

Before the meetings, the Chair will gather the topics of discussion and publish them so the participants can prepare their statements. No extra points of discussion will be accepted barring special circumstances. The Chair will also write detailed minutes into this thread after the meeting. Reneb of The Da Vinci Collaboration volunteered to the task of the Chair.

4. Spare part production
Rana of Floatbed Maintenance Crew stated that the setups of factories CAN-CAA-0003 and CAN-CAA-0005 hinder the production of spare parts for microscale power systems. Agama of Da Vincians said, however, that the factories are needed to produce additional Atomic Storage Units and Quantum Processors to improve the performance of the scientific computing network in Labspace. No conclusion was reached in this matter.

5. Improving communication methods
It was unanimously agreed that the communication methods at the colonists' disposal are far from being efficient enough. TAU has provided us with only rudimentary necklink communication abilities, far from being flexible enough for our needs. Instead of focusing on parallel low-technology communications we've been using thus far, Cassia of Dreamers of Gaia suggested that we learn to take usage of TAU's own protocols to create our customized system. Dispite some considerable scepticism, TAU Basecode Project, led by Cassia of Dreamers of Gaia, was started.

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Ringleader Meeting IV
3.3.303AA
0:02 - 7:23
Ringleaders present:  Eleanora of The Council of Elders, Mi of The Association of Free Colonists, Ashban of The Collective, Hama of The Children of Dawn, Samaritus of The Da Vinci Collaboration, Dash of The Initiative, Tyler of New Human Condition, Agama of Da Vincians, Chuang of The Outfitters, Rana of Floatbed Maintenance Crew, Tiki of Repair and Restoration Ring, Gosha of Central Matrix Compilers, Yuri of The Technocrats, and Carmene of The Umbra.
Chair: CHAIR

Topics of Discussion

The madness of the first colonists
The main topic of the fourth Ringleader Meeting was the unfortunate fate of Piotr, one of the first colonists. Eleanora detailed the events we were all far too familiar with: Piotr, using his excessive knowledge about the structure of the Tower, opened a hatch to the outside world and plunged himself down into the canyon. Quick action on the part of the Outfitters hopefully saved the Tower from damage caused by Piotr leaving the hatch open, but temperature had already lowered by and average of 3,4 degrees all around the Canyon area.

Oma, a ringless colonist with studies in human psychology, accounts Piotr's actions to a form of claustrophobia, developed during the centuries trapped into a small habitat. "Continued disappointment concerning the progress of the mission along with diminishing hopes of getting out of the tower may also have been factors", says Oma, "as well as repeated traumatisation caused by losing almost everyone he's known."

What more worrisome, two of the remaining nine first colonists have shown similar symptoms of anxiety and restlessness. Chuang of The Outfitters suggested quarantining Renato and Deetta in their floatbeds for the time being, to prevent them causing damage. Dispite Eleanora's objections, the meeting agreed to this.

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Ringleader Meeting V

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Ringleader Meeting VI

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Ringleader Meeting VII

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Ringleader Meeting VIII

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Ringleader Meeting IX

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Ringleader Meeting X

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Ringleader Meeting XI

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Ringleader Meeting XII

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Ringleader Meeting XIII

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Ringleader Meeting XIV

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Ringleader Meeting XV

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Ringleader Meeting XVI

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Ringleader Meeting XVII

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Ringleader Meeting XVIII

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Ringleader Meeting XIX
3.7.304AA
1:32 - 11:03
Ringleaders present: Eleanora of The Council of Elders, Mi of The Association of Free Colonists, Hin of The Collective, Hama of The Children of Dawn, Samaritus of The Da Vinci Collaboration, Dash of The Initiative, Chia Pao of The Servants of Evolution, Ra of Da Vinci Prospectors, Alexandra of The Association of Scholars, Amash of New Human Condition, Agama of Da Vincians, Rana of Floatbed Maintenance Crew, Tiki of Repair and Restoration Ring, Mar of Central Matrix Compilers and Yuri of The Technocrats

Topics of discussion

1. The safety of scientific research
The main topic of discussion was again the safety measures of scientific reseach, sparked three months ago by Tyler's actions. The discussion continued from the agreement at the previous meeting that an administrative body should be created to create and monitor a set of strict safety guidelines for scientific projects.

Mi or the Association of New Colonists suggested that this task be given to Mohale, a scientist in The Association of Scholars, who has studied advanced risk analysis techniques in complex, hard to predict circumstances. He, as well as the other twelve members of his ring, also enjoy a reputation of responsible research practices. No one else at record even closely matches his qualifications for the job, so there was no objection.

Mohale was honored to put his knowledge into service, provided he'd be given appropriate authority and resources. He demanded to choose his team himself, so he could be sure he can trust each and every one of them. He also said he'd need a way to prevent people from doing things behind his back - he wasn't happy with mere assurances by all the ringleaders that their people would comply.

To solve the latter issue, Chia Pao of The Servants of Evolution suggested that Mohale's team would be given exclusive access to the workstations in Labspace. They could then evaluate the safety practices of different projects and and simply deny access to those who fail to comply with their standards. There was heavy resistance to this idea, but with the support of Agama or New Human Condition and Tiki of Repair and Restoration Ring, as well as the fact that there was no better proposals, the suggestion was accepted.

Mohale promised to make this project his top priority and make an announcement as soon as the new safety standards are ready to be implemented.

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Ringleader Meeting XX

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Ringleader Meeting XXI

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Ringleader Meeting XXII

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Ringleader Meeting XXIII

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Ringleader Meeting XXIV

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Ringleader Meeting XXV