OK, just a reminder: we play next Sunday (February 10th).

... Siyanda silenced him with a wave.

"Stop apologizing, please", she said. "You apologize far too much. Mostly for good reason, though, I give you that. But still, it gets tiresome."

They were in one of the minor stops of the tube lift. Siyanda finished up the supercoils, and they entered the capsule together. Inside, there was a column of buttons. The labels included: "Top Level", "Biospace", "The Canyon", "TAU Master Core", a stop with no label, and "The Speedgrowth Chambers".

"Where are you heading with that?" Siyanda asked.

Biohazards

Problem: There's are harmful biological agents inside the Tower.
Cause: Some of the agents are microscopic life-forms either native to Da Vinci or resulting from the terraforming process. Either way, they make their way in from the outside. The overpressuse keeps most of the airborne spores and microbes out, but some grow along the surface of the tower, growing their way inside. Once inside, they're very hard to dispose of.
Symptoms: Some of the agents are harmful to the health of the colonists (there's been epidemics), while others reside inside machines interfering with their function. Some even corrode away at metal.
Attempts for a fix: The overpressure keeps the worst of it out. In addition, Bio Security Squad regularly seeks out and cleans infested areas.
Status: A constant problem that might get out of hand at any time (Oct 104).

The Project Database

Location: The Middle Cluster
Access: Public
Provided by: TSR

This database contains data on the various projects going on in the tower.

The Swiss Cheese Phenomenon

Problem: The Canyon and many connected areas aren't airtight. Far from it. Instead, it's connected to the outside world.
Cause: When the big rock hit the Tower, it caused cracks - especially at the spot where the top of the Tower used to be. Some areas have been sealed off by Radlocks, but The Canyon is too spacious for that.
Symptoms: Without the overpressure (see below), the Canyon would be filled with air from the outside, with its biological contaminants, as well as lower air pressure, oxygen amounts, and temperature. In addition, massive amounts of energy is wasted for the heating of The Canyon.
Attempts for a fix: Currently, the situation is being kept under control by applying overpressure inside The Canyon.
Status: Definately a problem as shown during The Blackout.

Dependence on the Floatbeds

Problem: The colonists can't survive for more than a few days without being able to visit the floatbeds.
Cause: The natural digestion and waste handling systems of the colonists have been turned off by physiological modifications. The purpose of this is to make them not need to grow food or take care of their wastes. (Another effect is their sterilization.)
Symptoms: Having to return to the floatbeds every 24 hours or became exhausted and nauseated. After two days in the row the feelings become near unbearable, and lead to death in about five.
Attempts for a fix: Stimulants and Inhibitors are used to stretch the time one can act and survive without access to the floatbeds. Several projects have also been formed to address the problem, most notably Mira's Custom Floatbed Project and Corteza's Counter-Tampering Project.
Status: Not an immediate threat - as long as the floatbeds remain functional... (Oct 104)

Disconnected from the Seedship in Orbit

Problem: There is no contact with the Solidarity monitoring the terraforming process from orbit.
Cause: Contact with the Solidarity was lost before the first human was speedgrown. After the Solidarity settled on a place for the first tower and sent down everything needed, contact was somehow lost, perhaps due to the even more extreme weather supposedly plaguing the old tower.
Symptoms: Lack of data about the global status of the planet; no access to status reports from Earth.
Attempts for a fix: Stray thoughts about building shuttles to visit the station.
Status: Not immediately threatening but not solved either (Oct 104)

All correct.

Siyanda

Siyanda was one of the tenth patch of the First Colonists. Her radiant brown eyes matched with her rough dark skin, both radiating strength and determination. Her skill as a mechanical engineer was unmatched even by The Legendary Six, and when it came to redirecting power conduits, she was a step away from a sorceress.

So, this one day, only a regular day it looked from the outside, she was realigning a series of supercoils down in The Lower Cluster, when...

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Oh, it did look familiar! It's the Java logo!