Intergalactic Summit

It's good to see this getting some momentum.

First, I'm happy to see Morwen Lagann, Valerie Valate and Esna Pitoojee ready to take or confirm the lead in their respective divisions, and approve of this without hesitation.
In the same vein, I would like to propose myself to take lead in the Multidisciplinary division (Unless Akasha Prime is still active and willing to take this position?). It was always the division I was the most involved into, my project was under it's responsibility, and I maintained a good think tank on astrophysics through my corporation.

Coming back to the matter at hand:

I would like to reiterate here the important idea that Arek'Jalaan must not become a formal alliance or corporation, in CONCORD's sense of the word. This would expose us to formal war declarations, and, as Dr. Valate already mentioned, individuals need extra room.

My idea for a renewal of Arek'Jalaan would be this:

• We keep the existing divisions (almost all of them, more on that later).
• Each division is either a Research Division (blue in the next diagram), or an Administrative Division (red in the next diagram).
• Each division will have a Division Leader (and a Substitute, to act in his or her place when unavailable for critical periods of time.)
• Decisions regarding Arek'Jalaan as a whole will be taken by a Council of the Division Leaders, with a majority of 2/3.
• The Arek'Jalaan Council will have a Chairman, designed by its members, who will be in charge of leading the Council's discussions, and in general, act as an embodiment of Arek'Jalaan for any action requiring a specific person.
• Every Division Leader will become Chairman, this position being passed every month to the next Division Leader.
• Mandates of the Division Leaders (and Substitutes) should be renewed at the Division's members discretion. Terms should be kept long enough to be meaningful. (A year ?)
• Division Leaders are encouraged to consult their Division Members when possible and needed, but may take decisions on behalf of their Division without concentration, without any penalty other than a lower chance of reelection for a later term.
• Division Leaders will be in charge of establishing or maintaining any communication medium for their Division internal discussions, as before.

Here, a diagram.

Concerning the Divisions:

I am rather opposed to the creation of an "Internal Security" division, mentioned earlier. This should already be quite in the realm of the Security Division.

In a more general way, I think we should cut down on the existing divisions. Recenter our forces, after the bleeding of brains we suffered, and, in the organization presented above, this will give us less Division Leaders, for a more efficient Council.

Research Divisions:

• Sleeper Technology and Sleeper History should be merged, IMHO.
• Same goes for Talocan History and Talocan Technology.
• Rogue Drones remains unchanged.
• Ancient Races remains unchanged.
• Multidisciplinary remains unchanged, although maybe a name change could be useful.

Administrative Divisions:

• Acquisition remains unchanged, and will continue to manage mobile assets.
• Security remains unchanged.
• The Ethics Committee remains unchanged.
• Archiving and Documentation absorbs Media Relations & Information Dissemination.
• Multidisciplinary remains unchanged, although maybe a name change could be useful.
• Logistics & Administration is disbanded, it's responsibilities shared between Acquisition and the Council.

This gives us 10 Divisions, a Council of 10 people will already be hard enough to manage. 7 votes would be required for a motion to pass.

This vision is very clear for me, but please give me your feedback, or feel free to take it as a starting point and iterate.

(Edit: As far as the "Who" question goes, besides my own candidacy to the role of Multidisciplinary Division Lead, and the approval of my other "re-emergent colleagues", I have no recommendations. I would be very happy to see former Division Leads coming back, especially those who held delicate positions, such as the Antiquarian. If they do not want to be involved again, replacements can be selected by us as a whole once we have our structure defined.)

+1 to everything Gehen Sealbreaker said. Also if we need a division head for Sleeper Research, I'll be happy to take the position.

I admit that my opinion is colored by personal experience with both of them and based on that experience i find Mr. Caine and his associates in Stillwater to be subversive as well as i dont have high opinion of Angel cartel either.
My skills are more in security and combat as well as reconnaissance as recent addition rather than scientific in nature but i'm wiling to use those skills if needed for A'J regardless who is going to be chosen as head of security.

This is going to devolve quite fast, I think.
I am not the Symposium moderator, and every contribution is welcomed, but perhaps we should postpone discussions regarding contested vacant Division Leader seats to later?
After all, there will be a head of Security if something more or less the vision I exposed is put into place... But someone else might make a proposal where there is no formal Security Division. The question of who is going to lead it would then be moot.

In case someone would like to point out that I contributed exactly to that slightly off-topic discussion earlier, please keep this in mind.

Coming back to the point, and regarding the debate at hand, I think the model I exposed earlier lacks proper rules to determine who is going to lead a Division. I will propose some later if no-one has, but I would prefer this to be a collaborative work.

On a side note, I came back to New Eden's central regions from my corporation's research facilities yesterday, and will remain around Eram - and Antiquus - if some old friends (or possibly new ones) want to meet face to face.

I will be only too happy to work with you both on this.

Sounds like a joke.

Two Angels and a Sebiestor Shaman walk into a bar...

So is this just a group of people that wish to research sleepers more? The original post assumes a certain level of name recognition.

Understood, thank you for the background.

If you want to visit the Arek'Jaalan station, it's in the Eram system. You can even access all the research data there & download copies of it on your ship for later reading!


On this revivification of Arek'Jaalan, I'm curious how it'll go. I missed out on it's original incantation as I was occupied in the fight against Nation back then. A few cross-over projects did help us in learning more of Sansha's wormhole tech. I did enjoy reading about the various research reports & it's results.

If this project successfully rises up, I would like to participate as media outlet, mainly running publications on the various Arek'Jaalan projects. This would help raising awareness across the cluster for the renewed Arek'Jaalan project.

I believe my extensive knowledge of synthetic psychology and anthropology would be very useful to this project. Rogue drones and Sleepers are ever-present dangers in the cluster, and we can neutralize these threats only if we understand them as well as we understand ourselves. If I am needed, I will serve.

No one cares.