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PUMA Process



Potential Union Member Assessment



Preface



Visitors to the Sphere of Assembly entering it through the East Entrance (known as the President Enroe Door) will immediatley see the Member Board.

During the first century of the Union it was an 20 x 20 meter steel board large brass plates spelling out the name of the Member society.

Today it is a 200 x 100 x 10 meter monolith made of solid Iridium floating un supported right under the ceiling of the Inner Corridor.

On it the names of every member civilization.

The first act that is performed after the Assembly voted to accept a new member is the engraving ceremony. The first member representative presses a big red button and a laser beam engraves the name of its society onto the surface.

This officially ends the PUMA process.

A process that is started with the application

It is the subject of a Union School class and several questions about appear in the Union Citizen Test.

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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">The best way to describe it, is to use an example:

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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">Filing of the request

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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">Application requests are previously filed with the OOP by a Union Citizen on behalf of the Civilization or a deegation makes this request at any Union Checkpoint. The most common filing is made for them or by them by a Union Fleet Officer.

<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">Another form is by invitation. The Assembly sends out an invitation to join.(Very rare)

<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">In the case of the Togar the request was filed by Captain Erica Olafson to the OOP.

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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">The Appointment

<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">The Application request is checked and all available data on the applicant is added and then send to the Speaker. The speaker announces the Application request and calls for a vote to create an Appointment.

<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">The Appointment is traditionally set on an Eight Day at the 8th hour of the Day period.

<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">It is statistically the day and hour most Union Citzens are home and watch Assembly proceedings.

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<p style="margin-bottom:0cm">Appointment Day