It would be the colonists
The answer is late collisions. These are not typical and are normally the after effect of out of spec. cabling or a breaking down connector. A late impact is characterized as any crash that happens after 512 bits of the edge has been transmitted.
A similar system portrayed in the exchange of early impacts, however with one change: In this system, the system executive has damaged the greatest link length (500 meters for 10BASE5 thick Ethernet, 185 meters for 10BASE2 thin ethernet) by either including excessively numerous repeaters in the middle of Stations An and B or by laying excessively wire between them.
They knew the Greek idea of direct democracy. While they didn't necessarily apply the idea in their political system directly, they did apply some ideas that were shared with the Greeks that made the Roman political system more stable and better in the end.