• Founding Year:2631 (immediately after the Peace Treaty)
• Headquarters: The Kernel, Basement Lv 4–5, Federal Council Building, New Kourou
• Mandate: Operate, secure, and curate every surviving node of the tier-1 AGI GAIA on behalf of the Federal Confederation.
• Tagline (internal): “One Mind, Many Vaults.”

With the dissolution of the Free State of Settlers and birth of the Federal Confederation, the new government nationalised GAIA’s fragmented hub-network and created the Federal GAIA Agency (FGA).

The FGA’s remit is both technical—maintaining photonic racks, Quantum Fusion Batteries, and firmware—and political: translating GAIA outputs into policy while ensuring no faction tampers with the AI’s core parameters. Only the Supreme Councilor can authorise parameter changes; all other bodies receive read-only data streams.

• Emergency Decree #12 transferred ownership of every Local GAIA Hub (New Kourou, Hope, Morningstar, Firetown) to the Confederation.
• Private maintenance crews were offered federal contracts or barred from vault access; 78 % accepted.

• “Star-topology” architecture formalised: nightly one-way syncs from *The Kernel* to provincial hubs.
• Roof-mounted EM-fin rings retrofitted; amber beacons added for firmware status.
• Shellac lathe and short-wave schedule set to Thursday 02:00 master delta release.

• Annual Plan generation fully automated.
• The Hub-Support Bureau model rolled out—one micro-office in every town hall to relay spare-part requests and schedule QFB swaps.

Power Backbone – dedicated QFB (re-calibrated quarterly at the New Kourou QFRS) + geothermal loop
Data Backbone – Thursday shellac deltas + nightly short-wave telemetry bursts

• Director-General – strategic oversight, reports to Supreme Councilor
• Policy & Legislation Dept. – research, drafting
• Judicial Support Division – evidence analytics
• Criminal Investigation Dept. – intel liaison with Federal Sheriff
• Economic Planning Division – compiles Annual Plan
• Sustainability Office – environmental KPIs
• Housing Division – accommodation modelling
• Ops & Engineering Corps – photonic techs, QFB custodians, signal specialists
• Satellite Hub-Support – Bureaux in Hope, Morningstar, Firetown

Energy Cost – The 06:00 burst uses ≈ 2 % of a hub’s weekly QFB budget. Security – Shellac disks are physically sealed; tampering triggers a vault-quarantine. Public Visibility – Settlers see GAIA’s influence only as printed decrees or WCC radio bulletins, never as a live dialogue.

• Communards – praise the Federal GAIA Agency as guarantor of equity and long-range planning.
• Individualists – call it a technocratic leash; dream of parameter reset.
• Outlaw factions (e.g., Jane Mendoza Gang) – bribe engineers for quota leaks and firmware exploits.

Located in New Kourou’s South Industrial Ring, the Spare Parts Depot stockpiles photonic chips, QFB regulators, and optical bus lines salvaged from the Last Frontier. With no nanoforge production, these caches are irreplaceable; the depot is guarded 24/7 by Deputies of the Federal Sheriff.

* Firmware Hostage – Outlaws steal Thursday shellac disks and demand food quotas. * Vault-Quarantine – PCs must enter the sealed Kernel after quake damage before data rot sets in. * Parameter Heist – A high-ranking bureaucrat hires PCs to smuggle new policy weights past security. * Spare-Part Raid – Rival factions target the Depot; PCs decide defence, theft, or sabotage.

• GAIA
• Technology of the Beta Age
• GAIA Spare Parts Depot
• Federal Allotment Agency
• Communication Tech in the Gamma Age
• Communardism
• New Kourou QFRS
• Federal Courier Service