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FEDERAL GAIA AGENCY (FGA)
Overview
- 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.
History
1. Nationalisation Phase (Mid-2631)
- 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.
2. Centralisation & Hardening (2631–2633)
- “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.
3. Operational Plateau (2634–present)
- 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.
Core Functions & Responsibilities
| Domain | Key Outputs |
| ——– | ————- |
| Policy & Legislation | Draft bills, impact forecasts for the Federal Council |
| Annual Economic Plan | Quotas for food, labour, energy (work-credit tables) |
| Judicial Support | Sentencing matrices, precedent look-ups for the Federal Court |
| Criminal Intelligence | Cross-settlement forensic correlation, suspect tracking |
| Sustainability Metrics | Treaty-compliant emissions & land-use dashboards |
| Health / Housing / Education | FGE scoring, hospital capacity, housing allocation |
Power Backbone – dedicated QFB (re-calibrated quarterly at the New Kourou QFRS) + geothermal loop
Data Backbone – Thursday shellac deltas + nightly short-wave telemetry bursts
Organisational Structure
- 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
On-Premise Update Cycle
| Local Hub Action | Medium | Timing (settlement local time) |
| —————— | ——– | ——————————– |
| Federal agencies & licensed firms burn the day’s ledgers to shellac | Shellac | 19:00 – 23:59 |
| Shellac disks walked to the Local GAIA Hub; vault ingest + nightly analytics | – | 00:00 – 05:30 |
| Hub transmits summarised dataset to *The Kernel* | Short-wave burst | 06:00 |
| Kernel aggregates all settlements, generates federation-wide dashboards | – | 06:15 – 08:00 |
| Thu 02:00 (weekly) – Kernel engraves firmware & policy deltas to master shellac | Shellac | Weekly |
| Thu daylight – Federal Courier riders deliver deltas to each hub | – | Weekly |
| Fri evening – Provincial hubs flash new firmware, post CRC, spin up beacons | – | Weekly |
Energy Cost – The 06:00 burst uses ≈ 2 % of a hub’s weekly QFB budget.
Public Visibility – Settlers see GAIA’s influence only as printed decrees or WCC radio bulletins, never as a live dialogue.
Perception & Controversy
- 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.
GAIA Spare Parts Depot
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.
Tactical Advice for Dungeon Masters
* 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.