• 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 centralized GAIA’s fragmented Local 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 authorize parameter changes; all other bodies receive read-only data streams.

• In the immediate wake of Day Zero, the Settler’s Council of the Free State of Settlers carved Local GAIA Hubs into each town-hall basement.
• These vaults were public utilities from the outset, funded with communal QFB allocations and staffed by Council-appointed engineers.

• As settlements grew, each hub evolved its own maintenance rituals and patch schedules; interoperability began to drift.
• Quarterly “vault summits” in New Kourou tried — and often failed — to keep firmware versions aligned.

• After the Great War, the newly created Federal Confederation bundled all hub crews, spare-part depots, and signal specialists into a single body: the Federal GAIA Agency (FGA).
• Mandate: “One Mind, Many Vaults” — standardise procedures, secure the data chain, and enforce a top-down policy pipeline from “The Kernel.”

• Star-topology finalised: daily data flows *up* from hubs; weekly firmware flows down from The Kernel.
• EM-fin roof shielding, amber beacons, and the Hub-Support Bureau model rolled out Confederation-wide.

• Daily shellac intake and the 06:00 short-wave uplink stabilised (see Update Cycle).
• Ongoing debate over adding a “moral-weighting patch” remains unresolved — the Agency claims no spare compute budget.

Power Backbone – dedicated QFB (re-calibrated quarterly at the Quantum Fusion Recalibration Station of New Kourou ) + 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 for the Federal Council
• Judicial Support Division – evidence analytics for the Federal Attorney and the Federal Court
• Criminal Investigation Dept. – intel liaison with Federal Sheriff
• Economic Planning Division – compiles Annual Plan for the Federal Allotment Agency
• Sustainability Office – environmental KPIs
• Housing Division – accommodation modelling for the Federal Housing Agency
• 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.
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.

• “Ghost-Signal Ambush” – On Thursday night a forged short-wave burst — apparently from Firetown’s GAIA hub — orders a crate of elite copper-mine tools. The Federal Courier Service dutifully dispatches the shipment from New Kourou, but Outlaws ambush the Federal Caravan and vanish with the cargo. Firetown’s Federal Copper Plant insists it never placed an order and is missing nothing. Convinced the Firetown Hub-Support Bureau is complicit, the Federal Sheriff deputises the PCs to slip into Firetown, shadow the bureau staff, trace the counterfeit signal, and recover — or sabotage—the stolen tools before they flood the black market …

• Gamma Age
• Federal Confederation
• Communardism
• New Kourou
• GAIA
• GAIA Spare Parts Depot
• Local GAIA Hubs
• Quantum Fusion Recalibration Station of New Kourou
• Communication Tech in the Gamma Age

The Kernel and Local Bureaux of the Federal GAIA Agency:

• The Kernel in New Kourou (situated in the Federal Council Building)
• Local GAIA Bureau of Firetown (situated in the Office of the Mayor of Firetown)
• Local GAIA Bureau of Hope (situated in the Office of the Mayor of Hope)
• Local GAIA Bureau of Morningstar (situated in the Office of the Mayor of Morningstar)