All known internal tensions, problems and opportunities within the Federation that are available to you will appear below. Anything marked as 'unconfirmed' may have a variable output, otherwise these should be considered well-known issues

Snapshot - 40 NS (Turn 12):

• Unification - Federal unification is progressing well, though polities retain much of their own cultural biases and traditions. On the bordering badlands and in the mountains there is an underlying resistance to unification and some tensions. Dedicated by Daniel Awegala, war memorials to unification are sited in most cities and settlements
• Politics - Federal republic with powers set at both Federation and Polity levels, where the latter control a portion of law or sovereignty dependant on whether they are a a national, territorial, corporate or collective polity. Dominant within the political system is the Unification Party, with various minor parties on the fringes. Budgetary power is split between the Executive, headed by the President, and the Council, a non-democratically selected set of advisers
• Census - Population is five billion people
• Bandits and Dissent - Elements of the populace continue to resist unification in the badlands at the edges of the polities, but equally within the Federation following a poorly executed attempt to establish a Planetary Congress prematurely

Opportunities:

• Satyata-Seihai Threat - Detailed in the Satyata-Seihai Conflict thread
• Embezzlement - Sensationalist rumours regards the Progress Made Manifest Coalition siphoning funds and resources from the Council
• Bandits and Dissent - Evidence is presented to the Council that 'Imperator' Rodric Carlsson of the Stellar Imperium is funding bandits in the Nezem Badlands, and potentially more broadly, through several shell companies and a network of shadowy bank transfers. Assessments by the CIA suggest that it would be insufficient to present formal charges however
• Bugging Out? - Construction on a new Manufactory in Haven by the Gorski Amalgam is confirmed by the FIA to be tooled up to produce wiretaps, wireless bugs and other such equipment
• Refugees - Fleeing from 'independent' communities in the Western Badlands are putting pressure on the Alluvian Highlands and Nezem Badlands

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People:

• Captain Noah Mendez - Special Agent, FIA - confirmed KIA
• Tänzer - Special Agent, CIA

Blueprints:

• Border Police - Brigades of border security and custom enforcement trained troops. See: Department of War
• Peacekeepers - Divisions of troops with specialist training in pacification and civilian interaction. See: Department of War
  • Krait SWAT Battalion - 35 million, 12/12/1, no maintenance and +10 to counter terrorist actions
  • Python Cyber Warfare Battalion - 35 million, 12/12/1, no maintenance and +10 to cyber-security actions
• SOU Command Post - Standalone safe house and command post capable of providing enhanced capabilities outside an embedded command post, such as is included in a typical Transport Hub. Costs 60m each, providing enhanced counter-intelligence and intelligence gathering at a site, municipal or regional level </tt>
• SOU Team - Costs 30m each, providing enhanced intelligence gathering, infiltration and threat response at an operational level. Deployed on a per-mission basis

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Faciltities:

• Joint Intelligence and Counter-Insurgency Centre, or JICIC - Construction started in the Anderbacks just outside Haven, with solid progress on the security and capabilities of the facility under the watchful eye of Tänzer.

Units:

• Undercover Operatives - Specialised units within Federal police forces tasked to combat the Focht epidemic saw only partial success

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Programmes:

• Council Investigative Agency (CIA) - reporting to the Council for specific investigations, including:
  • Special Operations Unit (SOU) - Deployed within each existing Transport Hub together with the Acero Pandayan in Wuuwa and the Comores Pandayan in Gharistan. Each provides enhanced intelligence gathering, infiltration and counter-intelligence capabilities. Extra teams operate from Usiku, covering the sinkhole, and Chikalda Hills
• Federal Border Policing Command - Martial Branch - Deployed on the external and, where requested, internal borders of the Federation as well as at strategic transportation points. Provide border security and custom controls. Headquarters at Omniport Nephele, with units listed in the Department of War for ease
• Langerhans Corridor - Protecting the entire land borders with a self-sustaining strip of cleared ground and seismic sensors maintained by remotes
• Federation Intelligence Agency (FIA) - resources within the Federation bureaucracy
• Prism, or the Temple of Prismatic Truth within the New Stoics, operating out of a Stoic Monastery in the Nezem Badlands and run by a figure known only as Apeture
• SAKHUN with KKS and GKS branches within the Kavacha Hegemony

Protocols:

• Encryption - Any sensitive communiques may be concealed using cryptofloricon and/or steganographic techniques, which can conceal the presence of a message as well as the content of it
• Inter-Agency Comms Protocols - Based on existing techniques and cryptography, including operational information found in pre-Exodus datavaults, a series of communication, notification and sharing protocols are established to handle interaction between the CIA, FIA, SAKHUN and Prism
• Intrusion Detection - Embedded virii within the network search out subverted messages - which are then captured, tracked and forwarded as needed to isolate compromised nodes and individuals
• Security Protocols - Revised security protocols for Technology and Intelligence findings are flushed through the ATLAS network via a series of patches and core kernel changes at Arachne, introducing terminal fingerprinting and vault watermarking to the mainstay of the public network and core military systems. Back-doors exist, so as not to impeed FIA and CIA work for example, but these are well-designed. Reduced risk of technology leakage outside the Federation or beyond Council purview

Facilities:

• SMARTIE - joint-military command focused on satellite, sensor and Ansible transmissions at the Acero Cathedral facility
• Subira Hyper-Max Prison on Kicheleko Island - a dour sprawling compound, built on several towering cliff stacks off the coast. With roving remotes, a grim-faced deployment of military guards and a paranoid approach to isolated chambers it can house up to a thousand prisoners in blocks of no more than fifty.
• FIA-SID - Built overlooking the Acero Valley this facility provides a +18 split between up to three SigInt projects per turn - that is the bonus is split not repeated

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Reserved

You have hundreds of civilian prisoners taken and held without trial since the Afternoon of Thirteen Ronin in 37 NS

You have several Seihai pilots captured from 40 NS onward and several infiltrators captured whilst searching for Mendez

You have a captured Seihai command post within Mount Vartija

You have three Satyata operatives in custody, who were collectively trying to access the ship's records on repairs to the KMV Tengu from the RCV Verhuis datavaults

You have two Seihai officers in custory, Seiwa Sharma Ueno and Kawachi Yoshirou Kulkarni

You have a datachip and a computer with a hacked Arachne terminal connection, taken from the Kagemusha prisoner - Eike - who was handed over to the Imperium

You have a battalion of Torōru in custody from the counter-attack against Camp Mkesha

You have several regiments who have surrendered at Himeji and Yamashiro Drome, though you have not taken control of the later fully yet


You're aware of the Anemoi covert ops brigade fielded by the Stellar Imperium
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