Name: Galen Advanced
Technology Group (AGATE)
Location: AGATE owns
facilities across the Federation, and many others support AGATE work, the
central headquarters are on Gadarren in Adantia, though this particular
building simply coordinates the AGATE work within the Federation, other
buildings on Athene provide meeting places with other research groups,
especially FIAS.
Established: AGATE grew
out of Galen Coordinated Technology (GCT, Est 2021), a bureaucratic
institute that coordinated research with the Galen sphere before contact.
Since contact GCT has become AGATE.
Notes:
The transition from GCT to AGATE was primarily for efficiency, after
contact the Galen gained access to Federation technology, and as such had
to change its current research priorities, as otherwise they may
pointlessly discover things they are freely able to learn from Federation
knowledge. As such AGATE existed so that Galen researchers were working on
problems that had not already been tackled by the Federation, and enabled
efficient coordinated research amongst other Federation races. Today in
its current form AGATE still coordinates a number of smaller research
initiatives in an efficient manner, though it has by in large evolved into
a domestic science agency for the Federation. AGATE plays an important
part in maintaining integrated transport within the Federation, and also
supplying other utilities, it also acts as an information handling
service. Current research is towards more environmentally friendly
technology to support Federation colonies with a particular emphasis on
advanced nanotechnology and AI.
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