Federation Faction File

**Note:** The following information is only for those interested in writing lore for or of the Cybernetic Federation, or miscellaneous viewers who wish to see a run-down of the faction as a whole. It does not deal with lore events, individual members, or otherwise, but provides a comprehensive look at the faction.

**Note 2:** The information here is subject to revision.

## Who Are They?

* The Cyberbolivarian Federated Nations of Southern Cone, or Cybernetic Federation for short is a strategic Alliance between the Nations of Chile, Argentina and Paraguay who federated under a singular superstate for the sake of convenience, such convenience being the Cybersyn System itself, which coordinates the industry and the government at ground level in real time for the benefit of the citicenry as well as the politicians and bussinessmen themselves.

* This Superstate is just coming out of a sort of Civil War, as part of one of the theaters of WWIII, namely the Chilean War, the invasion of the Argentine Army under the orders of the Allied Nations as well as the rebellion of most of the chilean armed forces who were then beaten by the resistance forces together with some unexpected interventors meant that most of the country is in ruins, both Chile and Argentina having been severely damaged during the war, most of the army discharged and Buenos Aires still being fought over at the start of the setting, Paraguay being the only member state having come unscathed from the war, as such, the "Armed Forces" you're commanding are actually the Vigilante Force,, partly Militia partly National Guard, they are a far cry from the regular army, but it's the most reliable branch as of now.

## What They Want

* **Security**. The Federation is still in a terrible state of turmuilt, the new government having instated itself recently and the war fresh on the memory... and the landscape. While the new government does have the support of the people, there's still a huge rebuilding process to be done, some fights to finish and some people still conspiring to see this government toppled, not to mention some more esoteric dangers.

* **Cybernetics**. The only reason this government works and it can be considered some sort of Power, Regional or otherwise, is simply the product of Cybernetics, the Government, and the GAF in particular, are all too aware of this and as such are in a mad quest to look for and acquire, by whatever means possible, modern computer technology. The "Computers" the Federation uses are terribly outdated, even outside the setting, they are building sized transistor behemots who can barely accomplish their tasks, their main goal is to upgrade into Syndicate, Imperial or any other kind of exotic and powerful computing technology to improve their own, until they can finally leave the government work in the full hands of the computer.

## The Cybernetic Government

* **Cyberbolivarianism**. It really was a thing, at some point, in paper. The gist of it consisted on administering the Government through an interconnected system of computers that would allow the citizens to provide real-time imput on the government decisions, through the use of Cyberfolk. Cyberfolk was a system that was part of Cybersyn, the domestic version so to say. Connected to televisions in every households, it would allow people to vote on local and eventually country wide government decisions as they were presented on Parliament through the use of algodometers, which allowed people to show how content/discontent they are with the decisions made there.

Yes, the Government was very socialist in nature and yes, the Cybernetic Federation has a sort of proto-internet. More on that later.

* The Heads of Government have special Control Rooms from where they operate, they receive all the data through telex machine and from there they can make decisions based on the input brought by those machines.

In truth this is just a facade, the data brought into these rooms is mostly useless and the panels located in there are mostly pure decoration, they are puppet figures without much real control of the government, who are there mostly due to their very popular character.

* The People who really are behind the scenes are the GAF, a sort of Secret Service, Presidential Guard and Secret Society combo, they are the ones responsible for the surprising victory of the cyberbolivarians and are the ones who truly known the full extent of the capacities of Cybersyn and take the most advantage from it, they are also the ones who are pulling the strings to make the country prepared for the inevitable war that is about to come and the ones behind the mad quest for technology. They govern the country through the issuing of edicts every now and then according to the circumstances presented to them, through the Constitutions still apply outside of this.

Stroessner is the big exception here, as he still has his country under his grasp, as he wasn't fooled by the smokes and mirrors of the Control Room, he still seems to support the cause of the Federation and use Cybersyn, towards which goals however it is unknown.

## Transistorpunk and Latin America

* The Cybernetic Federation is defined by the Genre known as "Transistorpunk", in other words, it's based on that awkward period in the transition between Transistor and Vacuum Tubes technology, everything is large, clunky and wiry, on the other hand however, the faction has a very distinct flair to it, as it's heavily influenced on South American Sci-Fi, having this distinct flair to it, checking on stuff like Synco or El Eternauta is a good idea.

* If there’s a general theme that ties the whole Federation together it is that of the Network Society, life in a world of instant, constant bombardment of information, the goods and ills of living in a world of social media, the lack of privacy, the feeling of solitude in a world of virtual friends, etc.

It’s the world where you can organize mass demonstrations through coordination through virtual media, of mass campaigns promoted through events, invasion of privacy for the sake of national security, you know the deal… all done with late 1960s technology of course.

* This way, the Cybernetic Society is less 1984 and more Brave New World, it’s less censorship of information and more overflow of information, to the point of trivialization. Less vigilance from the state and more vigilantism, the very people watching out to everybody else and looking suspiciously at any loners and outcasts.

## Federation Tech

* Federation tech is mostly characterized for being a clunky, haphazard mixture of Allied and Soviet tech, jury-rigged and placed over civilian stuff.

* Cybersyn is probably the main feature of the faction, it's a Giant city sized Computer system beneath the city of Santiago de Chile, with it's branches extending everywhere over the whole of the Federation via T-Syns, or Terminals of Synco, local access computers for the citizenship, there they can make queries to look for stuff, as a sort of search engine, request things or simply communicate with other people, yes, it works like an internet, but a very primitive and clunky version of it.

In truth, Cybersyn for the most part ain't even managed by computers, most of it is actually handled through the use of Telex Machines, who then send the information to Cybervillas where Operarians receive the data and then manually hand in the answeres to the queries to the machine to be sent back to the appropiate recipient. The Government is doing everything on their hands to make sure this system is automated as quickly as possible.

* Cybervillas are the name of the places where this information is handled, with people toiling there day and night 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to make sure the system keeps operating on the norm, fulfilling their duty there with no hopes nor real intentions to acquire any new jobs ever, as they have “ideal” conditions there, with some peer pressure and free use of state administered drugs involved in the process, Cybervillas themselves are meant to look like those Utopian Commune visions from the 19th century.

Though much more primitive, the Federation has a much better grasp on wireless communication than the Syndicate, or anyone else for the matter, this is mostly because the government does a much better job at regulating the bands for wireless communication.

* There's a special branch of Cybersyn for the military in fact, called Cybersol, this one is fully wireless and it's the tool that makes the Teletanks actually reliable.

* Teletanks are a Legacy from the days of Collaboration with Cherdenko's Soviet Union, the old Soviet Teletank technology was being field tested in the country when the invasion happened, not to mention the Battle of Easter Island, being left abandoned on the countryside, these were adopted and adapted to control civilian vehicles, who were crudely geared for warfare and put in service for the Vigilante Force.

* The Federation has some veneer of familiarity with Chronotechnology, courtesy of Huemul Project, they did realize of the dangers of it however, due to some experiments that ended in catastrophic failures, so they deliberately limit the use of it and are looking to do the same with the Allies.

* Huemul Project is also an important group within the Federation, while the real life one dabbled with Atomic Technology, this one dabbled with Chronotechnology, arguably with more success, if some weird branch of technology is found within the Federation whose origin can't be pointed at the Soviets, it probably comes from there.

* L.U.M.O.S finally is another experiment from the Cherdenko era, most relevant information is said on the very page for it.

* Federation technology and knowledge-base strenghts are Cybernetics, Optics, Radio and Wireless Communication. Their Weaknesses lie in Military Engineering, Aerospace Technology and Biological Sciences.

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