Gaia

**Divergence: Julius Caesar was assassinated shortly after the death of his father in 83 AD at age 17. This lead to a continued stability of the republic and ultimately prevented the burning of the Library of Alexandra. Leading to a chain of events the maintained a form of the republic surviving to the modern era in a vastly altered state.**

*Intelligence collected from onsite operatives that had an opportunity to study the history of Gaia in one of their libraries and lived in their society among their citizens for a short time.*

**Divergent Historical Time Line:**

Julius Caesar was assassinated shortly after the death of his father in 83 AD. This lead to a continued stability of the republic and ultimately prevented the burning of the Library of Alexandra. During this time of Republican power consolidation, a trend of the study of classic Greek philosophy grew in common popularity. This led to a adaptation of logic and rigorous examination of existing beliefs. As time moved on the society gradually became more secular and grew away from religion and things that cannot be detected, measured, or quantified. During this time, the Roman Republic had become increasingly militaristic and despite its name and traditions it began to resemble the Roman Empire without an emperor.

Approximately around this time the Illuminatis took shape and began to shape the outcome of events around the world from the shadows. The Roman Legions began a conquest of all they could see.  Eventually the New Enlightened Roman Republic closed their fist around the world of Gaia. By this point the Scientific Method and pure reason had replaced any lingering belief in the supernatural or religious. During this period, any form of religion or acts of superstition are outlawed as deviant social behavior.  With a large, unified government, no influence from organized religion, no loss great loss of information and knowledge the Dark ages in Europe never occurred.

Approximately 300 AD the Republic went on a careful measured expansionary period gradually taking all of Europe, Africa and Asia .Not long after the New World is integrated into the Republic. In 1209 AD the first world government is established. The Illuminatis is publicly revealed by the world government as a society of people who had great knowledge and had been guiding and protecting humanity from the shadows but would now do so in the light. Immediately after the Illuminatis is integrated into a “technical” advisory role. Over time the Illuminatis becomes the de facto rulers of the government the had advised and The Pax Illuminatis was declared.   In 1388 AD the industrial revolution began. By the 1500’s the Technological revolution had begun.

By 1555 AD Gaian technology was on par with Earth year 2020. Approximately at this time the Gaian began to concentrate on breach technology and explored a great many alternate Earths and colonized many worlds with valuable and exotic resources. The Beginnings of the modern Gaian culture began to emerge as they sought to optimize the efficiency of their society. This massive influx of once rare, now abundant raw materials caused a huge leap forward in Gaian construction projects and scientific developments. This period was marked by a large amount of increased control over the population and the stratification of society into the modern Gaian culture, including the creation of The Eye and the surgically attached Utility Monitor Interface (UMI). During this time, they Gaian’s focused mostly on development of technology based on their current scientific development level and non-applied scientific advancement slowed while applied sciences flourished.

Approximately 1700 the Gaian’s found that many of their world had been overrun by Reptilian infiltrators and were already lost. Most of the others were also infiltrated by contested. Over the next 150 years the Reptilians pushed the Gaian’s off all their colony world and back to Gaia. During this time the Gaian’s had stolen some of the Reptilians genetics technology and developed a method for creating a breach gate defense system as well as many other defensive technologies.

Gaia is now effectively a fortress world. The last stronghold of the mighty Enlightened Gaian Republic.

**Gaian Culture**:

Gaian Society:

The government of Gaia is a Total Utilitarian, cryptocratic, meritocracy.

Because of the differences in history Gaia's technological level is several hundred years ahead of Terra Prime. Many current technologies are recognizable but are very advanced. Anti gravity cars, high speed trains, ect. The cities by in large look like towers of glass and polished metal reaching into the sky, connected by elevated walkways and high-speed tube enclosed trams.

The concept of the society is to uses a total surveillance society to collect data and take an individual with all their actions positive and negative actions and their productivity and relative happiness and render them down to a constantly fluctuating number using powerful computers and a complex algorithm.

Gaians are taught from an early age that being subsumed into service of any kind for the Greater Good is the highest form of civic duty.  Most Gaians are almost fanatically patriotic and eat up the steady stream of propaganda from the government. To a Gaian the only thing more important than the Greater Good of the State is their Utility Score. It affects everything from, what job you can apply for, what roads and buildings you can use to travel, what foods are available, rationing of resources higher level means longer showers, more drinking water, better housing, ect. Everyone wants to maintain their Utility Score within their current range or higher if they can get it that way. If they can get the score to a high enough level, you will be promoted and get to a higher tier. If they are below quota and are showing non civic behavior their Utility Score will go down and they could be demoted to a lower level.

Taking in data from helping someone pick up a spilled bag to cutting someone off in traffic. As well as all the minor things its also a function of your work productivity. If you meet all quotas and responsibilities your score remains the same. However, if you have an inventive idea that saves times or makes the job more effective with less effort your score would go up. A score is also affected by how happy and content a person is all the time and the happier you can get in your free time the higher you can push your score. As a result, Gaians work extremely hard and very diligently all through the workday which affects their score and during the day are contented and fulfilled in whatever job they are in and then after work most Gaians will party and or relax and enjoy themselves to a hedonistic level for the rest of the evening which also drives up or maintain their score as the happier you are the higher your score goes. A popular Gaian recreational substance is called Colored Vapors. It gets more expensive the higher it goes. With lower colors getting it for free with ration cards for the month. It resembles a long vape pen and the contents when exhaled always produce a colored cloud appropriate the rank of the person to whom they were issued. The higher the rank the better, stronger and longer lasting the effects are. With in each color there are usually multiple differences to choose from that have abstract names like "summer sunshine" or "mountain clouds" that have slightly different experiences and or effects. Using a Vapor of a higher color by a lower color can occasionally be permitted by higher color and in so doing positively effect the lower color's Utility Score over the evening. This is not something that should be done on a regular basis.

The Eye

Everyone is always monitored for both personal happiness as registered by hormone levels and behavior at all times the Gaian cities have cameras mounted all over the place and small silent black drones overhead that have cameras and mics.  For every camera there are two microphones, every UMI acts as a mic and hidden mics are scattered around like the visible and hidden cameras. While a person could not watch all of these cameras and process all of the data from the mics the *illuminatus* uses AI ‘s with vast computing power to sift through and not only look for threats but run the algorithms for each citizen’s Utility Score. The Arrays of AI’s function as an adjunct part of a larger self-aware AI who is aware of nearly every action taken by every citizen at all times. This AI which watches over, maintains and guides Society as a tool of the *illuminatus.* This AI is called The Eye and is held in reverence, awe and fear. The Eye is all seeing. The Eye is all knowing.

UMI

At a young age Gaians are surgically fitted with a device that resembles a gauntlet covering the left forearm from just below the elbow to just above the wrist (where a watch would be). The device is called a Utility Monitor Interface (UMI) many people call them (you-me’s). Their primary function is close monitoring of the wearer and their actions and a real time display of their Utility Score. They also can interface with every other device nearby making it available to the wearer. They have access to a version of the internet called The Core. They have button interface, but the primary interface is a projected holographic display that is touch sensitive. The individuals rapidly fluctuating Utility Score is displayed on the wrist area of the UMI. The UMI also projects Meta Data of each person and what status level they are and relevant info to people who have the appropriate scanning gear (civilian police, military, special security detachment, ect). In addition to its technological functions, the reason it is surgically attached is that it analysis the blood constantly for cortisol and other stress hormones and will make note of them along with a constant record of heart rate, O2 consumption, metabolic rate, adrenaline presence.  It also slowly feeds a concentrated customized drug cocktail called Regulators into the blood stream to keep the subject even and content.

Regulators

The UMI also has a small silver 4” canister rounded on one end and with a narrow neck plug in on the other that locks into and is covered by sliding panel. This silver canister is filled with a highly concentrated custom cocktail of drugs created especially for the individual called Regulators after an advanced neural scanner that detects and neurochemicals in the brain can effectively read your mood and adjust your custom mix of medication to keep you even and baseline content and positive. Everyone has a mandatory check up to get themselves scanned to make sure they meet baseline specs.

Levels of Gaian Society

There are 25 levels within Gaian society. Each represented by a letter in the Greek alphabet. Each letter is part of a color grouping. Each grouping has four shades representing the separate ranks within that bracket. The darker the shade the higher the rank in the bracket, the lighter the shade the lower the rank in the bracket. Each shade is identified with a letter of the Greek alphabet. Starting with Fluorescent yellow DPU Status (Omega) has 1 shade, Mustard Yellow (Phi) has 1 shade (DPU Warning Status), Orange has 5 shades, Red has 5 shades, Blue has 5 shades, Green only has 4 shades, Purple which is Alpha-4 up to Alpha-1 has 4 shades. The clothes can be of any style as long as they match the appropriate color and shade and are marked with the appropriate letter some where relatively prominent even if its small.

The darker the shade of color the higher in that rank. For instance dark green is a higher rank than light green, but the lightest green is higher than the darkest blue.

DPUs (Disposable Personnel Units) aka Class Omega Personnel

When a person’s Utility Score drops below a certain point or when a person commits a certain crime. Political dissidents, would be revolutionaries, possession of Class 1 contraband materials, and others who seriously defy the social order in any significant way, they are assigned DPU status and immediately loose all rights and protections.

DPU status is Permanent. Once someone is assigned (DPU) Disposable Personnel Unit status, they stop being considered human and loose all rights and protections thereof. They are considered a societal resource to be used for hazardous or lethal duties that require skill beyond what is easily programed into a robot or is more cost effective. Their UMI and Regulars are removed and at a minim a tracking chip with a basic meta data is implanted. Some DPUs have a control chips implanted. DPUs are used for a variety of tasks such as changing reactor core rods in supplementary reactor cores, uranium and radium mining, participation in large scale human pharmaceutical and other medical testing, deep sea mining rigs, The Extraction Chambers, deep mantle mining, military weapons testing, toxic waste handling, living probes, ect.   Most DPUs have a noticeably short life expectancy and their lives tend to be miserable.

Control Chip

Control Chip a tamper proof microcomputer chip with a nanoexplosive is implanted at the base of the spine. From the out side it looks like a steel bolt with an interface installed in the spine where the spine meets the skull. The CC spreads tendrils to the parts of the brain responsible for basic bio functions and into the sensory cortex to interface with the stream of information to and from the eyes and all other senses. This implant provides basic meta data on the subject and their record and assignment and can tap into the visual cortex to create an on-the-fly custom holding area created by the person with “controller rights” who has a pad. They would tap a button on the pad and the augmented reality glowing translucent cell walls would spring up. With a shock and or death threat from the chip to enforce the augmented reality “cells”. The Augmented Reality Containment system (ARC) has proven to be a valuable tool in the physical control of DPUs.

The Gaian Government

The Senate

The Gaian Government has a Senate comprised of representatives from the different subjugated under the Pax Illuminatus. In number of members, it resembles Terra Prime’s UN but the building is an amphitheater done in classic Roman design. The Senate handles all the, day to day issues. Logistics, personnel, infrastructure, civil police issues. Basic economic strategies and policies, ect.

The *illuminatus*

Above the Senate is the *illuminatus* a shadowy organization that operates in the open with its own guards military operatives. They have the power to overrule the senate but almost never do so openly. They are the power behind the throne so to speak. The senate is just a set piece for show. The *illuminatus* actually rule Gaia. They wear crisp black uniforms adorned with a symbol of the All-Seeing Eye. Many of the *illuminatus* members who wear the black uniforms are trained telepaths who were sifted out of the population at birth.  The AI called The Eye works for the *illuminatus* and provides them all the information they need to guide the population. The population of Gaia are conditioned from birth to be obedient and loyal to the *illuminatus* and patriotic and devoted to the Greater Good. This is largely due to the manipulations of the *illuminatus* through a variety of chemical and neural conditioning during early childhood. The *illuminatus* itself is ruled by a high council made up of an undetermined number of unknown individuals.

The Praetor

Between the Gaian Senate and the *illuminatus* high council. The public face of the *illuminatus* is The Praetor. The Praetor acts as public liaison between the *illuminatus* and the senate and/or any other civil organization that is needed.

The Praetorian Guard

There is The Praetorian Guard an elite guard made of the best of the best culled from the world’s legions given extra extensive training and superior gear. The Praetorian Guard serves as the personal bodyguards of the Praetor and as shock troops and fast response teams. The Praetorian Guard are also occasionally found in small numbers guarding *illuminatus* facilities.