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=== Primary Activities  ===
=== Primary Activities  ===
*Set up new colonies
*Set up new colonies
*Administer the program that performs [[CAP|CAP]] testing  
*Administer the program that performs [[CAP|CAP]] testing  
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====Story Usage====
====Story Usage====
A textual analysis of the story repository, current as of 2018 and performed on 2019-09-06 identified the following top ten usage counts for Deco:
A textual analysis of the story repository, current as of 2018 and performed on 2019-09-06 identified the following top ten usage counts for Deco:
*[[Ending_This_Mess|Ending This Mess]] by [[Zen_Master|Zen Master]] 111 instances.
*[[Ending_This_Mess|Ending This Mess]] by [[Zen_Master_and_ZM_Synopses|Zen Master]] 111 instances.
*[[Chosen_Frozen_II|Chosen Frozen II]] by [[lordshipmayhem|lordshipmayhem]] 42 instances.
*[[Chosen_Frozen_II|Chosen Frozen II]] by [[lordshipmayhem|lordshipmayhem]] 42 instances.
*[[Pickup_Loop_Hole|Pickup Loop Hole]] by [[corsair|corsair]] 36 instances.
*[[Pickup_Loop_Hole|Pickup Loop Hole]] by [[corsair|corsair]] 36 instances.
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*[[Rosencrantz_And_Guildenstern|Rosencrantz And Guildenstern]] by [[lordshipmayhem|lordshipmayhem]] 16 instances.
*[[Rosencrantz_And_Guildenstern|Rosencrantz And Guildenstern]] by [[lordshipmayhem|lordshipmayhem]] 16 instances.
*[[Living_a_CAP_Based_Present|Living a CAP Based Present]] by [[Allan_Joyal|Allan Joyal]] 15 instances.
*[[Living_a_CAP_Based_Present|Living a CAP Based Present]] by [[Allan_Joyal|Allan Joyal]] 15 instances.
*[[The_First_Command|The First Command]] by [[Zen_Master|Zen Master]] 15 instances.
*[[The_First_Command|The First Command]] by [[Zen_Master_and_ZM_Synopses|Zen Master]] 15 instances.
*[[Chosen_Frozen|Chosen Frozen]] by [[lordshipmayhem|lordshipmayhem]] 14 instances.
*[[Chosen_Frozen|Chosen Frozen]] by [[lordshipmayhem|lordshipmayhem]] 14 instances.
*[[The_Academy|The Academy]] by [[Thinking_Horndog|Thinking Horndog]] 12 instances.
*[[The_Academy|The Academy]] by [[Thinking_Horndog|Thinking Horndog]] 12 instances.


=== See Also  ===
=== See Also  ===
*[[Central Command|Central Command or CC]]  
*[[Central Command|Central Command or CC]]  
*[[Japanese Empire|Japanese Empire]] which is exempted from DECO oversight by formal agreement
*[[Japanese Empire|Japanese Empire]] which is exempted from DECO oversight by formal agreement

Revision as of 18:14, 26 April 2024

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The Directorate of Evacuation and Colonial Operations is the entity at Earth that controls all operations related to the extraction and evacuation of people on Earth.

Description

   DECO was the Confederacy agency charged with overall management of Earthat's evacuation program.  In parallel, DECO was responsible for the creation of colonies from site selection and pre-settlement development to the selection of colonists.  However, once the first colonist set foot on the colony, the Confederacy considered the colony to be self-governing and DECO had no authority over it.
   This abrupt change in authority was a constant source of irritation for DECO personnel, as they considered themselves to be the experts in colonial operations that their formal name implied. However, the colonists themselves considered the troubles associated with being under the thumbs of a set of absentee landlords to be greater than the benefits justified, and both Confederacy law and the AIs themselves sided with the colonists so DECO had no option but to swallow the insult.
   As long as DECO concentrates on evacuating people and setting up new colonies, everyone in the diaspora supports them.  Every time they try to get involved in an existing colony, though, they get kicked out of the system.
   DECO was formally renamed to "Department of Volunteer Management" or DVM during the Earthat system-wide overhaul of political and military systems following the debacle of the Fourth Battle of Earthat, but everyone continued to call the much-smaller organization DECO for decades.

Primary Activities

  • Set up new colonies
  • Administer the program that performs CAP testing
  • Oversee personnel evacuations in mass pick-ups
  • Oversee the activities of the Office of Targeted Extractions (OTE)
  • Organize transport of colonists to the colonies

Story Usage

A textual analysis of the story repository, current as of 2018 and performed on 2019-09-06 identified the following top ten usage counts for Deco:

See Also



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