DECO

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Directorate of Evacuation and Colonial Operations

   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:

• Ending This Mess by Zen Master 111 instances.
• Chosen Frozen II by lordshipmayhem 42 instances.
• Pickup Loop Hole by corsair 36 instances.
• We Few, We Happy Few, We Band of Brothers by LughIldanach 30 instances.
• Crisis at Ishtar by Allan Joyal 23 instances.
• Rosencrantz And Guildenstern by lordshipmayhem 16 instances.
• Living a CAP Based Present by Allan Joyal 15 instances.
• The First Command by Zen Master 15 instances.
• Chosen Frozen by lordshipmayhem 14 instances.
• The Academy by Thinking Horndog 12 instances.

See Also

• Central Command or CC
• Japanese Empire which is exempted from DECO oversight by formal agreement

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