Gigerdi Alliance's R&E was controlled by the military few years ago, but it was made as more "independent" part of Gigerdi Alliance. GA's R&E researches new technology, studies alien artifacts, aliens texts, explores unexplored territories and studies alien planets. Currently R&E is controlled by the military, GA government, but mostly the things inside R&E are decided by the so called Gigerdi Alliance senate committee of R&E.
The committee consists of one represent from every area of the R&E (Exploration, research, alien artifact, etc.). There's also few main leaders who then lead this committee. The committee gathers only once in month, but sometimes it may be called to gather more. Every part of the R&E decides about its own affairs (Means that they decide the things they do), committee decides only some major matters.
GA's R&E's Headquarters are located in the Gigerdi System, but many major facilities are located all over the GA's territory. G&E controls several science and exploration ships, which usually also have huge science areas. GA Military doesn't control science or exploration ships, only in emergency situations GA Military might command science and exploration ships. GA R&E also has several science stations, which are usually located near some planets, nebulas or some other place which has some kind of scientific value.
Currently GA's R&E's main target is the Andromeda galaxy, which has the biggest amount of ships from the R&E. It doesn't have so much stations yet though.
