Scientific Advancement Council

The Scientific Advancement Council (Formerly the Research Organisation in Era III), is one of the four Tsunian organisations that operate in secrecy to attain control the entire country, whilst constantly sabotaging the efforts of the other three. Immensely important to the plots of Eras III and IV, the SAC are advocates of making scientific progress for the right reasons, but in the wrong ways.

As of the start of King's Agency, the Scientific Advancement Council is disbanded. Their leaders are dead.

History
I still hate lore by the way ;-;

The SAC was formed by a ragtag group of pioneers a couple of decades before Era III began, led by the man who would eventually awaken into the Arkin P.N: a wandering-magician-turned-scientist after deciding to uncover about the mysteries of the world. He and his group served under the Tsunian Royal Family and were acquaintances with the Great Kings, who also served under the same authority as Monster Hunters.

The SAC also studied how "supposedly normal people" like the Great Kings could use magic like animals could. This marks the beginning of Magitek technology. Technology slowly advances, as it is wont to do.

The Great Kings have fully awakening into Arkin at this point, and Arcerra has been terraformed in their image.

P.N awakens into an Arkin around the same time many of the Great King's first enemies did, and with his newfound power creates a Relic that allows them to treat electrical programming like Ethraksha programming. It was at this point that they formerly became the SAC, and technology began to advance immensely in only a few decades. P.N joined the Elementalists.

Another Arkin within the SAC's ranks awakened. Despite having radical views on technology's superiority to magic, B.V, who had an effectively identical Magic System to P.N, also joined the Elementalists and rose to become P.N's right hand man.

Fossil Fuels are discovered underneath Arcerra's soils. This was a wholesome 100 moment for the SAC, but sadly, nobody was interested in Science during the Era of Gods, so even as they made leaps and bounds, all the cool stuff they've created is kept to themselves.

The Arkin Preventative Measure is implemented shortly after U.B and Tomahtra are found in an oil pool. B.V kills P.N and takes over the SAC, renaming it to the Research Organisation. He brings P.N infantile plans to fuse Magic and Technology to fruition, and begins to innovate in ways never before seen. It is also incredibly harming to the environment, but nobody cares.

Under the Iron fist of this new Elementalist, the company began to hire thousands. And since that they were the only science related organisation in Tsunia, there was no competition and they gained a LOT of power. This new technological wave completely outshined any previous faiths and religions, putting Arkinism and Silvanism on the back burner permanently.

Things started leaning a bit too much towards the "This is a complete violation of our rights, please send help" side. B.V realises that he's nearly as strong as the Great King's combined. B.V is kicked out of the Elementalists.

But it's too late. They're too big to fail now. This little disassociation meant nothing in the long run. 'twas but a scratch. They continue to operate for decades. The Great Kings can't destroy the Research Organisation. The populace will notice, probably die, and B.V is too strong to let that happen. Since B.V hates Magic that isn't his, he's been putting chemicals in the food and water that prevent people from developing Gates normally...As if he even needed to. Technology is so advanced at this point that the Flow System is redundant. Not long after (and with a couple of psy-ops), people straight up forget that they can use Magic in the first place.

Since there's barely any Aura left in Arcerra's air, the Research Organisation has been harvesting the Ethraksha of the Region Tyrants to fuel their greed. Until the third calamity occurred. They were the main scapegoat for causing the Third Calamity. With the Arkin gone, the newly reformed King's Agency forced the

Scientific Research Organisation to "Disband" after the publicly blamed them for recent events, but they merely continued their antics underground and out of sight, and not before long they were reduced to but a myth. But do not forget that they were still operating. However, they were no longer about creating copious amounts of money at the expense of literally everything else, the research Organisation has returned to it's roots of a simple group of like-minded individuals, readopting the name of "The Scientific Advancement Council" and immediately beginning to drive towards bringing science back to the level of advancement it was at JUST before the Third Calamity.

This time, they decided to throw what little ethics they had outside of the window, but took extreme care in making sure the environment remained unharmed during their pursuit for what was once lost. The inclusion of Magic in this new technology was incredibly important since nobody could actually remember how old technology worked, only what it did.

Took people about 2000 years (eight generations) to completely forget what actually happened during the Third Calamity. Remember, people's sense of time has been completely fucked since Extinction Event; 50 years can go by like a couple of months. But, people's memories can still go like *snap* that, so nobody is great at remembering things that happened several centuries ago, even if they lived through them