Fig. 1: Bureau Departmental Flowchart.

DEPARTMENTS

The Bureau of Exploration is an endless labyrinth of departments, subcommittees, and task forces so complex it is unfathomable to even our most senior staff members. This confusion keeps worsening because the Bureau metastasizes constantly, with ever-more departments being formed, expanded, or rediscovered in old paperwork.

Rising like rocks from a tumultuous sea, there are a few major departments. However, most of the Bureau exists on the periphery, in small offices and field outposts which lapse in and out of our knowledge. A window into both is noted below.

 

MAJOR DEPARTMENTS

Some of the most notable departments, based on number of personnel and gross annual metric paperwork tonnage.

  • Department of Infra-Metropolitan Cartography
  • Department of Non-Euclidian Architectures
  • Tunnel Reconnaissance and Redevelopment Corps
  • Administration on Publicly-Owned Mines, Caves, and Netherworlds
  • Alpine Expeditionary League
  • Institute of Esoteric Physics

For the Breakaway Departments no longer considered part of the Bureau by Headquarters, please refer to Minkowskinoff’s Almanac of Astral Agencies (1972), Chp. 19. 

 

   Fig. 2-5: Selection of Bureau departmental emblems.

PERIPHERY DEPARTMENTS

 A cross-section of the lesser-known departments, compiled by interns investigating the Bureau Archives.

  • The Administration of Public-Owned Caverns, Chutes, and Grottoes
  • Department of One-Point Parallel Heterotopias
  • Horology and Astrological Alignments Advisory Authority
  • The National Register of Liminal Places (NRLP)
  • American Astral Roadside Atlas Road Survey Corps
  • Urban De-Renewal Authority
  • Occupational Safety Antimeasures and Public Endangerment Administration
  • Department of Post-Industrial Monuments
  • Managerial Department of Human, Non-human, and Anti-human Resources
  • Experimental Psychogeographics and Cryptocartography Paranavigations Commission

  • Investigative Committee on Mirage-Architecture: Office of Imagined Architectures and Noöspheric Blueprints

  • Deptartment Of Interior Resonances: Feng Shui Division

  • Bureau Investigative Committee on Vanished Bureau Offices

  • Investigative Committee of Hypnogogic and Panoptic Space

  • Americana Road Survey Corps: Daytripper Division

  • Catacomb Cartographic Corps

  • Department of Unitary Architectonics and Monogenic Space

  • Deptartment Of Catadiotropical Phantasmagoria and Indeterminate Noöspheric Spaces

  • Department of Nonlinear Gravimetry

  • Interdimensional Transit Authority: Astral Amtrak Division
  • The Rooftopping Adventure Club
  • Institute of Zeitgeist Ruin Studies: Forum upon the Study of Machine-Age Gods
  • Investigative Task Force on the intersection of topographic survey and optical illusion
  • Department of Eldritch Interiors and Möbius Structures
  • Nonlinear Dynamics Paraparticle Accelerator National Research Laboratory
  • Department of Trainspotting, Planespotting and Astral Projection
  • Department of Energies: Division on Astral Turbines and Dream Reactors
  • The Cloudspotting Corps
  • Astral Ambassador Corps, matter-antimatter student exchange program
  • The Administration of Public-Owned Tombs, Crypts, and Hypogeums
  • Office of Derelict Gondolas, Funiculars, and Cablecars
  • High-Altitude Reconnaissance Corps: Division of Watchtowers, Lookouts, and Lighthouses
  • The Executive Committee on Locational Derealization
  • Department of Concrete Acoustics and Audiological Discovery
  • Department of Architectural Apocrypha and Psudepigraphic Spaces
  • Astral Airlines Federal Flight Administration
  • Metaphysical Investigative Committee on the Unknown and Unknowable
  • The Department of Dream State: Expeditionary Oneironautics Division
  • Department of Interplanar Harmonics and Cross-Reality Oscillatory Coordination
  • The High Desert Portal Transit Authority
  • The Low Desert Portal Transit Authority
  • The Void Radio Transmission Relay Station: Subdepartments of Resonant Vacuum-Space Studies and the Search for Extraliminal Intelligence Project
  • Televised Multidimensional Public Broadcast Service
  • The Deep-Sea Research and Investigative Ruins Diving Expeditionary Force

The above list is a cross-section compiled from a small portion of Bureau Archives. The total number of departments is estimated by agency shamano-metamathematicians to be metaphysically incalculable.

 

Fig. 6: Bureau Headquarters, from which known departments recieve orders. A fine example of Mid-Century Hypnorationalist Art Pseudo-Deco Architecture.