Disbursements is a Methodology of the Syndicate focusing on financing the projects of other Conventions of the Technocratic Union as well as the Syndicate's own programs.
Overview
Disbursements controls money for the Technocracy. Which means in effect they control Reality for the Union. It funds projects. Some hotshot Progenitor wants a new lab? She has to get funding. A Void Engineer want to build a new type of Void Ship with new Technology? He has to prove it worth the cost. If you stay on the good side of Disbursements then the money and good move your way. Make them mad and resources dry up. They control the largest and most secure Ventures in the Technocracy, parceling out primal utility to all... for a price
Most men and women of Disbursements are skilled in politicking and contract negotiation. They attend Symposia and keep an eye on Convention representatives. They approve budgets and file requests and so are rarely popular among their fellow technocrats.
History
Disbursements started at the Convention of the Ivory Tower when someone asked, "Yeah, but how do we pay for it?" Originally called the Sun Guild, it, or its various permutations, have controlled funding of the Union for centuries. For most of that time it was the head of the Convention until Queen Victoria, turning them into the Syndicate, put the Financiers in charge, trying to make Disbursements simple clerical support. Now the methodology uses the only tool it has to maintain power and control: the pursestrings.