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NCCA (Nova City Crime Agency) - Version 22 vs Version 23
Sep 7, 2026, 12:47 AM
Restored missing separators between adjacent text runs so lists and labels read correctly and inline links stay intact
Sep 7, 2026, 01:02 AM
Added the Aegis Nexus Team, the NCCA unit named in the in-fiction city feed
11The NCCA, short for Nova City Crime Agency, is the uniformed law enforcement arm of Nova City in Ananta. It is presented as the city's primary police force during a period of widespread gang warfare, with the A.C.D. task force operating alongside it as a separate specialist unit for Chaos-related anomalies.22Overview55Pre-launch coverage describes the city's situation directly: "Nova City is currently caught up in a widespread gang war, with only the Nova City Crime Agency as its vanguard." That framing places the NCCA at the center of the Ananta setting's street-level conflict. It is the organization most ordinary characters in the world interact with when they think about "the police," while the A.C.D. handles the city's stranger, supernatural problems.77The agency has a visible public profile. On December 25, 2024, the official Ananta news feed published a "Merry ANANTA" holiday post that addressed a "special shout-out to our friends at the NCCA (Nova City Crime Agency)," attaching a festive goodie bag for players who identified with the agency. That post is the first and clearest source that expands the acronym as Nova City Crime Agency.99Role in Nova City1111Ananta's world splits enforcement duty between two recognizable agencies. The NCCA handles conventional crime: gang clashes on the street, traffic stops, arrests, and the day-to-day beat policing that happens in a metropolis of Nova City's size. The A.C.D. handles the paranormal side: Chaos anomalies, impossible physics, and supernatural incidents that sit outside ordinary police work. In practice the two organizations overlap when a case starts as street crime and ends up touching on Chaos.1313Pre-TGS 2025 gameplay video coverage described one scene like this: after the Captain fights through gang members, the protagonist is bailed out by Lykaia, a member of the Nova City Crime Agency." The scene turns into a cross-city chase sequence and ends with an explosion, which is the kind of joint NCCA and A.C.D. work the game repeatedly emphasizes.1616Notable Members1818Two playable characters are publicly attached to the NCCA, with very different ranks and scopes.2020MemberRoleNotesLykaiaDirectorFull name Lykaia Reign. Also is Prime Minister of Nova City, making her simultaneously the city's top executive and its top cop. Wolf-themed character with pale lavender ears and a small police cap.RichieOfficerAlso attached to the A.C.D. task force, which is why she appears on both rosters. Uses handguns and sniper rifles. Her official character bio singles out her fondness for meals at the NCCA canteen.2222Both members serve as bridging figures between the NCCA and the A.C.D. Lykaia's political role gives her reach across both agencies, and Richie's field work regularly crosses between ordinary police casework and Chaos-tinged incidents that the Anti-Chaos Directorate ends up owning.2323Naming Note2525One official gameplay trailer post uses the acronym "NCAA" in a list of organizations that the player takes missions from. A later official post, the "Merry ANANTA" holiday message from December 2024, uses "NCCA" and expands it as Nova City Crime Agency. This wiki uses NCCA as the canonical form, because it appears in the longer, named source and matches the expansion. "NCAA" should be treated as an early placeholder spelling.2727In Gameplay2929Through the Identity System, playing as Richie lets the player perform NCCA police work. Because she works for the NCCA, she can arrest people and carry out other police duties such as breathalyzer tests. In the build shown so far that translates into patrols, suspect questioning, breathalyzer checks, arrests, and responding to calls. The NCCA gameplay loop is one of the four professional tracks the developers have named publicly, alongside hacker, delivery driver, and live-streamer.3131The NCCA also sits on the other side of the Crime System, functioning as the law that reacts when the player misbehaves. See that article for how car theft, reckless driving, and civilian attacks interact with the city's response. Running into an NCCA patrol car as a criminal feels different from being an NCCA patrol car.3333Aegis Nexus Team35+The Aegis Nexus Team is the only NCCA sub-unit the game has named. It appears in the in-fiction city feed two ways. The agency's own verified account reports a gang fight breaking out near Southern Road and states that "The NCCA Aegis Nexus Team is on-site", advising anyone in the area to evacuate and telling those who cannot that rescue teams are on the way. Separately, an account posting as Nova Aegis Nexus broadcasts public-safety notices in its own right, describing itself as "providing safety from sunrise to sundown", geared up around the clock and "ready to soar through the city".37+That second account also covers Chaos incidents rather than only crime: it has reported a Chaos event at Aerie Bank with an "Aegis Nexus Task Force" on the scene, and a rogue blue sedan that extended a chainsaw into traffic and struck several cars before agents stopped it, an incident the A.C.D. is said to suspect was a new type of Chaos.39+The unit is therefore named in three slightly different forms across the feed, as the NCCA Aegis Nexus Team, as Nova Aegis Nexus, and as the Aegis Nexus Task Force. No published material explains how a rapid-response unit ends up handling both gang violence and Chaos, or whether Nova Aegis Nexus is the NCCA unit itself or a separate civic broadcaster carrying its name.41+Relationships with Other Factions3543The NCCA's closest partner is the A.C.D. Both share members (Richie is attached to both, and Lykaia oversees the NCCA while the A.C.D. reports into Nova City's wider government apparatus), and both work the same widening gang war, with pre-launch materials showing the two agencies operating side by side against it. Maniac Chaos is a Chaos classification used in official copy rather than the name of a gang, and both agencies respond to those incidents as well.3745On the other side of the street, the NCCA sits opposite the city's underground mission-givers. Players running missions for factions like Cat Express, DK9, or NCAA-as-mission-giver will sometimes run exactly the kind of errands a by-the-book NCCA officer would want to shut down. That tension is the source of the game's identity-swap humor.3947Visual and Branding Design4149Lykaia's character art shows her wearing a small black police cap with a hole cut out for one of her wolf ears, and the NCCA logo turns up on Richie's uniform in promotional art. Marketing materials treat the NCCA as a friendly, slightly cozy institution (the Merry ANANTA post jokes about holiday goodie bags for agents), while in-world coverage plays up its role as the thin blue line between ordinary city life and the gangs.4351Related4553A.C.D.D.P.A.Cat ExpressEonbugShorewater Industries
