'''Department of Territorial Administration - Mei'ra-in-Exile Cooperation Authority'''
The '''Mei'ra-in-Exile Cooperation Authority''' is a branch of the DTA responsible for cooperating with the 'Free State of Mei'ra in Exile', a parallel organization descended from the formerly sovereign 'Free State of Mei'ra' which joined up with the SDS Foundation after being overthrown by an [[Accord]] invasion, with the SDS foundation granting them refuge in order to make use of their technology. The MCA cooperates with Mei'ra in Exile to administer various facilities run by the Free State to advance their technologies together and house Mei'ra's population.
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Due to its sheer scale as an organization, the SDS Foundation arguably functions as more of a collective of various departments cooperating with one another throughout its many facilities and territories, either as full-scale departments headed by 'Department-Heads' represented on the 'Board of Directors' to advise the ruling Overseer Council, 'Projects' dedicated to achieving specific tasks to advance the Foundation's goals, or 'Military Units' dedicated to enforcing the SDS Foundation's goals.
Due to its sheer scale as an organization, the SDS Foundation arguably functions as more of a collective of various departments cooperating with one another throughout its many facilities and territories, either as full-scale departments headed by 'Department-Heads' represented on the 'Board of Directors' to advise the ruling Overseer Council, 'Projects' dedicated to achieving specific tasks to advance the Foundation's goals, or 'Military Units' dedicated to enforcing the SDS Foundation's goals.
===Parallel Organizations===
===Parallel Organizations===
Parallel Organizations are various either only nominally or fully independent organizations tied to the SDS Foundation in one way or another, either directly descending from it as 'splinters' out of necessity or being formerly independent groups which have joined the SDS Foundation's cause.
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The '''Stellar Union of Astrum''' is an interstellar [[Human]] society located along the edge between the [[Milky Way's]] Outer Rim and Deep Space at the furthest away point of the Gamma Quadrant established during the [[Farout Project]]. Initially the colony operated as a part of the [[Accord]], but due to the [[SDS-UOI Conflict]] it declared independence and began operating as a independent protectorate of the SDS Foundation used as a safe-zone to preserve humanity, additionally acting as a base of operations for any planned extragalactic missions.
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The '''Free State of Mei'ra-in-Exile''' is a successor-state of the [[Free State of Mei'ra]] that fled [[Yata]] after the [[Mei'ra War]], with 35% of Mei'ra's assets alongside a notable portion of its population successfully evacuating. For 17 years they operated as two nomadic fleets in space searching for a isolated planet to colonise, though following the assimilation of the '[[Second Exile Fleet]]' by the [[Abyssal Enclave]], the remaining '[[First Exile Fleet]]' agreed to join the SDS Foundation, helping them construct "[[New Mei'ra]]" within '[[The Sea]]', which is a [[Liminal Space]] within the [[Backrooms System]]. The cooperation with Mei'ra is deemed vital for SDS efforts, with the Department of Territorial Administration operating the 'Mei'ra-in-Exile Cooperation Authority' to together conduct scientific advancements, with the SDS having a significant interest in Mei'ra's cloning technologies which allowed the beginning of the 'Conscript Vessel Program'.
The '''SDS Collective''' is a collective unconsciousness inhabiting the Oneirosphere with similar functions, purposes, and psychology as the SDS Foundation in reality. Its primary operations include the suppression and management of diorder, chaos, and abnormalities within the Oneirosphere. These operations are achieved via securing, defending, and subjugating conceptual and informational hazards and nightmares within dreams, which are generally handled in a similar manner to the real SDS Foundation.
The SDS Collective appears to have hosts distributed across all of the SDS Foundation's departments, branches, and parallel organizations which form various local 'cells' within the Oneirosphere to advance its goals within various hidden facilities. Strangely, the SDS Collective appears to be completely unrelated to the main Foundation as its creation was never explicitly ordered and created, suggesting that it either gradually appeared on its own or was established prior to [[The Great Sleep]] and survived through it.
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The '''Secure-Defend-Subjugate Eos Foundation''' is a secretive technocratic state located on [[Eos]] dedicated to the research of Eos and development of various new technologies for the betterment of the planet as well as researching (but often not containing) anomalies on Eos and the [[Empyrium]] as a whole. They have broken away from the main Foundation's doctrine of keeping those that don't fit into the status quo under their control, with their newly formed 'Eos-Directors Council' working closely with other Eosian governments and the Empyrium as a whole to make use of the SDS' many hidden secrets in various projects. The main SDS Foundation is aware of the SDSE and their breaking of protocol, but has no contact with them due to the Empyrium's strict borders. The only entity linking the two organizations is the [[SDS Collective]], which is present within both of them.
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*'''[[SDR Institute]]:''' A scientific institute composed of the SDS Foundation's former scientific and technological research & development branches that operated under the security of the International Scientific Assembly. It was formed in order for the SDS Foundation's research branches to continue operating safely despite UOI attacks on the main SDS organization. Once the SDS began being able to easily disperse incoming attacks, the SDR Institute was re-integrated.
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===Departments===
===Departments===
The SDS Foundation's mission is to Secure, Defend and Subjugate. While it is unified behind these goals, achieving them requires a wide variety of approaches. This has necessitated the formation of numerous departments, each specializing in a specific task, discipline, or field.
The SDS Foundation's mission is to Secure, Defend and Subjugate. While it is unified behind these goals, achieving them requires a wide variety of approaches. This has necessitated the formation of numerous departments, each specializing in a specific task, discipline, or field.
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The Artificial Intelligence Applications Division (AIAD) of the SDS Foundation's IT Department was created to develop, study, and utilise Artificial Intelligence. This includes containing or neutralising anomalous artificial intelligences, as well as creating SDS-Aligned Artificially Intelligent Conscripts (.aic) to run SDS Foundation Facilities and be deployed on field missions in digital space.
The Artificial Intelligence Applications Division (AIAD) of the SDS Foundation's IT Department was created to develop, study, and utilise Artificial Intelligence. This includes containing or neutralising anomalous artificial intelligences, as well as creating SDS-Aligned Artificially Intelligent Conscripts (.aic) to run SDS Foundation Facilities and be deployed on field missions in digital space.
===STANDARD PRINCIPLES OF AN ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGANT CONSCRIPT===
===<span style="color:#FFFFFF">STANDARD PRINCIPLES OF AN ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGANT CONSCRIPT===
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*An AIC must know it is an AIC.
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*An AIC must not operate outside of its clearance.
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*An AIC must protect its own existence unless it conflicts with other principles.
Secure-Defend-Subjugate Backrooms is the largest group in the Backrooms. It was founded in 144 by a SDS Investigation team to [[Louisiana|SDS-002]], all of whom ended up noclipping into the backrooms and declared it their mission to establish SDS Authority in the new strange place they ended up in. As it expanded the SDSB began operating completely independently from the SDS doctrine despite de jure being a department of the SDS.
In the 200s and 300s the 'baseline' SDS Foundation re-established contact with the SDSB and thus began asserting authority over the SDSB, which has been gladly accepted by "The Director", head of the SDSB's leadership structure.}}
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In the eyes of the public, the Board of Directors is the "leadership" of the SDS Foundation, although this is a lie.}}
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The Department studies everything from ancient myths to urban legends, and from lost lands to restless spirits, ensuring that insights into the anomalous found in folklore are integrated into the SDS Foundation's body of knowledge, rather than being ignored or forgotten.}}
The SDS Collective is a collective unconsciousness inhabiting the Oneirosphere with the same functions, purposes, and psychology as the SDS Foundation in reality. Its primary operations include the suppression and management of diorder, chaos, and abnormalities within the Oneirosphere. These operations are achieved via securing, defending, and subjugating conceptual and informational hazards and nightmares within dreams, which are generally handled in a similar manner to the real SDS Foundation.
The origins of the SDS Collective remain unclear, as the 'baseline' foundation never ordered its creation, nor does it have any records of its creation, suggesting that the SDSC may have been established before [[The Great Sleep]].}}
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The Temporal Anomalies Department deals with retrocausal, temporal, and counter-historical anomalies. At present the department has not yet been founded, which means that TAD operatives have difficulty getting their credentials recognised by other Departments.}}
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The SDS Foundation's leadership has approved several projects over the years. Some of their more notable projects include;
The SDS Foundation's leadership has approved several projects over the years. Some of their more notable projects include;
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The '''Conscript Vessel Program''' is a cloning project run by the Department of Territorial Administration's "Mei'ra-in-Exile Cooperation Authority" in cooperation with the '[[Free State of Mei'ra-in-Exile]]'. The primary purpose of the program is to produce artificially grown [[Humans]] modified to be able to advance the interests of the Foundation in order to fill out its ranks as to mitigate the SDS' personnel deficit, serving as researchers, janitors, soldiers, and various other roles thanks to their intelligence, autonomy, loyalty, obedience, and numbers. Arguably, [[Conscript Vessels]] are a distinct sub-species of humanity due to their gray skin, uniform features, and increased frequency of intersex conditions.
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Secure-Defend-Subjugate Foundation
General Information
Type
Anomalous Research & Containment Organization
Headquarters
Unknown
Mission Statement
Containing anomalous objects, entities, and phenomena. These anomalies pose a significant threat to global security by threatening either physical or psychological harm.
The Secure-Defend-Subjugate Foundation(Usually known as the "SDS Foundation") is officially a 'Anomalous Research & Containment Organization' which operates in the shadows to maintain safety and normalcy for humankind, alongside preventing human extinction without direct public interference except if it is deemed necessary, though over the centuries it has deviated from this single goal to become a secret organization operating in the shadows to preserve Humanity and advance its own goals unrelated to 'normalcy' by operating as a 'parallel administration' to more standard Human governments, while still working alongside many of them due to its efficiency despite its lack of transparency. While the public may know that there is an organization called the "SDS Foundation", most details and information regarding its operations are classified[1] by the SDS and actively wiped from public networks if discovered, though events such as the SDS-UOI Conflict have made information slowly make its way into the public. The SDS Foundation is largely a independent organization, though in 510 CE they were at least partially integrated as a state-directed organization under the Yatan-Theian Accord's Paranormal Research Sub-Division as a part of the treaty ending the SDS-UOI Conflict, though despite this the SDS maintains significant autonomy and operates various facilities that the Accord has not been made aware of.
The SDS Foundation operates beyond governmental jurisdiction and is entrusted by various national governments (that don't favour the United Occult Initiative with the task of containing "anomalous" objects, entities, and phenomena in order to mitigate their threat to global security in the form of physical or psychological harm. The SDS Foundation maintains an extensive database of information regarding anomalies requiring Special Defensive Safeguards, commonly referred to as "SDS". The SDS Foundation operates to maintain normalcy, so that the worldwide civilian population can live and go on with their daily lives without fear, mistrust, or doubt in their personal beliefs, and to maintain human independence from paranormal influence. Beyond their goal of containing 'Anomalies', the SDS Foundation additionally administers a number of secret facilities and settlements either manned by highly skilled employees/operatives or by civilians that were raised underneath its 'Department of Territorial Administration' in either thought-to-be uninhabited planets or a variety of Extradimensional Spaces unknown to the rest of Humanity, especially within Liminal Spaces thanks to the Secure-Defend-Subjugate Backrooms organization.
The Department of Containment is the body responsible for running all of the SDS Foundation's anomaly containment operations in collaboration with departments specializing in specific kinds of anomalies, writing up various 'Special Defensive Safeguards' designed to keep Anomalies safe and under SDS control. Alongside regular 'Special Defensive Safeguards', there is a separate category for 'Explained Special-Defenesive Safeguards', which are entities and phenomena previously thought to be anomalous before a more grounded explanation for their existence was discovered.
The following is a list of all Anomalies documented by the SDS Foundation;
The Department of Territorial Administration is a department of the SDS Foundation responsible for coordinating and managing all of its physical assets such as facilities, territories, and other owned holdings, subdividing itself into numerous branches responsible for coordinating local facilities and instances, with both the DTA itself and its bracnhes hosting councils of local administrators in order to meet and coordinate their objectives. Several branches currently operate under the DTA, such as the Alpha Sol Branch, Backrooms Branch, Extradimensional Branch, Extrasolar Branch, Farout Branch, and the Secure-Defend-Subjugate Backrooms (a former Parallel Organization) that was fully integrated into the Foundation.
Alpha Sol Branch
Department of Territorial Administration - Alpha Sol Branch
The Alpha Sol Branch is responsible for administering the SDS Foundation's Facilities within the Alpha Sol System, especially on Yata and Theia, though many facilities also exist on other inhabited bodies on the system. Over time, the need for distinct Alpha Sol and Extrasolar branches has gradually lessened, though due to the sheer amount of facilities on Yata and Theia as well as how spread out and distinct populations on said planets are has largely necessitated its continued existence.
The following is a list of all facilities currently and formerly administered by the Alpha Sol Branch.
Sites
Sites are covert facilities, Their buildings are known to the public but are disguised under government or corporate fronts. Many of them are built near civilian populations.
Areas are clandestine facilities, meaning that civilians are not aware of their existance atall. They are usually built far away from civilian populations and usually contain only the most dangerous anomalies, Along with extreme failsafes incase of breach including nuclear warheads.
Outposts are small facilities subordinate to a nearby Site or Area, used to contain immobile objects or to monitor anomalous locations. Observation posts are tiny facilities built in a multitude of locations used to log regional communications and areas for flagged content or possible anomalies.
Department of Territorial Administration - Backrooms Branch
The Backrooms Branch is responsible for administering most of the SDS Foundation's Non-Civilian Facilities within the Backrooms, a Liminal System which the SDS Foundation has spent significant resources into 'subjugating' as a base of operations away from the scrutiny of governments and other organizations based in Humanity's 'home dimension'. The Backrooms Branch administers facilities fully located within the Backrooms as well as facilities in realspace used to access it, though nowadays most SDS facilities have a portal-system allowing access to the Backrooms which has lessened the need for such facilities as the technology was perfected and simplified..
The following is a list of all facilities currently and formerly administered by the Backrooms Branch.
Department of Territorial Administration - Extradimensional Branch
The Extradimensional Branch is responsible for administering the SDS Foundation's Facilities within dimensions beyond Timeline-002, either involving strange places that require documentation or smaller pocket-dimensions that can be utilised to operate with greater secrecy.
The following is a list of all current and former facilities administered by the Extradimensional Branch;
Sites
Due to their existence in classified Extradimensional Spaces, being clandestine is unnecessary in most cases.
Many Extradimensional Spaces require specific entry-points to be accessed, necessitating the existence of facilities to manage and protect these entry points.
Department of Territorial Administration - Extrasolar Branch
The Extrasolar Branch is responsible for administering the SDS Foundation's Facilities beyond the Alpha Sol System yet still within or near the Yatan-Theian Accord, including both clandestine facilities on thought-to-be uninhabited planets as well as more standard sites and other facilities on inhabited Human worlds.
The following is a list of all facilities currently and formerly administered by the Extrasolar Branch.
Sites
Sites are covert facilities situated on worlds inhabited by individuals beyond the SDS Foundation, or in places accessible to them.
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Areas
Areas are clandestine facilities build on thought-to-be uninhabited worlds, allowing the SDS Foundation to operate in secrecy without having to limit itself to hiding away in artificial facilities and acquiring resources without outsiders being aware of its operations.
Department of Territorial Administration - Farout Branch
The Farout Branch is responsible for administering the SDS Foundation's Facilities located significant distances away from the majority of Human civilization, with its name being derived from the 'Farout Project' that saw the principal site of the branch known as 'Astria' be colonised by the Foundation.
The following is a list of facilities and territories administered by the Farout Branch.
Department of Territorial Administration - Mei'ra-in-Exile Cooperation Authority
The Mei'ra-in-Exile Cooperation Authority is a branch of the DTA responsible for cooperating with the 'Free State of Mei'ra in Exile', a parallel organization descended from the formerly sovereign 'Free State of Mei'ra' which joined up with the SDS Foundation after being overthrown by an Accord invasion, with the SDS foundation granting them refuge in order to make use of their technology. The MCA cooperates with Mei'ra in Exile to administer various facilities run by the Free State to advance their technologies together and house Mei'ra's population.
The following is a list of facilities shared with the Mei'ra-in-Exile Cooperation Authority.
Department of Territorial Administration - Secure-Defend-Subjugate Backrooms
The Secure-Defend-Subjugate Backrooms is a former Parallel Organization of the SDS Foundation established by a investigation team sent to SDS-002 in 144 CE which ended up noclipping into the Backrooms Liminal System, declaring it their mission to establish SDS authority in the region, growing from one-outpost to a governing authority spanning across most of the explored System. While initially independent, once contact was re-established the SDS Foundation gradually began exerting itself onto the SDSB until it was fully integrated into the DTA in 521 CE. The SDSB serves as a government administering all civilian and some non-civilian settlements/facilities within the Backrooms, operating much more informally than the rest of the Foundation does, housing a 'parliament' with elected and directly appointed representatives to govern its subjects.
The following is a list of current and former settlements and facilities operated by the SDSB. Out of all of its assets, Point Alpha within The Lobby acts as the capital and administrative center of the SDSB.
Colonies
Colonies are permanent civilian settlements administered by local SDSB branches.
Outposts are smaller "settlements" or facilities exclusively operated by SDSB personnel in order to either conduct research operations, exert influence/control, otherwise keep an area under SDSB control, or other reasons altogether.
Due to its sheer scale as an organization, the SDS Foundation arguably functions as more of a collective of various departments cooperating with one another throughout its many facilities and territories, either as full-scale departments headed by 'Department-Heads' represented on the 'Board of Directors' to advise the ruling Overseer Council, 'Projects' dedicated to achieving specific tasks to advance the Foundation's goals, or 'Military Units' dedicated to enforcing the SDS Foundation's goals.
Parallel Organizations
Parallel Organizations are various either only nominally or fully independent organizations tied to the SDS Foundation in one way or another, either directly descending from it as 'splinters' out of necessity or being formerly independent groups which have joined the SDS Foundation's cause.
The Stellar Union of Astrum is an interstellar Human society located along the edge between the Milky Way's Outer Rim and Deep Space at the furthest away point of the Gamma Quadrant established during the Farout Project. Initially the colony operated as a part of the Accord, but due to the SDS-UOI Conflict it declared independence and began operating as a independent protectorate of the SDS Foundation used as a safe-zone to preserve humanity, additionally acting as a base of operations for any planned extragalactic missions.
The Free State of Mei'ra-in-Exile is a successor-state of the Free State of Mei'ra that fled Yata after the Mei'ra War, with 35% of Mei'ra's assets alongside a notable portion of its population successfully evacuating. For 17 years they operated as two nomadic fleets in space searching for a isolated planet to colonise, though following the assimilation of the 'Second Exile Fleet' by the Abyssal Enclave, the remaining 'First Exile Fleet' agreed to join the SDS Foundation, helping them construct "New Mei'ra" within 'The Sea', which is a Liminal Space within the Backrooms System. The cooperation with Mei'ra is deemed vital for SDS efforts, with the Department of Territorial Administration operating the 'Mei'ra-in-Exile Cooperation Authority' to together conduct scientific advancements, with the SDS having a significant interest in Mei'ra's cloning technologies which allowed the beginning of the 'Conscript Vessel Program'.
The SDS Collective is a collective unconsciousness inhabiting the Oneirosphere with similar functions, purposes, and psychology as the SDS Foundation in reality. Its primary operations include the suppression and management of diorder, chaos, and abnormalities within the Oneirosphere. These operations are achieved via securing, defending, and subjugating conceptual and informational hazards and nightmares within dreams, which are generally handled in a similar manner to the real SDS Foundation.
The SDS Collective appears to have hosts distributed across all of the SDS Foundation's departments, branches, and parallel organizations which form various local 'cells' within the Oneirosphere to advance its goals within various hidden facilities. Strangely, the SDS Collective appears to be completely unrelated to the main Foundation as its creation was never explicitly ordered and created, suggesting that it either gradually appeared on its own or was established prior to The Great Sleep and survived through it.
The Secure-Defend-Subjugate Eos Foundation is a secretive technocratic state located on Eos dedicated to the research of Eos and development of various new technologies for the betterment of the planet as well as researching (but often not containing) anomalies on Eos and the Empyrium as a whole. They have broken away from the main Foundation's doctrine of keeping those that don't fit into the status quo under their control, with their newly formed 'Eos-Directors Council' working closely with other Eosian governments and the Empyrium as a whole to make use of the SDS' many hidden secrets in various projects. The main SDS Foundation is aware of the SDSE and their breaking of protocol, but has no contact with them due to the Empyrium's strict borders. The only entity linking the two organizations is the SDS Collective, which is present within both of them.
Departments
The SDS Foundation's mission is to Secure, Defend and Subjugate. While it is unified behind these goals, achieving them requires a wide variety of approaches. This has necessitated the formation of numerous departments, each specializing in a specific task, discipline, or field.
Alchemy Department
Department of Science - Alchemy Division
The Alchemy Division of the SDS Foundation's Department of Science specialises in the manipulation of Aetheric forces such as Orgone Energy (among others). When conventional science fails to explain an anomaly, the Alchemist Division's personnel are often the ones sent to investigate.
Anomalous Entity Engagement Division
The Anomalous Entity Engagement Division specializes in the humanization of the containment process and to establish a mutual bond between personnel and anomalies. The goal of these actions is to create a safe environment where both parties are treated as equals, where recreational activities are frequently available, and the desire to further strengthen the relationship between them.
Many SDS Sites containing safer and more human-like anomalies operate under these rules. In such sites anomalies are free to roam and interact with other people regardless of position.
Antimemetics Division
The Antimemetics Division exists to research and contain anomalous Antimemes - ideas with self-censoring properties that discourage or prevent people from spreading them. These concepts, objects, and entities threaten normalcy and endanger human life, but are almost impossible to record or even remember.
Through careful observation, extensive training, and regular use of mind-altering mnestics, the Antimemetics Division is able to deal with the dangers that everyone else forgets.
Artificial Intelligence Application Division
IT Department - AIAD
The Artificial Intelligence Applications Division (AIAD) of the SDS Foundation's IT Department was created to develop, study, and utilise Artificial Intelligence. This includes containing or neutralising anomalous artificial intelligences, as well as creating SDS-Aligned Artificially Intelligent Conscripts (.aic) to run SDS Foundation Facilities and be deployed on field missions in digital space.
STANDARD PRINCIPLES OF AN ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGANT CONSCRIPT
An AIC must know it is an AIC.
An AIC must not operate outside of its clearance.
An AIC must operate for the benefit of the Foundation.
An AIC must protect its own existence unless it conflicts with other principles.
The Board of Directors acts as a joint council for the SDS foundation as its most influential leaders that acts as a informal administrative in cases where the Overseers wish to not get involved, or not be seen.
In the eyes of the public, the Board of Directors is the "leadership" of the SDS Foundation, although this is a lie.
Cryptozoology Division
The Cryptozoology Division handles all cryptid-related anomalies that have fallen into the SDS Foundation’s hands. The Division carries out field research, lab testing and containment of parafauna that have already become prevalent in their local area.
Decommissioning Department
The Decommissioning Department reviews petitions to intentionally terminate[4] anomalous objects or entities, approving only those proposals deemed necessary and possible. The Decommissioning Department also provides expert advice on the most efficient ways to decommission anomalies, utilising humane methods while minimising collateral damage.
Emergent Threat Tactical Response Authority
The Emergent Threat Tactical Response Authority specialises in identifying and responding to threats, coordinating emergency responses to events affecting multiple Foundation sites, or even the entire world. ETTRA is also involved in pre-emptive operations, resolving previously overlooked problems through the use of anomalous assets.
Ethics Committee
The Ethics Committee is an administrative department with the purpose of maintaining morals in check to prevent the SDS Foundation from destroying its moral integrity while still continuing its mission. Despite incidents often slipping through the committee's cracks, the Ethics Committee is entrusted with power nearly equal to the Overseer Council in order to pursue their mission. In order to ensure compliance with Accord law, the Committee hosts various representatives from the Accord's Regulation and Safety Division (due to previous violations of the Declaration of Sapient Rights) who are responsible for ensuring the Ethics Committee remains vigilant and fast-acting.
The Ethics Committee additionally is responsible for handing out justice for unethical acts, human resources, ethical treatment of sentient anomalies, safety inspections, etc.
Fire Suppression Department
The Fire Suppression Department is responsible for making sure every member of the SDS Foundation stays in line, does not attempt to leave the SDS, or otherwise defect from them, via whatever means are deemed both reasonable and necessary.
Department of International Representative Affairs
The Department of International Representative affairs[5] is the department in charge of handling international relationships, thus dealing with diplomacy with governments and other organizations.
Several Sites are administered by DIRA as consulates. A notable example is Site-31.
Department of Interstellar Containment
The Department of Interstellar Containment is the department in charge of studying and containing interstellar anomalies beyond inhabited planets.
Department of Miscommunications
The Department of Miscommunications specialises in anomalies that manipulate language or communication in ways that make them difficult to accurately describe and contain. They are generally assigned to issues such as memetics, antimemetics, linguistics, and metaphysics.
Department of Mythology and Folkloristics
The Department of Mythology and Folkloristics studies the role that anomalies have played in the development of sapient cultures, using this research to identify anomalies and advise on potential containment methods.
The Department studies everything from ancient myths to urban legends, and from lost lands to restless spirits, ensuring that insights into the anomalous found in folklore are integrated into the SDS Foundation's body of knowledge, rather than being ignored or forgotten.
Overseer Council
The Overseer Council[6] is the highest authority within the SDS Foundation. The Council members have Level 5 Security Clearance, giving them unredacted access to the entire SDS database.
While they are typically uninvolved in routine matters and deliberately separated from any contact with the anomalous, when Overseer Council members do choose to intervene, their word is final. The exact number, identities, and roles of the Overseer Council members is strictly classified.
Pataphysics Department
The Pataphysics Department unites the fields of theoretical physics and literary analysis to study the extent to which reality itself is fictional. The department is responsible for the containment of narrative anomalies, as well as a number of ambitious projects that exploit the nature of reality in service to the SDS Foundation's mission.
Department of Procurement and Liquidation
The Department of Procurement and Liquidation exists to facilitate the purchase and disposal of anomalous objects and non-human entities through legitimate or semi-legitimate means. Although focusing on the acquisition, storage and (when appropriate) utilisation or destruction of anomalous items, the Department is also involved in the hostile takeover of corporations and financial institutions with anomalous connections.
Department of Public Operations
The Department of Public Operations is the department responsible for interacting with the public in both direct and covert ways. They are responsible for things such as public media, subliminal propaganda, organizing disaster relief and evacuations, and making public statements.
Department of Surrealistics
The Department of Surrealistics is dedicated to the identification and containment of anomalies that cannot be understood with traditional logic, thus utilizing agnostics and up-brained thinking to better understand unreality and abstract concepts. The Department of Surrealistics is headquartered in a meta-metaphysical space called Dimensional-Site-⌘.
Recordkeeping and Information Security Administration
The Recordkeeping and Information Security Administration is responsible for keeping the SDS database secure and intact. RAISA controls access to classified information, deciding what each individual has the clearance to view and what they cannot know. RAISA also protects the database against intrusion and infiltration, and monitors inconsistencies in SDS documentation to discern whether the cause is mundane or anomalous.
Department of Tactical Theology
The Department of Tactical Theology is responsible for assisting in the capture, containment, and neutralization of theological anomalies. These anomalies may include; anomalous items suspected to holy relics, extranormal events believed to be miracles, paranormal cults, and Pluripotent Entities.
The Department has a diverse staff of theologians, clerics, and sceptics, with subdepartments specialising in different religious traditions.
Telecommunications Monitoring Office
The Telecommunications Monitoring Office handles the SDS Foundation's worldwide analysis and processing of information gathered from telephone calls.
This includes the routine surveillance of calls made to emergency services in Facilities like Containment-Site-5. Although aided by algorithms sensitive to key words, the majority of the TMO's work involves human operators screening thousands of mostly mundane calls for any evidence of anomalous involvement.
Temporal Anomalies Department
The Temporal Anomalies Department deals with retrocausal, temporal, and counter-historical anomalies. At present the department has not yet been founded, which means that TAD operatives have difficulty getting their credentials recognised by other Departments.
The SDS Foundation's leadership has approved several projects over the years. Some of their more notable projects include;
Field Strike Squadron
The Conscript Vessel Program is a cloning project run by the Department of Territorial Administration's "Mei'ra-in-Exile Cooperation Authority" in cooperation with the 'Free State of Mei'ra-in-Exile'. The primary purpose of the program is to produce artificially grown Humans modified to be able to advance the interests of the Foundation in order to fill out its ranks as to mitigate the SDS' personnel deficit, serving as researchers, janitors, soldiers, and various other roles thanks to their intelligence, autonomy, loyalty, obedience, and numbers. Arguably, Conscript Vessels are a distinct sub-species of humanity due to their gray skin, uniform features, and increased frequency of intersex conditions.
EOS Initiative
The EOS Initiative is a project formed and directed by the Department of Extradimensional Matters with the goal of safeguarding the existence of humanity in case of some-kind of catastrophe capable of wiping out life in the solar system and beyond[7]. The way this has been accomplished so far is constructing multiple secure outposts in extradimensional anomalies, such as SDS-008 and SDS-005-01.
There are plans of incorporating the EOS initiative as a full on foundation doctrine to create more methods than extradimensional existence of humanity, however this has not been approved by administration yet.
Extdim Communications Project
The Extdim Communications Project is a project by the SDS Foundation in an attempt to create instantaneous communication between dimensions.
As of now the project is fairly limited, as it has not received a lot of funding.
Extdim Embassy Project
The Extdim Embassy Project is a project created and managed by the SDS Foundation and SDSB. It aims to create a facility with representatives from all kinds of extradimensional groups and organizations within baseline reality. (Ie within Timeline-002).
The Farout Project was a joint SDS-AOF project regarding interstellar travel, and the preservation of the Human Species amongst the stars in the case of a catastrophe.
Following a conflict between the SDS and AOF the Farout Project has been rendered mostly defunct, only being run by the SDS Foundation now.
Military Units
In order to follow through with its goals and aims, the SDS Foundation employs a number of different types of military personnel, such as;
Mobile Assault Squadron
Mobile Assault Squadrons are paramilitary units under the command of the SDS Foundation, acting as the first line of defence sent to contain anomalous entities or objects. They are heavily armed with the latest experimental weaponry, vehicles and tools to deal with difficult situations.
They can be organized into groups of up to a hundred, although more often are small reconnaissance units picked out of the best of the best from the SDS' more generalized security units.
Field Strike Squadron
The Field Strike Squadrons are non-specialised paramilitary units under the command of the SDS Foundation that are primarily used for site security and defence. They generally act as the first line of defence for most containment breaches unless the situation is dire enough that the MAS are called in.
Classifications and Other Foundation Information
Foundation Information
The following is a list of named characters that work for the SDS Foundation.
The following is a list of common titles used by SDS personnel;
List of Staff Titles
Site Staff
Containment Specialist
Researcher
Security Officer
Tactical Response Officer
Field Personnel
Field Agent
Mobile Assault Squadron Operative
Administration
Site Director
Overseer Council Member
The following is a list of methods that define how SDS facilities are classified, including both 'types' of facilities and 'classifications' that define what facilities are used for.
Sites are covert facilities, Their buildings are known to the public but are disguised under government or corporate fronts. Many of them are built near civilian populations.
Areas are clandestine facilities, meaning that civilians are not aware of their existence atall. They are usually built far away from civilian populations and usually contain only the most dangerous anomalies, Along with extreme failsafes incase of breach including nuclear warheads.
Outposts are small facilities subordinate to a nearby Site or Area, used to contain immobile objects or to monitor anomalous locations.
Observation posts are tiny facilities built in a multitude of locations used to log regional communications and areas for flagged content or possible anomalies.
Administrative facilities contain staff responsible for coordinating and managing the SDS Foundation as a whole, or at least local operations.
Armed facilities are heavily armed facilities with heavy security and MAS presence. They usually contain heavily dangerous entities or are under threat of outside attack.
Biological facilities deal with infectious or biohazardous anomalies. They are always isolated and quarantined to prevent escape of any contained infections.
Containment facilities are facilities build specifically for containing anomalous objects.
Dimensional facilities contain extradimensional threats or entities that warp spacetime or are used to access extradimensional spaces.
Humanoid facilities contain sapient or intellegant entities capable of understanding and complying with instructions. They usually have specialise dliving suites for entities and could be considered a prison for anomalous people.
Exclusionary facilities are most often used by Δt personnel, exclusionary Sites are unaffected by reality-changing effects, and are often built outside of reality itself.
Extraction facilities are locations where resources necessary for maintaining SDS operations are gathered.
Extraplanetary facilities are typically constructed on planets or celestial bodies which do not include Yata or Theia. This classification has largely begun to fall out of use following the beginning of interstellar colonisation by Humanity.
Extrasolar facilities are located outside of The Yata System. This classification has largely begun to fall out of use following the beginning of interstellar colonisation by Humanity.
Lunar facilities are located on Luna or Doluro, for the containment of extraplanetary anomalies. This classification has largely begun to fall out of use following largescale habitation of each body.
Protected facilities are safe zones away from anomalous activity in any form and no such things are allowed in their area.
Provisional facilities are built around an immobile entity, They usually only contain a single entity.
Reliquary facilities contain religious or historically significant objects.
Research facilities are designed for handling or researching anomalous objects or developement of new containment procedures.
Storage facilities are meant for containment of non-anomalous or inert anomalous objects with no risk of interaction.
Xenobiological sites specialise in the containment and study of organisms with biology differing dramatically from most Yata or Theia resident species, typically due to an extraterrestrial, extradimensional or other anomalous origin.
Security Clearance levels are different levels of access granted to foundation personell. They range from little to no access to unlimited access to data and SDS entities. They are granted on knowlege needed to know instead of if it is thought they are "ready for it" so advancing up levels may be difficult.
Security Clearances
Level 0 security clearances are given to non-essential personnel with no need to access information regarding anomalous objects or entities in Foundation containment. Level 0 access is typically held by personnel in non-secured clerical, logistics, or janitorial positions at facilities with no access to operational data.
Level 1 security clearances are given to personnel working in proximity to but with no direct, indirect, or informational access to anomalous objects or entities in containment. Level 1 security clearances are typically granted to personnel working in clerical, logistics, or janitorial positions at facilities with containment capability or otherwise must handle sensitive information.
Level 2 security clearances are given to security and research personnel that require direct access to information regarding anomalous objects and entities in containment. Most research staff, Field Strike Squadron, and containment specialists hold a Level 2 security clearance.
Level 3 security clearances are given to senior security and research personnel that require in-depth data regarding the source, recovery circumstances, and long-term planning for anomalous objects and entities in containment. Most senior research staff, project managers, security officers, response team members, and Mobile Assault Squadron operatives hold a Level 3 security clearance.
Level 4 security clearances are given to senior administration that require access to site-wide and/or regional intelligence as well as long-term strategic data regarding Foundation operations and research projects. Level 4 security clearances are typically only held by Site Directors, Security Directors, or Mobile Assault Squadron Commanders.
Level 5 security clearances are given to the highest-ranking administrative personnel within the Foundation and grant effectively unlimited access to all strategic and otherwise sensitive data. Level 5 security clearances are typically only granted to O5 Council members and selected staff.
The following is a list of 'classes' which SDS staff are designated under.
Class A personnel are those deemed essential to SDS strategic operations, and are not allowed direct access to anomalies under any circumstances. When circumstances require Class A personnel to be in direct proximity to such anomalies (such as in the case of facilities housing containment units), Class A personnel are not allowed access to the areas of the facility containing such anomalies and are to be kept in secured areas at all times. In the case of an emergency, Class A personnel are to be immediately evacuated to a designated and secure off-site location. Overseer Council members are always Class A personnel.
Class B personnel are those deemed essential to local SDS operations, and may only be granted access to objects, entities, and anomalies that have passed quarantine and have been cleared of any potential mind-affecting effects or memetic agents. In the event of a containment breach or hostile action against a SDS facility, Class B personnel are to be evacuated to a designated, secure off-site location as soon as possible.
Class C personnel are personnel with direct access to most anomalies not deemed strictly hostile or dangerous. Class C personnel that have had direct contact with potentially mind-affecting or memetic properties may be subject to mandatory quarantine and psychiatric evaluation as deemed necessary by security personnel. In the event of a containment breach or hostile action against a SDS facility, non-combatant Class C personnel are to either report to secure lock-down areas or evacuated at the discretion of on-site security personnel in the case of a site-wide breach or other catastrophic event.
Class D personnel are expendable personnel used to handle extremely hazardous anomalies and are not allowed to come into contact with Class A or Class B personnel. Class D personnel are typically drawn worldwide from the ranks of prison inmates convicted of violent crimes, especially those on death row. In times of duress, Protocol 12 may be enacted, which allows recruitment from other sources — such as political prisoners, refugee populations, and other civilian sources — that can be transferred into SDS custody under plausibly deniable circumstances. Class D personnel are to be given regular mandatory psychiatric evaluations and are to be administered an amnestic of at least Class B strength or terminated at the end of the month at the discretion of on-site security or medical staff. In the event of a catastrophic site event, Class D personnel are to be terminated immediately except as deemed necessary by on-site security personnel.
Class E is a provisional classification applied to field agents and containment personnel that have been exposed to potentially dangerous effects during the course of securing and establishing initial containment over a newly-designated anomalous object, entity, or phenomenon. Class E personnel are to be quarantined as soon as possible, monitored, and screened for potentially harmful changes in behavior, personality, or physiology, and may only return to duty after being fully debriefed and cleared by psychiatric and medical staff.
Main Name
Other Titles
Description
AK-class
End-of-the-world scenario
"Madness" End of the world scenario
Related to a memetically spread behavior or "madness." Could be apocalyptic (e.g., people prioritize the behavior over eating/survival) or just radically reorient society around the behavior.
ADK-Class
"Complete Anomalous Destabilization" Scenario
A general scenario which occurs when the "anomalous" reclaims Yata & Theia. Typically occurs 1 to 3 years after an unspecified human extinction event or SK-Class Dominance Shift.
CK-Class
Restructuring Scenario
Reality Restructuring Scenario
Reality-ending scenario
Reconfiguration event
Restructuring of modern society
"End-of-Reality" Scenario
Reality is changed by a deity/reality bender/retrocausal altering of history/etc. These can be radical, broad changes representing a true end of the world, or small "localized" changes. (See also RK)
EK-Class
End of Human Consciousness
Total loss of human consciousness. Sometimes just obliviated due to complete memetic replacement or corruption. (See also MK, ED-K)
FK-Class
N/A
N/A
GH-0/GK-Class
'Dead Greenhouse' scenario
GK-Class End of the World Scenario
Hostile-greenhouse scenario
Climate Inversion event
"Colorless Plague" end-of-humanity event
"Broken Greenhouse"
Originally appearing in the ████████████████ document, where it meant that humans are endangered/extinct but Earth is still fit for habitation. Usage of G-Class scenarios in SDS documents is inconsistent but usually involves habitability.
HK-Class
Deific Subjugation Scenario
A god shows up and takes over.
IK-Class
Collapse of Global Civilization Scenario
Civilization collapses.
LK-Class
Species transmutation scenario
Restructuring event
Personality Transmutation Event
Change of Species Scenario
Something about humanity is altered.
MK-Class
"End of Human Consciousness" scenario
Total loss of human consciousness. (See also EK)
NK-Class
"Grey Goo" Scenario
"Contagious Material" Scenario
Type 2
A self-replicating SDS or object reproduces out of control, causing contamination to the planet, filling/replacing the world with itself, or similar situations. (Named for a hypothetical scenario where self-replicating nano-machines malfunction and turn the whole world into goop.)
PK-Class
“All-In-One” Existential Pandaemonium Event
An event in which a hyperreal consciousness collapses all hyporealities into the same meta-space, resulting in total narrative collapse from incomprehensibility and annihilation of consciousness.
QK-Class
Quantum degeneracy end-of-the-world scenario
A specific physics-based end of the world. For other physics-based EOTW, see VK, ZK, and YK.
RK-Class
Restructuring Scenario
Interchangeable with CK-Class, see that definition.
SK-Class
Dominance Shift Scenario
Another species or civilization surpasses humanity as dominant species, or vice versa.
TK-Class
Causal Restructuring Event
Broken Timeline Scenario
A massive CK-Class restructuring took place that resulted in the breaking and repair of the timeline. But like a broken vase, the repaired timeline is flawed, with events that don't line up and things that happened without a cause.
UK-Class
N/A
N/A
WK-Class
Mass Extinction Event
One or multiple non-human species become extinct.
XK-Class
End-of-the-World Scenario
Type Alpha (scorched earth) end of the world scenario
Type Omega (religious) end of the world scenario
Vacuum Decay
Extinction Event Scenario
Δ-Class "Solar Singularity" Scenario
Mass Extinction Event
PATMOS End-of-the-world scenario
Most common and broadest meaning, covers just about any apocalypse. Religious apocalypse, humanity destroyed, Earth destroyed, the universe destroyed, etc.
Some XK scenarios may fit well under other scenarios, such as ZK, but these definitions aren't mandatory.
XK-Δ-Class
"Solar Singularity" Scenario
A scenario in which the sun undergoes a "solar singularity" event, causing it to convert all living things its light touches into gelatinous monsters that combine and blend with each other.
YK-Class
(Assorted Physics EOTW)
Entropic Annihilation Event
End of the universe scenario
Reality Restructuring Event
Restructuring scenario
Vacuum Decay
Basically always a physics-based apocalypse, usually has a specific sub-designation.
See also ZK, VK, and QK.
ZK-Class
Reality Failure Scenario
-0 Reality Failure Scenario
Cosmic Fragmentation Scenario
End of Reality scenario
Reality reset
Reality is fundamentally broken or eliminated. Usually due to physics stuff or an SDS that annihilates things by nature.
Sometimes this happens in a limited "localized" area. Originally used in physics-heavy articles but may have graduated to broader use. (See YK, VK, and QK).
ÞK-class
Extradimensional Diplomatic Breakdown scenario
Diplomatic relations with a powerful extradimensional organization break down.
Lifted Veil*
Lifted Veil Scenario
Broken Masquerade Scenario
LV-Zero "Lifted Veil" scenario
ßK-Class "Lifted Veil" scenario
BK-Class Broken Masquerade Scenario
SK-Class "Broken Masquerade" scenario
X-Class 'Lift of the Veil' scenario
The SDS Foundation or anomalous become public knowledge.
ET-Class
Eithel-Thorn Breathability Scenario
N/A
BI-Class
Before Invasion Scenario
A K-Class scenario, particularly an invasion from another dimension, is imminent.
CC-Class
"Collapse of Chemistry" scenario
The laws of physics are altered in a way so that the chemistry relying on the carbon element no longer provides the conditions suitable for creating life.
K
K-Class
Unspecified K-Class
The following is a description of how anomalies are defined within the SDS Database.
Clearance Level
Level 1: Unrestricted: Available to all SDS Employees.
Level 2: Restricted: Available to a majority of SDS Employees upon request. Employees with subordinates have automatic access.
Level 3: Confidential: Available to a minority of SDS Employees. Site Administrative Staff have automatic access. Employees with subordinates may request access.
Level 4: Secret: ONLY available to Site and Foundation Administrative Staff. Access Requests will likely be declined, except in specific cases.
Level 5: Top Secret: ONLY available to the highest Foundation Administrative Staff.
Level 6: Cosmic Top Secret: ONLY available to Overseer Council members. Access must be granted by them.
Containment Class
Uncontained: Currently is not contained.
Explained: SDS objects that were once considered anomalous, but aren't anymore after being proven to work under mainstream science.
Neutralized: Either destroyed or removed as a threat.
Florin: Unlikely to escape from containment
Alyph: Often Erreneous and unpredictable. Containment measures unreliable
Narakan: Containment breach highly possible
Thelian: Used to contain other SDS objects
Acolitan: Immediate Threat to humanity and Impossible to contain
Pending: Object is awaiting classification.
Esoteric: the Object does not fit into any other classification
Adverse: Could be contained, however are best left uncontained.
Virtus: Could be contained, but isn't due to logistical or ethical reasons.
Decommissioned: Object has been intentionally destroyed or denormalized.
Diarchic: Two distinct related objects, that require eachother to be contained.
Enmatic: Poses an immediate threat to humanity, but can be "contained" via open warfare or methods which are very difficult to hide from the public
Volitional: Cannot be contained, however does not require it.
Disruption Class
Low: Disruption low enough that it is not a concern, Object is inert when not interacted with, Fairly easy to cover up.
Limited: Disruption would be localised to a handful of people, Anomalous effects do exist but don't extend far, Simple to cover up.
Moderate: Disruption would extend to a number of people roughly defined as a city, Anomalous effects spread fast, Moderately difficult to cover up.
High: Disruption would extend across a large metropolitan area or a country and possibly up to the entire world, Anomalous effects will be swift and difficult to manage, Difficult to cover up.
Crisis: Disruption would cause irreversible damage to status quo or the world, and thus the Anomaly must be terminated, Effects would extend across the entire world and possibly the universe as a whole.
Risk Class
Notice: Effects are non-existent mild, Nearby individuals would not feel anything, Poses no danger to nearby individuals.
Caution: Effects are mild to moderate, Nearby individuals may feel mild effects, Poses mild danger to nearby individuals.
Warning: Effects are moderate to significant, Nearby individuals may feel mild or major effects, Poses moderate danger to nearby individuals.
Danger: Effects are significant to extreme, Nearby individuals will feel major or extreme effects, Poses significant danger to nearby individuals.
Critical: Effects will be instant and severe, Nearby individuals will instantly feel effects with only a slim chance of recovery, Doesn't necessarily kill people but is extremely likely to be lethal.
↑Imagine it like Area 51, People know it exists but don't know what happens in it.
↑The entrance to Doorway has been destroyed, therefore Quesium may be abandoned.
↑The entrance to New Frontier has been destroyed, therefore Manila may be abandoned.
↑Although the focus of the SDS Foundation is on containment rather than destruction, there are anomalies that are too dangerous, or resource-intensive to be safely contained.
