Defence Against Anomalous Phenomena

Defence Against Anomalous Phenomena

Abbreviation	DAAP
Formation	1680 AN
Type	Combined Function Command
Status	Active
Headquarters	Demonsfall
Reporting agency	Joint Military Council of the Raspur Pact
Contributing nations	Benacian Union  Constancia  Mondo  Natopia  Nouvelle Alexandrie
Manpower establishment	7,200 personnel

A Combined Function Command of the Raspur Pact, subordinate to its Joint Military Council, tasked with defending the territories and interests of the Pact's member states against so-called "anomalous phenomena", particularly objects and entities outside the normal range of human experience for which regular and sensible, frequently kinetic, responses might prove insufficient. The organisation inherited the equipment, methodologies, personnel, and equipment of the Ordo Imperii Decimæ Divæ and Vigiles Arcani, or at least such as could be salvaged by the Black Legions in the aftermath of the Kalirion Fracture.

Watch list

Key: (A) Animal, (M) Machine artificial-intelligence, (P) Paranormal, (X) Xenos: offworld or inhuman alien life.

• Entity 001 (X)
• Entity 002 (A)
• Entity 003 (P)
• Entity 004 (X)
• Entity 005 (A)
• Entity 006 (P)
• Entity 007 (P)
• Entity 008 (M)
• Entity 009 (P)
• Entity 010 (X)
• Entity 011 (X)
• Entity 012 (M)
• Entity 013 (P)

Ecological nexuses were considered separately, of which two were noteworthy on account of their persistence and spread:

• Ecological Nexus 001 (Corum)
• Ecological Nexus 002 (Keltia)

Entities arising within those nexuses would be considered within the local, geographically bound, context of their emergence, unless or until the circumstances of their particular breakout are recorded – at which point the entity in question would receive its own classification.

Organisation

From 1686 to 1717, the directing magistra of the Defence Against Anomalous Phenomena was Samira al-Osman. Operation Jagdbeute (1724), and subsequent reprisal against the information and communications infrastructure of the command, would have a deleterious impact on its workings and hierarchy for several years afterwards.

Structure

Cohort	Status	Station	Assigned Role
VA-HQ	Active	Demonsfall, Ynnraile (Ransenar)	Organisation Headquarters and Central Office
I	Active	Demonsfall, Ynnraile (Ransenar)	Data Analysis (IMINT, SIGINT, OSINT)
II	Active	Demonsfall, Ynnraile (Ransenar)	Incursion Monitoring (MASINT)
III	Active	New Blackstone	Dionysian Heresies
IV	Inactive	Lichkeep, Shirekeep	Rapid Reaction Force
V	Active	Demonsfall, Ynnraile (Ransenar)	Special Forces Unit trained in combat and survival within Daemonic Plane
VI	Inactive	Panalkey, Kezan	Special Forces Unit trained in combat and survival within Daemonic Plane
VII	Inactive	Leng	Containment Unit
VIII	Inactive
IX	Inactive
X	Active	Demonsfall, Ynnraile (Ransenar)	Exorcism, Reintegration Operations
XI	Active	Demonsfall, Ynnraile (Ransenar)	Occult Research
XII	Inactive	Panalkey, Kezan	Containment and Decontamination Operations
XIII	Active	Panalkey, Kezan	Deep Technology Research
XIV	Active	Demonsfall, Ynnraile (Ransenar)	Temporal Phenomena
XV	Active	Tirlar	Investigation & Enforcement Jurisdiction: Apollonia
XVI	Inactive	Shirekeep	Investigation & Enforcement Jurisdiction: Benacia
XVII	Inactive	Walstadt	Investigation & Enforcement Jurisdiction: Cibola
XVIII	Active	Raspur	Investigation & Enforcement Jurisdiction: Eura
XIX	Active	Parap	Investigation & Enforcement Jurisdiction: Keltia
XX	Active	Lindstrom	Investigation & Enforcement Jurisdiction: Tapfer

Operational activity

Having been formerly listed as an entity to watch, Mondo has managed to form a favourable relationship with the Raspur Pact, indeed bringing much of his sphere of influence into the Pact. As such he is more likely than not to be consulted on matters of arcane threat rather than be regarded as such.

Digital archives of the Defence Against Anomalous Phenomena were severely degraded, and in many instances thoroughly erased, by exposure to a cyber attack originating from the organisation's compromised Kezan station as it reverted back to Shirerithian control on 21.III.1724. To date, this has been the only application of Case Orange (Self-Decapitation) in the organization's history.

In XIII.1751 AN, Cohort XIX (Parap) was directed to open a file on the Somniant Eidolon, an entity within the Ecological Nexus 002 (Keltia). Demonsfall offices were instructed to offer such technical and advisory services as the Parap team might require. Discrete requests were lodged with the Natopian Spacefleet and New Alexandrian Space Force to task meteorological satellites to monitor the Strait of Haifa for any instances of atmospheric anomalies.