Department of Diplomatic Affairs

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The Department of Diplomatic Affairs (DDA) was a small civil department of the Foundation that existed from 2020-2024. DDA was mainly in charge of relations with other Groups of Interest and Foundations. DDA would try to maintain positive relations with them and host events with them. DDA also had duties of education FP and CDs through events like tours and questionnaires. Lastly, DDA played part in gathering feedback and passing them on to the relevant departments.
*To join the Department, you must have passed an interest form which is posted in #personnel_news whenever the command team deemed it necessary.
** Alternatively you could have submit a portfolio.
==The dissolution of DDA==
On October 31st, 2024 a document (Executive Order #005) by the OOTA and O5 Council was released, which marked the shutdown of DDA. The document justified this action with the following reasons (note that they occasionally changed the reasons): 
*DDA rejected an application during a previous batch purely out of personal bias against the individual. After they were called out, all high command conversations were discretely moved to a private group chat
*On numerous occasions, DDA command failed to file punishment logs or record evidence on punishments
* DDA command would deny interviews without logging any reason or record of the interviews
*DDA would hold "votes" in the department to decide who obtained SC3. This led to frustration and disagreement across the entire department
*Members leaked SC4 material
*DDA regularly delegated the creation of relevant departmental documentation to non-command members
Prior to the shutdown, the command team was not contacted about the situation at all. One minute before the shutdown DDA was notified. After the shutdown the community was in a mix of outrage and satisfaction. A new department was created under the Administrative Department which would be supervised by OOTA. CST temporarily took over hosting foreign events. Also note that at the very founding of Pathos, DDA duties were part of EC, but later DDA was created for them. Another interesting note is that themagicnerf, a notable DDA member, proposed a unrelated plan to merge DDA into AD almost one year before the dissolution. 
=== Compensation ===
Later, when the OOTA started compensating the members of DDA as it promised, it consisted of the following options:
* DDA LC: DDA MC: DDA HC: DDA CC: 
* Immediate promotion to the rank of Junior Researcher in the Scientific Department, or to Researcher if you were a command member.
* Immediate induction into the Department of Admissions as a Probationary Reviewer.
* Immediate promotion to the requirements of taking an Agent Exam in the Security Department, but with only two chances at the exam.
=== DDA Response ===
On 8 November 2024, most of the remaining DDA members came together to create a response document to the situation which can be found here:
* https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ao0MsZp1xJOPivCty-_5YDu5P0HptKugfkLGJMnNfcQ/edit?usp=sharing
It was originally released by OSA but was taken down by OSA because the document included a video of sillydog939's DM history with Fr3akyMurk, without Fr3akyMurk's consent. The video was originally uploaded on the DDA YouTube channel but was taken down by ISS because ISS have control over that channel. The video can be found here: https://youtu.be/nzgYv9Zf8eQ.
== Duties ==
The Department of Diplomatic Affairs was in charge of the following events:
* Authorized Raids/Riots
* Infiltrations
* Fireteams
* Mercenary Events
* Offensive Raids
* Event Simulations
* Tours
* Questionnaires
* SCP Events
* Surveys
More information can be found at https://dda.scpf.site/events.
==Command History==
	
	
== Postshutdown Application History==
*26 Oct 2024
*13 Jun 2024
*5 Apr 2024
*9 Jan 2024
*11 Sep 2023
*17 Jul 2023
*5 Jun 2023
*18 Jan 2023
==Lore== 
*https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H1XdIsuxnKFpmnQmMutCtwBBtSgoqbqYZZUhrEyZiLI/edit
* https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M65o6mtaySLjTdtKRpHEhyhWjiluMjfEWN7AngIJe8s/edit
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== Important Links== 
*Official website - https://dda.scpf.site/
*ROBLOX group - https://www.roblox.com/groups/6180576/SCPF-Department-of-Diplomatic-Affairs#!/about
*Public Embassy - https://discord.gg/MRGp4Xa63q
*Universal raid guidelines - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ogwNTz_Lh0MtNt2QTLrF_ymYlmLYyLghYLgsyMFwr6w/edit
*Mercenary event guidelines - https://docs.google.com/document/d/19bD2GZxYdFfktxtxm93QiXyMUTXrPQ1A0IHPmVtreGw/edit
*Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@Pathos-DDA
*Diplomatic Portfolio Info - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TdXs1mXJLrRIKUPRQBWytJ1YhUQm6fFY3KQYCH__efc/edit
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