Department of Anomalous Affairs
 | This article is incomplete because it is pending further input from participants, or it is a work-in-progress by one author. Please comment on this article's talk page to share your input, comments and questions. Note: To contribute to this article, you may need to seek help from the author(s) of this page. |
| Ministry overview | |
|---|---|
| Formed | August 19th, 2043 |
| Preceding Ministry |
|
| Jurisdiction |  Ascion |
| Headquarters | Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Ascion |
| Minister responsible |
|
Department of Liminality Affairs or commonly called the DLA is a government ministry in Ascion tasked to handle all interdimensional-related occurences, including, but not limited to enchanted places and artifacts. Contrary to the Bureau of Interdimensional Investigation of the Federal Interdimensional and Awakened Association's more legal approach to these matters, the DLA tend to use academic and economic approach in nature. It was founded a month after independence, merging all existing, similarly-purposed agencies across Asia-Pacific.
History
Acquisition of Dungeons
With the appearances of otherworldly portals and increasing incidents of people disappeared into liminal spaces/transitional spaces between universes during the late 2030s and early 2040s, pre-Ascion governments and multinational conglomerates, guilds started to dispatch exploration teams, which resulted in foundings of clean, renewable energies. Many started to claim these portals and spaces as their own and harness those potentially-infinite energies.
In 2043, right after independence, the government of Ascion decided to merge all existing companies and agencies across the eastern hemisphere, centralizing them in hope to downsize all bureaucratic process and investigations to explore these portals and spaces, as well as the handling of enchanted resources and artifacts. The most recent acquisition was thee Fukushima Portal, located in the town of Fukushima, in the state of Japan. The location was infamously known for its nuclear incident in 2011. Although its radioactivity has fading over the decades, energies leaking from a portal inside the facility, presumably opened in 2037, made the radioactive levels increased back to dangerous levels, mutated local animals into eldritch-horror creatures, halted all explorations and investigations, which led into complete closure of the facility.
After the independence of Ascion, with increasing demand of renewable and clean source of energy, efforts to explore the facility was proposed by the DLA to the parliament, which was immediately approved. Three exploration teams were created a year later, each composed from a battalion of awakeneds and armed forces, equipped with safety artifacts. Few months later on December 9 2045, the portal was cleaned, and mapped thoroughly, and was acquired as property of the DLA. All team members were able to came out of the portal fully intact, although most of them were slightly injured because of the changing, random nature of the portal's insides. Also came with them were 10 people (2 japanese, 1 korean, 4 mexican, 3 caucasian) who went missing decades ago. These survivors were the only ones found alive in the portal, as others were found dead. They were taken into a DLA facility in Saitama for rehabilitation.
Ministers
| No. | Name | Took office | Left office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Craig Ziegler | August 19 2043 | August 19 2046 |
| 2 | Matvey Simonov | August 19 2046 | N/A |