The DDS have issued a revision to their alert system with refined standard graphics and a new PURPLE alert level. The new graphics have supplementary information helping to inform DDS personnel as to measures that should be taken with a given alert status (though they should know this by training anyway).
The new PURPLE status is above RED and is for the event of the DDS being in serious danger of destruction or defeat. DDS personnel are informed to take pre-planned contingency measures to continue operations. These measures are secret of course but will include the relocation of command functions from GHQ if it should be lost. A DDS spokesman said that they hoped PURPLE would never have to be used (RED has only been used once) but it was prudent to have it just in case.