The main purposes of CONCORD Assembly was to ease the fragile tension and create a foundation for the empires to work their differences out in a peaceful manner. Today, CONCORD is an independent organization which purpose is to maintain law and order and peace among the empires. CONCORD is branched into numerous divisions, each of which handles a certain aspect of the empire relationship. Most space farers will only ever deal with these two departments on any regular basis and to many those two, and maybe mainly DED are the actual face of CONCORD.