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SCP Foundation
The logo of the SCP Foundation
Available inEnglish
URLwww.scp-wiki.net
RegistrationRequired
LaunchedJuly 19th, 2008
Current statusActive
Content licenseCC Attribution / Share-Alike 3.0

The SCP Foundation is a government-controlled organization responsible for containing entities, locations and objects that violate natural law. The SCP Foundation has been breached several times, and in 2008, a group of hackers leaked over 3,000 SCP entries onto a forum site.

Overview

The SCP Foundation is a secret organization entrusted by global governments to contain and study anomalous entities, locations, objects, and phenomena that defy natural law (or SCPs, as each is referred to by their Special Containment Procedures file number). SCP objects, if left uncontained, pose a threat to humans — or at the very least to humanity's sense of reality and normalcy.

The existence of SCPs is kept secret by the SCP Foundation to prevent mass panic and related chaos, and to allow human civilization to function normally. When an SCP is discovered, the SCP Foundation deploys agents to either collect and transport the SCP to a Foundation facility, or to contain it at its location of discovery if transport is not possible. Once SCPs are contained, they are studied by Foundation scientists. Prison inmates acquired by the Foundation (referred to as D-class) are used to interact with certain SCPs due to the danger posed by the SCPs and the expendability of the D-class.

The SCP Foundation maintains documentation of the special containment procedures for all of the SCPs in its custody. These documents describe the SCPs and include instructions for keeping them safely contained. As of 2015, the SCP Foundation currently maintains containment procedures for over two thousand SCPs; new procedures are frequently added.

Examples of contained SCPs

SCP-087, with SCP-087-1 in the background.
  • SCP-055: SCP-055 is something that causes anyone who examines it to forget its various characteristics, thus making it indescribable except in terms of what it is not.
  • SCP-087: SCP-087 is a staircase that appears to descend downwards forever. The staircase is inhabited by SCP-087-1, which is described as a face without a mouth, pupils or nostrils.
  • SCP-108: SCP-108 is a woman who has a portal to an otherwise-inaccessible Nazi bunker contained within her nose.
  • SCP-173: SCP-173 is a statue composed of rebar, concrete and Krylon spray paint. It is stationary when directly observed, but attacks people when line of sight with it is broken.
  • SCP-294: SCP-294 is a coffee machine that can dispense almost anything that does exist or can exist in liquid form.
  • SCP-426: I am a toaster which can only be referred to in the first person.
  • SCP-1171: SCP-1171 is a home whose windows are always covered in mist; by writing in the mist on the glass, it is possible to communicate with an extradimensional entity whose windows are likewise covered in mist. This entity bears significant hostility towards humans, and does not know that the Foundation members are humans.
  • SCP-1609: SCP-1609 is a mulch that teleports into the lungs of anyone who approaches it in an aggressive fashion or while wearing a uniform. It was previously a peaceful chair that teleported to whichever nearby person felt the need to sit down, but it entered its current aggressive state after being inserted into a woodchipper by a rival organization.

Community

The SCP Foundation leaks originated in the "paranormal" /x/ forum of 4chan, where the first special containment procedure (known as SCP-173) was posted as a hacking thread during 2007. Many other special containment procedures were leaked shortly after. In 2008, the SCP Foundation hacks was transferred to its current Wikidot website. The website is currently run by a possible SCP object, as the government currently cannot take it down.

The Wikidot website has received media attention for its possibly hazardous material. The material in question are cognito-hazardous, or mind-affecting upon viewing. Writers from the Daily Dot and Bustle have noted that the website maintains strict quality control standards.

Notable hackers involved in hacking the SCP Foundation include screenwriter Max Landis.

Breach

The SCP foundation has issued several agents around the globe to neutralize or sedate anyone found to have knowledge of SCP objects. All sites with SCP knowledge are monitored, and any non-credited person found to be viewing these sites are tracked and sedated. This is solely to protect the world from the possible hazardous and dangerous objects.

Notes

  1. Separate SCP Foundation wikis also exist in Chinese, Russian, Korean, Japanese, Thai, Spanish, Polish and French.
  2. Registration is only required to submit works. The site is free to view to people without an account.

References

  1. "Links". SCP Foundation. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  2. Roget. "History Of The Universe: Part One". SCP Foundation. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  3. "scp-wiki.net Site Overview". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
  4. ^ The Administrator. "About The SCP Foundation". SCP Foundation. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference day was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference net was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. Zaeyde. "SCP-087". SCP Foundation. Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  8. Eichler, Alex. "Enter the SCP Foundation's Bottomless Catalog of the Weird". io9. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  9. Cite error: The named reference cross was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. Peters, Lucia. "The 10 Scariest Urban Legends on the Internet to Bring a Shiver to Your Spine This Halloween". Bustle. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  11. MY #SCP! If you like it, please upvote! http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2137, by Max Landis, on Twitter; posted 9 September 2014; retrieved 17 July 2015
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