SCP-001: O5-13.
The O5 council is the leading body of the scp foundation, a group of 13 individuals
tasked with controlling the containment and research of thousands of anomalies across
the world.
The council is typically depicted as enigmatic and mysterious, often anomalous themselves,
and although they typically differ in their mindsets of how exactly the foundation should
be run, they work together with a common goal.
The article we'll be looking at today though ponders a situation in which one of the council
stands apart from the other, O5-13.
In fact, he is accussed by the rest of the council of murdering the previous 12, and
covering it up.
Obviously there's more to that accusation than meets the eye, and we'll learn that there's
something rather special about o5-13.
SCP-001 is, in this case, the entity known as O5-13, and how this entity came to become
part of the o5 council is still under investigation.
It is currently unware of its containment, which consists of essentially creating a false
foundation site where it lives under constant surveillance alongside the rest of the o5
council.
The entity typically appears as a male human of latin american descent, but it's still
unknown whether this is it's true form or some sort of disguise.
It became classified as scp-001 after the Caesar incident, which involved the deaths
of all previous o5 members aside from itself, the destruction of the previous site-01, and
the loss of all documentation regarding scp-001 prior to the caesar incident.
Apparently, scp-001 caused the incident through manifestation of its anomalous properties,
and it's also believed that one of its properties is antimemetic in nature, since there exists
no information about that incident.
Currently, the new set of o5 council members are investigation various aspects of scp-001
and the caesar incident to ascertain what exactly is going on.
In a conference meeting between the 12 of them, o5-1 brings up the idea that something
is off about o5-13, saying that the 12 of them have all been recently inducted onto
the council at about the same time, and that 13 conducted their orientations, rather than
their predecessors.
When asked about this, o5-13 claimed ignorance, so o5-1 messaged the administrator, a figure
above even the council.
The administrator responded that the previous twelve o5s did not in fact retire simultaneously,
but were instead killed, and the previous site-01 was destroyed.
None of this information is on any records, and there's only one suspect, as o5-13 managed
to survive all of this.
This is the point where they mark him as scp-001 and start their investigation, with O5-1 appointed
as their archivist, assigned to take a regular supply of mnestic drugs to prevent anomalous
memory loss, and to keep a journal of all info regarding scp-001.
Despite the number of people that worked at site-01, the investigation proved to not be
a simple process, due to the memory gap from the caesar incident.
An interview was conducted over phone with a foundation employee who transferred to a
new department a week after the caesar incident, likely due to having previously worked at
site-01.
O5-2 conducts the interview, although conceals their identity, and the employee says that
they were transferred because of a containment breach that went off at their old site, although
they don't remember many details.
They also say that the site they worked at was site-5, which doesn't exist, and suggests
that the containment breach likely involved something antimemetic since they can't remember
much.
In another meeting between the 12, they discuss their research into o5-13 and his origin to
the foundation.
They looked into the o5 personnel dossier, which although out of date, contained some
info about 13.
The edit history had been completely erased, so it's possible that it's been tampered with,
but it seems that the previous 12 council members held the position that o5 was indeed
an anomaly.
They had voted unanimously to put him on the council because of his anomalous nature in
fact, explaining that his special connection to the anomalous gives him a unique perspective.
No normalcy confirmation meeting was allowed to proceed without his attendance.
In an attempt to deduce his anomalous properties, various surveillance tests and observations
were conducted on o5-13.
His apperance stayed the same regardless of observer, and as far as they could tell, his
physical properties were completely within the baseline for a normal human.
People interacting with him reported some mild dread and curiosity, but that's simply
because he's a member of the o5 council.
When discussing the previous 12 council members, o5-1 says that he spoke just once with his
predecessor, just after his promotion to site director.
They mostly discussed details related to the site and his promotion, but the o5 did mention
various modifications that had been done to his body to increase his longevity.
O5 members living longer lives than normal is not unusual, as they have access to numerous
anomalies that could allow for that process.
He didn't mention o5-13 specifically though, but he also didn't display any sense of unease
when speaking of his fellow council members.
It's possible that this was before the appointment of the current o5-13 though, as it was 9 years
ago.
Other things discussed in the o5 meeting were modifying the containment procedures for scp-001
to allow for more stringent monitoring, although the ethics committe vetoed this, since they
weren't made aware of o5-13's status as an scp.
They are now looking into possibly locating the previous site-01, investigating o5-13's
possible ties to groups of interest, and other ways of analyzing scp-001's anomalous properties.
Some time later, they reconvene again, but we're informed that this meeting was cut short
due to rising tensions causing a number of the o5 members to leave the meeting.
As for the location of the previous site-01, they couldn't find any record of it in the
foundation database, but they did find an unusual incident that occured around the same
time as the caesar incident.
An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the richter scale originated from an uninhabited island
off the coast of greenland, stronger than would be expected for the area.
Aerial surveillance revealed the presence of a nearly completely destroyed foundation
facility, and the area emitted radiation at levels similar to that of nuclear fallout
sites.
It's the belief then that the former site-01 had detonated it's on site nuclear warhead
during the caesar incident.
A team of four agents were sent in to check out the wreckage, but they were approached
by GOC representatives upon landing, demanding that they vacate the premises.
The only o5 member that was contacted about the GOC being present in the area was o5-13.
Since it seems that the GOC are also involved with this coverup, some of the o5's spoke
with multiple groups of interest to ascertain their description of o5-13.
Both the Manna Charitable Foundation and MC&D describe him as an unremarkable male of latin
american descent, with MC&D mentioning that they possess a way to get some additional
information.
The GOC and the UIU describe O5-13 as a short woman of asian descent with an ornate walking
stick, but these descriptions are consistent with the o5 information security policy, designed
to mislead outsiders.
As part of their investigation, some of the o5s performed an exchange with Marshall Carter
and Dark for information, and O5-1 asks for some clarification on what exactly was exchanged.
A couple of them wonder why anything was exchanged at all, since the foundation has multiple
spies embedded in the group.
O5-7 reveals that in exchange for some info about o5-13, she gave MC&D some info about
the rest of the council.
This is what causes tension to rise, as info about the council is kept extremely guarded.
The meeting ends, and shortly later, o5-7 distributes a summary of what exactly she
told MC&D.
Rather than giving info about the current council members, she traded info from the
out of date o5 personnel dossier, which MC&D accepted because they were not aware of the
previous 12 being replaced.
In exchange, they received some info about where to find some more details about o5-13.
In the next meeting, they start with discussing some new results from continued interviews
with the survivors of the caesar incident, the ones that don't ever remember working
at site-01.
None of their extensive interview techniques reveal any new information, so it's not likely
that they are faking not remembering, but they did find identical scars on all of their
necks, matching the spot where the foundation injects amnestics.
Although the foundation administers amnestics to make people forget things rather liberally,
none of their records indicate a history of amnestic admnistration.
They also checked out members of MTF Red Right Hand, the o5 council's personnel task force,
and the entire squad also had the same scars, even though the council very rarely wipes
them.
What's more perplexing is that the foundation stopped using amnestic injections around ten
years ago, and the records for amnestic supplies didn't show any variations after the caesar
incident.
A group that does still use injections though is the GOC.
First though, following up on the info gained from the deal with MC&D, the council sends
a memebr of the red right hand to meet with a person of interest who apparently holds
some more information.
The person had met with O5-13 on the same day as the caesar incident, and although o5-13
had shown up alone, he didn't leave alone.
The person believes that a number of individuals from the FBI's UIU division showed up and
left with him, and apparently this surprised both this person and o5-13.
Although that's not a whole lot of info, it does seem that multiple groups are quite interested
in o5-13, and seem to know more about him than even the current o5 council.
The council meets again, discussing the results of continued testing to determine o5-13's
anomalous properties.
It turns out that they really have nothing to go on, as every one of their tests failed
to produce notable results.
This leads to one of two possibilities: that o5-13 is some sort of deity that can bypass
or otherwise avoid showing up on any of the foundation's tests, or he's not anomalous.
They decide to skip over the first possibility for now, as there isn't much they could do
about that, and focus on the second one.
They suggest that he's possibly an inside agent for another group of interest, such
as the chaos insurgency, the serpent's hand, the fifth chuch, the GOC, or even the UIU.
The problem though is that it seems that the nuclear warhead at site 01 apparently was
detonated at the same time that o5-13 was meeting with the person of interest from before,
meaning that o5-13 detonated it remotely, which should be impossible.
This implies that he had assistance from inside the site, possibly from the ethics committee
or the administrator.
The ethics committee were the ones that prevented the council from installing additional surveillance
devices to observe o5-13 in privacy, and it seems that not even the council can overrule
them.
One of them suggests just giving him a physical to determine if he truly is a normal human,
but if they're wrong and he actually is some sort of god, he'll just wipe them all out
like the last council.
O5-1 plans to consider speaking to o5-13 about all this, but only if he's certain it won't
result in another caesar incident.
We're then provided a look at o5-13's private messages, one of which is from the administrator
himself.
The administrator is sure that o5-13 has been keeping tabs on the rest of the council and
their progress, because they're growing closer than either of them wanted, but the administrator
isn't surprised.
He says that o5-13 is probably hoping that this is going to end soon, and he's sorry
that he has to go through this, since this wasn't really the plan they had in mind when
they brought him onto the council.
He wants o5-13 to keep up the gambit a little while longer though, because he's not convinced
that the rest of the council is ready to know what happened to their predecessors yet.
He also doesn't want to ask the GOC and the UIU to clean up another incident like before
just yet, since they have enough dangling over his head as it is.
If the rest of the council does approach him though and confront him, he should provide
a direct answer, and the administrator provides a transcript from the o5 meeting prior to
the caesar incident.
The meeting consists of the twelve prior council members without 13 present, and o5-1 tells
them that they have an internal affairs issue.
1 accuses them of trying to kill him through poisoning his coffee, and it's clear that
tensions are high among the group.
O5-1 says that they have lost sight of their goal of containment, and that they've grown
soft.
Half of them are under someone else's thumb and the other half should probably be in containment
themselves due to their anomalous natures.
o5-10 learned how to perform magic from the wanderer's library, and they need to take
an entire cocktail of drugs just to remember that o5-8 even exists.
Going back to the topic of poison, o5-10 says that maybe it was o5-13, since he's not even
here.
O5-1 however purposefully sent him to meet the individual known as Nobody, so that he
wouldn't be here for this.
He's the only person on the council that o5-1 trusts, because he's normal.
They plucked him off of the street and just started asking him if he thought certain things
were weird.
O5-1 says that there's only one thing left to do, and that's contain the anomalies that
are running the foundation.
With that, he detonates the warhead at site-01, killing all of them.
So, in the end, scp-001 is not an anomaly whatsoever, at least in the sense we normally
think of.
He is however an anomaly in respective to the rest of the o5 council.
Whereas the rest of the council are individuals that rose through the ranks of the foundation,
deeply knowledgeable in the world of the anomalous and many of them anomalous themselves, o5-13
is utterly normal.
He is their outside perspective, a normal set of eyes on the anomalous that can keep
the rest of them grounded.
This is why it was said that no meeting of normalcy confirmation could occur without
o5-13's presence, as without his perspective, the rest of the council can easily lose any
sense of what exactly is normal.
I suppose the entire coverup is so that the new council doesn't learn that one of the
old council flipped out and blew all of them up, but it's clear that o5-13's non-anomalous
nature wasn't a secret to the old council.
Hopefully the new council will eventually accept o5-13's perspective on normalcy as
the last one did, since it's a rather interesting position to be in.
Now of course, there's no such thing as canon in SCP, especially among scp-001 proposals,
but it does make sense that a group as far removed from normal reality as the o5 council
would need the opinions of an exceedingly normal man.