Welcome new recruits, and welcome to the SCP Foundation.
My name is agent Steven Ozren and I will be your instructor for the series of lectures
about the SCP Foundation and its functions!
We will begin with an introduction from the Administrator.
Mankind in its present state has been around for a quarter of a million years, yet only
the last 4,000 have been of any significance.
So, what did we do for nearly 250,000 years?
We huddled in caves and around small fires, fearful of the things that we didn't understand.
It was more than explaining why the sun came up, it was the mystery of enormous birds with
heads of men and rocks that came to life.
So we called them 'gods' and 'demons', begged them to spare us, and prayed for salvation.
In time, their numbers dwindled and ours rose.
The world began to make more sense when there were fewer things to fear, yet the unexplained
can never truly go away, as if the universe demands the absurd and impossible.
Mankind must not go back to hiding in fear.
No one else will protect us, and we must stand up for ourselves.
While the rest of mankind dwells in the light, we must stand in the darkness to fight it,
contain it, and shield it from the eyes of the public, so that others may live in a sane
and normal world.
We secure.
We contain.
We protect.
— The Administrator
Mission Statement Operating clandestine and worldwide, the Foundation
operates beyond jurisdiction, empowered and entrusted by every major national government
with the task of containing anomalous objects, entities, and phenomena.
These anomalies pose a significant threat to global security by threatening either physical
or psychological harm.
The Foundation operates to maintain normalcy, so that the worldwide civilian population
can live and go on with their daily lives without fear, mistrust, or doubt in their
personal beliefs, and to maintain human independence from extraterrestrial, extradimensional, and
other extranormal influence.
Our mission is three-fold:
Secure The Foundation secures anomalies with the
goal of preventing them from falling into the hands of civilian or rival agencies, through
extensive observation and surveillance and by acting to intercept such anomalies at the
earliest opportunity.
Contain The Foundation contains anomalies with the
goal of preventing their influence or effects from spreading, by either relocating, concealing,
or dismantling such anomalies or by suppressing or preventing public dissemination of knowledge
thereof.
Protect The Foundation protects humanity from the
effects of such anomalies as well as the anomalies themselves until such time that they are either
fully understood or new theories of science can be devised based on their properties and
behavior.
The Foundation may also neutralize or destroy anomalies as an option of last resort, if
they are determined to be too dangerous to be contained.
Foundation Operations Foundation covert and clandestine operations
are undertaken across the globe in pursuit of our primary missions.
Special Containment Procedures The Foundation maintains an extensive database
of information regarding anomalies requiring Special Containment Procedures, commonly referred
to as "SCPs".
The primary Foundation database contains summaries of such anomalies and emergency procedures
for maintaining or re-establishing safe containment in the case of a containment breach or other
event.
Anomalies may take many forms, be it an object, an entity, a location, or a free-standing
phenomenon.
These anomalies are categorized into one of several Object Classes and are either contained
at one of the Foundation's myriad Secure Facilities or contained on-site if relocation is deemed
unfeasible.
Operational Security The Foundation operates with the utmost secrecy.
All Foundation personnel must observe the Security Clearance Levels as well as need-to-know
and compartmentalization of information.
Personnel found in violation of Foundation security protocols will be identified, detained,
and subject to disciplinary action.
Rival Agencies and Groups of Interest The Foundation is not the only organization
with knowledge of and capability to interact with or utilize anomalies.
While some of these Groups of Interest have similar goals and may cooperate with us on
issues of global security, many more are opportunistic and profit-oriented, seeking to adapt or use
anomalies to their own ends.
Foundation personnel are instructed to treat individuals from such groups with suspicion
at all times, and collaboration with such groups without the explicit prior consent
of Foundation leadership will be cause for termination or other disciplinary action.