File Overview: The Foundation's mission is to Secure, Contain, and Protect.
While unified behind these goals, achieving them requires a wide variety of approaches.
This has necessitated the creation of numerous departments, each specializing in a specific
task, discipline or field.
Some of the more notable Departments are listed below, although it should be noted that these
are not the only Departments, and a more comprehensive list can be found elsewhere.
Administration
O5 Council
Overview: The O5 Council, also known as the Council of Overseers or Overwatch Command,
is the highest authority within the SCP Foundation.
The Council members have Level 5 Security Clearance, giving them unredacted access to
the entire SCP database.
While uninvolved in routine matters and deliberately separated from any contact with the anomalous,
when O5 Council members do choose to intervene, their word is final.
The exact number, identities, and roles of the O5 Council members is strictly classified.
Ethics Committee
Overview: While the O5 Council decides what is safe, the Ethics Committee determines what
is ethical.
Although the Foundation takes a pragmatic approach to moral quandaries, the Ethics Committee
ensures that only necessary sacrifices are made and that the most ethical option is always
chosen.
Foundation personnel should be aware that the Ethics Committee is observing, evaluating,
and passing judgement.
Recordkeeping and Information Security Administration
Overview: The Recordkeeping and Information Security Administration (RAISA) is responsible
for keeping the Foundation database secure and intact.
RAISA controls access to classified information, deciding what to redact and what to reveal.
RAISA also protects the database against intrusion and infiltration, and monitors inconsistencies
in Foundation documentation to discern whether the cause is mundane or anomalous.
Foundation employees may encounter notes from RAISA appended to SCP documentation, often
signed by RAISA Director Maria Jones.
These notes offer important context for the information that follows.
Departments
Alchemy Department
Overview: The Alchemy Division of the Foundation's Department of Science is often dismissed as
a relic or a curiosity by their colleagues in more mainstream disciplines.
However, alchemy is not simply a primitive form of science.
Alchemy is the field of study specialising in the manipulation of the Aetheric forces
that form the basic elements of reality.
When conventional science fails to explain an anomaly, it may be time to consult an Alchemist.
Antimemetics Divison
Overview: Antimemes are ideas with self-censoring properties that discourage or prevent people
from spreading them.
The Antimemetics Division exists to research and contain anomalous antimemes.
These concepts, objects, and entities threaten normalcy and endanger human life, but are
almost impossible to record or even remember.
Through careful observation, extensive training, and regular use of mind-altering mnestics,
the Antimemetics Division is able to deal with the dangers that everyone else forgets.
Artificial Intelligence Applications Division
Overview: The Artificial Intelligence Applications Division (AIAD) of the Foundation's IT Department
was created to develop, study, and utilise Artificial Intelligence.
This includes containing or neutralising anomalous artificial intelligences, as well as creating
Foundation-Aligned Artificially Intelligent Conscripts (.aic's) to run Foundation Facilities
and be deployed on field missions in digital space.
Decommissioning Department
Overview: Although the focus of the Foundation is on containment rather than destruction,
there are anomalies that are too dangerous, unpredictable, or resource-intensive to be
safely contained.
When all else fails, the last resort is the Decommissioning Department.
This Department reviews petitions to intentionally terminate anomalous objects, approving only
those proposals deemed necessary and viable.
The Decommissioning Department also provides expert advice on the most efficient ways to
decommission anomalies, utilising humane methods while minimising collateral damage.
Department of Miscommunications
Overview: The Department of Miscommunications (DoMC) specialises in anomalies that manipulate
language or communication in ways that make them difficult to accurately describe and
contain.
Existing at the convergence of memetics, antimemetics, linguistics, and metaphysics, the Department
has the unenviable task of writing Special Containment Procedures for some of the Foundation's
most perplexing anomalies.
Department of Mythology and Folkloristics
Overview: The Department of Mythology and Folkloristics studies the role that the anomalous
has played in the development of human culture, using this research to identify anomalies
and advise on potential containment methods.
Studying everything from ancient myths to urban legends, from lost lands to restless
spirits, the Department ensures that insights into the anomalous found in folklore from
around the world are integrated into the Foundation's body of knowledge, rather than being ignored
or forgotten.
Department of Surrealistics
Overview: We at the Department of Surrealistics are dedicated to the identification and containment
of anomalies that cannot be understood with traditional logic/left-braining.
It was founded on October 35th, 1491 by an intelligent swarm of blue swallowtail butterflies—
and it’s all been downhill ever since if you ask me.
The Department of Surrealistics utilizes agnostics and up-brained thinking to better understand
unreality.
The Department of Surrealistics is headquartered in a meta-metaphysical space called Site-⌘.
The Department of Surrealistics dreams of you.
Please leave your preconceptions and teeth at the door.
Department of Tactical Theology
Overview: The Department of Tactical Theology is responsible for assisting in the capture,
containment, and neutralization of theological anomalies.
The Department is involved in the containment of anomalous items suspected to holy relics
and extranormal events believed to be miracles, and also deals with paranormal cults and Apex
Tier Pluripotent Entities.
Headquartered in Reliquary Area 27 but operating worldwide, the Department has a diverse staff
of theologians, clerics, and sceptics, with subdepartments specialising in different religious
traditions.
Telecommunications Monitoring Office
Overview: The Telecommunications Monitoring Office (TMO) handles the Foundation's worldwide
analysis and processing of information gathered from telephone calls.
This includes the routine surveillance of calls made to emergency services in Facilities
like Site-14.
Although aided by algorithms sensitive to key words, the majority of the TMO's work
involves human operators screening thousands of mostly mundane calls for any evidence of
anomalous involvement.
Temporal Anomalies Department
Overview: The Temporal Anomalies Department deals with retrocausal, temporal, and counter-historical
anomalies.
The department is actually a small subdivision of Research and Containment Team Δt (RCT-Δt),
an agency that exists outside of the normal Foundation command structure.
This unusual position enables it to operate in any time period or timeline, although it
does mean RCT-Δt operatives have difficulty getting their credentials recognised by other
Departments, since at present the department has not yet been founded.
Department of Unreality
Overview: [Department Name] handles a very specific subset of anomalous phenomena affecting
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SCP Foundation Department of Abnormalities
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