Creepypasta Research Journal

Theories and Discussion- SCP

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SCP was originally just a single story, that story being SCP-173. It's likely the most well-known SCP and you've probably seen its photo before. I'll make the photo the chapter picture. After the story blew up, others began creating SCPs of their own. Eventually, all the stories were grouped together to fit into one universe- the SCP universe. The SCP wiki was officially launched on January 19th, 2008. (That's my birthday! I was born in 2001 though.) SCP stands for Special Containment Procedures, not Secure, Contain, Protect. Secure, Contain, Protect is their motto.

SCPs are identified using numbers, and in-universe, are rarely referred to as SCPs. For example, SCP-173 wouldn't be called that. They'd likely just be called 173. SCPs are anomalies that the SCP Foundation contains in order to protect the natural order of the world. They don't want the public to know about the anomalies in order to prevent mass panic. They use the term 'the Veil' to refer to the separation between the common people and the anomalies.

Anomalies are categorized by class and threat level. Most people know about the three most common classes, Safe, Euclid, and Keter. These classes refer to how hard it is to contain an anomaly, NOT how dangerous they are. There are actually many more classes that can be assigned to an anomaly. For example, threat level is a color code system used to identify how much of a threat an SCP poses. Different colors represent different danger levels, they're used in addition to class to more effictively categorize SCPs. The colors used are White, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red and Black, in that order. White is the lowest threat while Black is the highest. As if that wasn't enough, there is an additional class SCPs are assigned to in order to categorize them. It's called the Risk class. It refers to the severity of an anomaly's effects on a person and how easily one can recover from it. In ascending order, the classes are Notice, Caution, Warning, Danger and Critical. Lastly, SCPs are categorized by the effects they'd have on everyday life if they were to pass through the Veil. This class is called the Disruption class. In ascending order, the levels of this class are Dark, Vlam, Keneq, Ekhi and Amida.

SCPs aren't the only ones with classes. Foundation personnel that are viewed as expendable are called D class members. They are used for testing or the containment of SCPs when deemed necessary. D class members can also be subjected to Keter duty, a punishment that assigns them to a dangerous Keter-class SCP. Personnel who aren't D class may be threatened with being demoted to D class if they break rules or don't perform as expected. Normal personnel are assigned a clearance level that goes from 1-5. Those at level 1 are not allowed to know most things about the Foundation while level 5 personnel know all of the top secret information.

The last thing I'd like to cover is some of the common terms in SCP, as well as the classes assigned to an SCP based on their difficulty to contain.

Mobile Task Forces (MTF) - Units sent out to contain anomalies, they're specialized for the job. Depending on the anomaly type, they may send out paramilitary teams or a group of specialized researchers.

Group of Interest - Groups other than the Foundation that handle anomalies.

Expunged - Information that has been completely erased from all records, usually due to the information posing a hazard. No one apart from level 5s are likely to know expunged information.

Redacted - Redacted information is information that the reader doesn't have the clearance level to access.

Creepy-pasta - In the SCP universe, creepy-pasta means something slightly different than it does for us. In SCP, creepy-pasta are a sub-class of stories that are written by personnel. They generally do not rely on the Foundation's narrative, they're just stories.