The Progeny

 

The Progeny - Nine Voices From The Underworld

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Ecuador Basílica del Voto Nacional. Image dated 09/21/1921

Item #: Item-001

Containment Class: Thaumiel

Containment Status: Active-Stable

Containment Procedures: Item-001 is currently contained in Quito, Ecuador, beneath the previous site of the Basilica del Voto Nacional church. Original containment procedures have proven sufficient to contain Item-001. The area of containment is currently designated a high security military waste disposal site, and Ecuadorian law disallows individuals from coming within 10km of the site. Automated, closed-circuit surveillance drones are to maintain the perimeter around It's containment site, and have been designed to kill on-sight.

909 Memorandum 001-Alpha: The containment of information regarding Item-001, formerly The Sanctuary, is to be considered a highest priority. I've allowed clearance in the database for the creation of a number of false objects in the slot; if anybody gets that far, that should be enough to satiate them. I pulled out some of the original -EX's to hold the spot until we can find something better.

Expunge everything you find, get rid of any leaks. Drown it all in as many kill agents as you feel is necessary. You have more than enough clearance to do so. - 909-14

Object Description: Item-001 is the group designation for 9 human beings, ages 4-11, who gained anomalous properties as a result of Project 001: "The Finger of God" (See Project 001 for more information). Due to improper use of Item-001, resulting in the death of a high ranking staff member, termination was necessitated. As a result, the Sanctuary was put into its current containment. All 9 instances of Project 001 are functionally brain-dead, but continue to display signs of life despite the nature of their containment.

Item-001 instances emit massive amounts of gamma radiation when together, often in excess of ███GJ, in distinct patterns. When separated these patterns appear random, however certain characteristics become evident when the instances are brought together and as such, each instance is contained roughly ████ from any other instance of Item-001. Additionally, Item-001 are noticeably radio-luminescent. Video observation of Item-001 instances is impossible when instances are active, as video recordings experience decay of footage when instances are on screen.

Item-001 instances are capable, when within a range of no greater than 20m from any other instance of Item-001, of long-distance termination of objects, places, or individuals. Additional information regarding this property is detailed later in this file.

By order of the 909 Council, Item-001 has been classified as a Thaumiel entity.

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WARNING: Additional information regarding Item-001 is LOCKED, and currently subject to Level 5 Classification. Memetic kill agents are in place to prevent dissemination of information regarding Item-001. Non-Overseer and Non-909 individuals without Class-5 Memetic Resistance conditioning are susceptible to termination as a result of the kill agents. You have been warned, and this will be your last warning.

Project 001: LOCKED

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Project Proposal: "The Finger of God"

Research Team: Theta-9

Project Date: 04/12/1922

Proposal Statement:

To create an anomalous entity, bound by the necessary forces to the command of the 909 Central Command Administrator, capable of destroying long-range, hostile anomalous threats to 909 Council and global security.

Research Team Lead: Dr. ███ █████, Ph.D. (909-15), Dr. ███ █████, Ph.D. (O5-1)

Assistant Leads: ████ ██████ (909-14), ████ ████ (909-13)

Requested Resources:

• Access and use of Item-███ "Subatomic Pumping System".
• Access and use of Item-███ "Harken's Gateway".
• Access and use of Item-███ "Multiple Injections".
• Materials necessary to construct a necessary containment and testing facility.
• No fewer than 50 adult humans (SCP D-Class) for testing purposes.

Project Details:

Using information gained from recent testing of Item-███ and Item-███, an opportunity has arisen previously unavailable to the Foundation and the Council: the ability to, over large distances, alter the quantum makeup of objects in such a way to render the target functionally non-existent¹. To this end, it is now considered possible, with the use of Item-███, to transfer these properties to a human subject, which should allow for greater control of the effect. To meet the desired goal of this project, Item-███, Item-███, and Item-███ have been removed from 909 records, and their containment will take place solely at the primary testing facility.

Under guise of a military waste disposal site for the Ecuadorian government, a site will be constructed in Quito Ecuador, away from civilian populations, in order to safely test these theories. Given the potentially volatile nature of the project, utmost care will be implemented to provide a number of fail-safes in the event of a catastrophic breach of containment. These fail-safes are listed below.

Given the success of the project, the control over the entity, tentatively designated Item-001, is to be handed off to the Administrator of the 909 Council, for use against the hostile, anomalous organization classified as GOI-003, "Kingdom of Abaddon". A number of mind-kill agents will be placed within the Item, and access to these agents will be given to the Administrator alone, to act as a fail-safe in order to keep the Item out of the hands of opposition forces.

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Fail-safe Containment Procedures:

Alpha: In the event of a catastrophic breach of containment, mind-kill agents placed within Item-001 are to be activated, terminating the entity. Each of these agents has been given a different priority level and should be used in order. They are as follows:

• Berkeley Agent: Reduction of motor functions.
• Anastasia Agent: Reduction of anomalous capabilities [DEVELOPMENT ONGOING].
• Nezbit Agent: Reduction of mental faculties.
• Orion Agent: Full chemical dissolution of upper nervous system.

Beta: In the event of a failure of Procedure Alpha, security personnel are to engage and terminate Item-001. Capture is unlikely and unadvised. Personnel are advised to maintain a safe working distance from Item-001, and wear the necessary SCP Foundation-approved anti-rad protection gear. Long range ballistic fire is also advised, as to not immediately attract the attention of The Sanctuary.

Delta: In the event of a failure of Procedure Beta, Foundation-controlled long-range ballistic weapons are to be activated and used directly on Item-001. A perimeter will be established roughly 10 km from the research facility, and no fewer than 10 heavy-shell bombardment cannons are to be placed along the perimeter and utilized during the Delta Procedure.

Epsilon: In the event of a failure of Procedure Delta, an on-site explosive device is to be activated. The 909 Administrator will oversee followup of Procedure Epsilon.

Project Approval:

909 Administrator Chris Walker


909-15, Project Lead

Project Report 001-Delta: LOCKED

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Project "The Finger of God" Progress Report

Research Team: Theta-9

Project Date: 04/20/1924

Progress Details:

Initial containment of the new Item-001 entity became immediately problematic, as the [EXPUNGED FROM RECORD] and acute radiation sickness across roughly 35% of active staff personnel, resulting in █ casualties. Adjustment of containment procedures became necessary, and the internal structure of the containment site, now designated Site-122, was reinforced. Personnel chambers were moved back to an off-site location roughly 5km from the central testing facility.

An attack on a 909 research facility in Sudan by Kingdom of Abaddon forces increased the drastic need for a long-range defense system, and expedited the timeline for an active Item-001. By order of the 909 Administrator, additional resources were granted to aid in the development of more effective testing protocols.

Another primary concern became the containment of the anomaly within a single human subject. In 100% of all test subjects, while the anomalous nature would transfer with little incident, subjects would become immediately paralyzed and suffer from severe cerebral hemorrhaging. The only evidence of the anomaly taking effect was the sudden and random destruction of on-site structures and personnel, theorized to be the result of a loss of control due to deteriorated mental capacities in the subjects. In 100% of all cases, mind-kill agents were utilized to terminate the Pre-Item-001 entity.

Additional research conducted by off-site personnel gave light to the possibility of spreading the anomaly over a number of subjects², thus managing the increased mental load of the anomalous properties³.

After a testing run that left Site-122 at reduced capacity to operate, and with the allowance of D-Class personnel transferred off-site to other projects by order of the 909 Administrator, alternate options for the continuation of the project had to be discussed. After consulting with the Site-11 director, a group of armed agents infiltrated the Ecuador Basílica del Voto Nacional in Ecuador, and collected a number of young human beings for use in testing. Class A amnestics were applied to the entirety of the remaining Ecuadorian population, who were then transferred to Site-61 for processing. Quito then became the new Testing Site-122, and 23 of the healthiest subjects were chosen for research, while the rest were subject to termination.

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Current Status:

The project is prepared to move on to the next phase of testing on the new Item-001 testing subject, and is awaiting orders from Central Command. The following letter has been sent ahead of this project update, and reads as follows:

04/04/1924
To: 909 Administrator
From: Theta-9 Team Lead

Administrator Walker,

Due to cuts and withdrawals ordered from your office, it has become increasingly difficult to maintain the level of progress expected from this project as per your orders. With no communication from Central Command, we assume that our directive has not been altered.

A proposal to aid in our project reaching its conclusion will follow shortly. We ask that you please note the changes and reply in kind. Your timely response is appreciated.

███ █████
Project Lead

04/16/1924
To: Theta-9 Team Lead
From: 909 Central Command

█████,

Your orders have not changed. We are in no less danger now than we were at the inception of your project. Unfortunately, we also must face the harsh reality that we are at war, and our resources are stretched thin. We are having a difficult enough time as is maintaining the secrecy that our cause requires, let alone continuing to do research. I will afford to you the benefits that I can, if for no reason other than your project may be all that can protect us from Abaddon, now.

I have seen your proposal, and while I am obliged ethically to deny the request, I am additionally obliged as the leader of this Foundation to approve it. You may take your pick of the citizens, but only adults, and do not tread heavily through the lives of these innocents. God knows enough blood has been shed on our behalf, I do not wish to spill more.

Administrator Walker,
909 Central Command

File: GOI-3 "Kingdom of Abaddon": LOCKED

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Group of Interest File 003

Designation: Kingdom of Abaddon

Threat Level: Very High
Activity Level: Very High
Priority: Level 5

Summation: GOI-003 "Kingdom of Abaddon" is a collection of hostile, anomalous humanoids currently located somewhere in the Sahara Desert, at a location referred to in their manuscripts as the "Citadel of Our God King Abaddon". These humanoids appear similar to human beings in a number of ways, but all instances appear to be at least Class I Reality Bending entities⁴, with higher ranking individuals reaching Class III and IV classifications. Due to their anomalous qualities, capture and containment of these instances is impossible, and attempting to do so is often exceedingly dangerous.

Initial Discovery: GOI-003 was initially observed by French military personnel in 1912, during an investigation of attacks against a small village in northern Libya. The military convoy was ambushed, resulting in the deaths of 80% of the contingent. Survivors reported an attack by no more than 6 "sorcerers", who were capable of flight and resistant to arms fire. These survivors, and the superiors who witnessed their account, were amnesticized and released.

Council personnel first encountered GOI-003 during an attempted raid on a Broken God warehouse in southern Egypt, when Foundation MTF Alpha-4 "No Borders" was attacked by a group of anomalous individuals matching the general description given by the French military members. MTF ά-4 was successful in repelling these forces, and managed to capture a lower ranking individual. After processing and interrogation, the true nature of the "Kingdom of Abaddon" was realized, and Foundation Central Command began taking steps to protect the Foundation and the Council from the anomalous group.

According to gathered data, the "Kingdom of Abaddon" was originally a group of reality bending entities from Arabia who sought to carve out a nation of their own within the inhospitable Sahara. Because of their nature, they were able to adapt the harsh landscape to their needs, and used the terrain to keep intruders away. Over time, their numbers grew, and new births were brought before the ruler of the kingdom, "God King Abaddon", to be changed into additional reality bending entities.

However, due to inbreeding and other genetic malfunctions that plague their society, GOI-003 is particularly fragile and will likely not last on its own as an independent organization for any longer than 20 years. Collected data implies that Abaddon is aware of this, and is taking steps to assure its future. To this end, a number of Council and Foundation facilities in and around the African continent have come under attack by Kingdom of Abaddon aggressors, who have cost the Council no fewer than seventy-five lives thus far, and who have stolen at least 12 different items.

Conclusion: Because of the danger and difficulty involved when confronting Kingdom of Abaddon aggressors, and because of the lack of information regarding their activities, it is advised that no personnel attempt to engage any group without backup from a heavily-armed military contingent. Research into developing methods to combat Abaddon forces is ongoing.

Memorandum 001-Alpha: LOCKED

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Date: 11/23/24
User: Theta-9-15
Subject: 001

We did it, then. We managed the impossible. We spat in the face of God and took his throne for our own.

It is a glorious new day.

9 was right about spreading the anomaly around a group. Even with all of the reinforcements we had made to the previous test subjects, the amount of energy that ███ managed to pump into their bodies was too much. Can't tell you how many D-Class we had to clean up off the floor after watching their skin melt off their bones, and their bones carbonize and blow away like dust. Dozens? Hundreds? I don't know. More than we were expecting, and more than the Foundation was willing to allow, even for a project like this.

1 has expressed regret over what we did in Quito, but 1 is somewhat shortsighted, and the Administrator is shortsighted. The deaths of a few, even the deaths of many, in order to protect the world from annihilation? It is nothing, and less. Those children are gods now, their lives committed to a higher purpose. What life is better than that of the omnipotent?

Testing begins tomorrow. Can you hear it?

Project Report 001-Delta: LOCKED

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Project "The Finger of God" Progress Report

Research Team: Theta-9

Project Date: 01/29/26

Progress Report:

The 9 entities collectively known as Item-001 are currently contained within the fortified bunker at Testing 909-Site-100 while undergoing testing. The entities, while functional in their purpose, display no higher brain activity. Despite this, the group collectively is capable of processing information and following orders given by individuals allowed within the memetic control cycle that all instances routinely undergo.

All instances are currently a Class V Radioactive Hazard, and personnel are restricted from coming within 1km of The Sanctuary instances without the proper Anti-Rad protection equipment. The gamma radiation emitted by The Sanctuary appears to come randomly between individuals, but when brought together resembles patterns made by conscious human beings on EEG machines. Despite the resemblance, these patterns are more sporadic and inconsistent than what is usually observed in such situations.

Item-001 are able to collectively channel enormous amounts of energy from a currently unknown extradimensional source, and use this energy to unbind atoms at a quantum level. This allows for the nearly imperceptible annihilation of any object at any distance, so long as the object and location is described in some detail to Item-001.

Below are Item-001 test results for 01/29/26.

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Test Series 023
Object: Item-001
Research Team: Theta-9

Testing Goal: Establish an outer limit for Item-001's area of effect.

Round 1: Target object (steel rod) placed 5km from Item-001. Item-001 instructed by operator (Dr. ███ █████, Theta-9 team leader) to destroy target object.

Result: Target object vaporized shortly after Item-001 received orders to do so. No quantifiable amount of target object remained post-test.

Round 5: Target object (steel rod) placed 800km from Item-001. Item-001 instructed by operator (Dr. ███ █████, Theta-9 team leader) to destroy target object.

Result: Target confirmed vaporized shortly after Item-001 received orders to do so. Distance appears to not be a factor. Longer range test planned in next series.

The children are operating in accordance with their design. I harbor no doubt that when the time comes, they shall fulfill their purpose. Unyielding, devoid of sentiment, seemingly impervious to destruction, they need but a single command to unleash death's embrace across the cosmos. Truly, this weapon is tailored for only the most audacious of men. - 909-15

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Test Series 025
Object: Item-001
Research Team: Theta-9

Testing Goal: Establish a maximum and minimum size of effect over distance.

Round 2: Target object (steel sphere, 3m in diameter) placed 1000km from Item-001. Item-001 instructed by operator (Dr. ███ █████, Theta-9 team leader) to destroy target object.

Result: Target object vaporized, as expected.

Round 3: Target object (Church of the Broken God worship site, in ███████████, Armenia) is 11,500km from Item-001. Item-001 instructed by operator (Dr. ███ █████, Theta-9 team leader) to destroy target object.

Result: Target vaporizes. No additional damage noted to surrounding area. Witnesses to event were administered a Class A amnestic and released held for additional testing. Test demonstrates that individuals or groups of individuals must be targeted, as targeting a location is not enough to result in their annihilation.

Round 7: Target object (male human, age 33) located roughly 11,500km from Item-001. Item-001 instructed by operator (Dr. ███ █████, Theta-9 team leader) to destroy target object.

Result: Target vaporizes.

Collected 909 Correspondences and Notices: LOCKED

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[MEMETIC KILL AGENT NEUTRALIZED]

Date: 02/06/26
To: Theta-9 Team Lead
From: Administrator Walker

I have heard the good news of your success with Project-001, and cannot express to how important this is. We will finally be able to put an end to Abaddon, and be able to better protect ourselves in the future. To this end, I am eternally grateful.

However, I must admit my concerns about you specifically, 909-15. Your recent letters have been troubling, in spite of your successes. I have no doubt that you are the most qualified man to lead the Theta team, but I understand if the stress of the endeavor has taken a toll on you. I know it has with me. Regardless, once this is all over, I'm prepared to promote you to Director of the newly constructed Site-03, after you've taken some time to recuperate, of course. We can discuss the details when I see you next month, once we've taken care of Abaddon.

Sincerely,

Administrator Walker

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Date: 02/14/26
To: 909 Central Command
From: Theta-9 Team Lead

I am fine, Administrator. The project is finished. We will complete our task when you arrive.

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GENERAL NOTICE: ALL PERSONNEL

[REDACTED BY 909 ORDER]

Issued by Foundation Central Command

Date: 03/21/26
Subject: Administrator Walker

909 Administrator Christopher G. Walker has been murdered. A general warrant has been released for the capture of his killer and his killer's accomplices, Dr. ███ █████, Dr. ████████ ████, Dr. ████ ██████, Dr. █████ ██████, and Agent ██ ████. These individuals are believed to be armed and highly dangerous, and may possess a number of dangerous anomalous items. If you have information regarding the location of these individuals, please report directly to your Site Director.

A transitory council of administrators has been created, consisting of senior staff members from the Theta-9 Research Team, by order of the late Administrator. This council will oversee Council operations until such time as a new governor can be established.

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GENERAL NOTICE

Issued by 909 Central Command

Date: 03/22/26
Subject: Dissolution of GOI-003 Investigatory Teams

NOTICE: The following CTF investigatory teams are currently considered inactive, and are to report to Site 11 for debriefing:

CTF Alpha-1 "Red Right Hand"

CTF Alpha-2 "Crimson Vanguard"

CTF Alpha-3 "Harvard Boys"

CTF Alpha-4 "No Borders"

CTF Alpha-5 "Band of Brothers"

CTF Alpha-7 "Dark Testimony"

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Date: 11/01/26
To: 909 Command
From: Director Ramsay, Site 180
Subject: Site 23 Scouting Report

My boys just came back with the reports. I'll send the pictures they took along with this letter, but I still can't believe it. It's all gone. Just desert that goes on for an eternity. Like they were never even there.

I had them check, and you were right. No bodies. There shouldn't be any, should there?

Regardless, I don't know what devil you had to make a deal with, but thank you.

-Ramsay

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Better to do this now, I think. Better to get it done while I can still remember it all. It's been a long time since I read this file, longer still since that night in '26. It's been too long since people knew the truth of what we did, and what happened to Abaddon and Fifteen and the Administrator. Hell, if the amnestics have held up, I might be the only one left.

I have no intention of taking it to the grave with me. Not this.

We are thankful to the SCP Foundation for helping us, the neutralization was a success. Fifteen always was charismatic, that much is on record. That's why Walker gave him the lead of Theta-9 over Fourteen, even though Fourteen had been with Walker longer. That's not to say that Fifteen wasn't smart, on the contrary. He was one of the more brilliant researchers I had ever worked with, even after all this time. He penned most of the reports for the work that Theta-9 did, even before we were a full-fledged team. Back when we were just a handful of junior researchers out of Site 17. He was eloquent and passionate and driven.

He was also always so detached. He loved his work, don't get me wrong, and the research was his greatest desire. But the direction of the Council, the stress on containment, he had no love for. He said to me, many times, that we were under-utilizing our assets. That we could provide better containment of anomalies if we weren't so damn afraid of them. Afraid to use some to contain others. He was the original designer of a classified classification, of course. Him and the Omircron-5 research team. I think that's why he was so eager to jump at the chance to do what we were doing with 001.

It was unprecedented, the 001 project, but then, so was Abaddon. The logs here don't give the half of it, and the rest has been lost to history. With Abaddon we were wildly, hilariously outmatched. A group of decently funded scientists and armed guards against a small army of type greens, and we didn't even see the worst of them. Class II's and III's were more than a match for the best we had to offer, and this was nearly a half-century before we'd see the first Scranton anchor. Some reports claimed that the ruler was a Class V. If true, then he could've blinked us off the map if he wanted.

Abaddon was responsible for the complete destruction of three sites in 1913 alone. It wasn't just in sub-Saharan Africa, either, although we certainly didn't publicize that. There was Kingdom activity as far north as Gibraltar, and as far south as Madagascar. They would enter Sites, destroy everything, and leave with just a few objects. Shred the records too. And what were we to do? We had only just begun classifying reality benders, let alone combating them. Were they to make it to one of the larger Sites in Europe or the Middle East, it would have been a bloodbath.

If you're reading this, then you've read the logs about Item-001. You know what it does, how we built it. "The gun to end all guns." A weapon crafted out of human bodies and fire that could annihilate anything, anywhere, at any time, all with just a brief description. Fifteen was fascinated by it, by them. The children… I can still hear them screaming, screaming while we put them into the machine and pulled their souls out and replaced it with something… something else. But it worked, and Fifteen was so proud.

Then the time came to finish our task. The Administrator flew in from 11, one of a handful of times I'd ever seen him in public. As exciting an event as it was, the air was thick with solemnity. We all knew the gravity of our task, understood that we were sentencing hundreds to death. I think that, if we thought there was any other option, we might have shied away from the edge, but…

While we watched, Fifteen approached the glowing children and spoke the activation words. They were… glorious, in a way. The perfect balance of raw energy and human form. He leaned in to them and spoke the name of Abaddon's citadel, and then they burst with light and it was over. We had no way of knowing whether or not it worked, other than what we had seen in other tests, and yet, it felt finished. There was a feeling, like a collective breath had been released.

Then, Walker disappeared, his clothes and protective gear falling to the ground in a heap, and as gunfire filled the testing chamber with smoke, we saw Fifteen sprinting towards an emergency exit and 001 glowing again. After this, it was all a rush. A quiet ride back towards our bunker as CTF teams rushed in to contain 001, a quick debriefing with other Command officials, questioning, searches, it all blends together.

Fifteen was gone, of course. They didn't find him, and they never did. He wasn't the only one who left, four other members of our team alone went with him. A number of other junior staff members, and then about half of the senior staff at Site 81, defected. All disappeared without a trace. Items too, right out of their cells. They discovered later that it was a long time in the making, and Fifteen had helped foster the project just to meet this end.

We buried the children deep beneath Quito, covered them in about 50 meters of concrete. They didn't say a word when we put them into lead bags, not that it would help. They didn't say anything when we separated them, and they didn't say anything when we closed the tomb on top of them. I doubt they'll ever say anything ever again. I have no doubt that they're still alive, though. The most powerful weapon in the world, armed and loaded, without its trigger. Fifteen has the trigger, and Fifteen alone. With any luck, it died with him.

In the end, we were left in charge, the eight of us who remained. We picked seven more of the brightest we could find, and we pushed on. Abaddon was gone, without a trace. There was still so much to do, but we found a way to push forward. We made due, and in the end, we overcame.

I still think about the children under Quito, from time to time. About the lengths we went to when we were panicked and afraid. About the things we did, even outside of the project. I think about Fifteen, too. I wonder if he found what he was looking for. I wonder if he thinks it was worth it.

All I know now is that Fifteen and the others have fled to Panama. One also defected[sic], although One did say that he was just following Fifteen's footsteps. One was a great man. I actually met up with him by accident. One never hurt a single person, neither did I. Fourteen did not defect. Ten — although, he retired — retreated to his cave in Bangladesh Fifteen built him. Yeah, that bitch quit his job.

I received a message through the secure system, nearly one year ago today. I said nothing then, but I'm going to add it to this file now. As for the contents, I'll let others decide. I've said enough.

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When we were young, you asked me if I thought that our dreams would ever be realized. If we would ever be able to keep the world truly safe, and hang it up for good. You asked me if I thought we had the means to do so, or if the means existed at all. You asked me to what lengths must we go, what prices we must pay, what allegiances we must forge, in order to achieve perfection.

I did not know then. I do know now.

There will come a day when the secrets that the Council has tried to hide away will rise up from the shifting sands in glorious appearance, when the subjugated will break free from the bonds of their captors, and when the march of progress will no longer be impeded by those who would huddle around their fires, swatting at the ever growing shadows. On that day, the Foundation will be cast aside, and all that will remain is purpose.

Do you hear the Black Moon howling, 1? You will, soon.

Vive l'insurrection

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Footnotes

1. Maxwell, T., & Gouram, A. (1927). Quantum Properties Over Great Distances. Foundation Research Press, 05(02), 213-230.

2. Enjilian, M., & Johnson, R. (1923). Anomalous Properties of Multiple Keter-Class Objects. SCP Foundation Research Press, 1(11).

3. Everly, K., & Everly, J. (1922). Brain Makeups of Terminated Keter Entities. In Advanced Cognitive Constructs of Paranormal Entities (3rd ed., Vol. 1, pp. 145-178). Chicago, IL: Foundation Scientific Press.

4. Benson, R. (1921). Reality Bending Entity Classifications. Foundation Research Press, 3(7), 10-58.

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