About The SCP Foundation

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[[size 130%]]**Mankind in its present state has been around for a quarter of a million years, yet only a small fraction of that has 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.
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**We secure. We contain. We protect.**

**-- The Administrator**[[/size]]
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+ 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. Many of these anomalies pose a significant threat to global security by threatening either physical or psychological harm. All of them undermine the natural laws that the people of the world implicitly trust in.

The Foundation maintains an extensive database of information regarding anomalies requiring //Special Containment Procedures//, commonly referred to as "SCPs". The primary 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.

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.

[[[universe-hub|Additional information]]] will have been provided upon your joining us in pursuit of our primary missions. Welcome to the Foundation, and good luck. 
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+ About the SCP Wiki
The SCP Wiki is a collaborative speculative fiction website about the SCP Foundation, a secretive organization that contains anomalous or supernatural items and entities away from the eyes of the public.

The SCP Wiki and its contents are released under the **[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License]**. For more information, read the [[[Licensing Guide]]].

For additional questions, see [[[faq|Frequently Asked Questions]]].

+ Contributing to the SCP Wiki
The wiki is a collaborative effort made possible by the contributions of hundreds of authors. If you want to become a part of the SCP Wiki, you can [[[guide-for-newbies|apply to become a site member]]].

You can also add to the conversation by commenting in the [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum:start forums] or on [[[chat-guide|IRC]]].


+ See Also
* [http://scp-int.wikidot.com/ SCP International] - The hub for non-English branches of the wiki.
* [https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/ Wanderer's Library] - SCP Wiki's official sister site.
* [http://scp-sandbox-3.wikidot.com/ SCP Sandbox] - SCP Wiki's official sandbox site for drafts and testing purposes.
* [http://05command.wikidot.com/ O5 Command] - SCP Wiki staff's public records and administration site.

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