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Following the Ethics Committee's intervention, the Council... was not happy. The annual maintenance schedule for half a dozen Keters was built around SCP-9822. To cease our renovations during SCP-9822 meant that we were literally inviting a breach to happen. And to halt our neutralisation initiatives? After the progress we made, the resources we spent? The Council wasn't exactly pleased. Thus, the full Council was convened to formulate a response that appeared to concede while maintaining full control.

What follows is something I'm not proud of doing. If you wish to judge me, so be it. But at that time, the benefits seemed to outweigh the costs.

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= **O5 Meeting Log**

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**Date:** 2019/08/30

**Location:** Site-01

**Onsite Members:** O5-1, O5-2, O5-3, O5-4, O5-6, O5-7, O5-9, O5-10, O5-11, O5-12

**Remote Members:** O5-5, O5-8, O5-13

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[BEGIN LOG]

**O5-1:** This convened assembly is now in order. A single document demands our immediate and undivided attention. I trust you've all read the directive from Committee Investigator Casimir. O5-3, you were the first to receive the missive. Please, enlighten us all.

**O5-3:** //<Sighs>// Enlighten indeed. Well, gather 'round. Casimir has finally grown some balls. Or maybe he just signed his own death warrant. He isn't requesting a discussion; instead, he invoked Bylaw 12.4 and issued mandates. Effective immediately, he demands a full moratorium on all operational use of SCP-9822. Additionally, he also demands we reclassify SCP-9822 from a strategic asset to a source of "universal trauma." To add more fuel to the fire, he requires us to divert an immense amount of resources to shield the things we contain so that they don't get scared when the universe winks out of existence.

**O5-7:** //<Chuckles>// It seems Casimir isn't just stepping over the line, he's redrawing the map to his liking and putting himself right in the centre. Does he truly believe he can dictate terms to us? The arrogance is… breathtaking.

**O5-5:** His methodology and demands are an unprecedented overreach, that is undeniable. However, we cannot simply dismiss the data the committee has compiled. The research done on SCP-999, SCP-131, and countless others that they didn't present? The results aren't fabricated. They are factual, verifiable evidence of profound suffering. Surely we must at least consider the ethical weight of this. Our mandate contains the word "Protect" for a reason.

**O5-3:** The only weight I'm considering right now is the weight of the entire world on our shoulders, Five. Casimir gets to play the judge. He gets to hold the ruler and measure the moral high ground. We're the ones, down in the trenches, holding the line against anything that could unmake that high ground and everyone on it. His job is to question, to accuse. Ours? It is to ensure there’s still a world left that needs his questions.

**O5-6:** //<Shuffles papers>// Let's talk practical math. The revised orbital refit for SCP-2399 is 80% complete and is scheduled to be finalised next year, precisely at the next SCP-9822 activation window. The implementation of structural reinforcements for both SCP-106 and SCP-2317 requires their anomalous capabilities to be passive. That's just three items of the eighty-seven high-priority projects that rely on SCP-9822. We’d be inviting a cascade of containment failures within two years.

**O5-12:** Quantifying the threat: The audit proposed under Bylaw 12.4 would consume an estimated 18.3% of the Council’s operational bandwidth and 7% of overall Foundation logistical capacity for a projected seven-month period. The secondary threat of informing the anomalies carries an 84.3% chance of provoking widespread non-compliance and unrest among sentient entities. Financially, it is projected that the containment costs will increase by more than 400% total. This threat isn't idle.

**O5-9:** Then we rid the problem from the root. And that root is Casimir. His position can be... vacated. The Ethics Committee will accept a new, more practical deal. A single, clean incident. Contained. Manageable.

**O5-8:** //<Firmly>// We will not. We are defined by our actions. Thus, we are also defined by our opposition to such methods. Casimir is a man who has seen a wound and is trying to stitch it. His method is clumsy and his perspective narrow, but his intention is to heal. You do not pull out the stitches before you are healed. And you certainly do not heal by becoming the infection.

**O5-4:** Eight is correct. A "vacancy" now would be a diplomatic catastrophe. I’ve just spent three months and significant political capital smoothing over the aftermath of the Istanbul incident with the GOC. This would be seen by others as an internal purge. Trust would evaporate. Our agreements with every major GoI would be jeopardised. There is a path here that doesn’t involve becoming the monsters in our own stories. And personally, I need a break from all this--

**O5-2:** Your proposal, Four.

**O5-4:** We give him exactly what he asks for. Publicly. We announce the formation of the joint task force that will "comprehensively review all protocols pertaining to SCP-9822." We agree to "explore all avenues for mitigation and prevention." We make a grand show of it. And while Casimir and the rest of the committee are occupied, we accelerate our entire strategic timetable. We clear the docket. We do everything we were going to do anyway, just faster.

**O5-11:** You're becoming more of a liar yourself, Four. Of course, I can facilitate that. I can provide our lovely Committee Investigator with such a magnificent torrent of data. Contradictory reports, conflicting sensorium analyses, historical precedents that lead in circles, procedural hurdles. He will be so magnificently, gloriously buried. He’ll be writing rebuttals to his own memos within a month.

**O5-10:** //<Laughs drily>// So the official response is a lie. We pacify the conscience of the Foundation with a placebo. We treat a fundamental question of ethics like an anomaly to be contained with paperwork and promises. Fine. It’s cleaner than a bullet. And frankly, it’s what we’re best at.

**O5-1:** A proposal of public compliance, private acceleration, and the strategic neutralisation of the Ethics Committee’s directive through misdirection. Please, cast your vote.

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**O5 Vote Summary**
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**Date:** 2019/08/30

**Subject:** Project Cessation

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**O5-1:** The measure passes. Eleven, you will draft the official response. Make it sound contrite, like we’ve seen the light. Seven, you will oversee the acceleration of all projects dependent on SCP-9822. Make it fast. This assembly is adjourned.

//<O5-2 exits the meeting room.>//

//<O5-4 exits the meeting room.>//

//<O5-5 disconnects from the video call.>//

//<O5-6 exits the meeting room.>//

//<O5-7 exits the meeting room.>//

//<O5-8 disconnects from the video call.>//

//<O5-9 exits the meeting room.>//

//<O5-10 exits the meeting room.>//

//<O5-11 exits the meeting room.>//

//<O5-12 exits the meeting room.>//

**O5-3:** Thirteen, you didn't say a word. You alright?

**O5-13:** The decision was made. Debate was redundant.

**O5-1:** The work is paramount. The survival of our reality is the only morality that cannot be debated. You, of all people, need to understand this.

**O5-13:** What I understand is that the work will be done. By any means necessary.

//<O5-13 disconnects from the video call.>//

**O5-3:** //<Exhales>// By any means necessary. Even if it means sacrificing the ones that we’re fighting for.

//<O5-3 exits the meeting room.>//

//<O5-1 exits the meeting room.>//

[END LOG]

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