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[[include :scp-wiki:theme:basalt centertitle=a]] [[module css]] :root { --header-title: "SCP Foundation"; --header-subtitle: "SECURE - CONTAIN - PROTECT"; } [[/module]] [[div class="jotting"]] [[=]] Viewing attached document... [[/=]] [[/div]] ------ [[div class="blockquote" style="border-radius: 10px"]] = **Meeting Log** ---- **Date:** 2019/09/02 **Location:** N/A **Remote Members:** O5-5, O5-8, O5-13 ----- [BEGIN LOG] **O5-8:** This channel is secure and encrypted for the time being, so let's be brief. The Council's decision is a disaster. **O5-5:** It's more than just a disaster; it's a betrayal of our principles. To see the data, to understand the suffering in clinical detail, and to choose to perpetuate it... It's wrong. //<Silence.>// **O5-8:** Thirteen, what are you thinking? **O5-13:** I'm thinking that their “strategic compliance” is a death sentence. Not an abstract one. A very specific one. You saw the medical report. **O5-5:** We did. It’s horrifying. And it’s just one case. Casimir's data shows this is happening to hundreds of sentient beings. But your situation… it makes the abstract concrete. **O5-8:** Exactly, and that’s the strategic flaw in their thinking. They believe they can manage this, that the benefit outweighs the cost. In that, they are wrong. The cost is not static, but cumulative. Each time SCP-9822 activates, it challenges our ability to keep everything under control. The anomalies themselves don't know what's going on, but if the Ethics Committee follow through on their threat, the resulting unrest could be an extinction-level event. **O5-13:** So you’re here to save the Foundation itself. **O5-8:** I’m here because the Council's current trajectory leads to a cliff. I’m looking for an off-ramp. You... I suspect you are looking for a way to dismantle the road entirely. **O5-13:** I’m looking for a way to stop it. Permanently. Not manage it. Not use it. Stop it. //<Silence.>// **O5-5:** Is that even possible? I mean... SCP-9822 is a universal constant, indefinite and imperishable. **O5-13:** It’s a universal safeguard. A pressure valve. But our reality is the one with the flaw, the broken calendar. I’m not talking about violating a law of science. I’m talking about... fixing the original error. **O5-8:** Our 13-month year. You're talking about a foundational myth that has been here for millennia before us. **O5-13:** Is it a myth? We base our entire Cycle on it. We reinforce its memory. What if we do something else than remember? What if we could... change it? **O5-5:** The theological and metaphysical implications would be... staggering. The Cycle is a loop of remembrance. What you’re proposing is a ritual of conversion. **O5-8:** And the energy requirement for such a thing would be astronomical. It would require a source of power unlike anything we’ve ever tapped. It would mean diverting resources on a scale that would be immediately visible. We couldn’t hide it. **O5-13:** We aren't the only ones behind the Veil who care about SCP-9822. The Serpent's Hand grow concerned over the same issue that the Ethics Committee is pressuring the Council about. A cooperation between us and them would be mutually beneficial. **O5-8:** It would be seen as treason. We would look like we are defecting. **O5-13:** Except that the others will never know if we were in control of the oversight. Five, you have influence over ethical allocations. Eight, you understand security blind spots better than anyone in the Foundation. Together, we could create a project. Using the energy and resources from the Serpent's Hand, along with the Foundation's knowledge, we could stop SCP-9822. **O5-5:** You’re asking us to not just dissent, but to actively subvert the Council’s will. To redirect Foundation assets and cooperate with a hostile GoI for a goal they have rejected. **O5-13:** I'm asking you to help me save everyone. All of them. Levi's. Every SCP that suffers. And maybe the Foundation itself from the disaster Eight sees coming. The Council already made their choice, and I'm making mine now. I will do this with or without you. But I could do it far better, and with a far greater chance of success, with your help. //<Silence.>// **O5-8:** //<Sighs>// The probability of systemic collapse under the current model is unacceptably high. Exploring an alternative is the only logical course of action. I’m in. **O5-5:** Then I'm in too. What they are doing is wrong. Sometimes, the most ethical action is to disobey a corrupt order. **O5-13:** //<Nods>// Thank you. Let’s get to work. //<O5-5 disconnects from the video call.>// //<O5-8 disconnects from the video call.>// //<O5-13 disconnects from the video call.>// [END LOG] [[/div]] ------ [[div class="jotting"]] [[=]] [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-9822/offset/8 View next document?] [[/=]] [[/div]]