Secure Facility Dossier: Site-222

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+ Foundation Secure Facility Dossier

+++ Horological Research Hub -- Site-222

**Official Designation:** Foundation Horological Studies & Atomic Clock Hub

**Site Identification Code:** USMTMI-Site-222
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**Site Function:** Site-222 is a secure research, containment, and development facility designed to act as the Foundation's primary hub for its scientific inquiries regarding the subject of timekeeping, also known as the study of horology.

Much like the resident Department of Applied Horology, the facility has a dual purpose of studying clockwork and time-based anomalies, while also serving as the home for the Foundation's worldwide atomic clock ensembles, which allow for accurate time to be broadcasted to clocks and other systems within nearly every Foundation facility across the planet.

**Founded:** August 9th, 1907

**Founding Director:** Director Lang

**Location:** Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, United States

**Cover Story:** Former mill complex converted for rental use by private parties. All of said parties are either Foundation front organizations or otherwise fabricated for obfuscation purposes.

**Size:** Total area of 532,000 m^^2^^ (Inclusive of both above-ground and subterranean sections)

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While RCT-Δt and their Department of Temporal Anomalies may act like the big shots, like they’re the most important group involving time around, no matter what they may tell you, they often seem to conveniently forget that you can’t tell time without the present, and for people whose perception of the “present” is often relative, they need a reliable source of what the present time is to be properly kept throughout the Foundation. Who do you think they rely on for that? And many of their fancy time machines? They need our atomic timekeeping to function properly, much like any other giant machine or important system in the Foundation you can think of.

Do I resent it? Of course not. Time travel is a confusing mess, and I think I’d rather be reassigned to goddamn Keter Duty than the Department of Temporal Anomalies. You know why we keep time? To make things //less// confusing for everyone. They can act like they’re the best time division if it’s what helps them sleep at night, but even with the resources we waste on our department’s mechanical clockwork section, we’re still just as important as they are. You don’t have the future without the present, if you ask me.

[[>]]
//-- Dr. Sarah Andrews//
[[size 90%]] Site-222 Eigensemble Technician [[/size]]
[[/>]]

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+++ Site Overview
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Site-222 is known among the greater Foundation for its unique staffing culture, largely a result of its heavily antithetical age demographics.

While it maintains other functions due to its sheer size, the facility’s primary function is to serve as the headquarters for the Department of Applied Horology, which was first established in 1916 in response to an influx of clockwork anomalies obtained from various sources, such as GoI-004 (“The Church of the Broken God”). As such, the original members of the department were all older and experienced clockmakers, a trend which continued until late 1958, whereupon a proposal was submitted to the Overseer Council and the Records, Archival, and Information Security Administration (RAISA) to bring the Foundation onto an atomic clock system.

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The proposal was accepted, with Site-222 chosen to be the hub of the new atomic clocks, which would provide accurate timekeeping for the entirety of the Foundation, leading to it receiving significant architectural improvements. In addition to this, a group of younger technicians were onboarded to the Department of Applied Horology to maintain this new system. This was not without protest by the experienced clockmakers who previously made up the entirety of its ranks, but their complaints were ignored by the Foundation administration.

Since the changes in 1958, the department and, effectively, Site-222 have been dominated by a nearly equal split between older and younger groups within their ranks, which continues to remain due to the nature of both sides — older clockmakers tend to be the only ones experienced enough for a position in the department due to the highly specialized nature of their positions and remain until retirement or death, while younger members are most likely to move on to other departments to further their career, leading to members of both demographics needing to be hired periodically and the unintentional preservation of the status quo.

Site-222’s unique culture is not without issue, often characterized by frequent infighting between both major groups within it. This has earned it a somewhat humorous reputation among the greater Foundation. For example, “pulling a ‘222” has become slang for having two opposites interact, often to the disparity of both involved parties. Despite its humorous reputation, Site-222 remains a significantly important facility. The atomic clock system it hosts and maintains is integral to the existence of the Foundation and its worldwide technical systems.

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Here in the Department of Applied Horology, we're most often remembered these days for our atomic clock systems instead of much else. What they don't tell you is so much of our legacy. Did you know that we were the ones who discovered the Church of the Broken God back in the day? Of course, the Foundation had many of their anomalies, but we were the ones who noticed the similarities, put the pieces together, and pioneered study into their operations. If it wasn't for us, who knows how long they would've evaded our eyes?

It’s a shame, really, that people are so quick to ignore our history these days. If you don’t look back at the past, you’re not prepared for the future. And in my 40 years I’ve worked for the Foundation, I’ll tell you that preparing for the future has always been the most important thing that we’ve done.

[[>]]
//-- Dr. Robert Wakefield//
[[size 90%]] Site-222 Mechanical Studies [[/size]]
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+++ Site History
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The complex that would become Site-222 started off as a mundane, albeit abnormally large, mill owned by the prestigious Edwards family, who were heavily influential in the early days of the modern anomalous community (Roughly 1750-1870). Reginald Edwards, a founding member of the SCP Foundation, took over the complex in 1832, transforming several of its buildings into storage for anomalies. It still operated as a mill, however, generating much-needed income for the fledgling Foundation of the era and several of its at-the-time sister organizations[[footnote]] Most of which would go on to become fully integrated into the Foundation. [[/footnote]].

As the Foundation began to modernize and build up a steady income, it was decided that dedicated containment facilities which fit the Foundation’s exact specifications would be constructed, rather than their previous policy of simply purchasing large buildings and modifying them afterwards. Following the establishment of this new direction in 1876, Site-222 was soon nothing but an incredibly large storage location for mundane items the Foundation had no other place for, its mill functions having fully closed down in 1861 after not being needed anymore.

When the Foundation reached the 20th century, the organization began to look towards many of its mundane properties, deciding whether to demolish them or to fully modify them into modernized Foundation sites. These decisions were usually made based on the size of the properties, their locations, and their current states. The complex that would become Site-222 was the largest facility under Foundation ownership that was neither a Site nor Area, was in an ideal location for the containment of anomalies, and had experienced little damage throughout its time as a storage location. As such, it was designated Site-222 and construction to modify it began, with it becoming a full containment facility by 1907.

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At the time of Site-222’s completion, the primary issue plaguing the Foundation at the time was an influx of recovered anomalies involving GoI-004 (“The Church of the Broken God”). Due to this, Site-222 was designed specifically to accommodate mechanical anomalies, both living and inanimate, most of which were constructed from clockwork. Many experienced clockmakers were onboarded to the Foundation to work within Site-222, studying these anomalies and overseeing their containment. Eventually, almost every anomalous timepiece in the Foundation’s possession began to be transferred to Site-222, GoI-004 involvement or otherwise, representing what is considered in the modern day to have been the founding of the Department of Applied Horology.

In 1958, Director Samuel Own submitted a proposal to both the Overseer Council and RAISA for the construction of a new atomic clock system. At the time, atomic timekeeping was still an emerging technology, with the first commercial ones being produced in the era. While the Council was somewhat apprehensive, RAISA was elated by the suggestion, and it was eventually approved by both parties. As Director Own was both a member of the Department of Applied Horology and the division’s function was to oversee the Foundation’s timepiece-related issues, it was decided that the department would be expanded to accommodate personnel for the new atomic clocks. The clocks themselves were also to be housed in Site-222, requiring extensive subterranean sections of the facility to be erected.

The experienced clockmakers within the department were not happy with the decision, believing the new personnel onboarded for the atomic clocks were far too young and inexperienced, and that their division was for mechanical clockwork, not advanced timekeeping. Regardless, their complaints had no sway on the administration, who went through with their plans anyway. By 1965, the earliest incarnation of the Foundation’s atomic clock system was fully operational. Its continued development was overseen by Director Own until his death in 1991, whereupon it was taken over by his son, Dr. Francis Own, the current Head Researcher of the department.

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To tell you the truth, despite what this section may have implied, my father, Director Own, was the glue that held this place together. The older folks? They respected him, because he started off as one of them. The younger newbies? He was the one who gave them a new opportunity, so of course they’d respect him.

This isn’t to sugarcoat his legacy and not to say that everything was sunshine and rainbows because of him. Order was, of course, still difficult to be kept among both sides, but he managed it. And it was always easy for him because no one wanted to disappoint him. He was the sort of guy you felt horrible for disappointing, you just didn’t want to do it. Believe me, as his son, I would know.

I do a lot of the duties of a Site Director, but, to be honest, we still don’t have one after he died. When people think of the Director of ‘222, they think of him and him alone. He took the role and made it his. There’s a common sentiment around here that anyone trying to take that role again would be disrespectful to his memory.

And when somehow everyone in //this place// can agree on something, you better follow it.

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//-- Dr. Francis Own//
[[size 90%]] Dept. of Applied Horology Head [[/size]]
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||~ ID Number ||~ Object Class ||
|| [[[SCP-666-EX]]] || Explained ||
|| [[[SCP-6964]]] || Safe ||
|| [[[SCP-6719]]] || Safe ||
|| [[[SCP-8069]]] || Euclid ||
|| [[[SCP-8338]]] || Neutralized ||
|| [[[SCP-8820]]] || Drygioni ||

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+++++ Former Jurisdiction
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||~ ID Number ||~ Object Class ||
|| [[[SCP-6914]]] || Radix ||

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It's not what we were originally meant for, but there has been an unusually high amount of anomalies regarding the United States and its history that we've begun to oversee for whatever reason, including a lot having to do [[[scp-6964|with]]] [[[scp-8338|its]]] [[[scp-8820|Presidents]]]. We have a particularly large chapter of the History Department over here in '222, so maybe that's why? We just get demands from the top to go handle it, and you don't mess with orders from the top.

Hey, it gets us more funding and gives me some more job security, so I guess it's not my place to question the hand that's feeding me.

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//-- Dr. Alan Lock//
[[size 90%]] Site-222 Chapter History Dept. Head [[/size]]
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+++ Site Layout
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Due to the extreme nature of Site-222's expansion in 1958 and the dichotomy it created between the view of the facility pre- and post-expansion, local vernacular within Site-222 often divides the facility into two main sections: above ground and subterranean. It has been decided to divide the physical description of the facility into two separate sections in reflection of this cultural phenomenon.

+++++ Above Ground

The above ground section of Site-222 contains a majority of the facility’s otherwise mundane functions. Site-222, despite its size, has an abnormally lessened focus on containment compared to other locations of its size, meaning the Foundation has taken advantage of this fact and made the facility home to an abnormally large amount of administrative functions, which often take care of certain tasks for other Sites and Areas who are unable to complete them. Thus, a majority of the above ground portions of Site-222 are made up of office space and other rooms required for administrative work, such as the facility's primary server rooms.

In 1961, in an attempt to boost morale amidst the general conflict of Site-222, the decision was made that several items important to the history of the Foundation would be displayed in a pseudo-museum area within the facility's lobby. This has since made Site-222 a particularly notable location for internal Foundation tourism, with guided tours being officially implemented several years later.

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As I'm sure you'd expect, the museum did absolutely nothing to get people to stop fighting. At least it makes us some money we can use to solve actual problems.

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//-- Dr. Francis Own//
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Site-222's Safe Wing and AO Lockers are also located in its above ground portions, being home to most of the facility's Anomalous Items and objects which require Special Containment Procedures. Several of Site-222's less important atomic clock ensembles are also maintained above ground. The Site-222 chapter of the Foundation History Department[[footnote]] The History Department is far more decentralized than the average Foundation department, with several facilities having local chapters of it if deemed necessary and/or situationally useful. [[/footnote]] also has its offices in the first two levels of the facility, being one of the largest chapters of the department across the Foundation.

+++++ Subterranean

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[[/div]]
[[/div]]

The subterranean section of Site-222 is divided into two massive sublevels which contain the facility’s more important functions, such as storing the majority of its atomic clock systems and containment for higher level anomalies.

The facility's first sublevel contains the Site-222 Euclid Wing, where any Euclid-class anomaly in the facility's custody is stored. Several chambers prepared for Keter-class anomalies have also been prepared in case they are needed. Apart from the aforementioned Euclid Wing and several miscellaneous storage rooms throughout the floor, it is mostly used for many of the Department of Applied Horology's various atomic clocks.

The second sublevel was initially planned to have a Keter Wing during its construction, but it was eventually decided that such an important facility should not contain Keter-class anomalies unless specific circumstances make it the best option. Instead, the space is now used for the Site-222 Deepwell Archive and paratechnology storage. Thaumiel-class anomalies are also typically stored on this floor. Otherwise, similarly to the first sublevel, the vast majority of this floor is focused on the storage and maintenance of atomic clock ensembles.

[[div class="blockquote"]]

As a bit of fun trivia for you, we’re actually one of the few Sites without a nuclear warhead beneath us. We don’t actually contain anything here that would require us to have one, and our systems are considered beneficial enough that they're seen as worth trying to specifically keep around in the event of any sort of K-Class Scenario.

Okay, maybe it’s not “fun” trivia when you mention the fact that nearly every other Site can get blown up at any moment, but, you know, it’s trivia.

[[>]]
//-- Dr. Francis Own//
[[/>]]

[[/div]]

----

[[=]]
+++ Atomic Clock Systems
[[/=]]

Site-222 pioneered the Foundation’s modern timekeeping systems through use of the Eiegensemble.

[[div class="blockquote"]]

**Eiegensemble** — A specially developed ensemble of interconnected atomic clocks, most often cesium frequency standard variations, which have been anomalously augmented in various manners. The most notable of these augmentations is the installation of a Type-59 Ghost Unit in each, which allows the frequency broadcast by an Eigensemble to be completely undetectable by any machine not calibrated to do so, allowing the signal to remain completely undetected by anything that is not Foundation-developed technology.

[[>]]
//-- SCP Foundation Extended Glossary//
[[/>]]

[[/div]]

Eigensembles are separated into ranks based on their technological complexity/importance[[footnote]] Both factors are typically interchangeable, as more important tasks require more complex ensembles. [[/footnote]]. A basic primer on the three ranks has been placed below for clarity.

* **Alpha** -- The only notable modification to the ensemble is the installation of a Type-59 Ghost Unit, and it is otherwise a completely non-anomalous cesium frequency standard ensemble. A majority of the Foundation's atomic clock ensembles are classified under this rank.
* **Beta** -- These ensembles have received increased modification for a variety of purposes, most often to increase their durability and reliability. Somewhat important paratechnological machines will typically receive a dedicated Beta-rank Eigensemble if considered necessary.
* **Gamma** -- Significant anomalous enhancement has been performed on Eigensembles of this rank, typically incorporating large amounts of paratechnology. Due to the expense of producing them, they are reserved for sensitive, specialized, or otherwise important functions.

It is important to clarify that an ensemble's rank does not typically affect its timekeeping accuracy. Rather, the enhancements given to higher-ranked units often allow them to perform functions that normal atomic clocks would be unable to. For example, the first Gamma-rank ensemble, Eigensemble-366, has remained assigned since inception to keeping track of time within various Free Ports, a task which is incredibly difficult due to the extradimensional nature of the locations.

Though thousands of Eigensembles have been developed, a significant majority of them remain within their place of manufacture: Site-222. The following are several excerpts from internal Site-222 documentation concerning certain ensembles useful for acting as examples of each rank.

[[div class="blockquote"]]

**ID #:** Eigensemble-293

**Rank:** Alpha

**Location:** Site-222 Level 1

**Description:** Eigensemble-293 is the latest in a long line of atomic clock ensembles which were chosen to specifically provide time for Site-222 itself. Despite the importance such a role may sound as if it carries, it is in reality a very mundane task, meaning little is required for Eigensemble-293 beyond the standard capabilities of an Alpha-rank ensemble.

[[/div]]

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Eigensemble-037.
[[/div]]
[[/div]]

**ID #:** Eigensemble-037

**Rank:** Beta

**Location:** Site-222 Sublevel 1

**Description:** Eigensemble-037 has received several standard modifications, such as the implementation of a built-in Faraday Cage and limited artificial intelligence conscript integration, for its main purpose: continually broadcasting time to various Mobile Task Forces who operate internationally and often need several daily timezone changes. It is also useful for calculating where Task Forces may be should contact be lost at any point. Several situations where an MTF was almost lost were only properly managed through the increased amount of data provided to personnel by Eigensemble-037.

[[/div]]

[[div class="blockquote"]]

**ID #:** Eigensemble-406

**Rank:** Gamma

**Location:** Site-222 Sublevel 2

**Description:** Eigensemble-406 is primarily utilized by internal Foundation groups meant to work on human resource management, such as the organization’s [[[the-appliance-war-hub|Human Resources Department in Site-37]]], the O3 Court, and the Ethics Committee. Its modifications include a Faraday Cage, two integrated artificial intelligence conscripts, a Scranton Reality Anchor, and miscellaneous paratechology with accuracy-improvement software designed to work specifically with the Foundation’s human resource record keeping systems.

[[/div]]

[[div class="blockquote"]]

= **##rgb(var(--dark-accent))|This entry is Level 5/Site-222 classified. You have adequate clearance.##**

----

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Eigensemble-001.
[[/div]]
[[/div]]

----

**ID #:** Eigensemble-001

**Rank:** Delta[[footnote]] Exclusive rank given only to Eigensemble-001 in recognition of it being far more advanced than any other atomic clock ensemble developed by the Foundation. The existence of the Delta rank, much like both Site-222's third sublevel and Ensemble-001 itself, is considered Level 5/Site-222 classified. [[/footnote]]

**Location:** Site-222 Sublevel 3

**Description:** Affectionately nicknamed "Big Yellow" by Site-222's higher level personnel, Eigensemble-001 is the largest device of its kind ever constructed, being the first and only atomic clock ensemble constructed on Site-222's third sublevel.

Alongside both an integrated Faraday Cage and a Type-34 Phantom Unit, a Placeholder-Own Ontokinetic Sink (PH-OOS), a specialized variant of the existing [[[scp-6488|Placeholder Ontokinetic Sink]]] (PH-OS), has been installed within Eigensemble-001, which allows it to comprehend and manipulate the entirety of the chronology of the universe, restricted only by the massive power draw said manipulation requires — full operation of Eigensemble-001 would require deactivation of every other Site-222 function, being deemed only a last resort in the event of a catastrophic chronological incident.

While Eigensemble-001 effectively remains in constant low-power mode, it still remains the most important ensemble in Foundation custody in its shackled state. If not required for other purposes, Eigensemble-001 could effectively function as the Foundation’s global atomic time provider on its own. At the time of writing, its current assignments are:

* Providing all chronological information to PANOPTICON and the Foundation’s off-world eigenweapons, such as HECOR and the Atreus Array;
* Tracking time for and constantly streaming important chronological records to all Exclusionary Sites and Deepwell Archives;
* [RESTRICTED TO PERSONNEL OF LEVEL 6/SITE-222 CLEARANCE]

[[/div]]

----

[[=]]
+++ Conclusion
[[/=]]

A running theme for Site-222 is that it manages to be simultaneously one of the Foundation's oldest and most modern facilities, a dichotomy shared by both its aforementioned unique staff culture and its physical history. Other factors, such as significant presence of the History Department and the facility's purpose being to keep track of time, only help to further emphasize this fact.

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Site-222 facility emblem.
[[/div]]
[[/div]]

Between its crumbling 200-year-old exterior, its abnormally large population of older individuals, its large chapter of the History Department, the refusal of its administration to appoint a new Site Director, and the perceived notion of being dedicated to timekeeping being seen as archaic in nature, many within the greater Foundation interpret Site-222 as being "stuck in the past", despite the fact that its subterranean section makes it one of the most advanced Foundation facilities in operation. Site-222's motto, "Life and Liberty", originally derived from the works of John Locke and later popularized by its presence in the United States' Declaration of Independence, further contributes to this view.

Regardless of its reputation, Site-222 remains an invaluable aspect of Foundation infrastructure, even if most see it as nothing but the reason all of their local facility's clocks function simultaneously.

[[/div]]

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[[=]]
[[image https://scp-sandbox-3.wdfiles.com/local--files/frownsite/scp-logo-blue.png style="width: 13%;"]]
[[/=]]

No matter what others may try to tell you, you have to understand that what you know as “time” was invented by people.

First, it started as nothing but keeping track of things such as our rotation around the Sun, but overtime, our understanding of it expanded. We learned all sorts of ways to track it, manipulate it, and even travel through it. Its nature is fundamentally part of our existence as a species now, and has been since we were first able to make a rational thought. There is no way you could tell me that there hasn’t been a single point in your life where you didn’t have to be on time for one thing or another.

If you’re reading this, that means you’ve been onboarded to Site-222, where time is the most important thing in the world. If you think I’m joking, there have been days where everything I had to do was timed to the exact second because my schedule was so packed. Whether or not you’re part of our Department of Applied Horology, you must understand our mindset towards time. As I said before, it’s our creation, and we do what we please with it. It's our divine right, our job, to use it to protect ourselves and everything that we hold dear. Time, when used the right way, can be a useful tool or a devestating weapon.

There's a chance you probably think I'm a bit dramatic, I'm joking, or that I consider the work we do here to be more important than it actually is, but in any of those cases, you'd be dead wrong. Here in the Foundation, some things need to be tracked down to the millisecond, and if we're wrong, if just one little thing doesn't go the way it's supposed to, it could become disastrous. For the good of everyone here -- make sure you're on time.

Now, come on, you should get yourself ready for work. After all, you’re on the clock now.

[[>]]
[[size 95%]]//-- Dr. Francis Own//[[/size]]
[[size 85%]]//Dept. of Applied Horology//[[/size]]
[[/>]]

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