To Secure, Contain, and Protect
The SCP Foundation is an international organization that is not officially recognized by any one sovereign state. It is considered an organization only in the most basic understanding of the word. The divisions and provisions of the Foundation are indeed organized, orchestrated, and executed by several powerful bodies, but few if any of the parts are aware of the whole. The Foundation is just as much an institution as it is an organization, comprised of many different roles and sectors, dedicated to the same goal. Members of the Foundation have undergone thorough psychological testing and placement procedures for maximized efficiency. Training for assignment is intensive and has been known to result in placement forfeit. Due to the sensitive nature of SCP containment, every member is assigned a level of security clearance. Breach of this assigned clearance is grounds for immediate termination.
In short, the objective of the SCP Foundation is to secure, contain, and protect. The directive 'to secure' refers not only to the acquisition of various scp-objects, but also to the security of information. The 'containment' directive is one the Foundation is most actively involved with, as many of the scp-objects require tedious and extravagant lengths to safely contain. Protection, much like security, is a directive associated with all forms of assignment, security clearance, and behaviours in the work place. Extreme lengths have been covered in order to ensure the protection of society and of the staff involved.
An scp-object is an anomaly. These anomalies take many shapes and many forms. The Foundation has classified these anomalies into three categories: Safe, Euclid, and Keter. Safe SCPs are subjects or objects that may be effectively and reliably contained with reasonable expectations that these containment procedures are more than 80% successful and not subject to revisions. A designation of safe refers to the ability to safely handle the subject or object with appropriate containment procedures, not that the object or subject itself is safe or does not require containment.
Euclid SCPs are subjects or objects whose behaviours or effects cannot be unerringly predicted. This may be due to the sentient nature of the being, or our lack of scientific understanding of an object's functioning. A breach in Euclid containment can be devastating, and more diligence is required to keep them contained than Safe-class objects.
Keter-class SCPs are subjects that display vigorous, active hostility to human life, civilization and/or space time and are capable of causing significant destruction in the event of a containment breach. They require special containment procedures and are to be destroyed if and where possible. Containment protocols are typically extensive, involved, and require precision. Neutralization of Keter-class objects is always a Foundation priority.
Authors' Note:
This is a stand alone piece for the SCP-verse that Zafona and Touta Matsuda will be working on. Each story that will have anything to do with SCP will be part of the same universe. Each story will have something to do with an individual SCP-object. If you'd like to know where we're getting this from, google the SCP Foundation and you'll find a site that has lists of different creatures. If you find one that we haven't done and you'd like to see it at all, send us a PM or just review here and we'll get to it ASAP.