좋은 아침입니다, 여러분. 커피랑 베이글 좀 드시죠.
절 이미 알고 계시지 않는 분들을 위해 말하는데, 전 네일 혼비 대령으로, 재단의 상위 정보 감독 담당자입니다. 이제 혼돈의 반란 오리엔테이션을 해드릴 제 차례가 왔습니다. 앞에 있는 파일을 보시면 비밀 유지 협약서가 있을겁니다. 이번 브리핑은 "특수 정보"로 정의됩니다, 고로 남으실거라면, 서명하셔야합니다. 그게 아니라면 나가는 길에 베이글 하나 집어가시죠.
네. 실험 가운과 안경이요.
당신들이 재단에 들어왔을때와 승진할 때마다 비밀 유지 협약서에 서명했다는 것은 알고 있습니다. 당신이 뭐라고요, 엘 3? 재단의 정보 쪽으로는 신입이겠군요. 5단계의 보안 승인 시스템을 통과하는데 엘 0을 사용하는데 익숙해져있다는 것은 알고 있습니다. 그 대머리들이(별 뜻은 없습니다. 우리 아버지도 대머리셨고요, 전 당신들 과학자 타입의 사람들에게 그닥 반감을 가지고 있지는 않습니다) 그걸 떠올려냈죠. 에쓰 씨 피를 다루고 계신다면 잘 먹힐겁니다. 재단 정보부는 약간 다르게 돌아가죠. 아직도 그걸 쓰긴 합니다, 미국이 은밀/비밀/기밀을 다루는 방식처럼 말입니다. 하지만 그게 엘 5 들이 그들의 더러운 앞발을 대고 싶어하는 모든 것을 읽을 수 있다는 소리는 아닙니다. 우리는 "알아야 할 필요"에 따라 작용합니다. 당신이 R&D에 있는 동안 격리와 습득에 종사하는 놈들은 당신이 정보를 넓게 퍼트려주지 않으면 죽습니다. 우리 쪽에서 사람들은 정보가 잘못된 손에 떨어졌을때 죽습니다.
그러니까 아까 말했듯이 앞에 있는 비밀 유지 협약서에 서명하시던지, 아님 나가세요.
모두 서명하셨나요? 좋아요. 부야노바 양이 당신들의 비밀 유지 협약서와 SLATE THUNDER 봉투를 교환해드릴겁니다.
세번째 줄의 스웨터 조끼 분, 질문하시죠.
"SLATE THUNDER". 이 특수 정보의 암호명입니다. 봉투 그 자체로 말하자면 제가 설명할 정보를 담고 있으니 마음대로 따라와주시기 바랍니다. 사실 전 당신들이 읽거나 듣던지 별 신경 안씁니다. 물어보실게 혹시라도 있으시다면 언제든지 물어보세요. 이 정보는 혼돈의 반란에 대한 재단의 중요 전문가신 그레그 루이스(Greg Lewis) 교수님께서 정리하셨습니다. 그분은 절 포함한 우리 대부분이 태어나기도 전부터 혼돈의 반란에 대한 연구를 하고 계셨죠.
자, 혼돈의 반란입니다. 재단의 가장 오래된 숙적 중 하나죠. 우리가 그들에 대해 아는게 뭡니까?
네, 그들은 이기적이고 무자비하죠. 근데 그건 생각해보신다면 재단이나 대부분의 정부를 설명해주기도 합니다. 그리고 그들은 정치적입니다, 거기에는 의심할 여지가 없습니다만 제가 재단도 아니라고 할 수 있는지는 모르겠네요. 제 말은, 이전에 - 사실 당신들은 그것에 대해 알 수 있을 정도로 모두 승인된건 아니에요. 그냥 재단은 해야 될 때 정치적 입장을 이용한다는 것만 말해둡시다.
아뇨, 그들은 높으신 분들이 의구심이 드는 인원을 부르는 명칭 따위가 아닙니다. 재단은 가끔 사람들을 "숙청"하긴 하며 당신이 그렇게 매장된 사람이 정말로 되고 싶지 않은 마당에 그건 (보통) 혼돈의 반란을 포함하지 않습니다.
"오직 이익만을 추구하는 재단이랑 같다고요"? 제가 그런 식으로 말했는지는 모르겠지만 들어맞는듯 하긴 하네요 - 최소한 어떤 면에서는요.
맞습니다, 그들의 수행원중 많은 이들이 그저 용병일 뿐이지요. 사실 이게 우리 일을 더 어렵게 합니다. 어떤 PMC, 용병, 깡패, 게릴라 그리고 범죄자들이 그들을 위해 일하는지와 어떤 놈들이 아닌지 파악하고 있는 건 결코 쉬운 일이 아닙니다. CI - 혼돈의 반란(Chaos Insurgency)가 아니라 방첩 부대(counterintelligence)입니다 - 놈들은 개와 늑대를 분리하는 것만 전담하는 분석 부대 한 대대를 통째로 갖고 있다고요.
뒤의 양복 분 - 리갈 패드 당장 부야노바 양께 넘기세요! 당신들 중 누구도 메모를 하거나 밖으로 봉투를 갖고 나가는 것이 허용되지 않습니다. 죄송합니다, 당신들이 그것보다는 더 잘 알거라고 생각했어요. 어쨌든 봉투에는 번호가 붙어있고 끝에서부터 걷을 겁니다.
어쨌든, 두번째 줄의 빨간 셔츠 분? 아뇨, 그들은 그 자체로는 테러리스트가 아니라 "반란자"에 가깝습니다. 당신이 두 개념을 혼동하는 것에 대해 용서를 받을 순 있습니다 - 요샌 다들 그러거든요. 테러리스트는 테러를 끝과 그것 자신의 끝으로 씁니다. 건물에 비행기를 갖다 박으면 많은 사람이 죽고 더 많은 사람이 음, 공포에 떨겠죠. 동기는 다를 수 있지만 하루가 끝나면 그 행동 자체도 끝이죠. 반면에 반란자는 반응을 이끌어 내기 위해서 테러를 포함한 많은 도구와 전술을 씁니다. 건물에 비행기를 갖다 박으면 여러 사람이 죽습니다만 그 다음에는 정부가 당신을 밟아버리기 위해서 엄중한 감시를 하는데 그건 항상 - 항상! - 무고한 사람들이 권력의 망에 걸려드는 것으로 끝나고 그건 또 대중을 화나게 하며 그건 또 그 비행기 갖다 박은거랑 비교도 할 수 없을 정도로 많은 피해를 정부와 사회에 입힙니다. 911은 테러 행위였습니다만 전술은 확실히 테러보다는 반란의 한 종류였어요. 어쨌든 주제에서 벗어났군요.
당신 중 대부분은 혼돈의 반란이 결성되었을때 정말 뭐가 일어났는지도 모를겁니다. 아뇨, 전 진지합니다. 봉투 속에서 첫번째 속지를 보신다면 공식 방침을 보실 수 있을겁니다. 요원들로 이루어진 소규모 무리가 1924년도에 여러 유용한 SCP를 들고 무단 결근했습니다. 그게 공식 방침이며, 그게 현재까지 당신들이 내리 들어온 것이며 그게 SLATE THUNDER를 볼 승인을 받지 않은 사람들에게 당신들이 계속해서 말해줄 겁니다. 점 찍고, 문장 끝입니다, 아니면 아주 오랜 시간 동안 당신을 어두운 구덩이 속으로 던져놓을 겁니다 - 당신이 운이 좋다면 비어있는 구덩일테고. 아니라면…
어쨌든 공식 방침은 주요 권력이 40년대에 서로를 강경하게 대한거나 허리케인 앤드류가 가벼운 보슬비였다는 거랑 같은 내용을 담고 있습니다. 누군가 보안 프로토콜 대성공을 어기지 않은 이상 (그랬다면 제가 개인적으로 그들을 아주 오랜 시간동안 어두운 구덩이에 던져넣을 수 있도록 알려주세요), 전에 삼합회에 대해 들어보신 적이 없을겁니다.
멍청한 표정이군요. 좋아요.
삼합회는 혼돈의 반란이 반란이기 전에 되었던 것입니다. 있죠, 1924년에서 1926년 사이에 재단에서는 내전이 있었습니다.
네, 아가씨, 제대로 들으셨습니다, 재단 내전이라고요.
물론 은폐 공작이 있었죠. 이 조직은 위험한 비밀이 사람들에게 정신적 외상을 주는걸 막는 것으로 사람들을 보호합니다. 우리가 그걸 내부에서 하지 않았다고 생각했다는 소리는 하지 마세요.
재단 내전에서는 충신들이 한쪽에 삼합회가 반대편에 있었죠. 결국 삼합회가 졌고 몇 안되는 생존자들이 혼돈의 반란이 될 것을 만들었습니다. 참고로 우리가 "혼돈의 반란"이라는 개념을 생각해냈어요. 그들이 가져간겁니다. 그놈들은 물건 가져가는데는 선수에요.
어쨌든 봉투에 있는 다음 페이지로 넘겨주신다면…
기밀 내용
특수 정보: SLATE THUNDER
이 문서는 통상의 재단 일반 보안 협약 02, 183 구획의 의미 내에서 재단의 보안에 영향을 주는 정보를 담고 있습니다. 협약은 승인 받지 못한 사람에게 어떤 방식으로든 그 내용의 전달이나 폭로를 금하며, 안전이나 재단의 관심에 해가 되거나 승인받지 못한 존재의 이익을 위하거나 재단에 피해가 가는 그 어떤 목적으로도 사용을 금한다. 5등급 승인을 보유한 인원이나/혹은 특히 지정된 조종 채널에서 정보를 받기 위해 주입되거나 글로 승인받은 인원만이 볼 수 있습니다. 보안은 SLATE THUNDER 조종법에 존재하는 규정에 맞게 유지되어야 한다.
승인 받지 않은 조회, 소유, 복사 그리고/혹은 해당 문서의 보금은 재단 일반 보안 협약 18, 2381 구획에 서술된 형법에 따라 처벌된다.
혼돈의 반란과 관련해 통상적으로 유통되는 공식 개요
혼돈의 반란과 관련된 상세 정보의 대부분이 특수 정보로 분류되기 때문에 O5 위원회 사무실은 첨부된 문서인 파일 #008956 (혼돈의 반란과 관련해 통상적으로 유통되는 공식 개요)를 공표했습니다. 이 기록은 접속에 오직 1등급 보안 승인만을 요구하는 "일반 상식"으로 분류됩니다. SLATE THUNDER 부분을 배우는 모든 인원은 파일 #008956에 담기지 않은, 그러니까 "SLATE THUNDER"라는 분류와/혹은 SLATE THUNDER 특수 정보내에서 입증하고, 보충하며 파일 #008956에 들어 있는 내용과 반대되는 정보나 세부사항을 포함한(그러나 한정되지는 않는) 정보를 절대 SLATE THUNDER 부분을 배우지 않는 사람들과 나누지 않을것이 지시됩니다.
파일 #008956
제목: 혼돈의 반란과 관련해 통상적으로 유통되는 공식 개요
보안 승인 등급: 일혼돈의 반란은 1924년대에 매우 유용한 여러 SCP를 들고 무단 결근한 불한당들이 설립한 재단의 분파이다. 그때부터 반란은 획득한 SCP들을 자기 이익을 위해 그리고 국제적 세력 기반을 통합하기 위해 사용하며 국제 사회에서 중요한 조직이 되었다. 반란은 SCP만 다루는 것이 아니라 무기 이동과 정보 수집도 한다.
그들은 제 3 세계 나라들의 독재 정권을 사용하며 그 인구를 재단이 D등급 인원을 사용하는 것처럼 사용한다. 이 때문에 그들은 그 급진적 실험을 계속하고, 힘을 쉽게 모집하며, 반란 분파와 이익이 남는 사업을 채결하기 위해 이러한 나라들이 겪고 있는 극심한 가난과 전쟁을 유지하도록 돕는다.
혼돈의 반란이 소유하고 있는 SCP의 대부분은 알려지지 않았으나 알려진 것 중 가장 주목할 만한 것은 닿는 모든 물질의 물리적 화학적 특성을 뒤트는 "헤르메스의 지팡이"와 내리친 곳에 따라 여러 파괴적 영향을 일으키는 "엔트로피의 종"이 있다. 이 두 SCP 모두 적지 않은 희생을 치르고 재단이 얻었으나, 혼돈의 반란의 창시자들이 훔쳐갔다. 또한 반란은 SCP-355 와 SCP-884에 알려진 연관이 있다.
반란이 활동하는 주 기지는 그 지도자와 같이 불명이다. 이 조직은 재단에 적대적이며 여러번 SCP를 놓고 격돌한적이 있다. 직원들은 가능한 습격과 테러 시도 그리고 반란의 스파이에 주의할 것과 동료 직원의 이상 행동에 대해 사령부에 알릴 것을 알고 있어야 한다
혼돈의 반란 역사 (기밀)
뒤따르는 것은 1924년에서 1933년 사이에 조직의 구성에 중점을 둔 혼돈의 반란의 간략한 역사이다. (혼돈의 반란의 1993년 전 역사의 세밀한 내용은 다른 특수 정보에 분류되어있다.) 이 정보가 다른 특수 정보 "SLATE THUNDER" (이 더 큰 파일의 내용인)에 포함되고 재단의 모든 인원이 접근할 수 있는 "통상 정보"로 분류되지 않는 것으로 보아 재단 데이터베이스 내의 다른 문서와 기록은 파일 #008956 (혼돈의 반란과 관련해 통상적으로 유통되는 공식 개요)에 맞게 바뀌었으므로 이 문서와 모순될 수 있다. 바뀌지 않은 문서와 기록을 볼 수 있도록 승인된 인원은 기록과 정보 보안 관리부를 서면으로 연락해야 한다.
1919-1924: 서문
1차 세계 대전의 끝과 동시에 재단은 그 등급이 유럽의 전장에서 온 새 신병들의 파도로 인해 올라가는 것과 군사 과학자들이 전시 경제를 축소하는 일에서 제외되는 것, 그리고 그들의 나라를 지키기 위해 떠난 인원을 돌려보내는 것으로 인해 올라가는 것을 보았다. 전장의 공포로부터 막 돌아온 재단의 여러 인원들은 SCP 물체가 인류의 이익을 위해 사용될 수 있고 사용되어져야 한다고 믿었다. 자세한 논쟁은 다양했다. 어떤 사람들은 전후 정권을 굳히는데 보조하기 위해 SCP 물체의 무기화를 원했다. 어떤 사람들은 공장이나 마샬, 카터 앤 다크 사 (둘다 전쟁 중에 상당한 이익을 챙겼다고 생각된다)와 비슷한 양상으로 경제적 성장을 발전시키기 위해 SCP 물체를 복제하여 팔고 싶어했다. 그러나 다른 사람들은 모든 인류에게 득이 될 수 있도록 비동맹 과학자들에게 재단 수집품을 열어주고 싶어했다. 놀잡지 않게도 그러한 논쟁이 재단의 시작 당시부터 이어졌고, 국제 사회가 전쟁으로 인해 너무나도 크게 외상을 입은 상태였으며, 재단의 직원이 전투나 전시 연구 프로젝트에 특화된 베테랑들도 채워졌기 때문에 재단 자체는 전에 없을 만큼 이러한 논쟁에 구조적으로 취약한 상태였다.
다양한 이상으로 나뉘어진 재단 내의 반대자들은 현재 상황에 매우 적은 위협밖에 되지 못했다. 이것은 1924년 5월에 새 성명서(첨부된 문서 참조)라는 제목이 붙은 통일된 성명서의 익명 출판과 폭넓은 배포로 인해 바뀌게 되었다. 재단의 몇몇 상위 인원들이 공동으로 쓴 것으로 생각된 이 문서는 조직의 관리직을 "절망과 폐허밖에 없는 곳으로 비생산적인 길"을 계속해서 갔다고 하며 폭파시켰고, 개혁과 재조직을 요청했다. O5-7이 지시한 Following a clampdown ordered by O5-7 and the banning of possession of the manifesto, discontent became widespread. Riots occurred at several of the larger secure facilities in late May and early June, forcing the issue onto the agenda for the O5 Council.
June 1924: The Great Schism
With many members of the Foundation up in arms over both the New Manifesto and the subsequent clampdown it caused, the O5 Council was itself divided on how to handle the issue. Most Overseers wanted the issue resolved so the day-to-day business of securing, containing, and protecting objects could continue (and resume where halted). Several, notably O5-7, O5-10, and O5-13, wanted to enforce tight punitive measures on any Foundation personnel involved in the disruption of the Foundation's mission. These hardliners advocated widespread assignment to Keter duty and demotion to D-class of those behaving in "conduct unbecoming of members of the Foundation". Others, notably O5-9 (General Nigel Weston) and O5-11 (Count Vladimir Borisovich Frederiks), strongly supported the dissenters, agreeing with some parts of the inflammatory document.
10 June: Vote of No Confidence in the O5 Council
At the O5 Council meeting on 10 June 1924, Overseer Nine forced the issue by calling for a vote of no confidence in the O5 Council.
The O5 Council is unelected, typically choosing its own members. Members serve for life or until retirement, but may be impeached by a two-thirds majority of the Ethics Committee. All thirteen Overseers have one equal vote, with O5-1 acting as the first-among-equals during most meetings. According to the Council's bylaws, any Overseer can decide to call a vote of no confidence at a Council meeting where at least nine members of the Council are present. In such an event, all Level 5 personnel (excluding Overseers, who are required to abstain), Site and Department Directors, Unit Commanders, and members of the Ethics Committee are contacted and given twenty-four hours to vote on a secret ballot. If the vote passes by two-thirds majority, the old O5 Council is dissolved and a new Council is formed, led by the Overseer who initiated the vote. If the vote fails to pass, the initiating Overseer automatically retires.
The vote of no confidence procedure had never before been used (and has never been used since), so O5-9's decision sent immediate shock-waves through the Foundation. The Office of the O5 Council's Clerk dutifully made the notifications and began the voting tally.
11 June: Coup Attempt
By early the following morning, with eighty-eight percent of the possible votes collected, it was clear that the vote of no confidence would fail. While fifty-three percent of the votes favored the measure's passage, it was clear that even if all remaining votes supported the Council's dissolution, the tally would still fall short of the necessary two-thirds majority.
Before the 11 June Council meeting could begin, O5-9 (formerly a General in the British Army) and O5-11 ordered the Foundation Task Force in charge of guarding Foundation Command Headquarters1 to take the other members of the O5 Council into custody. While the Task Force commander, Agent Jacques Clemenceau, himself a former Colonel in the French Army, complied, only O5-3 and O5-12 were present. Overseers One, Two, Four, Five, Six, Eight, Ten, and Thirteen had all secretly left during the preceding night, seeking refuge at Foundation facilities in Britain, Italy, Canada, and the United States. Overseer Seven had already been in Washington, D.C. when the vote had been called. The bodyguards of O5-3 and O5-12 resisted their charges' arrests, resulting in a brief gun battle in which they, both O5-3 and O5-12, and the Task Force commander were all killed. The Task Force's second-in-command, Agent Robert Brown, who opposed the plotters, then attempted unsuccessfully to arrest Overseers Nine and Eleven for treason. The two treasonous Overseers fled.
12-13 June: Mass Defections & Opening Volleys
General Weston (now stripped of his O5-9 title) and Count Frederiks (removed from his position as O5-11 in absentia by the O5 Council) sought refuge at Site-37 in the Austrian Alps. Site-37's Director, Dr. Wolfgang Fritz, a former researcher for the German Empire, was sympathetic to Weston's and Frederiks' cause. The three men formed the "Triad", a governing body whose first official decision was to declare the O5 Council "an illegitimate body", and to claim authority over the Foundation. The Triad promised that it would organize the creation of a "Central Congress" for the Foundation, democratically elected by Foundation staff, after forces loyal to the O5 Council could be removed from positions of authority. Foundation policy should be reflective of its members, they argued, and the forcible crushing of dissent by the old regime was the proverbial straw.
Predictably, the O5 Council was not amused. Decrying the Triad and labeling its supporters "traitors to the Foundation", MTFs loyal to the Council were secretly mobilized and dispatched to Foundation Command Headquarters and Site-37.
Foundation Command Headquarters, which had been placed under lockdown by Agent Brown following the escape of Weston and Frederiks, welcomed the Loyalist MTF. Unfortunately, operating on orders from hardline O5-7, the MTF placed all staff at Foundation Command Headquarters under arrest, even Agent Brown. Though Seven later defended her orders as necessary (due to unknown loyalties of those present), the treatment of the staff from Headquarters was draconian. The facility was decommissioned, with the staff detained elsewhere and the stored SCP objects transferred to other facilities.
Site-37, which received word of Foundation Command Headquarters' fate, resisted the Loyalist MTF with force. Out-manned and out-gunned, the MTF retreated after taking heavy casualties. The Triad retaliated by revealing the Council's actions to the Foundation at large, resulting in widespread unrest. In a combination of outrage and support for the Triad's cause, many Foundation facilities and units defected to the Triad's side. Both the Council and the Triad blamed the other side for using an SCP object to cause the "Wildkansas" tornado, which completely destroyed Site-83 in the village of Páty, Hungary. The tornado, estimated to be an F4, landed at Bia, and, after 3 hours, ended near Vác. One of the strongest tornadoes ever in Europe, it left a 500-1500m wide and 70km long path of destruction, leaving many homeless, killing nine civilians and all two dozen Site-83 staff, and wounding over fifty. Widely agreed to be the first major attack in the Foundation Civil War, the Wildkansas tornado would be revealed decades later to have actually been caused by a member of MC&D with no affiliation to either the Foundation, the Triad, or any other group that would later become involved in the Chaos Insurgency.
1924-1926: Foundation Civil War
Overview
The Foundation Civil War lasted from 12 June 1924 until 10 October 1926. The conflict was fought between the Loyalists (members of the Foundation loyal to the existing O5 Council) and the Triads (forces loyal to the rebellious Triad; this group later would become the Chaos Insurgency). Classified post-conflict analyses by the Foundation estimate the following statistics:| Foundation Loyalists | Triad/Insurgency | |
|---|---|---|
| % of Pre-conflict Foundation Forces (Personnel), High and Low | 61% - 43% | 57% - 39% |
| % of Available Forces (on respective sides) Engaged in Conflict | 40% | Unknown, Assumed >90% |
| % of Pre-conflict Foundation Resources (Monetary) | 56% | 44% |
| % of Pre-conflict SCPs Retained Post-Conflict | 70% Safe, 89% Euclid, 95% Keter | Unknown (Assumed 30% Safe, 11% Euclid, 5% Keter) |
| % of Pre-conflict SCPs designated "Useful", "Suitable for Reverse-Engineering", "Manufacturable", or "Suitable for Weaponization" Retained Post-Conflict | 61.7% | Unknown (Assumed 38.3%) |
| Casualties (Percentages) | 52.3% KIA, WIA, or MIA | 87.9% KIA or WIA; 11.3% Detained or executed after conflict; 0.8% Unaccounted for post-conflict. |
In the end, the Foundation Civil War was the bloodiest and most destructive conflict (that the Foundation was directly involved in) in the organization's history. However, due to the sensitive nature of the conflict, the O5 Council subsequently employed all available resources to expunge the details of the conflict from any records requiring a security clearance lower than Level 5. Due to the Foundation's compartmentalized nature, a rigorous counterintelligence campaign and accompanying purges, and the fact that most of the forces on the Foundation's side of the conflict had been limited to the Foundation's security, military, paramilitary, and intelligence forces, the cover-up was remarkably successful. It is a testament to the success of the cover up that most Foundation personnel recruited after 1938, a mere twelve years after the cessation of the Foundation Civil War, remained completely unaware of the conflict. While it is general knowledge within the organization that the Chaos Insurgency can trace its roots to a "small rogue cell of Foundation agents" that split off in 1924 (the term "Triad" being essentially completely expunged from the record), to this day few individuals know the truth of the magnitude of the ordeal.
1924 - July 1925: Triad Ascendant
After the initial outbreak of hostilities in June 1924, it was not long before the ranks of the Triad forces had gone from Site-37 alone to several dozen secure facilities and mobile task forces, spread across all eight continents. The Triad's structure mirrored the antebellum Foundation, with a few key differences:
- The Triad assumed the roles of the O5 Council and Foundation High Command (the antebellum mechanism within the Foundation for command and control of all armed task forces and security personnel). Technically, the Triad refused to recognize the authority of the existing O5 Council and Foundation High Command, instead declaring a state of emergency in which the three members of the Triad (and their appointed subordinates) would assume the duties of these institutions.
- Count Frederiks assumed responsibility for political and administrative matters on the Triad. In effect, Frederiks was the de facto leader of the organization, though he was technically equal in position to Weston and Fritz.
- General Weston assumed responsibility for military and security matters on the Triad. For all practical intents and purposes, Weston was the supreme military commander for the Triad throughout the Civil War.
- Doctor Fritz assumed responsibility for all scientific and research matters on the Triad. Despite the conflict, both the Loyalists and the Triad continued in their respective operations to secure, contain, and protect anomalous objects. Unlike the Loyalists, the Triad had no qualms about using the SCP objects at its disposal to further its cause, and Fritz oversaw all related efforts.
- The Triad had no Ethics Committee; Count Frederiks issued a statement that such a committee would be re-instituted once the state of emergency was resolved.
- Any Foundation member who publicly swore an oath of allegiance to the Triad would be enfranchised for an upcoming vote on the members of the Central Congress.
In the chaos of June and July of 1924, the O5 Council and Foundation Loyalists struggled to regroup and organize. Though the Foundation had contingency plans for almost every conceivable external threat, the Department for Contingencies had no effective plan for handling the situation then faced by the organization. Not only that, but at the time the Triad had copies of the same plans as the Loyalists, which enabled them to predict and counter almost every move made by the O5 Council. The decommissioning of Foundation Command Headquarters outside Paris, initially meant as a preventative measure against the Triad, proved disastrous for the Loyalists when it was discovered that many of the documents from that facility (everything from personnel manifests to financial information to military orders-of-battle to SCP object files) inexplicably were lost. Though Foundation intelligence was never able to definitively prove the Triad was responsible for the disappearance of these documents, it was at the time taken as an article of faith that Triad agents had stolen them.
By August, the Council had managed to reestablish a headquarters in the United States, at what would eventually become known as Overwatch HQ. For security reasons, no SCP objects were permitted at the new facility. The Council, having replaced the two dead and two traitorous Overseers, declared a state of emergency and took a number of drastic steps to counter the Triad.
- The Foundation Department of Internal Affairs and Professional Responsibility was dissolved and the Office of the High Inquisitor (OHI) was created in its stead. Overseers Six, Seven, and Thirteen (all hardliners whose loyalty to the Council was unquestionable for their opposition to the dissidents prior to the coup attempt) assumed responsibility for supervising the OHI. The OHI was granted near unlimited power to conduct the business traditionally handled not only by the now-defunct DIAPR but also the Foundation's Department of Counterintelligence and the Security branch of Foundation High Command. OHI would remain a key structure in the Foundation's bureaucracy until 1930.
- The Foundation High Command, whose ranks were so filled with Triad sympathizers that it had essentially ceased to function by August 1924, was dissolved. The O5 Council took direct control over the Loyalist armed forces, establishing O5 Command as a replacement command and control mechanism. Foundation Security was transferred to the authority of the OHI.
- Ten new Armed Mobile Task Forces at regiment strength (~3,200-4,500 troops each), designated Genga-1 through -10. "Genga", a letter from the Coptic alphabet, was chosen to prevent confusion with previously existing units, as both the Loyalists and Triad employed the Greek alphabet for MTF designations. The "Genga Division", as it was called, was tasked with handling all planned2 armed engagements against Triad forces. Unlike regular MTFs, all units and subunits in Genga Division down to the company level had the additional post of "Political Officer"/"Politoffizier"/"Zampolit"/"Officier Politique". This position was filled by an officer equivalent in rank to the unit's commanding officer, chosen specifically by the OHI to ensure the loyalty of the unit to the O5 Council. (Genga Division would be demobilized in 1927, at which point the position of Political Officer was abolished from Foundation forces.)
- All Foundation personnel were confined to their assigned facilities. Off-site travel was limited to authorized missions only.
- All outgoing telegraph and written correspondence was subject to censorship. All incoming telegraph and written correspondence, and all telephone conversation (outgoing or incoming) were monitored. All personal correspondence was suspended.
- The Foundation Monitor, a semi-independent weekly internal newspaper and quarterly internal scholarly journal, was shut down. It would later be re-established in 1948.
The Council's countermeasures met with varying degrees of success. By mid-August, the Council was able to freeze all financial assets available as of the previous May to forces who had declared loyalty to the Triad; most of those assets had been liquidated by defectors to the Triad. Consequently, the effect on the actual cash-flow for the Triad was minimal. More directly, though the OHI's track record of successfully identifying and purging members of the Foundation suspected of sympathizing with the Triad was unimpeachable, the harsh techniques the Inquisitors employed drove countless individuals into the Triad's open arms.
The Genga Division, despite numerical superiority over Triad forces in nearly every engagement, suffered heavy losses throughout the fall of 1924 and winter of 1924/25. After-action reports filed by Genga commanders suggest the responsibility for the defeats lay in part with the Triad's use of weaponized SCPs (while the Genga Division was specifically banned by O5 Command from reciprocating), in part by chronic strategic and tactical intelligence leaks to the Triad from within Genga Division, and in part with the consistent interference by unit Political Officers. Morale among the Loyalists plummeted, resulting in mass defections and open mutiny against the O5 Council.
For its part, bolstered by an influx of defectors, the Triad organized an election of the Central Congress in February 1925. The Central Congress was convened at Sector-12, a Triad-controlled facility outside Perth, Scotland. While the Central Congress' seventy-five members were representative of the Triad forces, political maneuvering by General Weston and Doctor Fritz ensured that they, the three members of the Triad itself, remained in near total control. Weston and Fritz moved to quietly isolate Count Frederiks from the public eye after the eighty-eight year-old Count's declining health led to increased senility. Foundation intelligence now suggests the Count suffered from Alzheimer's, worsened by a series of strokes in late 1924 and early 1925. Careful political theater precluded Frederiks' senility from affecting the Foundation's (Loyalist or Triad) perception of his ability.
July 1925: High Water Mark
Defeat after defeat for Foundation forces, coupled with the incompetence of Political Officers and the excesses of Inquisitors, meant that by June of 1925, the Triad outnumbered the Loyalists three-to-two. The O5 Command realized a new strategy was desperately needed.
The Genga Division commander was replaced in early July 1925. The new commander, the energetic young Brigadier General William Chatterton, proposed a bold strategy in secret to O5-1, who approved it unilaterally. The other Overseers and O5 Command Staff were not informed out of operational security concerns. Chatterton disseminated a set of operational orders to Genga Division and a number of other Loyalist forces through communication channels known to be compromised. These orders indicated the forces would be organizing for a counteroffensive against Triad-controlled facilities in Africa. At the same time, a Foundation plane carrying a courier with falsified Level 5 plans suffered staged mechanical errors and crashed in Sector-12, over twenty kilometers from the Sector's main base of operations. Triad forces dutifully recovered the remains of the pilot and courier, as well as the plans. These plans alluded to the development of a weaponized Keter class SCP at Site-99, a tiny outpost located on Novaya Zemlya, an island in the Arctic Ocean to the north of the Soviet Union. This weaponized SCP would "turn the tide of the war upon deployment" - with the Foundation apparently backtracking on its longstanding policy against weaponizing SCPs, the Triad could not afford to let such a device become operational. Site-99 was supposedly lightly guarded only by an elite group of fewer than a hundred operatives from Genga-3, chosen for their skills and political reliability. By keeping the facility small, O5-1 was supposed to be hoping to prevent leaks. The courier was supposedly flying a progress report from Site-99 to Overwatch HQ. Believing the deception, the Triad massed a third of its available troops at the port of Arkhangelsk., to travel by ship to the target. General Weston assigned Commodore Yuri Zolnerovich, a gifted Soviet naval officer, to oversee the operation.
Unbeknownst to the Triad, the entirety of Genga-2, -3, -4, and -5 were located strategically on the Kanin Peninsula, Kolguev Island, and Novaya Zemlya. The Keter SCP at Site-99, and indeed, Site-99 itself, were fabricated myths. A strike team of operatives from MTF Xi-13 were located in Arkhangelsk, charged with placing limpet mines on the Triad ships.
Count Frederiks, then in Helsinki, received word of the operation through a Loyalist mole in his entourage. Outraged at the appointment of Zolnerovich, who had been one of the individuals implicated in the death of the Russian Czar, Frederiks traveled to Arkhangelsk and personally took charge of the operation. Count Frederiks had technically held a high rank in the Imperial Russian military, a consequence of his post as the Imperial Household Minister to the Czar, but he had never been an effective military commander. When Zolnerovich objected, citing Weston's position as supreme commander of Triad forces, the elderly and emotional Frederiks shot him, snarling that it was revenge for Czar Nikolas. This was precisely the outcome General Chatterton had hoped for.
At 2200 hours local time on 24 July 1925, the Triad flotilla departed Arkhangelsk. Frederiks had rescinded Zolnerovich's order to check for limpet mines, stating it as unnecessary since the Foundation had no idea they were coming. The flotilla consisted of fifteen large troop transports and a dozen escort cruisers. At 0500 the following morning, they were steaming to the north of Kolguev Island when the limpet mines detonated. Ten of the escorts were sunk immediately, as were six of the troop transports. The remaining vessels all suffered heavy damage, with one of the surviving escorts and seven of the surviving nine transports having their engines completely disabled. Count Frederiks' flagship was by sheer luck one of the transport vessels with functioning engines. As Genga Division ships and fighter-bombers swept in, Frederiks abandoned the disabled vessels and ordered the three remaining ships with functioning engines to immediately land on Kolguev Island. Only Frederiks' transport survived long enough to make it to shore, where Genga-4 machine gunners massacred the Triad troops and sailors attempting to land. In a little more than two hours, a third of the available military forces loyal to the Triad had been completely obliterated. This signified the high-water mark for the Triad, and was a blow from which it would never recover.
Count Frederiks was not killed at the Battle of Kolguev Island (referred to by Triad forces as the "Far North Massacre"), but rather captured by Foundation forces. He was taken to a Foundation detention facility in Murmansk, where he bartered his knowledge of the Triad in exchange for being placed under house arrest in Helsinki. When General Weston and Doctor Fritz learned of Frederiks' disastrous defeat and subsequent treachery, they disavowed him, symbolically stripping him of his position on the Triad. His post was never refilled, with Weston and Fritz splitting responsibility for his former duties. Less than a week after his capture, Count Frederiks suffered a serious stroke, confining him to bed and rendering him all but completely senile. He would finally die of old age in 1927, alone and forgotten.
August 1925 - March 1926: Triad in Retreat
General Chatterton was quick to press the Loyalists' advantage in the aftermath of the Battle of Kolguev Island. He opened a series of offensives against Triad forces in Indochina and South America in August and September (respectively). Reeling from the loss of the best-trained and -equipped third of its military forces, with many of its reserves (seemingly pointlessly) defending facilities in the Belgian Congo and Ethiopian Empire, the Triad suffered devastating defeats in both theaters. Weston made the fateful decision in late September to transfer reserves from the Triad's Africa holdings. When O5 Command Intelligence discovered the Triad's redeployment of troops in October, Chatterton began preparations for a winter offensive in Africa.
As Loyalist and Triad forces clashed on the physical battlefield, so too did they in the propaganda battlefield. The O5 Council issued a "Proclamation on the Present Conflict" on 1 August, addressed to "all members of the Foundation, regardless of loyalty". It called for an end to hostilities, praised the foot soldiers of the both sides for their valor, and implored the rank-and-file of Triad forces to recognize that their misguided leaders were forgetting the real mission and taking those who followed them down a road to "nothing but ruin, disgrace, and anguish." The Triad propaganda apparatus quickly retorted, painting the Proclamation as nothing more than "the lies and gloating of a cowardly group capitalizing on a brutal massacre." Both sides employed omnipresent censors in attempts to control the narrative of the struggle, though the Loyalists were far more successful in this regard.
In December, General Chatterton, O5-1, O5-6, and O5-7 secretly organized a branch of O5 Command dedicated to the termination of non-anomalous individuals who represented threats to the Foundation. The details of this organization, referred to only by its codename of █████████████, remain highly classified within the Foundation to this day; the program's existence was not acknowledged by the O5 Council until the mid-1970s. The first targets of █████████████ were the two remaining members of the Triad, Dr. Fritz and Gen. Weston, as well as their immediate subordinates.
Throughout January and February 1926, the Loyalists continued to gain ground against the Triad. One of the widespread myths of the war, common to both sides, was that the Triad was employing SCPs to their own advantage. Until the last six months of the war, the Triad did not actually use any SCPs against Foundation forces. Weston wanted to use every strategic asset at the Triad's disposal, but Frederiks (prior to his capture) and Fritz overruled him on the grounds that it would be too dangerous. The three men agreed, however, to take full rhetorical advantage of any natural or artificial disaster that might befall Loyalist forces or benefit Triad forces. Unfortunately, apart from the flooding of the Rhine in Cologne in January 1926, there weren't any appreciable disasters for which they could claim responsibility. Outmatched in terms of conventional forces, cut off from new converts within Loyalist ranks by vigorous and effective Loyalist counterintelligence activities, and unwilling to deploy SCPs tactically, the Triad had little hope of turning the tide of the war.
On 25 March 1926, █████████████ operatives infiltrated Site-37, where they assassinated Dr. Wolfgang Fritz while he slept. With Fritz dead and Frederiks senile and forgotten under house arrest until his death in 1927, Gen. Weston was left in sole command of the remaining Triad forces.
April - September 1926: A New Strategy
Following the assassination of Fritz in March, coupled with the significant losses Triad forces had suffered in the preceding months, Weston decided a new strategy was needed. The Triad was desperately low on resources; in terms of sheer available manpower, controlled facilities, secured SCPs, weapons, funds, and logistical capabilities, the Loyalist forces effectively outnumbered the Triad between three and four to one. There was one critical difference: while in absolute terms, the Loyalists controlled more "useful" SCPs (meaning objects which could be utilized, weaponized, or reverse-engineered with relatively few risks), proportional to the total number of SCPs the either side controlled, the Triad had a far higher percentage of useful SCPs. Weston, in possession of antebellum Foundation storage manifests, realized this advantage. He lifted usage restrictions on all SCPs within the Triad's possession, ordering his researchers to make all efforts to develop means to create a strategic and tactical advantage over the Loyalists.
This decision was controversial among the members of the Triad, including nearly a third of the Central Congress. Many believed in the basic mission of the Foundation - securing, containing, and protecting the objects, rather than utilizing or destroying them - and Weston's directive raised some serious doubts about the righteousness of the Triad's cause. When word of these misgivings reached Weston, he made it clear that the lifting of usage and research restrictions would only last until the struggle against the Loyalists was over. While this calmed some fears, a number of Triad members, including the entire staff of Area-09, defected to the Loyalists. Weston then quietly disbanded the Central Congress, arresting (and in some cases executing) its members.
Weston's new strategy proved to be too little, too late. Though Loyalist casualties during the last six months of the conflict were twice that of the entire rest of the conflict put together, it was insufficient to slow the momentum. By August, with the Triad controlling fewer than a dozen secure facilities, Weston ordered the remaining SCPs to be hidden in caches across the planet, to allow their future use by Triad forces while lowering the risk of their capture by the Loyalists. In September, Site-37 was finally overrun by Genga Division. Abandoning most of their remaining facilities, the Triad withdrew to Sector-12, a facility outside Perth, Scotland. There, they dug in for an extended siege.
October 1926: Battle of Sector-12
By October 1926, nearly all remaining Triad forces were holed up in Sector-12.3 General Chatterton extended an offer for the facility's unconditional surrender; it was rejected.
The battle itself took over a fortnight. Weston attempted a strategy of attrition, but effectively outnumbered twelve to one, this had little hope of success. Nonstop artillery and aerial bombardment, liberal deployment of nerve gas, and a frontal assault by the Foundation's sole tank company devastated the Sector's defensive perimeter.
On 17 October 1926, after General Weston was killed by an artillery shell, the remaining Triad forces, numbering only fifty-seven, surrendered. After a 7-6 vote, the O5 Council ordered their execution by firing squad for high treason against the Foundation. The Foundation Civil War was over.
1926-1933: From the Ashes, The Chaos Insurgency
After the surrender of Sector-12 and the execution of the "Final 57" (as they came to be called), the Triad effectively ceased to exist as an organized and coherent force. For the next seven years, the Foundation would believe (incorrectly) that there were no survivors who escaped their custody. As it happened, this was simply not true. An unknown number of personnel and SCPs were unaccounted for; modern estimates range from several dozen to several thousand individuals, and between five and five hundred objects.
In the short term after the fall of Sector-12, the group that had been the Triad and would become the Chaos Insurgency was fractured, isolated, and little immediate threat to anyone. They were too busy licking their wounds to cause too much trouble. Many believed that the smart thing to do would be to go into hiding, disappearing and living out the remainder of their lives in paranoid obscurity - after all, Foundation operatives still had standing shoot-on-sight orders for many of them.
Major Damien O'Connor was unwilling to concede defeat. A charismatic and intelligent Irish firebrand who'd served as a Mobile Task Force commander after being recruited out of Michael Collins' Irish Republican Army assassination unit called "The Squad", O'Connor compared the struggle faced by the Triad remnants to that faced by the Irish nationalists against the English Crown during the Irish Revolution and the Arabs during the Arab Revolt in the First World War. A fiery orator and gifted strategist, O'Connor is known to have written several discourses on strategy (most of which still have not been obtained by Foundation intelligence) and is believed to have made regular speeches at covert meetings of Triad remnants. Included in this file is the partial transcript of a 1928 speech by O'Connor to a dozen comrades in Podlogistan, obtained by Foundation Intelligence in 1933.
While O'Connor was consolidating support, the O5 Council initiated an internal information suppression campaign with regards to the Foundation Civil War. Because of the highly compartmentalized nature of the Foundation, a significant influx of new personnel during the Great Depression4, and the emergency powers adopted by the Council with regards to censorship, a purge of the event from the organization's general knowledge was effective to a degree that may surprise modern readers. By the late 1930s, few members of the Foundation who had not been directly involved in the Foundation Civil War were aware of the struggle's existence. The Great Schism and two years of bloody war had been reduced, in the official party line of Foundation history, to a rogue group of agents going AWOL.
The remnants of the Triad remained off the Foundation's radar until 1933. Arthur Pierce, a mid-level analyst in Foundation Counterintelligence, connected a series of apparently unconnected incidents in the preceding several years with documents (including the partial transcript of O'Connor's speech) recovered from a safe-house in Lisbon. Pierce sent a memorandum to the O5 Council on 5 March 1933, in which he warned of "an insurgency of chaos against the Foundation." When O'Connor received a stolen copy of the memorandum, he was apparently delighted, deciding on the spot to christen the remnants of the Triad as "the Chaos Insurgency", a term which has since been adopted widely.
The Insurgency Since 1933
Note: For reasons related related to Foundation security, most details relating to the Chaos Insurgency since 1933 are classified in separate compartments from SLATE THUNDER. Personnel with authorization to review these compartments should contact the Records and Information Security Administration in writing.
As mentioned above, this post-1933 historical summary of the Chaos Insurgency is necessarily abridged for security purposes. The following is a selection of several key moments in the Insurgency's history.
The Second World War (1939-1945)
While neither the Chaos Insurgency nor the Foundation take sides with either the Axis Powers or Allied Powers, the Insurgency took advantage of general upheaval to consolidate power in several Third World countries and colonies. Concurrently, the Insurgency staged attacks against the Foundation, both directly and by using both Allied and Axis forces as proxies. The largest direct conflict between the Insurgency and the Foundation during the war was a series of attempts to seize Site-41, located in Leningrad, during the Nazi siege of that city. These attempts were ultimately unsuccessful.
(See sensitive compartment "███████████████" for further information.)
Co-opting Proxy Wars (1947-1967)
Though the Chaos Insurgency has co-opted wars and militarized armed disputes throughout its entire history, during the 1950s and 60s the Insurgency used plants and moles in both Western and Soviet military and intelligence apparatuses to assimilate and sponsor guerrilla insurgencies and national liberation movements in numerous countries in the Third World. A significant number of the Chaos Insurgency's leadership is believed to have turned over between 1950 and 1970, and some of the rising stars in the younger generation were CIA or KGB officers, or special forces advisers, sent to regions sympathetic to the opposing side in an effort to destabilize and replace the indigenous political infrastructure with one more amenable to their respective political masters. Having encountered and used local anomalous artifacts, and having been co-opted locally or (secretly) instructed by Insurgency moles higher in their parent agencies, these operatives were assimilated into the Chaos Insurgency.
(See sensitive compartment "█████████████" for further information.)
Attempted Armed Site-59 Defection (October 1962)
In October of 1962, Colonel Andre Foch, Director of Armed Site-59 in Tibet, attempted to use the Sino-Indian War as cover to enable the defection of Armed Site-59 to the Chaos Insurgency. Foundation Armed Rapid Response Task Force Xi-13 successfully intervened, and the defection failed. Foch was subsequently presumed dead by the Foundation, though rumors of his escape continue to persist. This was the largest mass defection attempt since the Foundation Civil War.
(See sensitive compartment "███████████████████" for further information.)
The Modern Chaos Insurgency (1991-Present)
The Chaos Insurgency today is believed to be a highly heterogeneous and diverse social network of loosely connected cells, rather than a homogenous or hierarchical organization. While some "leaders" are believed to exist, the extent of their ability to direct, organize, and/or control the various cells is believed to be at least somewhat limited. Additionally, capturing or killing these individuals is unlikely to adversely affect the organization's activities. There is no geographic base to the Insurgency, though they are known to have a presence in many Third World countries. While the general strategy of post-modern guerrilla insurgency asymmetric warfare against the Foundation, the Global Occult Coalition, and others is fairly constant, the specific tactics, strategies, and ideologies of the Insurgency are fairly diverse. The Insurgency is known to have ties to many groups, organizations, and governments, ranging from legal and respected entities to covert and criminal entities. Foundation theorists have not yet developed a successful counterinsurgency strategy for defeating the Chaos Insurgency.
Related Original Documents
These are a selection of transcripts of original documents relating to the Chaos Insurgency.
새로운 선언문 (1924년 5월)
새로운 선언문
재단의 일원들에게로 보내짐
1924년 5월 1일PERHAPS the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
Ten years ago, the human civilization was plunged into the Great War, wherein our global society was threatened not by threats External or Preternatural, but Internal and Mundane. The War, in which martial slaughter was industrialized on a scale never before seen, devastated the civilized world. The Foundation, possessing numerous bizarre and unnatural entities which might have ended the conflict in mere moments, sat quietly in the shadows, watching the brightest and best of Humanity’s future spill each other’s blood on Europe's fields. We watched, and we did nothing. We, who have sworn to secure and contain threats to Human Civilization, protecting the world from devastation, destruction, and despair, we sat and watched as humanity inflicted ruin upon itself. How dare we? The world called this the Great War, the War to End All Wars, but how can War be Great, and why should so warlike a creature as Man be so inclined as to cease merrily butchering his fellows? How soon will come the next war after the War That Was Supposed To End All Wars? History has a cyclical inertia; unless an outside force brings the conflict to a stop, humanity will be its own undoing. The Foundation, an organization which has stared into the abyss and spat in the face of abominations ancient and eldritch, must save mankind from its greatest enemy: itself.
In the decades since the Foundation's inception, the O5 Council has argued that we must remain aloof and detached from the daily affairs of international society. It is not our business to fight the petty wars of the ignorant masses, they tell us. And yet, they are not above meddling in those very affairs when one Overseer or another feels it expedient, toppling governments and starting wars of convenience. We, the soldiers in the trenches, who fight their battles, and we, the scientists in the labs, who do their research, do we have any say in when we fight or what we study? The Council claims to act in the best interests of the Foundation, of Humanity. How can this be when the Council does not answer to the rank and file of this organization, much less Mankind at large? We, the individuals facing the threats on every day, are the ones who are best suited to determining our organization’s course, not faceless administrators, and it is we, not they, who should lead.
It would be foolish, of course, to reveal the existence of entities that defy all explanation to the world at large. After all, it is our duty to stand at the boundary of Darkness and Light, protecting the world in its ignorance of the monsters that threaten it. But darkness itself is not evil: Science is amoral, and Knowledge is Power. Power, Science, and modern Industry are all capable of vast and near total destruction, as the Great War has shown, but proper application of these forces can create wonders. Fire, if misunderstood and improperly handled, is as destructive as any force known to mankind, capable of laying waste to cities and farmland. Yet, when harnessed and treated with caution and respect, we use it to heat, light, and power our cities, and cleanse our farms so that we may plant new and more fertile crops. We, the elite, who have studied countless bizarre and powerful anomalies, have the knowledge to usher in a new Golden Age of Enlightenment. Out of the ashes of the past can rise monuments to the dominance of Mankind over the Natural and the Unearthly.
The universe can at once appear welcoming and hostile, teeming with secrets and threats, full of knowledge and riches to be had but harsh and unforgiving. As always, Humanity is and will be tested. As always, Humanity must meet the challenges before it as we have met every other. We must be the Vanguard, holding the torch of illumination and leading the masses forward. We, Mankind and the Foundation, will face the challenges and succeed, because to do anything else would be inhuman. The Foundation shall watch the dark places, and it is our right and our duty illuminate them for society, so that Mankind may enjoy the riches without fearing the threats. We shall not only secure and contain the absurd and the dangerous, but we shall master their secrets and transform them into tools and technology. We, the Foundation and Mankind, not only can do this, but must, if we are to survive, and not just survive, but better ourselves and flourish, that Humanity can claim its rightful place as Master over Nature and Extraordinary.
Signed,
A Thinker
Transcript of Speech by Major Damien O'Connor in Podlogistan (1928)
…Weston was an old fool, a relic of the old era where wars were fought in set-piece battles of thousands of men in massed formation, of cavalry charges into the Valley of Death. But ours is not to do or die, ours is to reason why. Weston and Frederiks deluded themselves into thinking the Triad equals to the Loyalists, not only in legitimacy but in materiel and capabilities. They were proven wrong, but even if they had been right in their estimates, we saw in the Great War how futile such outdated strategies are. Only a fool fights on the terms of one's enemy, and that is precisely what we did. We fought the Foundation on their terms, when they were stronger, bigger, better funded, better equipped; is it any real surprise that we were defeated?
Our struggle was akin to baiting: a pack of dogs against a bear, perhaps. The dogs do not assemble in a phalanx and charge the bear, whose size, weight, and strength could easily obliterate such a formation. No, instead, the dogs nip and bite at the larger animal, irritating it, occasionally drawing blood, tiring it, weakening it to the point of collapse, until it collapses in exhaustion, and they can move in for the kill.
But now, we lack the capacity to be taken seriously by the Foundation. They believe we are down and out - they have declared victory, and characteristically hushed up the struggle. They view those few of us who remain as a nuisance, not a pack of dogs, but a fly or flea to be swatted aside as an annoyance. They may be right. We are weak, and they are strong. But that does not make them invincible or us insignificant. Let us wage a war of fleas. We bite, leap, and bite again. By the time the Foundation can scratch one itch, another will appear. They have "secure" facilities across the world - they must be strong everywhere. We need only be strong where we attack, when we attack, before disappearing. Their size means they are slow; we are few, but mobile. We cannot win as an army, but as guerrillas, as an insurgency, we shall not lose.
The Foundation, the enemy, ignores us, we infiltrate them. The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue. We will be everywhere and nowhere, appearing out of the night to strike terror in their hearts. We may look over our shoulders - it would be imprudent not to - but we can force them to do the same. We can terrorize the Foundation. The purpose of this terror is not merely to terrorize the Foundation, however, but to use its own inertia and energy against it. The Triad's defeat may have quelled dissent amongst the Foundation's rank and file, but how long is it until our efforts - our attacks and infiltrations - spur the Foundation to clamp down on its own members? We will not be the ones to sap the Foundation's will to resist, the O5 Council will.
Let us not forget that they are bound by scruples of secrecy. They keep the importance of their "Veil" on a pedestal, hiding their existence and the existence of SCPs from the world at large. We are not so incumbered. Our only reason for secrecy is to frustrate their efforts to find us, fish in a vast ocean. In our attacks, we can steal their weapons, their equipment, and their artifacts, only to turn these against them the next time. If our attacks hurt the innocent, well, in war there are casualties. The Foundation may elect to try and protect the population from us - so much the better, for it will only spread them thinner. We shall be agents of chaos, setting the world on fire, not to watch it burn, but to exhaust the fire brigade.
좋아요, 그래서 그게 1933년까지 우릴 데려다 줬군요. 밑의 요약글에서 보실 수 있듯이 혼돈의 반란이 하는 더 최근 활동의 대부분이 다른 특수 정보에서는 기밀로 되어있습니다. 제가 여러분 중 많은 분들이 여기 다른 이유로 왔다는 걸 알기 때문에 지금 당장 최근에 일어난 일을 배우진 않을겁니다.
질문 있나요?
좋습니다. 부야노바 양과 제가 이제 당신들 브리핑 봉투를 걷을겁니다. 슬레이트 썬더를 읽지 않은 사람들에게 공식 방침을 말해주는 것을 잊지 마세요, 안 그런다면 비어있지-않을-가능성이-높은 어두운 구덩이에서 오랜 시간을 보내시게 될겁니다.
남은 베이글이 아직 있으니 나가시는 길에 좀 드시기 바랍니다.
