Additional: 


* Given the high probability of [EXPUNGED] in my mind, | again 
recommend that SCP-701 be upgraded to Keter-class. The 
SCP-701 memetic virus may very well be the forefront of an 
invasion scenario. Furthermore, [EXPUNGED].-Dr.L_ , 
1237116060. 

¢ Denied. None of the current information we have on SCP-701 
indicates a XK-class scenario. Until we have additional data, 
classification will remain at Euclid. — Face facts, Doctor. The 
cat's been long out of the bag on this one. And in this line of 
business, we consider ourselves lucky if we only lose a 
hundred or so people every ten years. - O5- , 1237197060. 


« SCP-700 | SCP-701 | SCP-702 » 


Project Resurrection is a writing project aimed at reconstructing 
and resurrecting the original "central storyline" of the SCP 
Foundation. 


It aims at synthesizing the old and new works of the SCP 
Foundation. 


It starts with Alpha-9, the Omega-7 reboot. It doesn't end there. 


We begin with what has gone before. 


A lot of this stuff is planned to be told in flashback stories, so unless 
you're planning to contribute to Project Resurrection, I'd hold off so 
that you don't spoil what comes. 


In other words: SPOILER WARNING. 


(If you are planning to contribute to Project Resurrection, spoil away! 
Let this inspire your stories.) 


The High Court With The Magic Army 


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The key to our story is O5 Command. 


This storyline takes the characterization of O5 Command 
from Light's The Flytrap as canon. Not so much the 
events, but how O5 command works. 


You hear stories — people who some upper- 
level attaches to and pulls up the ranks just to 
play with, kids dealing with things they aren't 
prepared for all, the suicides and renegades 
and demotion-without-honors. 


"We need the right people for our designs. 
You'd need to be one of us to understand." 


Clef and Kondraki are good contrasting examples. The 


O05 Council personally okayed Kondraki's termination 
plans in "Duke Till Dawn". Clef's hilariously over-the-top 
plan in "Termination Order" was signed off by O5-7. 


Interestingly, though, one of Kondraki's key character 
traits is that O5 Command continually tried to kill him and 
failed. What near-all-powerful "high court with a magic 
army" in charge of an ultra-powerful shadow government 
repeatedly tries and fails to do something as simple as 
kill one of their own employees? 


A “high court with a magic army" who aren’ trying. 


O5 Command 'adopted' the most famous senior staff. 
This meant enabling them. Signing off on things they 
wanted to do that would get anyone else shitcanned. 
Stepping in, behind the scenes, to invisibly elevate them 
to the highest echelons. Manipulating them from afar to 
see what they would do. So long as they remained 
useful, they were given free reign to do as they wished. 


Each reacted in different ways. 


¢ Kain went along quietly. Given his situation: 
understandable. But most people went along in 
those days. Why wouldn't you? Genuine advances 
in science were being made. The Foundation was 
protecting humanity. And there was so much 
interesting science to be done... 
* Gears adapted to the situation by incorporating O5 
Command's obvious desires and paradigm into his 
analysis, and reacting logically to the situation from 
there. He was a company man through and 
through, but he would interpret 'what was good for 
the Foundation’ in his own way. 
Bright had his own motivations. Though he 
remained loyal to the Foundation, his real 
concerns were mostly based around more 
personal matters... 
Clef would not have turned to the Foundation if he 
had any other choice. As a kind of passive 


resistance, though, he began to ‘troll’ O5 command 
by carrying out simple missions in elaborate, over- 
the-top ways. Wasting resources and pissing off 
his colleagues. 


But Kondraki, the wunderkind? He embraced it at first 
without question... and then cottoned on. 


He tried to fight back. 


The King is Dead 


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Gears was spot on in his assessment of Kondraki's 
plans. Kondraki did indeed intentionally fuck up 083's 
termination and breach SCP-682. 


Kondraki had figured out that O5 Command was using 
him like a puppet, pulling his strings and watching him 
dance. He didn't think they'd let him die. Call it nihilism. 
Call it art. He wanted to see what the limit was to the shit 
they'd let him pull. 


He probably didn't think they'd actually let SCP-682 
rampage, but maybe he underestimated how all-powerful 
they really were. Or maybe he just didn't care; he was 
self-described as an antisocial bastard who couldn't give 
a shit about other Foundation personnel. 


O5 Command didn't actually expect things to go the way 
they did. They expected to stand down security 
protocols, unleash their favorite wunderkind genius on an 
SCP object they wanted terminated, and sit back and 
enjoy a show. 


Instead, they got the near-destruction of Site-19, the 
Foundation's biggest site. 


On their orders, Gears assassinated Kondraki with a 


gunshot to the head. It was framed as a suicide. 
Everyone knew differently. 


But the problem wasn't just Kondraki. The Site-19 event 
took place around the same time as Omega-7 getting 
wiped out by Able, resulting in the nuking of at least one 
major Foundation facility. Around the same time, a 
certain Foundation researcher wiped himself and several 
sites from reality during some ambitious cross-testing 
projects, in a massive CK-class Restructuring that lost 
the Foundation a high number of irreplaceable assets. It 
was Clear that the Foundation was on the verge of crisis. 


So while they rebuilt Site-19, O5 Command sat down 
and regrouped. 


And they changed everything. 


The End of an Era 


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O5 Command cut down drastically on their ‘adoptions’. 
They permanently closed down Omega-7 (not difficult, 
since almost everyone except SCP-105 and a few others 
were killed either by Able or by the Area's nuke). They 
shut down projects relating to weaponization of SCPs. 
They stopped projects like Kain's Olympia Project. They 
mothballed his Egg Walker. They shuttered all of 
Kondraki's former projects and locked up his butterflies in 
a greenhouse. 


They shut down almost all cross-testing between SCP 
objects. Researchers on each object now had to work in 
a vacuum for fear of unexpected interactions. Even more 
importantly, they shut down most Foundation research 
not aimed towards efficiency of containment. 


The U.S. Government didn't like this. The Bowe 


Commission cried foul. O5 command responded by 
cutting all ties with the U.S. Government. They had 
served their purpose, but now the Foundation would go 
its own way, beholden to no one. 


As for the former favored children of the O5s? They got 
kicked upstairs. Gears became a high-level 
administrator. Kain retired to his laboratory. Clef ended 
up having to actually do some training and development. 
Bright continued to be Bright: he'd always had his own 
agenda anyway. 


New blood was brought in to replace the old. The SCP 
Foundation became a very different organization. Cold. 
Callous. Calculating. Cautious. 


Nine years passed in relative calm. 


Nine Years Pass 


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But then something happens. 


Anomalous entities start to emerge in large numbers. Old 
threats thought long-gone re-emerge. At Site-19, for the 
first time in years, a major Containment Breach occurs. 
And more. 


O5 Command starts to feel a little desperate. They take 
some researchers and administrators they've had their 
eyes on. They begin assigning them projects 
investigating long-shuttered avenues of exploration for 
the Foundation: cross-testing, practical applications, 
special investigations. 


They call this, internally, "Project Resurrection." 


lt helps. It's not enough. 


Then an unknown enemy attacks one of their Sites, and 
a person long-forgotten steps up and saves their asses: 
SCP-105. The last remnant of Mobile Task Force 
Omega-7. The O5s realize that redoing their biggest 
mistake might be the only course of action left to them. 


MTF Omega-7, "Pandora's Box", was aptly named. In 
the original myth, opening it let all the evils into the world, 
and you couldn't put them back in. There was only one 
thing left in the box at the end. 


Hope. 


And so, O05 forms a new Mobile Task Force as 
successor to Omega-7. 


MTF Alpha-9. 


"Last Hope". 


A lot of the stuff here covers stories that are still being written, so 
unless you're planning to contribute to Project Resurrection, I'd hold 
off so that you don't spoil what comes. 


In other words: SPOILER WARNING. 


(If you are planning to contribute to Project Resurrection, spoil away! 
Let this inspire your stories.) 


* Philosophy sections cover directives for tone and substance. 
Here's where we talk about the feeling of the stories we want 
to tell. 

* In Progress sections cover directives for new story focus. If 
you want to contribute to Project Resurrection, here's where 
we talk about the stories we're looking for right now. 

¢ Foreshadowing sections are where people ruminate on 
stories that might come in the far future. Things to brainstorm 
and mull over but not necessarily write just yet. 


Alpha-9 (Philosophy) 
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A bit about where we're going with Alpha-9, first. 


Generally speaking, in-universe we want the Alpha-9 
project to go both spectacularly badly with enormous 
negative consequences, and spectacularly well with 
enormous positive consequences. 


You can't really write an Omega-7 sequel story without 
having an absolute shitload of disaster. But it's got to be 
overall successful within the story; if we're bothering to 
write this, there's no need to write the 076-2 logs writ 
large, and make it a yet fancier ill-conceived tragedy that 
just gets Shut Down Forever again. Also, that would 
defeat the purpose of a continuing storyline. 


And while Omega-7 was often terrible in practice, it was 
an entertaining, fascinating concept... but if you're still 
here, you probably agree with me on that. :) 


New Blood (In Progress) 


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Part of making sure that this doesn't turn into a Senior 
Staff Wankfest over the old material is bringing in new 
blood, both in and out of universe. 


Phase One of this is the establishment of Mobile Task 
Force Alpha-9. We're looking for ideas for new 
characters (both SCPs and Agents) to take part in this 
new force. We're looking for stories about how the O5 
Council recruits them into this mad scheme. We're 
looking for reactions from people on the ground when 
they hear Pandora's Box is being reopened. 


Operation "Camp Granada” (In Progress) 


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This will be one of the first stories in the "Alpha-Niner is 
Gol" section of the canon. In this story, MTF Beta-5 
("Babysitters") deploys in response to an outbreak of 
SCP-008, with Iris and Adams in tow... only to find that 
the outbreak is going to be a bit more serious than 
anticipated... 


Fatherhood (Foreshadowing) 


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Once upon a time, there was a man who had a child. 
The man's child was special. Magical. Anomalous. 


The man couldn't help his child. He turned to a group 
called SCP Foundation to get that help. In return, he 
offered them the use of his peculiar set of special talents, 
talents that no one else had. 


The deal was made. The man went to work for SCP 
Foundation. He did many terrible things for them. 
Sometimes he justified it by the fact that the world was at 
stake. Mostly he justified it by the fact that he loved his 
child and wanted to keep them safe. 


But eventually, it became clear to him that the O5 
Council didn't care about his child. His child was simply a 
tool. Leverage to keep the man's loyalty to them intact. 


And so the man began to think. And he began to 
scheme. And he began to plan how he was going to get 
his child out of the trap he had put them in and get them 
both free. 


If you think you know who this story is about, think again. 


If you think this story has only happened once, think 
again. 


Dramatis Personae go here. (In Progress) 


Mobile Task Force Alpha-9 
(“Last Hope") 


The reborn Omega-7. A Mobile Task Force explicitly intended to 
train and utilize humanoid SCP objects in the field. 


Dr. Sophia Light 


Dr. Light is the reluctant director of Alpha-9. Jaded but pragmatic, 
she thinks that while the task force is dangerous as hell, it presents 
a unique opportunity to further her goals for the Foundation. If she 
can just avoid being assassinated long enough to bring it to fruition, 
it might even do some good in the world. 


SCP-105 


Iris hates Omega-7. That whole thing went down when she was 14 
to 15. It ended with Able slaughtering almost everyone and the rest 
dying in the nuke. Everyone she cared about within the Foundation, 
all dead. Then they took away her camera and locked her up ina 
cell. The last thing she wants is to be involved in a project like this... 
and they're asking her to lead one of the teams. 


Adjunct Mobile Task Force 
Lambda-2 


Technically a separate Mobile Task Force for budget reasons. 
Currently assigned as a subordinate Task Force under Alpha-9. 


Dr. Clef 


He's the last remnant of the Four Horsemen. He's been sitting 
behind a desk for nine years. He's an old soldier, cloaked in legends 
from his time in the field, but no longer able to carry out the missions 
himself. He knows this is going to end in disaster, and he's taking 
measures for when it does. 


Senior Special Agent Andrea S. Adams 


Everyone thought that she was just Clef's eye-candy former 
secretary. She was quiet, unassuming, seemed completely safe... 
until she wasn't. Her career after leaving Clef's office was meteoric. 
Now she's back to working with her hated former boss. She's just as 
lethal as he was in his prime, but unlike Clef, she's direct and 
efficient where he was flashy and elaborate. Part of SCP-105's 
security detail (and backup plan in case she goes rogue). 


Other Foundation Staff 


Director Jean Karlyle Aktus 


The eccentric director of Foundation Site-81 and Chair of the 
Foundation's Classification Committee, Aktus has existed for as long 
as anyone can remember. Where others have succumbed to illness 
and old age, Aktus has carried on, dutifully continuing his research 
beneath the lake where his laboratory sits. But everything has a 
price, and Karlyle's debt has come due. His loyalty to the 
Foundation is everything, and he will stop at nothing to see its 
designs achieved. 


Dr. Daniel Horatio Aeslinger 


A man out of place and quite out of his depth, Dr. Aeslinger 


Incident Report SCP-701-19 -1 


SCP Involved: SCP-701 
Date: , 19 
Location: [EXPUNGED] 


Report prepared by Drs. R = andJ on the content of 
SCP-701-19 -A. SCP-701-19 -Ais a 187mm x 103mm x 25mm S- 
VHS video cassette tape recovered by investigators from the scene 
of the incident, a performance of SCP-701 at High School 
in , .. Lape was found in a destroyed consumer-grade 
camcorder, which was apparently recording the performance from a 
vantage point within the audience. It is the only surviving record of 
the event. Please see the ScP-701 archives for the full transcript of 
the recording. In order to compare the identified deviations during a 
SCP-701 event with the actual plot of the published text, see 
Document SCP-701-1640-B-1. 


* 0:00:00 — Tape begins. 
* 0:03:10 — House lights go down. 


* 0:05:12 — Curtain rises. The play begins as published with 
Gonzalo’s coronation speech. 


* 0:10:21 — A possible sighting of SCP-701-1 during Isabella’s 
ravings — an anomalous shadow not belonging to one of the 
cast members shows up along the back wall of the set. 


* 0:10:24 — Shadow disappears.