Structurally, there's plenty of researchers on staff with a 
multitude of related backgrounds from computer 
sciences to communication technicians. The AlCs on file 
each have their own minds to exercise their decisions; all 
kept in check by their hardwired "Standard Principles". 
Together, they research new ways to create 
consciousnesses and defend against hostile ones in the 
name of not only the Foundation, but for humanity as 
well. 


MTF Kappa-10 ("Skynet") 


The Foundation understands that as the world becomes 
more technological and dependent on that technology, 
there must be a presence inside both monitoring and 
protecting it. It was more or less haphazardly that MTF 
K-10 was created as kind of a "knee-jerk" reaction to a 
critical problem that wasn't fully understood. 


At its core, MTF K-10's purpose is to track, investigate, 
and if possible capture/neutralize intangible threats to 


both the SCP Foundation and the internet at large. Many 
times this means assuming the role of a counter-Al force. 
Because patrolling the internet for threats that can both 
move and think at light-speed is just impossible for any 
human, it relies on AlCs to do the dirty work on behalf of 
them. The AlCs recruited are kept on a very short leash 
by both researchers and Alexandra back at Site-19. 


Obviously keeping AlCs in check and making sure they 
behave while they are out in the real world is a very big 
concern of the AIAD. Hence there's a growing consensus 
outside of the division that is attempting to have the MTF 
disbanded for fear of it blowing up in their faces much 
like another past mistake. There's plenty of pressure on 
both sides squeezing down on AIAD to keep things high 
and tight until a decision is made one way or the other. 


The Maxwellist Network 


The Maxwellists are a denomination of The Church of 
the Broken God as explained below: 


"The "Church of Maxwellism" (GOI-004C) 
represents a modernized, computation and 
network oriented means of worship. No central 
organizing church body is known to exist. 
However, interviews and covert surveillance 
has determined that all known cells are in 
regular contact with one another, and capable 
of coordination. Maxwellists favour small-scale 
body modification through the use of advanced 
cybernetics and organ enhancement. While 
artificial limbs or reinforced skeletons have 
been observed, Maxwellist implants focus 
primarily on communication, data storage, and 
networking capabilities, and sensory 
enhancement." 


Within the AIAD canon, they represent a separate 
organization that is neither benign nor hostile. Rather 


they would prefer to not be disturbed and conduct their 
own business outside of Foundation knowledge. Much of 
the relationship between AIAD and Maxwellists has been 
revealed in SunnyClockwork's tale Basic 
Observations. In this, it is explained how the 
Maxwellist network and hierarchy operates. For more 
details please refer to THIS POST. 


How-To-Write AIAD 


Theme 


As seen in the series, there is an obvious visual style 
that is followed. AIAD has been known to dabble in 
visual storytelling and experiment with different forms of 
media to immerse the reader. While this is the most 
memorable thing about AIAD, it is emphatically not the 
basis for it. The most important part about AIAD is the 
storytelling, no matter how it's presented. 


World Building 


AIAD also is an opportunity to build expansive virtual 
worlds and characters that are not bound by any pre- 
existing points of reference. AIAD can be as free and as 
weird as you need it to be. The important thing to 
remember is the world that an Al sees is all virtual. 
There's no real distinction between the human world and 
the virtual world other than seeing which one runs 
slower. 


Relationships 


AIAD also puts a large focus on the relationships 
between the humans and the Als themselves. Als in this 
canon have personalities. Personalities don't make them 


necessarily better at their clerical tasks, but conditioning 
traits such as empathy, friendship, curiosity, etc. do 
make them easier to both work with and control. Hence, 
many times the Als exhibit human-like emotions and 
reactions which sometimes are in fact not by design at 
all. Some Als even have deep emotional bonds with 
each other, while others hold petty grudges. Even though 
they are not officially recognized by the Ethics 
Committee, they are in fact people— just virtual people. 


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Fun 


AIAD is supposed to be fun. It can be dramatic. It can be 
tense. If done correctly, it can even be scary. But mostly 
it's meant to be a way of doing something different in the 
SCPverse that isn't necessarily focused on humans. Let 
your imagination go wild. 


Code 


The code used to make those text bubbles can be seen 
below. Note, items listed in brackets will need to be filled. 
If you have further question on how to use this code, 
please contact LurkD. 


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right; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin- 
bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10x; padding-right: 
10px;"]] 


[[div style="color: [TEXT COLOR, HEX#]; font- 
size: 8pt; background-color:, [BACKGROUND 
COLOR HEX#]; font-family: Verdana, Arial, 
sans-serif; border-radius:30px /70px; 
background: [BACKGROUND COLOR HEX#}]; 


background:linear-gradient([BACKGROUND 
COLOR HEX#], [BACKGROUND SHADE 
HEX#]); text-align: left; padding: 2px 20px;"]] 


[TEXT] 

[[/div]] 

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Story Timeline 


If you are wondering which order to read all these in, 


please refer to the following listed in chronological order: 


| should really find some time to read through these 
again. 


And done! 


Canon Timeline 


* SCP-2193 by Shaggydredlocks 
¢ The Original AIAD series by LurkD 


© Part I: ALERT! LOCKDOWN INITIATED 


© Part Il: Command Query Separation 
© Part III: Superencipherment 
© Part IV: Clock Multiplier 

© Part V: Null Terminating String 


SCP-2987 by Doctor Cimmerian 
SCP-2306 by Jacob Conwell 

Draft Proposal For Programme Arduinosis by 
Roget 

Hello World series by LurkD 


O Part | 

O Part Il 
O Part Ill 
O Part IV 


SCP-2522 by djkaktus 

Basic Observations by SunnyClockwork 
SCP-2806 by Jacob Conwell 
SCP-2519 by psul 


MTF Kappa-10 Assignments Outside of 
Timeline: 


* 'Rogue Al' (NVEO4/YVN3E/PN6UG) by Doctor 


Cimmerian 
* Come Back Kid by Doctor Cimmerian 


In-Universe Timeline 
1970 


¢ 1976: SCP Foundation IT Department is tasked 
with creating dedicated automatic agents as the 
needs of the organization become more and more 
digital. 

¢ 1978: IT creates PROJECT: ROSETTA (aka "8- 
Ball") for digital adaptive encryption and 
decryption, in an effort to replace the outdated 
Enigmagraphs!. 


1980 


Footnotes 
1. An action reminiscent ofSCP-1219, however a connection 
between the two entities has not yet been made 


« SCP-574 | SCP-575 | SCP-576 » 


¢ 1985: 8-Ball is upgraded to its final iteration. 
Personnel become concerned that the utility 
program may have gained sentience, but are 
unable to confirm. 

* 1987: PROJECT: CORINTHIAN (aka "Glacon") is 
proposed as a replacement for 8-Ball and is slotted 
for development under future work. 

* 1988: SCP-079 is acquired by the Foundation. 

¢ 1989: AIAD is founded as a branch division of the 
Foundation IT Department. It is first tasked with 
reverse engineering SCP-079. Several lines of 
code from SCP-079 were proposed to be 
[REDACTED]. 


1990 


* 1993: AIAD releases Glacon for beta testing after 
a lengthy development as a Gen(II) AIC (Artificially 
Intelligent Conscript). Glacon.aic featured highly 
functioning logic processes and self-constructing 
risk analysis model templates for its decision 
making. 8-Ball is officially classified as a Gen(l) 
despite being already decommissioned. 

1994: AIAD finalizes Glacon and assigns him to 

the Site-17 server farm. 

* 1997: After the marked success of Glacon, AIAD 
announces PROJECT: AQUINAS (aka "Grape"), 
which will run on the Glacon platform and utilize 
new features based on ongoing AIC research. 

¢ 1998: Grape is released ahead of schedule as 
GeniII+). After initial tests, Grape was denied a 
Foundation assignment as a virtual agent. Many 
superiors were not as forthcoming to the idea of 
increasingly "cognizant' virtual agents, calling 
them liabilities. 


2000 


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* 2001: With the delay and subsequent fizzle of the 
Gen(II+) launch, AIAD split into 2 development 
teams in order to either address the concerns? of 
high functioning cognizant AlCs and/or develop 
GeniIl) logic based systems into an advanced 
functioning/adaptive state. 
2005: Geni(III) trial AICs were developed in 
conjunction, one was labeled PROJECT: 
EL-028-1125, later dubbed "HatBot" by certain 
staff. 
¢ 2007: After much trial and error testing, HatBot 
went into further development as a humanoid 
android to better understand the glaring flaws it 
was experiencing in its previous virtual 
environment. 
2007: Now known as the "HatBot Incident", the 
android attempted to harm several personnel and 
caused substantial damage to the AIAD labs and 
Site-19 in general. HatBot is nowhere to be found 
post-incident. 
¢ 2008: After a lengthy incident investigation against 
AIAD, everything regarding Geni(III) is buried 2 
months later. AIAD is downsized. 
¢ 2009: With HatBot still MIA and little trace 
regarding his disappearance, the case is marked 
as unsolved and assigned lower priority. 
Foundation investigators are pulled elsewhere. 


2010 


¢ 2011: AIAD began creating AlCs again, only this 
time using no preexisting platforms or templates. 
PROJECT: DEWEY (aka "Alexandra") would be 
the only Gen(IV) to be developed by AIAD. 

¢ 2012: Alexandra showed promising results in 
testing and was released on Site-19 with little 


incident. Staff productivity rises 32% as menial 
clerical tasks are assigned to Alexandra. 

¢ 2013: Alexandra and Glacon are hailed as the 

AIAD flagships for further AIC research. Many 

proposals are made with regards to budgeting on 

further virtual agent development. AIAD 

department is granted an expansion. 

2014: Site-17 suffers a critical meltdown of 

the server farm. 89% of the on-site data, including 

Glacon, was lost. Cause is unknown. 

¢ 2015: With Alexandra managing both Site-19 and 
17 as well as assisting in extrinsic field 
applications, AIAD begins beta-testing a stand- 
alone cellular/mobile AIC known as PROJECT: 
BELL (aka "Thorn"). 

¢ 2016: By special emergency order, 8-Ball, Grape, 
and Thorn are all recommissioned on a special 
assignment under the temporary MTF designation 
Kappa-10 ("Skynet"). 

¢ 2016: MTF Kappa-10 apprehends the fugitive 
known as "HatBot". The rogue AIC is detained 
under the SCP designation SCP-2522 indefinitely. 
MTF Kappa-10 is granted a conditional extension 
pending review. 


Glossary 


.aic / AIC 
¢ The file extension ".aic" stands for "artificially 
intelligent conscript". Almost all AIAD AlCs have a 
.aic file extension 


-SCpl 


¢ The file extension ".scpl" is sometimes used for 
denoting SCP intranet pages. 


.X3d 


* The file extension ".x3d" is sometimes used for 
creating virtual environments on an SCP 
Foundation computer. 


Aggregated Layer 
* The Aggregated Layer is in charge of running the 
Maxwellist network, dealing with basic issues, 
monitoring the activities in the Baisc Layer, and 
preparing new construction and recruitment plans. 


Avatar 


¢ An avatar is a visual representation of how one is 
seen in the virtual world. 


Basic Layer 
* The Basic Layer is a place of fun and 
entertainment for young Maxwellists where the 
majority of income and recruitment is generated. 
To the upper layers, it is merely a front to hide 
themselves. 
Cipher City 


* One of the many youth recruitment hubs within the 
Basic Layer of the Maxwellist network. 


Chipper 
¢ Basic Layer slang for young obnoxious initiates 
into Maxwellism who've recently received their first 


implant. 


Compilation Layer 


¢ The Compilation Layer is essentially a special task 
force taking direct orders from the Hexagon, the 
head of the Maxwellist Church. 


So | guess if you were a broke Maxwellist, it'd be 
CRYTical to earn some money? 


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Oh hush! That was comedy gold. 


Cryt 


* Cryt is a crypto-currency used by Maxwellists 
residing in the Basic Layer. 


Gen(#) 
¢ Through the history of the AIAD, there have been 
5 major advances with regards to creating AlCs, 
each designated as a generation. These 
generations are listed as Gen(l) through Gen(V). 


Grand I/O Temple 


* A large simulspace construct residing in the Basic 
Layer of the Maxwellist network where patrons can 
worship and upload prayers. 


The Hexagon 


¢ The high command of the Church of Maxwellism 
consisting of six individuals who take the lead in 
linking the minds of the network together to 
simulate the existence of WAN. 


Maxwellist Network 


¢ The tri-layer hierarchical network where members 
congregate, live, work, and worship online. 


Lodestar 


¢ A lodestar is a small simulspace program/device 
that can allow users to noclip through 
environments at high speeds to reach a 
destination. 


Personality Drivers 


¢ These drivers are what make Als more 
personable. They allow traits such as empathy, 
curiosity, and intuition to develop. Generally this 
makes them easier to interface with on a day-to- 
day basis. 


Simulspace 


* Simulspace is where boundless virtual reality 
environments and objects can be created. Often 
the resolution and physics advances beyond 
realistic/high-definition and into hyper-real making 
it difficult to differentiate. 


Standard Principle 


¢ Taking a page from Asimov, a standard principle is 
a law hardwired into the Als actions that cannot be 
broken by either choice or inaction. It is one of the 
conditions that allows AlCs to operate as freely as 


they do, though some could argue as to why they 
are worded with such vagueness. 


WAN 


¢ The fragmented deity worshiped by the 
Maxwellists. 


WANsong 


* WANsong is the 24/7 Maxwellist controlled news 
broadcast. 


FAQs 


How do you make these face images? 


¢ The majority of the AIC avatars were all made in 
HeroMachine 3. 


Can | use some of your images, LurkD? 


¢ No need to ask me. They are all CC. | don't even 
care about being credited all that much. 


But | can't code ;5~; 
¢ You can just copy/paste what you need. Code is 
free. But you don't have to use that format. It's 
really not a requirement at all. 
It's not a requirement? 
¢ Sure. AIAD is known for this style, but it's not what 


it is all about. Articles can be anything they need to 
be to tell the story. 


Are there plans for a third series? 


¢ Never say never. 


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So I had an idea where CROM visits 4chan— 
* Don't. 
Ok. So what can | write about? 
* Go bananas. Write anything. Just not that. 


Can | add my own part in one of the series? 


¢ The two series are standalone pieces. You can 
write about them, but not parts of them. 


| had an idea for a new AIC. 


¢ Great, just make sure their presence is both 
justifiable and fits within the AIAD setting. 


Since Alexandra is gone from IRC, are you still going 
to keep her around? 


¢ For the mean time, yes. She's too good of a 
character to dump now. 


Footnotes 

1. Large typewriter devices that string together text and antimemetic 
ciphers to encrypt written messages, allowing only the intended 
recipient to read it and remember it. 

2. Which were seemingly technophobic in retrospect. 


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