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 Paty, Hungary. The tornado, estimated to be 
an F4, landed at Bia, and, after 3 hours, ended near Vac. 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} = 


~ )undation Loyalis Triad/insurgency 
% of Pre-conflict) 61% - 43% 57% - 39% 
Foundation Forces 
(Personnel), High 
% of Available | 40% Unknown, Assumed 
Forces (on >90% 
respective sides) 
% of Pre-conflict) 56% 44% 
Foundation 
Resources 


% of Pre-conflict 70% Safe, 89%Unknown (Assumed 
SCPs Retained Postt- Euclid, 95% Keter 30% Safe, 11% 
ina Euclid, 5% Keter) 
% of Pre-conflict 61.7% Unknown (Assumed 
SCPs designated 38.3%) 


"Useful", "Suitable 
for Reverse- 
Engineering", 
"Manufacturable", or 
"Suitable for 
Weaponization" 
Retained Post- 


Casualties 52.3% KIA, WIA, \or87.9% KIA or WIA; 
(Percentages) | MIA 11.8% 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 


Incident Report AMN-C227-939 


Incident AMN-C227-939 
SCP involved: SCP-939 


Description: On 01-30-1992, a statistical rate of missing persons 
reports more than _ times the national average was noted 
amongst civilians administered AMN-C227 following the capture of 
SCP- on 11-28-1990, two (2) kilometers northwest of ; 

; . Pending further investigation, use of AMN-C227 was 
suspended. On 01-31-1992, Field Agents , ,and were 
dispatched to the area to investigate. Through collaboration with 
local law enforcement, Agent __ was able to secure an interview 
withJ S_ . Approximately seven months prior to the arrival of 
Field Agents,J S_ reported three individuals missing under 
suspicious circumstances; all had been previously administered 
AMN-C227. 


Document# 939-73: J S_ Interview 1 
Interviewed:J S 
Interviewer: Agent 


Foreword: This interview is being conducted by myself, 
Agent , in order to confirm or refute the possibility 
of a link between the disappearances of A M ,J 

B N_ ,andC W_ reportedby Mr.J S_~ on 
the 5th of June, 1991, and prior administration of AMN- 
C227 to all four named individuals on the 28th of 
November, 1990. 


<Begin Log> 


Agent ~ : Thank you for taking the time to meet with 
me, Mr.S_ . To begin, I'd like you to relate the events of 


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 aé_ 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 planned? 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.