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 Frederiks had rescinded Zolnerovich's order to check 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 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 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 


June 5th in as much detail as you can. 


J. S.: Ok... | called some friends, and we decided to go 
for a hike, just sort of fuck about in the woods, you 
know? It was a nice enough day out and we had nothing 
better to do. | remember [SUPERFLUOUS DIALOG 
REDACTED] Nothing seemed strange until | commented 
on a feeling of deja vu. A gave me a funny look and 
said she felt ittoo. We alldid. M musta been the only 
smart one, he got creeped out and went home. The rest 
of us were curious and decided to look into it. | mean, 
when have you ever heard of five people all feeling deja 
vu at the same time? 


Agent: Can't say | ever have. Please, continue. 


J. S.: It got even stranger. The feeling of familiarity got 
stronger and stronger as we neared 


Agent : ? 


J. S.: Yeah, huge cave nearby. | don't think any of us 
had ever been inside before. We only had one flashlight, 
and it was dumb as hell in hindsight, but we went inside. 
The feeling kept getting stronger the further in we went. | 
know | keep calling it deja vu, but that's not the right way 
to put it. It was more of a general feeling of familiarity, 
not like this had happened before, but something about it 
was just familiar and nobody could put their finger on 
what. The deeper we went, the more familiar it felt, the 
more certain we felt we were getting closer. To what, | 
don't know, none of us knew, and that's why we kept 


going. 
Agent _ : Did you find anything? 


J. S.: No. Well, | don't know. | remember C saying 
something about it getting late, that we should turn back. 
| don't remember anything after tha... that until I... I... 


Agent _ : If you need to take a moment, that's fine. 


following is a selection of several key moments in the Insurgency's 
history. 


The Second World War (1939-1945)