SUBJECT: Internal Security/Ethics Committee: Possible 
Imminent Action Against O5 Assets 


FORESIGHT-21 has been tasked by MTF 
Alpha-1 OPCOM to examine recent Ethics 
Committee activity in light of communication 
that took place on May 18th between O5-3 and 
the sitting Chairwoman of the Ethics 
Committee. 


We assess with a high degree of confidence, 
based on a large body of SIGINT and IMINT, 
that Ethics Committee leadership will mobilize 
MTF Zeta-12 to carry out hostile action against 
the Overseer Council within 72 hours. We 
further assess with a moderate degree of 
confidence that this action will precede wider 
action across Foundation elements dissatisfied 
with current leadership or desiring significant 
policy change. 


Frequency and magnitude of electronic 
communication between Ethics Committee 
Chairwoman Sakarya and Zeta-1 OPCOM 
have surpassed previously observed peaks 
since the date of the incident in question. 
Sakarya's psychological profile indicates an 
inclination to unilateral action in response to 
apparent persecution, as well as strong 
convictions regarding the institutional norms of 
the Ethics Committee. The loyalties of Zeta-1 


leadership have been notably aligned toward 
her person in recent years. Sakarya has 
proven willing to escalate departmental conflict 
to achieve short-term objectives during 
reconciliation negotiations$ and likely remains 
confident that tensions can be managed once 
she has secured an advantageous position. 


Increased activity by Zeta-1 component teams 
has been noted in Site-06, Site-17, and Site-88 
despite the lack of an immediate threat to 
those sites. Multiple component teams have 
failed to file scheduled field reports, and 
tracking signals appear to be undergoing 
Ongoing disruption. All active elements of 
Zeta-1 possess considerable aptitude in a 
variety of conventional policing and military 
operations. 


Full report has been attached. 
Supplementary Material for Emergency Briefing (May 23, 2066): 
[OPEN DOCUMENT] 


Time Event Description 

0551 Convoy transporting O5-3 
ambushed en route to 
secure holding location. 
O5-3 presumed deceased. 

0553 Aircraft carrying O5-8 
disappears in flight over 
Pacific Ocean. Transponder 
and assorted tracking 
devices are non-responsive. 
05-8 presumed deceased. 

0554 Gunfire reported at Site-01. 
Communications terminated 
following automated 


0556 


0558 


0559 


0601 


0604 


0607 


0609 


emergency broadcast. 

All Foundation facilities 
placed on alert level 4. 
Loss of contact with O5-2 
and O5-4 at secure holding 
location. O5-2 and O5-4 
status unknown. Active 
firefights reported at several 
sites between security 
forces and unknown 
assailants. Contingency 
procedures activated at 
Site-OT. 

Declaration of intent 
released by Ethics 
Committee through official 
Foundation communications 
channels. Text of 
declaration delivered to all 
Foundation personnel via 
email. 

Public statements made by 
Site-17 and Site-88 
Directors in support of 
Ethics Committee action. 
Emergency notice released 
stating Ethics Committee 
declaration to contain 
infohazardous material. All 
Foundation facilities placed 
on alert level 6. 

Cessation of conflict at 
Site-01. No successful 
capture of enemy 
combatants. 

SRBM strike issued against 
Ethics Committee main 
office complex. Complex 
destroyed within 95% 
margin. 


0620 


0625 


0629 


0631 


0636 


0651 


0700 


0714 


0720 


MTF Alpha-1 strike team 
terminates Chairwoman 
Sakarya. Nature as body 
double not immediately 
apparent. 

O5-1 activates panic button 
in Site-01 office. O5-1 
presumed deceased. 
Site-113 contingency 
warhead detonated. Context 
unclear. 

Contingency warheads at 
Site-74, Site-141, and 
Site-199 detonated. Context 
unclear. 

05-10, 05-12, and 05-13 
make collective 
announcement of 
abdication. O5-10, O5-12, 
and 05-13 status unknown. 
Chairwoman Sakarya 
announces the 
establishment of a new 
Overseer Council by 
invocation of the empty 
chairs clause. New body 
supported by large portions 
of upper Foundation 
management (likely 
between 55-70%.) 

All Foundation sites placed 
at alert level 9. Internal 
security forces enact 
lockdown procedures. 
Multiple site directors 
apprehended. 
Containment breach at 
Site-33. Relationship to 
ongoing crisis Unknown. 
Contact lost with O5-7 


0724 


0730 


0739 


0750 


0801 


0900 


security team. MASINT 
indicates continued 
operations of security 
elements outside of 
authorized area. O5-7 
presumed deceased. 
Critical containment breach 
at Site-85. Relationship to 
ongoing crisis Unknown. 
Incident involving Site-106 
internal security culminating 
in the death of 26 research 
personnel. 

Incident involving Site-106 
internal security culminating 
in the death of 34 
administrative personnel 
and 6 security personnel. 
Explosion of unknown origin 
destroys Alpha-1 Central 
HQ. Alpha-1 OPCOM 
confirmed dead. Command 
falls to Alpha-1 ECICOM. 
Acting Alpha-1 OPCOM 
acknowledges legitimacy of 
new Overseer Council. 
Orders apprehension of all 
members of former Council 
iteration. Former O5-5, 
05-6, O5-9, and O5-11 are 
successfully captured. 
Lockdown procedures 
ended. Contact 
reestablished with regional 
governments to address 
geopolitical instability 
caused by day's events. 


Timeline has been condensed and summarized. 
Additional details are available in appended 


documentation. 
Proposed Revisions to SCP-3985 Documentation: 
[OPEN DOCUMENT] 


The following text has been proposed to replace the 
expunged description of SCP-3985: 


SCP-3985 is the collective designation of 
fourteen humanoids who vary in terms of age, 
sex, and ethnicity. Additional information on 
SCP-3985 is available in Site-262 archives. 


Partial Communication Record (August 19, 2072): 
[OPEN RECORD] 


TO: Overseer Council 
FROM: Board of the Ethics Committee 
SUBJECT: Official Request for Inspection of Site-262 


For the attention of the Overseer Council, 


The Board of the Ethics Committee has been 
made aware that critical information is absent 
from the documentation of SCP-3985, and that 
no inspectors have had the opportunity to 
examine regulation compliance at Site-262. 
We are confident that you share our 
eagerness to certify all Foundation sites as 
operating ethically. 


Unfortunately, the 2071 Review of Contained 
Anomalies cannot be completed without direct 
examination of all humanoid containment 
facilities, and so we must request permission 
for Ethics Committee inspectors to access all 
related documentation and facilities. We 
assure you that this will be done with the 
utmost speed and discretion so as to not 
disrupt the important work of site personnel. 


The individual who "activated" SCP-517 will become the Target of 
an entity or number of entities who will attack at 1:43 AM local time 
the following morning. The Entity or Entities (hereby SCP-51 7-01) 
appear as a varying number of long, multi-jointed arms (between ten 
and three dozen), initially appearing from a single area. Arms seem 
to be completely corporeal, and can apparently extend indefinitely. 
Entity will immediately rush towards and attempt to grab and capture 
the Target or Targets. If the hunt is made sufficiently challenging, 
additional arms will begin to constantly generate in close proximity to 
the victim in order to facilitate an easier capture. 


Chosen areas are usually low, cramped, dark areas such as 
basements or closets, and will not shift during a given assault. In all 
instances, Targets have been captured, rapidly dragged into 
SCP-517-01's chosen area, and savagely beaten until sunrise. 
Entity has been documented reaching from the ventilation system of 
an office building, drawing a Target into a drop-ceiling, pulling a 
Target under a bed, and drawing a Target through a sewage grate. 
Any attempts to intrude on this event will result in human aggressors 
being drawn into the assault. The remains of victims are reduced to 
[REDACTED]. To date there have been no survivors. 


If more than one individual activates the item in the span of one day, 
all will become Targets of the following night's assault. SCP-517-01 
will appear from multiple areas while "hunting" multiple Targets. 
However, due to the resultant chaos during the test (51 7-34c) in 
which this was discovered, all measures are to be taken to avoid 
multiple activations. 


Remote viewing of the expected points of origin of SCP-517-01 
during testing revealed arms extending from points around corners 
and otherwise off-camera, eventually crowding out the video feed. 
Fragmented, unidentified human DNA has appeared in the areas 
utilized by SCP-517-01; ultimate origins are still currently unknown. 


Addendum - Fortunes 
Samples from several "fortunes" as read by SCP-517. 


/ /1993: How many times should somebody be told to be good? 
/ /1994: Your mother raised you better than that. I'm sorry, but fair 
is fair. 


Respectfully yours, 


Chairman lan McMillan 


TO: Chairman lan McMillan 

FROM: Overseer-1 

SUBJECT: Re: Official Request for Inspection of 
Site-262 


McMillan, 
Your request is denied. 
—Sakarya 


Footnotes 

1. Alert level 9 requires the immediate termination of trespassing 
individuals regardless of awareness or apparent affiliation. 

2. Supplementary force assigned directly to Ethics Committee 
following the events of the 2031 Facade Slip. 

3. See HINDSIGHT-20 Report on 2064 Budgetary Crisis and related 
damages. 


SCP-3986: The Observatory of Genghis Khan 


Item #: SCP-3986 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: Mobile Task Force Chi-99 
"Ancestral Voices Prophesying War", has been established to locate 
SCP-3986. The area of search has been narrowed down to 
Mongolia, Xinjiang, Kazakhstan and parts of southern Russia. 
Chi-99 is employing a number of unconventional methods of 
detection, including extensive use of Hume detection, neutrino 
cannon, and large-scale interviews with locals. 


Any extant copies of the A/tan Debter, A Description of the 
Mongolian Peoples, Divan-e Afshar, Recitations of Lakshmi Rao, 
The Construction of Xanadu and Voyages in Russia and Turkestan 
discovered are to be acquired by the Foundation immediately. 


Description: SCP-3986 refers to a hypothetically extant mountain, 
with an unknown location somewhere in Inner Asia. SCP-3986's 
existence is not confirmed and is conjectured from a small number 
of textual sources ranging from the 13th to the 20th century. Despite 
some deviances and apparently not drawing upon one another, 
these sources all describe a remarkably consistent landscape with 
several apparently anomalous attributes. 


The sources agree that SCP-3986 is in the centre of a flat steppe, 
highly visible due to the lack of surrounding elevation. The 
mountain's size is difficult to ascertain, but is uniformly described as 
being coloured like cobalt or having cobalt stairs. These stairs have 
been cut into the side of the mountain, winding around its 
circumference several times and providing a path from the ground to 
the peak. At the top of the mountain is a large observatory; here, the 
sources are inconsistent, each describing the observatory as if it 
belonged to their period and culture. 


The only consistent points of observation concerning the 
observatory are the presence of a large number of multinational 
inhabitants, and the presence of a large central courtyard of the 
complex, in the centre of which is the body of the Mongol emperor 
Genghis Khan. The body is located in a grave, covered in a sheet of 
glass; the type and colour of this glass vary according to the 
observer. The body is reportedly in a state of perfect preservation. 


Despite its hypothetical state, the testimony of Foundation operative 
John Callaghan in conjunction with the earlier reports has been 
deemed sufficient to provide SCP-3986 with a designation in the 
Foundation database. On six occasions prior to Dr. Nicholas 
Cartwright's death in 1999, petitions were filed to reclassify it as an 
explained item; these requests were all denied. The evidence 
gathered at the time of Dr. Cartwright's death have led to a 
moratorium on petitions for an explained status, although this may 
be subject to change at a later date. 


The relevant extracts from the six sources describing SCP-3986 are 
below, translated into English when appropriate. 


+Altan Debter 


This is the official state history of the Mongols, 
extensively drawn upon by Rashid al-Din Hamadani and 
the Chinese chronicles. Previously believed to be lost, or 
possibly not a single chronicle at all, several 16th-century 
copies were discovered in an archive in Hohhot. The 
syntax and language all appear to indicate a genuine 
copy, although it is believed that there are several 
interpolations throughout the work; this includes 
paragraph 989 in the transcript below. The manuscripts 
have since been seized by the Foundation and the 
discovery suppressed. A possible reference to Lakhshmi 
Rao exists in the first section. The paragraph number is 
indicated in the transcript below. Translated from 
classical Mongolian. 


986. And the heavenly-ordained armies grew 
tired of their wandering, and sought an end to 
their travels. So they sought an audience with 


a city-dwelling sage, called Rao, and he told 
them of a mountain, framed in gold and 
[cobalt?]; and atop it lies an empty plain. 


987. And the armies went to the mountain, and 
found it inhabited; so they went away, and 
then returned, and it was not yet inhabited; 


988. And the armies climbed the steps, which 
were made of gold and [cobalt?]; and they 
marvelled at them, for they knew not who had 
built them. And they climbed the steps, and 
said, here is where we shall bury the heavenly 
Khan. And so they placed his body inside the 
earth. 


989. And the armies made a sheet of glass, to 
change with the wind; and they placed the 
Khan inside it, and sunk it into the plain. And 
they placed with him his favourite slaves, his 
weapons, and the body of the noble Khatun 
Borte. And they cried up, O eternal heaven, 
here we shall make it so his body gazes upon 
you, so his spirit shall leave, and pass through 
the glass as if through twin flames, and it shall 
reach and mingle with you. 


990. And they mounted their horses and rode 
upon the flat plain and the mountain, and 
covered it, so that nobody could find it again. 


+A Description of the Mongolian Peoples 


A late 14th century work by the Andalusian ethnographer 
Abu al-Aziz al-Shams Muhammad Ibn Ubayd. Ibn 
Ubayd's work is largely drawn from the descriptions of 
Mahmud al-Kashgari and Rashid al-Din Hamadani, and 
although known it was of little scholarly note. An article 
On its deviations from its apparent source texts by the 
American historian of Andalusian literature Dr. Philippa 
Castle apparently referenced SCP-3986, and thus 


brought the work to the attention of the Foundation. 
Translated from Classical Arabic. 


And the tribe of the KIPCHAK lives to the north 
of the Oxus; and they are a warlike people, 
skilled in the hunt and with many legends. 


And the tribe of the KALMYK lives to the north 
of the Oxus; and they are a warlike people, in 
the manner of the KIPCHAK. 


And the tribe of the OBSERVERS lives to the 
east of the Caspian; and they are a tribe of 
many nations, who live at the foot of the 
mountain; and they stare at the stars, having 
constructed a great observatory in the 
Andalusian style.