Anyway, red shirt in the second row. No, they're not "terrorists" per 
se, rather "insurgents", though you can be forgiven for mixing the 


two terms up - most people do these days. A terrorist uses terror as 
an end in and of itself: you crash a plane into a building, a lot of 
people die and even more people get, well, terrorized. Your 
motivations may vary, but at the end of the day, the act itself is the 
end. An insurgent, on the other hand, uses many tools and tactics, 
including terrorism, in order to elicit a response: you crash a plane 
into a building and a lot of people die, but then the government 
cracks down to try and stamp you out, which always - always! - 
results in innocent people getting caught up by the authorities’ net, 
which upsets the populace, which does more damage to the 
government and society than your plane crash ever could. Nine- 
Eleven was an act of terror, but the strategy was almost certainly 
one of insurgency, rather than terrorism. Anyway, | digress. 


Most of you have no idea what really happened when the Chaos 
Insurgency first formed. No, | am serious. If you look at the first 
inside page of your packet, you'll see the Official Party Line: small 
group of agents goes absent without leave in '24 with several useful 
SCPs. That's the Official Party Line, that's what you've always been 
told up until now, and that is what you will continue to tell people 
who aren't cleared into SLATE THUNDER. Period, end of sentence, 
or else we toss you in a dark hole for a very long time - a dark hole 
which is, if you're lucky, empty. If not... 


Anyway, the Official Party Line is on par with saying the major 
political powers had strong words with each other during the Forties, 
or that Hurricane Andrew was a light drizzle. Unless someone has 
violated security protocol big time (in which case, tell me who so | 
can personally toss them in a dark hole for a very long time), you'll 
have never heard of the Triad before. 


Blank looks. Excellent. 


The Triad was what the Chaos Insurgency was back before it was 
an insurgency. You see, between 1924 and 1926, the Foundation 
had a civil war. 


Yes, miss, you heard correctly, the Foundation Civil War. 


Of course there was a cover up. This organization protects people 
by keeping dangerous secrets from traumatizing people. Don't tell 


subsequently requested Class B amnestics. It should be standard 
policy to grant these requests after all relevant data has been 
collected.- O5- 


me you thought we didn't do that internally. 


In the Foundation Civil War, we had the Loyalists on one side, the 
Triad on the other. Eventually, the Triad lost, and the handful of 
survivors formed what would become the Chaos Insurgency. We 
came up with that term, "Chaos Insurgency", by the way. They co- 
opted it; they're good at co-opting things. 


Anyway, if you'll turn to the next page in your packet... 


CLASSIFIED MATERIAL 


Sensitive Compartmented Information: 
SLATE THUNDER 


This document contains information affecting the security of the 
Foundation within the meaning of the Foundation General Security 
Protocol 02, Section 183. The protocol prohibits its transmission or 
the revelation of its contents in any manner to an unauthorized 
person, as well as its use in any manner prejudicial to the safety or 
interest of the Foundation or for the benefit of any unauthorized 
entity or the detriment of the Foundation. It is to be seen only by 
personnel possessing Level Five clearance and/or especially 
indoctrinated and authorized in writing to receive information in the 
designated control channels. Its security must be maintained in 
accordance with regulations pertaining to SLATE THUNDER 
Controls. 


Unauthorized viewing, possession, replication, and/or dissemination 
of this document is grounds for punitive actions detailed in 
Foundation General Security Protocol 18, Section 2381. 


Official Summary For General 
Distribution With Regards To 
The Chaos Insurgency 


As specific information relating to the Chaos Insurgency is for the 
most part classified as sensitive compartmented information, the 
Office of the O5 Council has issued the appended document, File 
#008956 (Official Summary For General Distribution With Regards 
To The Chaos Insurgency). This file is classified as "general 
knowledge" requiring only a Level 1 Security Clearance to access. 
All personnel indoctrinated into the SLATE THUNDER compartment 
are instructed to discuss absolutely no information not contained 
within File #008956 with any persons not indoctrinated into the 
SLATE THUNDER compartment, including (but not limited to) the 
designation "SLATE THUNDER" and/or any details or information 
within the SLATE THUNDER sensitive compartment that verifies, 
supplements, and/or contradicts statements contained in File 
#008956. 


File #008956 


Title: OFFICIAL SUMMARY FOR GENERAL 
DISTRIBUTION WITH REGARDS TO THE CHAOS 
INSURGENCY 

Security Clearance Level: ONE 


The Chaos Insurgency is a splinter group of the 
Foundation, created by a rogue cell that went A.W.O.L. 
with several highly useful SCPs in 1924. Since then, the 
Insurgency has become a major player on the world 
stage, using the SCPs that it obtains for its own personal 
benefit, and to consolidate its global power base. The 
Insurgency not only deals in SCPs, but also in weapons 
running and intelligence gathering. 


It makes use of dictator regimes in Third World countries, 


often using their populations in the same manner as the 
Foundation does D Class Personnel. Because of this, it 
helps to maintain the extreme poverty and war that is 
suffered by these countries, so that it can continue its 
radical experimentation, easy conscription of forces, and 
lucrative business deals with rebel factions. 


Most of the SCPs possessed by the Insurgency are 
unknown, but of those that are known, the most notable 
are the "Staff of Hermes", an item capable of warping the 
physical and chemical properties of any matter it 
touches, and the "Bell of Entropy", an object that can 
cause a variety of destructive effects depending on 
where it is struck. Both of these SCPs were originally 
obtained at no small cost by the Foundation, and were 
stolen by the original founders of the Insurgency. The 
Insurgency also has a known association with SCP-355 
and SCP-884. 


The main base of operations of the Insurgency is 
unknown, as are its leaders. This organization is directly 
antagonistic to the Foundation, coming to clash over 
SCPs several times. Personnel are to be made aware of 
possible raids, terrorist attempts, and spies from the 
Insurgency, and to notify command about any strange 
behavior of fellow personnel. 


Chaos’ Insurgency History 
(Classified) 


What follows is a brief history of the Chaos Insurgency, with a focus 
on the formation of the organization between 1924 and 1933. 
(Specific details of the Chaos Insurgency's history post-1933 are 
classified in other sensitive compartments.) As this information is 
contained within sensitive compartment "SLATE THUNDER" (the 
contents of this larger file) and not classified as "general knowledge" 
accessible to all members of the Foundation, other documents and 


records within the Foundation database may contradict this account, 
having been altered to comply with the File #008956 (Official 
Summary For General Distribution With Regards To The Chaos 
Insurgency). Personnel with authorization to review the unaltered 
documents and records should contact the Records and Information 
Security Administration in writing. 


1919-1924: Prelude 


With the end of the First World War, the Foundation saw its ranks 
increase with an influx of new recruits from the battlefields of 
Europe, military scientists put out of work with the scaling back of 
the war economy, and returning members who had taken leave to 
serve their countries. Fresh from the horrors of war, many members 
of the Foundation believed SCP objects could and should be utilized 
to benefit humanity. The specific arguments varied: some wanted 
the weaponization of SCP objects to assist in the enforcement of the 
Post-War regime; some wanted to replicate and market SCP 
objects, stimulating economic growth in a model similar to either The 
Factory or Marshall, Carter & Dark (both of which were believed to 
have profited handsomely during the War); still others wanted to 
open the Foundation's collection for study by non-aligned scientists, 
so all of mankind could benefit. Unsurprisingly, these arguments 
were as controversial as they ever had been, but Foundation staff 
also believed they were nothing new. What they failed to realize was 
that, while such arguments had been debated since the 
Foundation's inception, with global society having been so greatly 
traumatized by the War, and with the Foundation's staff filled with 
veterans, either of combat or wartime research projects, the 
Foundation itself was structurally vulnerable to these arguments ina 
way like never before. 


Separated by varying ideals, the dissenters within the Foundation 
presented little threat to the status quo. This changed in May of 
1924 with the anonymous publication, and wide distribution, of a 
unifying manifesto entitled A New Manifesto (see appended 
document). This document, believed written jointly by several high- 
level members of the Foundation, blasted the organization's 
administration for continuing "on a path leading unproductively to 


nothing but misery and ruin", and calling for reform and 
reorganization. Following a clampdown ordered by O5-7 and the 
banning of possession of the manifesto, discontent became 
widespread. Riots occurred at several of the larger secure facilities 
in late May and early June, forcing the issue onto the agenda for the 
O5 Council. 


June 1924: The Great Schism 


With many members of the Foundation up in arms over both the 
New Manifesto and the subsequent clampdown it caused, the O5 
Council was itself divided on how to handle the issue. Most 
Overseers wanted the issue resolved so the day-to-day business of 
securing, containing, and protecting objects could continue (and 
resume where halted). Several, notably O5-7, O5-10, and O5-13, 
wanted to enforce tight punitive measures on any Foundation 
personnel involved in the disruption of the Foundation's mission. 
These hardliners advocated widespread assignment to Keter duty 
and demotion to D-class of those behaving in "conduct unbecoming 
of members of the Foundation". Others, notably O5-9 (General Nigel 
Weston) and 05-11 (Count Vladimir Borisovich Frederiks), strongly 
supported the dissenters, agreeing with some parts of the 
inflammatory document. 


10 June: Vote of No Confidence in the O05 Council 


At the O5 Council meeting on 10 June 1924, Overseer Nine forced 
the issue by calling for a vote of no confidence in the O5 Council. 


The O5 Council is unelected, typically choosing its own members. 
Members serve for life or until retirement, but may be impeached by 
a two-thirds majority of the Ethics Committee. All thirteen Overseers 
have one equal vote, with O5-1 acting as the first-among-equals 
during most meetings. According to the Council's bylaws, any 
Overseer can decide to call a vote of no confidence at a Council 
meeting where at least nine members of the Council are present. In 
such an event, all Level 5 personnel (excluding Overseers, who are 
required to abstain), Site and Department Directors, Unit 
Commanders, and members of the Ethics Committee are contacted 


and given twenty-four hours to vote on a secret ballot. If the vote 
passes by two-thirds majority, the old O5 Council is dissolved and a 
new Council is formed, led by the Overseer who initiated the vote. If 
the vote fails to pass, the initiating Overseer automatically retires. 


The vote of no confidence procedure had never before been used 
(and has never been used since), so O5-9's decision sent 
immediate shock-waves through the Foundation. The Office of the 
O5 Council's Clerk dutifully made the notifications and began the 
voting tally. 


11 June: Coup Attempt 


By early the following morning, with eighty-eight percent of the 
possible votes collected, it was clear that the vote of no confidence 
would fail. While fifty-three percent of the votes favored the 
measure's passage, it was clear that even if all remaining votes 
supported the Council's dissolution, the tally would still fall short of 
the necessary two-thirds majority. 


Before the 11 June Council meeting could begin, O5-9 (formerly a 
General in the British Army) and O5-11 ordered the Foundation 
Task Force in charge of guarding Foundation Command 
Headquarters! to take the other members of the O5 Council into 
custody. While the Task Force commander, Agent Jacques 
Clemenceau, himself a former Colonel in the French Army, 
complied, only O5-3 and O5-12 were present. Overseers One, Two, 
Four, Five, Six, Eight, Ten, and Thirteen had all secretly left during 
the preceding night, seeking refuge at Foundation facilities in Britain, 
Italy, Canada, and the United States. Overseer Seven had already 
been in Washington, D.C. when the vote had been called. The 
bodyguards of O5-3 and O5-12 resisted their charges’ arrests, 
resulting in a brief gun battle in which they, both O5-3 and O5-12, 
and the Task Force commander were all killed. The Task Force's 
second-in-command, Agent Robert Brown, who opposed the 
plotters, then attempted unsuccessfully to arrest Overseers Nine 
and Eleven for treason. The two treasonous Overseers fled. 


12-13 June: Mass Defections & Opening Volleys 


General Weston (now stripped of his O5-9 title) and Count Frederiks 
(removed from his position as O5-11 in absentia by the O5 Council) 
sought refuge at Site-37 in the Austrian Alps. Site-37's Director, Dr. 
Wolfgang Fritz, a former researcher for the German Empire, was 
sympathetic to Weston's and Frederiks' cause. The three men 
formed the "Triad", a governing body whose first official decision 
was to declare the O5 Council "an illegitimate body", and to claim 
authority over the Foundation. The Triad promised that it would 
organize the creation of a "Central Congress" for the Foundation, 
democratically elected by Foundation staff, after forces loyal to the 
O5 Council could be removed from positions of authority. 
Foundation policy should be reflective of its members, they argued, 
and the forcible crushing of dissent by the old regime was the 
proverbial straw. 


Predictably, the O5 Council was not amused. Decrying the Triad and 
labeling its supporters "traitors to the Foundation", MTFs loyal to the 
Council were secretly mobilized and dispatched to Foundation 
Command Headquarters and Site-37. 


Foundation Command Headquarters, which had been placed under 
lockdown by Agent Brown following the escape of Weston and 
Frederiks, welcomed the Loyalist MTF. Unfortunately, operating on 
orders from hardline O5-7, the MTF placed all staff at Foundation 
Command Headquarters under arrest, even Agent Brown. Though 
Seven later defended her orders as necessary (due to unknown 
loyalties of those present), the treatment of the staff from 
Headquarters was draconian. The facility was decommissioned, with 
the staff detained elsewhere and the stored SCP objects transferred 
to other facilities.