Foundation (location)

This article is about the location. For the downloadable expansion, see The Foundation.
The Foundation is a sector and a location in the Oldest House.
==Description==
The Foundation is located through a massive corridor located in the Restricted Area in the Maintenance Sector. The outer regions of the Foundation consist of a vast room with large gray pillars, a cluster of which are rooted on a huge square platform. One of the pillars on this platform bears a carving of a tree which can be used to translocate to the Foundation's main area.
The main area of the Foundation consists of various caves and rock formations surrounding The Nail. The central cavern where The Nail is found, called the Crossroads, is open to the pillar chamber. The white stone and bluish crystals of the caves defies analysis, as with the black stone that The Nail is composed of, but the red sand was determined by early Federal Bureau of Control explorers to be nothing more than iron oxide, or rust. There is no organic life in the Foundation due to low-level radiation emitted by The Nail, but Astral Copies, Astral Mimics, and Astral Spikes that emerged from the Astral Plane wander the sector.
Due to the damage caused to The Nail by Helen Marshall during the Hiss invasion, the Astral Plane permanently leaked into the Foundation. Jesse Faden restored The Nail, which stopped the Astral Plane from further bleeding into the real world, but could not reverse the damage that was already done.
==Areas==
===Maintenance Sector Areas===
* Restricted Area
** Nowhere (cable car passage)
*** Foundation (portal to cave near Research Site Gamma)
===Foundation Sector Areas===
* Astral Collision
* Base Camp
* Canyon Rim
* Cave Bleed
* Cave System
* Chasm
* Collapsed Department (Processes & Protocols Offices)
** Data Entry And Filing
** Evaluation Hall
** Morgue (inaccessible)
** Sector Lobby C
** Transit Access
** Transit Control
* Crossroads
* Deep Cavern
* Fractured Cavern
* Lower Crossroads
* Nowhere (Maneki-neko chamber)
* Research Site Delta
* Research Site Gamma
* Upper Warehouse
* Warehouse
* Warehouse Path
==Map==
==Trivia==
* Given that Control was strongly inspired by the SCP Foundation, the Foundation may be a reference to that: Just as the Oldest House grew from the roots of the Foundation, so did Control itself grow from the roots of the (SCP) Foundation.
==Achievements and trophies==
The following achievements and trophies are connected to this sector, one of them being secret.
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==Gallery==
Control Ultimate Edition - Foundation pillars.jpg|Pillars seen after entering via Restricted doors in the Quarry.
Control Ultimate Edition - Foundation pillars tree etching.jpg|Etching on one of the pillars.
The Foundation (mission) 01.png|Arrival
Found Footage 01.png|Mobile containment unit near the Chasm in the Cave System
Pope's Collection 01.png|Dr. Ash's restricted Basement Lab below the Warehouse
The Pyramid 01.png|"The crystals are growing like crazy here." — Jesse
The Pyramid 02.png|Lower Crossroads, the Hiss-corrupted bottom of the Nail in the background
===Cave paintings===
The following are cave paintings which can be found around the Foundation. Captions denote distinctive parts of file names.
Foundation cave painting arrow 01.png|Arrow 01
Foundation cave painting astral plane.png|Astral Plane
Foundation cave painting astral planes.png|Astral Planes
Foundation cave painting black pyramid 01.png|Black pyramid 01
Foundation cave painting black pyramid under 01.png|Black pyramid under 01
Foundation cave painting crystal.png|Crystal
Foundation cave painting director 01.png|Director 01
Foundation cave painting director 02.png|Director 02
Foundation cave painting director 03.png|Director 03
Foundation cave painting director 04.png|Director 04
Foundation cave painting eye 01.png|Eye 01
Foundation cave painting eye 02.png|Eye 02
Foundation cave painting eye 03.png|Eye 03
Foundation cave painting eyes 01.png|Eyes 01
Foundation cave painting eyes 02.png|Eyes 02
Foundation cave painting eyes 03.png|Eyes 03
Foundation cave painting floating people 01.png|Floating people 01
Foundation cave painting floating people 02.png|Floating people 02
Foundation cave painting former 01.png|Former 01
Foundation cave painting hand 01.png|Hand 01
Foundation cave painting hands 01.png|Hands 01
Foundation cave painting hands 02.png|Hands 02
Foundation cave painting nail 01.png|Nail 01
Foundation cave painting nail 02.png|Nail 02
Foundation cave painting people.png|People
Foundation cave painting person.png|Person
Foundation cave painting service weapon 01.png|Service Weapon 01
Foundation cave painting service weapon 02.png|Service Weapon 02
Foundation cave painting tree.png|Tree
 
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