Factions

There are currently 8 Factions in the game, being the SCP Foundation, the UNGOC, UIU, MC&D, Serpent's Hand, GRU-P, CI, and SCPs themselves.

## General Info

### Affilation

Foundation

The **SCP Foundation (SCPF)**, or simply **The Foundation**, is an international organization tasked with the containment of anomalous or supernatural items and keeping them away from the general public.

In *The Red Lake*, the Foundation is the one in control of Area-354 and all of it's personnel, including the MTF units.

The Foundation, GOC, UIU, and MCD are currently the only factions able to be chosen as an ally.

Choosing to rely on the foundation and not accepting anyone else's help will cost 8 research and result in the game taking longer as research progress is slowed and traded for more funds, you will also receive supply drops of various objects that can range from weapons to crafting materials, the upgrades you can purchase revolve around both defense and character stats.

- Selecting the Foundation for an ally will grant all players +1 to their sprint speed as a universal passive.

## United Nations Global Occult Coalition

The **United Nations Global Occult Coalition**, or **UNGOC** for an abbreviation, is an intergovernmental organization operated by the United Nations, or UN. Their mission, opposite to the Foundation's, is instead destroying SCPs, not containing them, which has earned them harsh criticism by the Foundation.

In *The Red Lake,* the UNGOC is a selectable ally, which usually is combat related.

Choosing to ally with the UNGOC will provide you with supply drops containing free weapons, you will receive points instead if you already own the gun. The ally upgrades revolve around firepower and damage, you will also gain access to exclusive weapons in the shop which you can't purchase otherwise.

- Allying with the GOC will increase all players damage by a small amount as a universal passive.

- When attacked by the tentacles after beating the last wave on brutal, they are the only ally to not abandon you(besides from yourselves) and even send in npcs to help you. They will still send in these npcs even if you didn't pick them as an ally and will come in and help you.

## Unusual Incidents Unit

The **Unusual Incidents Unit**, or **UIU** for an abbreviation, is a branch of the Federal Bureau of Investigation that is dedicated to tracking and capturing anomalous activity.

In *The Red Lake,* the UIU is a selectable ally, which usually is related to NPCs.

Choosing to ally with the UIU will give you free NPCs every so often. The ally upgrades revolve around upgrading towers and spawning/buffing NPCs.

- Allying with the UIU will automatically unlock both watch towers on the map for free.

## Marshall Carter and Dark

**Marshal Carter and Dark**, or **MCD** for an abbreviation, is an anomalous company that buys and auctions anomalous items in order to make profits. They do not typically care about other GOIs, and only focus on making money.

In *The Red Lake,* MCD is a selectable ally, which usually is related to materials and points.

Choosing to ally with MCD will cost 4 research and they will give you free materials every so often. The ally upgrades revolve around support and materials.

- Allying with MCD does not give you any passive buffs or NPCs, instead giving you a free material airdrop.

- MCD used to be vital to getting tanz axe for the energy shards, but has since been replaced by the UIU raid mode.

- If you have a money printer on wave 15, MCD will offer you a deal of 10 money bags for a few red crystals.

## The Serpent's Hand

The **Serpent's Hand** is a organization that believes that the public should know about anomalies and refers to the SCP foundation as "jailors" for locking up the anomalous. Despite this, the serpent's hand and SCP foundation do work together to deal with dangerous anomalous threats.

In *The Red Lake,* The Serpent's Hand is not a selectable ally, it really only appears in lore documents and the "Viper" operative.

The only appearances of the serpent's hand is in the "Viper" operative, who joined the foundation from the Serpent's hand due to large payouts, and in lore documents. **(LORE SPOILER ALERT!!!)** It is learned through the lore documents that the serpent's hand were responsible for starting the breach through a odd substance, and it is revealed that they were manipulated by the Chaos Insurgency to do so.

- The Serpent's hand is referred to as "Snakes" from the lore documents

## Chaos Insurgency

The **Chaos Insurgency**, or **CI** for an abbreviation, is a large militaristic group dedicated to destroying the SCP foundation and using SCPs to how they wish. They oppose the foundation and raid them.

In *The Red Lake,* the CI is an enemy faction which appears on a certain wave, and attempts to kill all foundation personnel and destroying the generator. They also hold some significance in the lore of the game.

The CI raid you on Wave 26, which is also the same wave where you can recruit Delta, a Chaos Insurgency operative who was "accidentally" shot by his own men and joined the foundation. There is lore relating to this operative hidden in lore documents.

- The CI is a hostile GOI similar to the GRU-P

- You can recruit a CI operative on the same wave they raid you by having Security Captain level 6 with GOC as an ally on brutal.

- They are a subject of a raid from the UIU and SCPF in the UIU Raid event.

- They raid the Polatia in the Polatia event.

## GRU Division-P "Psychotechnics"

The **GRU Division-P "Psychotechnics"** or **GRU-P** for an abbreviation, is a organization of former soviets that oppose the foundation.

In *The Red Lake,* the GRU-P has been removed, but used to be able to raid you similar to the CI, with soldiers almost exactly like them. However instead of blowing the walls with C4, they came out of the lake directly.

The GRU-P is currently removed from the game. The only reference to them is in the special laptop hacking event, where if you successfully reactivate the firewalls, Intercom Guy says he believes that the hacker may have worked for the GRU-P.

- The GRU-P was similar to the CI in many ways, before being removed.