SCP Foundation

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## Summary

The **SCP Foundation** is a creative fiction website about an in-universe secret society of the same name. As a scientific research institution with a paramilitary force, the Foundation contains, conceals, and researches paranormal activity. Such "anomalies," known as "SCPs" or "skips," include magical objects, superpowered humans, esoteric organisms, divinities, and pataphysical entities.

**SCP** officially stands for **"Special Containment Procedures"** in the Foundation's name; **"Secure, Contain, Protect"** is their backronym motto.

## Power of the Verse

Due to the SCP Foundation's nature as collaborative fiction and its highly fluid canon and innovative community, the franchise sports a prodigiously diverse character roster, simultaneously containing some of the infinitesimally weakest and boundlessly strongest characters in fiction, thus making the verse as a whole one of the strongest in all of fiction.

Most typical SCPs are inanimate objects lacking a directly applicable attack potency and only possessing garden-variety low-level hax. Sentient and sapient SCPs mostly have stats low enough for a modern military to subdue them. Most human characters in the series are unenhanced, with some wielding varying degrees of localized magic and high-tech weaponry. Superficially, the iconic image of the Foundation's world is inherently paranormal yet mostly grounded in grim realism.

However, various entities, including SCP objects and many supernatural deities, reside in far higher tiers. Their strength varies dramatically, some at planetary and stellar levels, others at localized cosmic levels, and numerous at varying degrees of universal to multiversal power and hax; dedicated canons like the Djoricverse and Kaktusverse reach deep into **Tier 1**, with the former peaking at **High 1-A** and the latter managing to enter **Tier 0**.

Pataphysics, which comes into play in Metafoundation/From 120's Archives/the Placeverse, a "mega-canon" designed to contain, incorporate, and reconcile all other canons under a vast, sprawling metafictional cosmology, expands the verse's power levels to stupendous lows in **Tier 11** and highs in **Tier 0** based on the narrative stack, an infinitely expanding metafictional construct containing endless ontological levels in which the SCP Foundation's multiverse is merely one layer within.