Foundation (location)

*This article is about the location. For the downloadable expansion, see The Foundation.*

## Foundation

### Tenants

The Board

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

## 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.

## Gallery

ArrivalMobile containment unit near the Chasm in the Cave SystemDr. Ash's restricted Basement Lab below the Warehouse"*The crystals are growing like crazy here.*" — JesseLower 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.

Arrow 01Astral PlaneAstral PlanesBlack pyramid 01Black pyramid under 01CrystalDirector 01Director 02Director 03Director 04Eye 01Eye 02Eye 03Eyes 01Eyes 02Eyes 03Floating people 01Floating people 02Former 01Hand 01Hands 01Hands 02Nail 01Nail 02PeoplePersonService Weapon 01Service Weapon 02Tree

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